I’ve been slacking on my own personal journey to learn programming. This week has inspired me though to get back on the horse and keep it moving! In case anyone is in the same rut, here are some motivational resources that I found.
Shoutouts:
Our latest issue is out! Data collection, processing, and analysis are in the background of many activities we take for granted. This issue explores how we work with data, keep it useful over time, and understand its civic importance.
Preorder The Responsible Communication Style Guide! It covers how to write about five key topics: race, gender, sexuality, religion, and health and well-being.
Listening:
Greater Than Code Episode 024: Seeing Programming Where Other People Don’t with Felienne Hermans: Teaching programming as a language, what constitutes “real” programming, and digital literacy were only some of the topics touched during this awesome episode.
The Frontside Podcast Episode 063: 63: Growing New Developers with Saron Yitbarek: Saron Yitbarek talks about the CodeNewbie Community, the upcoming Codeland Conference in New York City, and helping junior developers move up in the programming world.
Reading:
I’ve been a developer for six weeks. These are the code school skills I actually use.: This article by Ashly LaMarr covers how to read code, how to focus among a gazillion distractions, how to learn and ask questions, riding the emotional rollercoaster of dev work, and how to talk to complete strangers.
In your community, online and in the classroom: Learn to code with these resources: A wonderful aggregated list that puts all the coding resources (complete with descriptions!) on one page.
The best career decision I ever made: I’ve been in a similar situation where I was left jobless and scared. Coding is an invaluable skill that if you put in the work to pick up, will give you opportunities that you never knew existed.
Conference Talk of the Week:
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“What Makes a Coder?” by Omoju Miller
What are truck drivers going to do in the age of driverless cars? Omoju Miller’s work puts forward the idea that we can scale adult technical education for workforce readiness while leveraging that opportunity to equalize participation.
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