One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Hello! I want to do a short "discover programming" workshop with my non-programmers friend. The reason I'm interested in this challenge is that I want to try to explain my job, that looks really foreign and mysterious to them, in simple words.
I plan to show them how to build a website with GitHub, a static website generator, explain them markdown, ...
Any tips and resources for beginners you could recommend?
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I think that the intros on Free Code Camp and Codecademy are decent introductions to seeing the kind of logical problems that developers deal with and then convert into code.
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Hello! I want to do a short "discover programming" workshop with my non-programmers friend. The reason I'm interested in this challenge is that I want to try to explain my job, that looks really foreign and mysterious to them, in simple words.
I plan to show them how to build a website with GitHub, a static website generator, explain them markdown, ...
Any tips and resources for beginners you could recommend?
I think that the intros on Free Code Camp and Codecademy are decent introductions to seeing the kind of logical problems that developers deal with and then convert into code.