Hey Programmers!\
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I'm [**Alvin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvin-zablan-b73a92117/). I'm a software engineer with a serious passion for teaching. I'm a former **Google Software Engineer**. I'm also a former **Lead Curriculum Developer** of a top coding bootcamp. I'm a **Featured Instructor** on the freeCodeCamp YouTube channel, where my lectures have accumulated over **6 million views**. 

I have spent the better part of the last decade teaching students the skills needed to be a great developer and **land their dream job**.\
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Through years of experience leading in the classroom, working with students one-on-one, and in front of the video camera, I've developed a teaching style that I'm excited to share with you. I believe that **gradual progression is the key** to building robust knowledge that you'll be able to apply in your interviews and on the job. We'll go slow so that you don't miss a step. With my system, you'll enter the course as a beginner, but leave with the skills to land your dream job.\
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Let's learn together.

Alvin Zablan

Arrays and strings are 2 of the first things you learn about when you study Computer Science and for good reason - Strings are what you're reading here right now! Despite being basic software building blocks, there are many data structures and algorithms problems you can spin around them like the classic "Reverse a string" problem.

If you need additional support taking those skills and actually applying them, take Alvin's *complete* data structures and algorithms course on [Structy](https://structy.net/?utm_source=taro). You can try out the concepts yourself in their interactive code editor and learn advanced DSA patterns like stack exhaustive recursion.

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