The past few days I've been struck with this lucky feeling.
As I scroll through my Twitter feed, I realise I'm following some amazing people who a...
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In the very beginning, being self-taught, one of the places Google brought me to often was w3schools. They have beginner tutorials on all sorts of front-end and even some back-end topics in a really easy to understand way. Once you
git goodyou can upgrade over to the Mozilla Developer Network, which goes over many more topics and in much more detail.To start off the discussion, as mentioned above I find Twitter and Slack to be very important tools. I would also add Pocket to the list though. I see so many great links posted on Twitter, I don't have time to read them all straightaway so I add them to my Pocket so I can go back over them when I have more time.
We are lucky to be in an industry where the topics are actually exciting (to us at least). Someone in the Azure community was probably willing to help you because they found the topic genuinely interesting. Some industries are based completely on things nobody would do for free. While there are a lot of things in this space we wouldn't do for free, there is plenty we would.
So I am extremely grateful for that, and I think it's why people are (not always, but often) so damn helpful.
I agree wholeheartedly! I love what I do and the tech that I use so I'll happily give my time to help someone else along this path when I get the opportunity.
I'm thankful for StackOverflow 😆. I love seeing that sometimes I'm not the only one struggling with a weird issue. I'm very grateful to see a guy who struggled with the same issue 5 years ago asked a question on SO that received a thorough answer. While the policy they have in place can be intimidating for new programmers, I praise SO for the community they have created.
Good choice! SO is an amazing resource