Galina’s Guides
- Essential things you should know about coding from day one
- How to become a web developer
- Building a portfolio
- What you need to know about git, GitHub, and the technical side of working in a developer team
- How developer teams work (beyond the technical side)
- Starting a group project
- Design essentials
- Coding on your own computer
Roy’s Guides
- 5 Ways to get Quick (and Accurate) Answers to Coding Questions
- What is a Unit?
- What is an Object?
- What is a Symbol?
- What is a Zero Value?
Extra Challenges
If you’ve done some basic programming and want to get more practice, try these real world challenges used in job interviews. DIY first, then compare with how others did it.
Take these in order alongside your coding journey and watch out for the prerequisites!
- Web Dev 1
- Web Dev 2
- Web Dev 3
- Web Dev 4
- Web Dev 5
- Data Science 1
- Data Science 2
- Data Science 3
- Data Science 4
- Data Science 5
- Computer Science 1
- Computer Science 2
- Computer Science 3
- Computer Science 4
- Computer Science 5
- If you want even more try these free resources for practicing what you’ve learned on Codecademy
About the Guides & Authors
Hi, I’m Galina! I’m a web developer from NYC. I attended a bootcamp which taught me the foundational skills I needed for software development. After graduating and continuing to teach myself programming concepts, I noticed there were still things I needed to know in order to be a successful programmer - things that books and courses did not teach me but experience eventually did. In the past few years, I’ve taught other beginner coders, including out of Codecademy, and found that they often trip up on those same things I have and/or ask the same questions. Often times, they may not even know the right questions to ask and which information that’s out there is important for them to know.
That’s why myself along with a few other people with similar backgrounds put together these guides. We want to help the next generation of coders, people like us of the past, in giving them a quick list of resources that can help guide them in their coding journey and figure out their path. A lot of these are from Codecademy, but we also gathered resources from elsewhere on the web, based on what’s most helpful. All of these resources are free - either 100% or can be finished in a free trial just like the one for Codecademy Pro.
Please contribute!
All of the guides we made are wikis so that any super user can edit them to include popular or pertinent suggestions. Contributing to the community is one of the best ways to cement your knowledge and further your career, because community contributions are absolutely integral to how the coding world works, so join in!