What it take to move to the next level as a front end developer. Most of the content from this comes from my experience with interviewing @usaa for the past 3 years in san antonio tx (10min Presenation)

1. How To Pass a Front-End
Developer Interview
Getting the Job
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2. About Me
Grew Up
School
Work
Experience
San Antonio
IT 2000+ #1 in IT
2010,2011,2012
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227900/The_No._1_Place_to_Work_in_IT_USAA
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3. What I'm not going to talk about
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2007/03/27/surviving-an-interview-with-me/
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/01/05/interviewing-the-front-end-engineer/
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4. Story About a Struggle
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5. Overview
Code Skills i look for
Back 2 Basics
Be an Enterprise Coder
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6. Code Skills
“The List”
Everyone has them (Req’s sheet)
Know it all but don't be expected to explain them all
JAVASCRIPT: DOM-Structure JSON SVG AJAX Closures
XMLhttpRequest Prototype Constructors Events Undefined
Type-Conversion Operators DOM-Manipulation Event-
Bubbling ECMASCRIPT MVC Design-Patterns Object Oriented
loosely typed CSS: Positioning Block-vs-Inline Cross-
Browser Selectors Inheritance CSS3 Box-Model DOM SVG
Selector Priority Mobile CSS2 Pseudo-Selector OOCSS
Prefixes Floating HTML: XML XHTML DOCTYPE accessibility
ADA DHTML Page Performance
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7. Get Back to Basics!
Know the fundamentals well enough to teach.
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8. Back To Basics
My Observations
Front-End Developer need to know JS CSS HTML
well
Understand page performance and your codes
impact http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed
Don't be tied to any one framework or library
(css or js)
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9. Back 2 Basics
CSS Priority
#myID{color:red}
.myClass{color:blue}
p{color:green}
<p id=”myID” class=”myClass”>text inside< p>
What Color should the Text in the
paragraph be & WHY?
MORE INFO @ http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2007 /27
/07 /css-specificity-things-you-should-know/
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/inheritance_and_cascade
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10. Back to Basics
CSS BOX MODEL
How Does it all work
together
How are the default
behaviors of <div> &
<span> different
& WHY
MORE INFO @ http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/guides/the_css_layout_model
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11. Back to Basics
Javascript Variable Scope
<script type="text/javascript">
function makeVariables() {
variable1 = 1;
var variable2 = 2;
}
</script>
Which Variable has been
made public & WHY?
MORE INFO @ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/var
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12. Back to Basics
PURE Javascript
JavaScript !== JQuery
Native JS Dom manipulation (document.*)
Understanding what $ Does
Don't anchor your skills to a framework
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13. i want you to...
Be an Enterprise Coder
Don't Build Selfish Software (DBSS)
Write code that is :
re-usable, configurable, testable
Open Source some code on Git-Hub
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14. The BIG Picture
1.Get Back to Basics
2.Learn the WHY
3.Be an Enterprise Coder
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15. Recommend
Reads
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16. ‘s
- Twitter @djscoutmaster
- USAA is Hiring http://tinyurl.com/usaahtml5
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