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

  • Tech By Choice

    A community aimed at increasing diversity in the tech industry.

  • We All JS

    A supportive, attentive, and inclusive JavaScript community.

  • Code Newbie

    Slack channel for the Code Newbie community.

  • LGBTQ in Technology

    A space for LGBTQ people in technology to chat and support each other.

  • 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

Local Communities

People to Follow

Community Facilitation and Professional Support Connection Services

  • CIRKEL

    Intergenerational professional community connections. For folks ages 20-70+.

  • Other People Movement Collectives

    Solopreneur, 30-something, and business team groups that meet for 90-minute facilitated sessions biweekly for three months.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Ruby Book Club

    Join Nadia Odunayo and Saron Yitbarek as they read an hour of a Ruby book each week and discuss it.

  • The Code Newbie Podcast

    The podcast of the Code Newbie community. Stories from people on their coding journey.

  • Less Than or Equal

    A podcast dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of geeks facing inequality in their industries.

  • 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

  • The Recompiler

    A magazine about building better technology, together.

  • Code Words

    A quarterly publication about programming from the Recurse Center.

  • Model View Culture

    A magazine about technology, culture and diversity.

  • The Plug

    The definitive daily newsletter highlighting the voices of black founders and business leaders in tech news from around the web.

  • Ruby Weekly

    A free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of Ruby news and articles.

  • JavaScript Weekly

    A free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of JavaScript news and articles.


Learning Resources

Online Courses

  • 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.

  • Codecademy

    Free courses in web development and in many languages, also in learning to integrate things like Twitter into web sites.

    Try: make a website, web, make an interactive website

  • Safari Books Online

    A technology and business learning platform.

  • 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.

  • Dash

    Free, project-based lessons in web development.

  • NodeSchool

    Lots of free lessons/courses on Javascript and Node.js, also some on Git and GitHub.

  • Khan Academy

    Free online courses of all kinds, including an intro to programming course.

  • MIT Open CourseWare

    MIT courses you can take for free online, including Computer Science courses.

  • 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


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!