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After some talk about it in another topic, a few people thought it would be beneficial to have a coding, programming, and development thread. We'll share tips, advice, and talk about general programming concepts. This will serve as a resource for people who are interested in getting started with programming as well as people who are already in the industry and want to sharpen their skills, or learn something new.
[COLOR=#red]THIS IS NOT A HOMEWORK HELP THREAD. [/COLOR]
You can ask questions, but please do not ask us to do your homework for you. Your instructors have class time, office hours, and your school probably has tutors available. Utilize them.
Resources
Here are some resources to get started. Many of us already working in programmer, developer, and administrative roles used these same tools to get started.
http://www.freecodecamp.com - Can be used to learn about HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Databases, Git & Github, React.Js, and D3.Js
https://www.codecademy.com - Learn how to code, make a website & interactive website features, Rails & Ruby on Rails Authentication, AngularJS, Command Line, SQL & Analyzing Business Metrics, Java, Git, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Python, Ruby, and APIs.
https://www.khanacademy.org - Learn how to program drawings, animations, and games using JavaScript & ProcessingJS, or learn how to create webpages with HTML & CSS with their computer programming course. You can also select topics from computer science - algorithms, cryptography, and information theory.
http://www.codeschool.com - Offers some free learning coursers and subscription based learning
http://www.coursera.org - MOOC courses who offer free courses and for additional cost, specializations + a capstone project
http://www.edx.com - MOOC courses
https://www.udacity.com - Udacity is an innovative online education provider. We offer cutting-edge courses built in partnership with leading companies like Google, AT&T, and Facebook on everything from mastering web design to tech entrepreneurship.
Free Exercises & Challenges
https://coderbyte.com/ - Coderbyte is a web application built to help people practice their programming skills. We offer a collection of programming challenges and courses that can help you prepare for a job interview or coding bootcamp. The challenges range in difficulty and they can all be completed straight through our online application.
http://www.codewars.com/ - Codewars is a collective effort by its users. They are creators - authoring kata to teach various techniques, solving kata with solutions that enlighten others, and commenting with constructive feedback. The leaders among them moderate the content and community.
https://www.hackerrank.com/ - The HackerRank team is on a mission to flatten the world by restructuring the DNA of every company on the planet. We rank programmers based on their coding skills, helping companies source great programmers and reduce the time to hire.
Free Books
These books range from basic computer and networking to advanced mathematics and number theory. There are many topics outside of programming, so it's worth taking a look at no matter what your interests are.
https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md
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I'm going to encourage everyone who programs and will volunteer their help to put the languages they know in their signatures, preferably in bold with a label like:
Enjoy. Feel free to ask questions, post interesting news articles, conferences that people might be interested in, etc.
[COLOR=#red]THIS IS NOT A HOMEWORK HELP THREAD. [/COLOR]
You can ask questions, but please do not ask us to do your homework for you. Your instructors have class time, office hours, and your school probably has tutors available. Utilize them.
Resources
Here are some resources to get started. Many of us already working in programmer, developer, and administrative roles used these same tools to get started.
http://www.freecodecamp.com - Can be used to learn about HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Databases, Git & Github, React.Js, and D3.Js
https://www.codecademy.com - Learn how to code, make a website & interactive website features, Rails & Ruby on Rails Authentication, AngularJS, Command Line, SQL & Analyzing Business Metrics, Java, Git, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Python, Ruby, and APIs.
https://www.khanacademy.org - Learn how to program drawings, animations, and games using JavaScript & ProcessingJS, or learn how to create webpages with HTML & CSS with their computer programming course. You can also select topics from computer science - algorithms, cryptography, and information theory.
http://www.codeschool.com - Offers some free learning coursers and subscription based learning
http://www.coursera.org - MOOC courses who offer free courses and for additional cost, specializations + a capstone project
http://www.edx.com - MOOC courses
https://www.udacity.com - Udacity is an innovative online education provider. We offer cutting-edge courses built in partnership with leading companies like Google, AT&T, and Facebook on everything from mastering web design to tech entrepreneurship.
Free Exercises & Challenges
https://coderbyte.com/ - Coderbyte is a web application built to help people practice their programming skills. We offer a collection of programming challenges and courses that can help you prepare for a job interview or coding bootcamp. The challenges range in difficulty and they can all be completed straight through our online application.
http://www.codewars.com/ - Codewars is a collective effort by its users. They are creators - authoring kata to teach various techniques, solving kata with solutions that enlighten others, and commenting with constructive feedback. The leaders among them moderate the content and community.
https://www.hackerrank.com/ - The HackerRank team is on a mission to flatten the world by restructuring the DNA of every company on the planet. We rank programmers based on their coding skills, helping companies source great programmers and reduce the time to hire.
Free Books
These books range from basic computer and networking to advanced mathematics and number theory. There are many topics outside of programming, so it's worth taking a look at no matter what your interests are.
https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md
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I'm going to encourage everyone who programs and will volunteer their help to put the languages they know in their signatures, preferably in bold with a label like:
Programming Languages: ASP.NET, HTML/CSS, Java, C#, MIPS, etc.
Enjoy. Feel free to ask questions, post interesting news articles, conferences that people might be interested in, etc.
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