cfereday / coder-newbie-advice

A repo with some info to help people learning to code for free

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coder-newbie-advice's Issues

Arrange resources by set curriculum vs individual exercises

Some of the free resources listed offer a set curriculum you can work through and gain a certificate at the end, like freeCodeCamp and The Odin Project, whereas others have more individual exercises. I wondered whether it would make sense to cluster the resources in a way like that, or another, before the list gets too long!

What do you think? Happy to discuss!

Making classification of meetups clearer

I thought I'd drop this in here for some discussion!

I think it might make sense to clarify in the meetups section that we're actively trying to collate meetups where people can go and learn programming (rather than attending just talks). I had the impression that that is what you were trying to collect (and listing meetups for talks and languages just generally under: search on meetup) but I think it could maybe be clarified somewhere. Do you agree?

While talks are great, there are hundreds of talk-based meetups but having those that you can actually attend to learn or where you can go and ask for help, might make even more of difference - and these are hard to find. What do you think? Would love to make this the one-stop place for find all this information.

Happy to submit a PR myself to fix it, but thought I'd discuss first.

Design ideas for the website of the repo

Hi all,

My next step for this repo is to create a static website that pulls data from these markdown files. I've had some help from a friend @felipesere to create some designs before I start building.

If you've got any feedback on the early designs that would be great! Thanks
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