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Resources For New Developers
Community
Find people to talk to, learn from, ask questions of, and have fun with in tech.
Slack Orgs/Online Forums
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Tech By Choice
A community aimed at increasing diversity in the tech industry.
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We All JS
A supportive, attentive, and inclusive JavaScript community.
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Code Newbie
Slack channel for the Code Newbie community.
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LGBTQ in Technology
A space for LGBTQ people in technology to chat and support each other.
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Greater Than Code
The Slack community for Patreon supporters of the Greater Than Code podcast. You have to support them at $5/month to get access, but the community is great.
Local Communities
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Meetup.com
There are a-billion-and-one tech communities on Meetup. I usually search by languages or popular tools I'm interested in (e.g. Ruby, Javascript, React, etc.)
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Interactive Map of Women in Tech Communities
What it sounds like.
Local Communities
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Meetup.com
There are a-billion-and-one tech communities on Meetup. I usually search by languages or popular tools I'm interested in (e.g. Ruby, Javascript, React, etc.)
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Interactive Map of Women in Tech Communities
What it sounds like.
People to Follow
Community Facilitation and Professional Support Connection Services
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CIRKEL
Intergenerational professional community connections. For folks ages 20-70+.
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Other People Movement Collectives
Solopreneur, 30-something, and business team groups that meet for 90-minute facilitated sessions biweekly for three months.
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The Cru
The Cru matches women with a circle of up to seven other women based on personality, values, demographics and life goals to coach one another for personal and professional growth.
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Medley
Members get setup with seven peers and a coach to meet in monthly 90-min sessions for a year.
Media
Keep up with tech trends, current events, and issues in tech.
Podcasts
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Greater Than Code
My personal favorite tech community podcast. Special guests on each week to talk about different topics related to code and the tech community.
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Ruby Book Club
Join Nadia Odunayo and Saron Yitbarek as they read an hour of a Ruby book each week and discuss it.
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The Code Newbie Podcast
The podcast of the Code Newbie community. Stories from people on their coding journey.
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Less Than or Equal
A podcast dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of geeks facing inequality in their industries.
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Revision Path
An award-winning weekly interview podcast that focuses on showcasing some of the best Black graphic designers, web designers, and web developers from all over the world.
Publications
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The Recompiler
A magazine about building better technology, together.
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Code Words
A quarterly publication about programming from the Recurse Center.
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Model View Culture
A magazine about technology, culture and diversity.
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The Plug
The definitive daily newsletter highlighting the voices of black founders and business leaders in tech news from around the web.
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Ruby Weekly
A free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of Ruby news and articles.
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JavaScript Weekly
A free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of JavaScript news and articles.
Learning Resources
Online Courses
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The Odin Project
A free, complete curriculum on web development put together using other free resources online, including some of the ones below. Covers Ruby, Javascript, Rails, and getting hired.
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Codecademy
Free courses in web development and in many languages, also in learning to integrate things like Twitter into web sites.
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Safari Books Online
A technology and business learning platform.
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Learn.co
Free beginner intros to Ruby and Javascript with a special app that also teaches you a workflow using Git, the terminal, and some social interaction with other learners and mentors.
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Dash
Free, project-based lessons in web development.
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NodeSchool
Lots of free lessons/courses on Javascript and Node.js, also some on Git and GitHub.
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Khan Academy
Free online courses of all kinds, including an intro to programming course.
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MIT Open CourseWare
MIT courses you can take for free online, including Computer Science courses.
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JavaScript.info
An excellent walkthrough of how modern JavaScript works. Concepts from beginner (e.g. "What are variables") to advanced (e.g. currying, async/await) with explanations and examples.
Miscellaneous Learning Tools
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StackForYourself
Aggregator for web development learning resources.
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Michelle Glauser's Learning and Teaching Resources
Resources for learning to code broken>wn by type of resource and by subject.
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CodeWars
Lots and lots of coding exercises in lots of languages.
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Exercism
Lots and lots of coding exercises in lots of languages, but with a terminal tool and a way to have other people comment on your code.
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Project Euler
A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems.
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Hackr.io
Ranked listings of lessons on all different topics.
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Computer Science Education Week
A list of learning resources for programming skills.
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Ruby Warrior
A site that teaches Ruby via a computer game where you command a warrior with Ruby commands.
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Code Combat
Same idea as Ruby Warrior, but different languages including Javascript and Coffeescript.
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RealWorld Example Apps
Examples and walkthroughs for building a Medium clone with many different front-end and back-end frameworks.
Job Search
Advice
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Five Offers in Four Months
A Dev Bootcamp grad talks about the strategies she used to get five job offers within four months of graduating.
Job Listings
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Apprenticeships
List of software development apprenticeships.
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Jopwell
The leading career hub for Black, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American students and professionals.
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UpWork
Site for finding software consulting gigs.
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Power to Fly
Job board for companies focused on gender diversity.
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Revision Path Job Board
Job board of the Revision Path podcast.
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Include.io
A platform for finding jobs and recruiting with diverse and non-traditional technical talent.
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We Work Remotely
For finding jobs that aren’t restricted by commutes or a particular geographic area.
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FlexJobs
For finding various types of flexible jobs (e.g. part-time, remote, alternate schedule, etc.).
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Key Values
For finding positions at companies based on how well their values align with yours.
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PoC IT Jobs
Jobs for people of color in tech.
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Women Who Code Job Board
Job board of Women Who Code.
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ContractJobs.com
Contract job listings.
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ReadySet
A diversity solutions firm with a job board.
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Hire Tech Ladies Job Board
Job board of Hire Tech Ladies.
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Outreachy
Internship program to help people from groups underrepresented get involved in open source software.
Interview Prep
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Pramp
A site for practicing coding interviews with real people.
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Interviewing.io
A site for practicing coding interviews with engineers from companies, anonymously.
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Questions to Ask Interviewers
Julia Evans' list of questions to ask interviewers.
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Implementing the LHC on a Whiteboard (video)
James Edward Gray II talks about mistakes he has seen in interview challenges and strategies for avoiding them.
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Cracking the Coding Interview
150 programming interview questions and solutions.
Something Missing?
If there's a group, resource, etc, that you like that you think I should add to this page, contact me and let me know!