In this talk, I share my learnings from the past 6 years of building CodeNewbie, the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. I cover:
- How to build a community
- What people actually need to learn to code
- How we can help new and early-career developers
- How early-career developers help us
Here is a download link to the talk slides (PDF)
This talk will be presented as part of CodeLand:Distributed on July 23. After the talk is streamed as part of the conference, it will be added to this post as a recorded video.
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CodeNewbie is so inspiring
haha the image of Rami Malek!
Love that image
I can't pass up the opportunity to say I once saw Rami Malek at the grocery store.
I just walked by, didn't try to say anything, but it did happen and I'll never not share that information 😄
Every time I hear @saronyitbarek speak I am reminder of how powerful a single voice with a focused mission can be, in driving change. I love how intentional she has been with building the #codenewbie community to be inclusive
First code conference ever! Sucks it's distributed but thankful cause it allows me to attend!
It's my first one too!
My first one too!
It's my first online conference, it's nice to be here!
Welcome! We're glad CodeLand is your first! 😄
Mine as well!
Awesome! :highfive:
First one here too! I'm from France so I'm personally thankful it's all online, if it would've been in the USA this year I wouldn't be able to attend!
I live in the US and I wouldn't have been able to go to NYC, I can't imagine trying to from France!
Yea definitely not happening haha!
Welcome!
🎉
Glad you're here! Welcome 🎉
Thank you! :)
I am able to attend from India, only because it's distributed
Thats awesome! Welcome!
We are glad you are here!!
Welcome to your first conference! :highfive:
Welcome to your first coding conference! We're glad it's CodeLand! 🎉
This is definitely making me miss IRL CodeLand.
As soon as we're allowed to get together we're definitely having one of those!
Hopefully by the next one it'll be back in NYC! I can start saving and crash on a friends couch in Brooklyn next year!
For real! I was soooo looking forward to it this year!
If you're lucky enough to be in NYC 😭
First one for me too! I am glad it's distributed because I wouldn't have been able to attend this year otherwise. I was already planning on a savings plan so I could attend next year in person.
The #CodeNewbie twitter chat is what introduced me to so many of my dev friends now!
I think I'll always feel like a codenewbie
I also graduated from Flatiron. Community is so important and I love how everyone I meet from Flatiron seem to all put community above all else.
I graduated from Flatiron as well. I have never been in as supportive a community as Flatiron <3
I love this. Saron, your story is so relatable.
Community really is SO important. Having support is key
so true!
hiii
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