Tony Alicea

@tonyalicea.dev

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Senior Experience Specialist @ NN/G | Deep Dive Technical Educator, Speaker, Dev, UX Strategist - https://dontimitate.dev | https://tonyalicea.dev/ 370,000 students and counting. Don't Imitate, Understand.

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📚 Something I'm excited to share: I'm now offering group rates for my "Understanding React" course to student cohorts, bootcamps, learning groups, and community organizations. As someone who benefited from scholarships and educational support throughout my journey, I know how much access to quality learning resources can matter. I'm happy to work with groups on pricing that makes sense for your educational mission. 🎓 Whether you're: Running a bootcamp program Organizing a student study group Leading a community coding initiative Building educational curricula I'd love to help bring deep React training to your students. The course focuses on building real understanding of how React works internally - the kind of foundation that creates confident developers who can tackle any React challenge. It's 17 hours of content covering React internals, updated for React 19, with a focus on understanding rather than just following along. Students walk away with mental models that serve them throughout their careers. If you're organizing a group that could benefit from this, I'm genuinely excited to hear about what you're building. Drop me a line at hey@tonyalicea.dev with details about your program. Link in comments below! #ReactTraining #Education #CommunityLearning #WebDevelopment
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Three reviews praising Tony Alicea's course "How to Build the Right Software (and Choose the Right Stack).
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