cfereday / coder-newbie-advice

A repo with some info to help people learning to code for free

Coder Newbie Advice

About

Coder Newbie started as a small project with a repository of files and has since evolved into a useful reference with free resources provided for aspiring coders. We need more diversity in tech and so often the blockers are lack of information and money. I hope this can help make a positive change for our industry, because we need greater diversity to create better software.

It has subsequently been turned into a website.

Current Content

Learn to code in person: Bootcamps

• Multiple cities in: Austria/Germany/Israel/Switzerland/UK

Learn to code in person: Meetups

• Multiple cities in: Austria/Germany/Switzerland/UK

Learn online: Online Resources

• Free E-Books
• Learn To Code Resources
• Podcasts
• Tests/Interviews/CV
• Getting started without installing

Getting started

This site has been written using the Gatsby, framework mainly using React and the content served from the markdown files.

Clone the repository

[email protected]:charlottebrf/coder-newbie-advice.git

Running in development

cd coder-newbie-advice

npm install

gatsby develop

This will launch a http://localhost:8000 port that can be developed on.

Publishing

gatsby build

surge public

When the command line specifies the surge site, be sure to change it to the custom site.

http://coder-newbie.surge.sh

More information on publishing the site using surge here.

Contribute

Feel like something's missing? Please open a Pull Request (PR) to contribute.

Never made a PR before? Great! Make this your first one. Documentation on how to create a PR here.

I've added organisations and resources that I'm aware of, but unfortunately this can't be an exhaustive list as I don't know of everything out there.

Please help to share any knowledge you have by growing this repository.

coder-newbie-advice's Issues

Arrange resources by set curriculum vs individual exercises

Some of the free resources listed offer a set curriculum you can work through and gain a certificate at the end, like freeCodeCamp and The Odin Project, whereas others have more individual exercises. I wondered whether it would make sense to cluster the resources in a way like that, or another, before the list gets too long!

What do you think? Happy to discuss!

Making classification of meetups clearer

I thought I'd drop this in here for some discussion!

I think it might make sense to clarify in the meetups section that we're actively trying to collate meetups where people can go and learn programming (rather than attending just talks). I had the impression that that is what you were trying to collect (and listing meetups for talks and languages just generally under: search on meetup) but I think it could maybe be clarified somewhere. Do you agree?

While talks are great, there are hundreds of talk-based meetups but having those that you can actually attend to learn or where you can go and ask for help, might make even more of difference - and these are hard to find. What do you think? Would love to make this the one-stop place for find all this information.

Happy to submit a PR myself to fix it, but thought I'd discuss first.

Design ideas for the website of the repo

Hi all,

My next step for this repo is to create a static website that pulls data from these markdown files. I've had some help from a friend @felipesere to create some designs before I start building.

If you've got any feedback on the early designs that would be great! Thanks
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