Acknowledgments

I’m grateful for all the support I received in making this book possible. First, I’d like to thank Manning Publications for choosing me to curate and write its Get Programming book on Node.js. In particular, I want to thank my development editors for guiding the book through its many daunting phases. Dan Maharry, you were a great resource in preparing me for the task. Toni Arritola, your push to fill the book’s gaps and help me meet important deadlines was the driving force behind its completion. I thank Srihari Sriharan, the senior technical proofreader, and German Frigerio, the technical proofreader, for making sure all the code examples were properly formatted and ran as intended. Also, to those who volunteered to review my book and offer the feedback that ultimately improved my final product, I’m appreciative for your time and comments: Ahmed Chicktay, Aindriu Mac Giolla Eoin, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões, Alper Silistre, Barnaby Norman, Bryce Darling, Dan Posey, Daniela Zapata, David Pardo, Dermot Doran, Edwin Boatswain, Filipe Freire, Foster Haines, Jeremy Lange, Joseph White, Madhanmohan Savadamuthu, Michael Giambalvo, Michal Paszkiewicz, Patrick Regan, Rafael Aiquel, Roger Sperberg, Ron Lease, Ronald Muwonge, Vincent Zhu, Vinicius Miana Bezerra, and Vipul Gupta.

Thank you to everyone who helped propel my development and teaching career. Each of you instilled the confidence I needed to focus on the vision of this book and deliver a product that reflects the work ethic, teaching strategies, and development techniques we’ve evolved together over the years.

Thank you to The New York Code + Design Academy (NYCDA) and my former students for promoting this book and supporting me throughout its development. To all my students: I’m proud of what you’ve accomplished, and only through your success have I been convinced that this book can help others change careers and reach new development milestones.

Thank you, Zach Feldman, for initially hiring me, introducing me to the coding boot-camp world, and also for continuing to be a great friend, resource, and collaborator. Thank you to everyone on the NYCDA development team for trusting my leadership and providing a fun, reliable work environment for me. Thank you, Sharon Kass, for your unconditional friendship and inclusiveness starting from my first day at Bloomberg LP.

I want to thank my family for their support of my career choices and for inspiring ambition over challenges big and small. Thank you, Dad and Eema, for supporting creative expression and encouraging me to do what makes me happy. Thank you, Kimmy and Matt, for helping me understand the legal side of this business, and Noa and Emmanuelle, for being my youngest reviewers and future students. Thank you, Jessie, for not losing my ski poles.

Thank you to my fellow developers and to the Philadelphia and New York tech communities. Thank you, Kevin Skogland, whose teaching style through his tutorial series influenced the way that I answer technical questions; thank you also for your friendship and engagement in my former classes. Thank you, Kyle Simpson, for your unique perspective on teaching and understanding JavaScript and for your support and willingness to review my book’s draft. Thank you to those who reviewed earlier drafts of this publication and to my friends Michael “Sybles” Sklaroff, for checking in on me through development; Gurbakshish Singh, for your code suggestions; and -Violeta Soued for persuading me to pursue a computer science degree in the first place.

Last, thank you to everyone who purchases this book. I know that you can find a lot of resources online and in print to learn to program with Node.js, and I thank you for showing interest in learning through my teaching style. I hope that I get to hear from many of you, in compliments or critiques, as well as learn how this book helped you reach new programming revelations and career achievements. As you read, keep this sentiment in mind: we take on challenges not to tell others that we did, but to remind our future selves that we can.