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Alex Merced: Learn, Build, Blog, Teach, Repeat!

Alex Merced taught himself to code just a few years ago. Before that, he spent a decade training people in finance and has also moonlighted as a political candidate, concert promoter, and comic book store owner.

Today, he’s a developer for CampusGaurd and Instructor for General Assembly Coding Bootcamps. He is also the creator of devNursery.com - a developer community and is the creator of many Javascript libraries.

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AlexMercedCoder.com

devNursery.com

Podcast: Web Dev 101

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