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shebangpow: Happy Geek Pride day my fellow coders!

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Happy Geek Pride day my fellow coders!

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In my previous post, Getting Started Building Apps: Concrete Steps For Beginners, I described a path for starting to learn how to program. It is a guide to online resources and books that a motivated beginner can follow to get up and running.

As much as I wish I had this guide when I was trying to get started, I have a confession to make: it wouldn’t have been enough for me to get to where I am today as a developer.

I tried for years to teach myself to code using books and online tutorials, even college courses, but always failed to gain a critical mass of useful skills. It was like my Spanish courses in school: after class was out, I was back to worrying about other things, and I had no way of knowing which parts of what I was learning were actually useful.

Programming languages are just like any other language, so, unsurprisingly, it took total immersion to finally get me usable, practical fluency. I found this immersion at Code Academy.

Code Academy is a physical school in downtown Chicago that teaches passionate and persistent beginners how to make their ideas real through code.

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rugb: Immersion 
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imgonnameetthesun: my new shirt <3 (Taken with instagram) So true. Sooooo true. 

imgonnameetthesun:

my new shirt <3 (Taken with instagram)

So true. Sooooo true. 

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Life And Code’s Learn to Code Resource Guide Updated: 90+ free resources for beginners

Newly updated for today’s #tedxpoynter conference, the Life and Code Learn to Code Resource Guide has 90+ resources for beginner and aspiring programmers.

This is a list of resources you can use to begin to write your own programs, written with journalists in mind.  I focus mostly on free resources that are available to anybody online, and resources useful to people starting from scratch. I will be adding to this over time.  If you’d like to know about new additions, subscribe to this blog (or follow us on Tumblr).  If you have additions or corrections, please leave a comment below. You can also follow me on Twitter, where I am @lisawilliams. 

srpercival: (via Abstruse Goose) OMG, you guys remember Bob Ross?!   Happy little trees!  In oil paint!

srpercival:

(via Abstruse Goose)

OMG, you guys remember Bob Ross?!   Happy little trees!  In oil paint!

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Now this is the kind of programming I want to do.  And I nearly have enough skill to do it, too!

[Flash 10 is required to watch video]

Always reblog. 

This is a great short talk about creativity and coding.  Watch it. 

(Source: destroyallsoftware.com)

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"Because ultimately they know that learning to code isn’t about launching the idea they currently have in their heads. Very likely that idea sucks, and even if it doesn’t their execution of it is going to suck. What it is about is the product you come up with in 2 years, in 5 years. If you know how to code, you can build businesses for the rest of your life where the only cost is your time."

Dan Shipper - http://danshipper.com/you-have-to-get-good-before-you-get-better (via joenandez)

CornerJams: so it begins...


cornerjams:

I’ve spent a lot of time these past few days remarking to myself how simple PHP is. It’s a really easy switch from C++ and everything I’d want to do with it (i.e. MySQL) is SO simple! I love it. And sessions?! Are you kidding me?

I know it’s nerdy but I’m in love… PHP you are the bomb. It’s the…

(Source: nerokai)

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