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20 Ways to Look After Your Mental Health During Lockdown
The outbreak of COVID-19 is a hugely challenging time for looking after our mental health. During Mental Health Awareness Week, we wanted to share some of the ideas that have helped our team take care of their mental health, and that of others.
Ruth Ng
Head of Sales & Marketing
Recruitment and Hiring
The DevIncubator: My First Dev Role After Northcoders
This is a blog post about my 5 months role at Northcoders on “The IDOL Project”. It’s also a love letter to future Northcoders, and describes what your first rolemightbe like after graduating.
Phil Valentino
Software Developer, The IDOL
Interviewing And Onboarding Remotely To My Very First Software Developer Job
I am one of those fortunate junior developers who found their first job remotely two weeks after graduating from a coding bootcamp. (Thanks Northcoders!)
Judit Lehoczki
Graduate
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak - Northcoders Updates
Our top priority at Northcoders will always be the health and wellbeing of our staff and students. In light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak, we have taken steps to ensure that everyone is safe, and to prevent further spread of the virus.
Sam Caine
Chief Operating Officer
An Update from Chris Hill, our CEO
This is a message from Northcoders CEO Chris Hill during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Chris Hill
Chief Executive Officer
'Will I be able to get a job?' and 4 other questions you're asking us
There's so much going on right now, it can be hard to know which question to ask first. A lot of things are uncertain. But we are proud to be in a position to be able to offer hope for whatever comes next.
Betty Burrell
Marketing Manager
Tech Education
Inside our Web Development: Remote course
Our remote, online Web Development course is purpose built for learning to build complex websites without leaving your home. But it’s nothing like following your average online course, so I wanted to write this post to help you understand what the course is like.
Paul Rogerson
Software Development Lead
Code
The Benefits of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
The idea behind test driven development is that you let the tests 'drive' your development process. How does this work? Start by writing a test that fails, then develop the code to make that test pass, then refactor. This cycle is called red, green, refactor.
Bootcamp Life
But What On Earth Is A Server? And What Is API?
Continuing with her series of blogs about her experience on Developer Pathway, Judit wrote about the three week backend block. Read about the rest of her journey on her Dev.to profile.
