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How to Get Into Tech with No Experience: 16 Tips for Changing Careers

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The tech industry is full of exciting and lucrative career opportunities, but if you’ve never worked in IT and you have no relevant experience, breaking into tech might feel like a pipe dream.

I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be. Plenty of people have broken into tech despite having no experience and, if you’re willing to do the work, I’m sure you can too. 💪

In this post, I’m going to explain how to get into tech and land your first tech job with no experience.

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The 33 Best Technical Interview Prep Courses, Books, & Resources for 2023

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Tech interviews can be intimidating. They often have several phases, from the first technical phone screen, to a remote coding interview or assignment, to the final on-site interview and whiteboard challenge.

If you’ve never been through one before, you may have no idea how to prepare for a coding interview.

It’s not enough to just have the raw tech skills. You also need to be able to perform under pressure, talk through your code to give the interviewer a window into your thoughts,

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What Are the Different Types of Coding Languages?

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Individual programming languages like HTML, Python, and Ruby can be categorized into different types of coding languages.

Getting clear on the different types of programming languages will improve your overall understanding of programming and computers. 

In this post, I’m going to explain these different types of coding languages and their use cases. But first, let’s make sure we’re on the same page about what a programming language actually is.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Algorithmic Thinking

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Algorithms are at the very core of successful and efficient development. You’ll use them as you learn to code, you’ll be asked about them in technical interviews, and they’ll likely be part of your day-to-day development work.

Learning common algorithms individually is helpful, but what’s even better is getting used to algorithmic thinking. If you can train your brain to understand and follow algorithmic logic, writing your own algorithms will become much more intuitive.

Here to explain algorithmic thinking and how to work through problems with this method is Ethan Urie of Learn to Be a Developer.

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What Is Go (or Golang) & Should You Learn It?

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Go, sometimes referred to as Golang, is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google in 2007.

It makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient systems, and is modeled after C. You may have seen its mascot before: the Go gopher.

According to Hired’s 2022 State of Software Engineers report, Go programming has been the #1 most in-demand software engineering skill for two years in a row.

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