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Aaron O'Leary

What are your favorite resources for learning how to code?

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I'm currently learning React and the problem I always have when learning something new but especially anything related to code is the endless amount of resources the web has, it's a blessing and a curse as it's hard to pick a resource and go along with it. Where would you recommend a beginner to start?
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Alex Miller
There's so many great resources but two of my faviorate are: 0. REFACTORING - All developers must read and re-read Refactoring by Martin Fowler - https://www.amazon.com/Refactori... and 1. RAILS FOR ZOMBIES - The best video series on programming ever made was Rails for Zombies. It's a bit ancient now, but still amazing for being so terribly funny and teaching so much, in such a short video course. https://www.pluralsight.com/cour...
Erin Mikail Staples
Code academy, Glitch.com or even following along with other developers on Twitch. I'm currently working to improve my own skills as a developer and working my way through the front end development exambook as needed — trying to work through one question a day. https://www.techinterviewhandboo...
Aaron O'Leary
@erinmikail Thats interesting, I haven't thought about using Twitch! Any streamers you recommend?
Erin Mikail Staples
@aaronoleary I'm a big fan of Brian Douglas of Open Sauced https://twitter.com/bdougieyo https://opensauced.pizza (his discord community is great too for learning as well!)
Aaron O'Leary
@erinmikail Thanks a bunch Erin, I'll check Brian out!
Andrew James Bagby
Code Academy
Dilan Laçin
W3Schools DataCamp Udemy
Aaron O'Leary
@dilan_lacin W3Schools is the old reliable, remember using that when I was a kid, still so good
Dilan Laçin
@aaronoleary Yes, W3Schools is the old but still I use sometimes :)
Shiva Kumar
YouTube
Kevin Zepeda
Udacity, FreeCodeCamp blog, Tynpanus - Codrops blog, Udemy
Ste
My favorite resource is my pillow, in which I scream every day while on my learning path.
Ste
But in all seriousness, I've made an Airtable with free sources here: https://airtable.com/shrTwo96zdn...
Ste
I'd say start from freecodecamp, try Codecademy as well. And most importantly, start projects and bump into real problems (only way to really learn).
Aaron O'Leary
@stelian_dobrescu LMAO I feel that! Your Airtable is great, exactly what I needed!
Emmett Naughton
Hands down Freecodecamp.org
Yosuke Kojima
Highly recommend you to get Stephen Grider's course on Udemy. https://www.udemy.com/course/rea... Of course when it's on sale. He explains really simple, logical and easy to understand. I'm not an English native and didn't do CS degree ever but could completely understand him. And now working on my own react project. I appreciate him so much.
David M
Viewing very popular github repos like nextjs and reading the example project code. Then building your own website as a resume or blog. Trying out the latest technologies on it. Google along the way.
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