I've been coding for over 20 years now! (WOAH, do I feel old)
I've touched just about every resource imaginable under the Sun (too bad they were bought out by Oracle)
Ya'll ever remember or ever heard of Winamp way way WAY back in the day!?
Yeah, they hosted some IRC channels for various aspects of things they worked on. As a teen in the late 90's and early 2000's, their devs taught me C++ absolutely for free with no expectation of contributions back through their IRC channels.
There are so many tools nowadays though, but development and communication, that it is honestly overwhelming and sometimes hard to jump into new things. Back then, things were significantly simpler, because we didn't have the resources to build these massive web communities. Hell, half the internet was still Geocities, Angelfire, and AOL keywords!
IRC provided immediate feedback from respected knowledgeable mentors, whereas we also had forums which served as the place to document our progress.
Also on a more personal note, I've been going back through all of my ZIP file archives (because who had source control back then that WASNT just a collection of ZIP files!?) and have been uploading as much as possible to GitHub, along with chronological notes on my personal web site: darkain.com
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Ya'll ever remember or ever heard of Winamp way way WAY back in the day!?
Yeah, they hosted some IRC channels for various aspects of things they worked on. As a teen in the late 90's and early 2000's, their devs taught me C++ absolutely for free with no expectation of contributions back through their IRC channels.
There are so many tools nowadays though, but development and communication, that it is honestly overwhelming and sometimes hard to jump into new things. Back then, things were significantly simpler, because we didn't have the resources to build these massive web communities. Hell, half the internet was still Geocities, Angelfire, and AOL keywords!
IRC provided immediate feedback from respected knowledgeable mentors, whereas we also had forums which served as the place to document our progress.
Also on a more personal note, I've been going back through all of my ZIP file archives (because who had source control back then that WASNT just a collection of ZIP files!?) and have been uploading as much as possible to GitHub, along with chronological notes on my personal web site: darkain.com