"I do, we do, you do" (JS Party #118)

This week we’re talking about building technical courses! From video courses to written courses, we’ll give you our tips for building an effective and memorable course.

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Featuring:

• Jason Lengstorf – Website, GitHub, X
• Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Find Jason

• Learn With Jason


• Egghead.io


• How I Cut My Work Hours In Half And Somehow Managed To Get More Done conference talk

Cool people we mentioned

• Wes Bos


• Scott Tolinski


• Angie Jones


• Sarah Drasner


• Kyle Shevlin


• Dave Ceddia


• Tyler McGinnis


• Bianca Gandolfo


• Brian Holt


• Chris Biscardi


• Ali Spittel


• Kent Dodds

Courses we love

• Introduction To Gatsby by Jason Lengsdorf


• KBall’s Skillshare course on SVG


• Test Automation University


• Data Structures & Algorithms in JavaScript by Kyle Shevlin

Books

• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning


• Start With Why


• You Don’t Know JavaScript

Miscellaneous

• Flexbox Froggy


• Which Beard Is This?


• Content creator Discord

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!