Skillcrush

Hello Skillcrushers

Thanks for the opportunity to talk about the path to becoming a developer! Here are the slides. Links mentioned in the talk (and some!) are below the slides. The recording is a the very end. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Resources

Become part of the community

• Stack Overflow
  • What to post on Stackoverflow
  • How to find topics and posts on Stack Overflow
• Quora
• Blog reading apps:
  • Feedly
  • Pocket
• Try following:
  • HTML, CSS, & Web Design blogs: CSS Tricks, A List Apart, and Smashing Magazine
  • Hacker News
  • Start-up blogs: TechCrunch and Beta Beat
  • HTML, CSS, & Web Design on Twitter: @kythryn, @chriscoyier, and @rmurphey
• Meetup: try searching for ‘tech’, ‘html’, ‘web design’, ‘css’
• Women in Tech groups: Systers, DevChix, and Tech Lady Mafia

Be Visible

• Start your blog! WordPress.com and Getting started with WordPress
• Github
  • Gist: How to create a Gist
  • Github Pages

Think Like a Developer

• IFTTT (IF This Then That)
  • IFTTT Blog
  • Example: Using IFTTT with your iPhone photos and reminders!
• Zapier
  • Zapier Blog
  • Example: Group tweeting without ‘oops’ tweets happening
  • Example: How a web consulting company uses Zapier to automate their sales