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If You Are a New Developer, Start Here!

Molly Struve (she/her) on April 24, 2019

If you are new to the dev world, WELCOME! I have been doing a lot of mentoring lately and the most common thing mentees ask for is resources. I...
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Manikandan Sundararajan • • Edited

I'm in my first job as a "developer" at a non-software company and I've been struggling with trying to figure out how to switch to a more traditional role. Thanks for these resources. They seem helpful :-).

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Dave van Herten •

Have a friend looking to make the plunge. This is well timed. Thank you!

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Brian Kirby •

I really appreciate you writing this article. I'm in the middle of a career switch and the resources you provided will be used as motivation to continue moving forward. Also, I had no idea that dev.to has a mentorship.program; I'm jumping into that right now!

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Ben Halpern •

I could have used this when I was starting out!!

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Jess Lee •

@kim_hart 👀

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Lenmor Ld •

Thanks for the comprehensive guide!

Also, for fundamental Computer Science skills,
like data structures, algorithms, oop, memory concepts, etc
Check out HackerRank, leetcode, ProjectEuler
or this post
dev.to/aspittel/daily-coding-puzzl...

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Molly Struve (she/her) •

Excellent! Thank you sharing that!!!

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Peter Kim Frank •

I am sending this to so many of my friends 🙏🏽

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Kedasha •

This is such an amazing resource!

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imrinzzzz •

I never knew I needed this. Thank you ♡♡♡♡♡♡

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Travis Simpson •

Thanks for this list :) Definitely diving in to it today.

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Akin Wale •

Thanks for the guide

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Molly Struve (she/her) •

And what do you know, I already found a new support community on Twitter thanks to tonight's #CodeNewbie chat!