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Developer Getting Started Guide

This is a guide to getting started for aspiring developers. This guide assumes you have little to no existing programming experience. Where to start depends on your goals and interests. In general your best bet for learning to be a developer involves the following steps:

Find mentors to learn from by joining a community

Befriend peers to learn with and keep each other accountable

Pick a specific project (website, mobile app) to work on with your peers

Learn as much as you can using the resources below and trying to apply your learning to the project.

Get your project functioning and get your friends (or strangers) to use it.

Repeat steps 3-5 until you can reliably build different projects on your chosen platform.

In addition, here are a few tips to keep in mind while you learn:

Create a learning plan outline that can be reviewed by mentors or peers to help keep you on track.

Identify concrete learning goals and milestones that keep you focused and moving forward.

Be sure to keep yourself healthy and active as you learn. Get plenty of sleep, eat healthy and exercise.

Check the sections below to construct your customized learning plan.

Join a Community

One of the most important things you can do when learning to code is use what we understand about the social foundation of learning to “hack” your own motivation. You should get involved at events in your city where you can meet peers to learn with and mentors to learn from.

Bootcamps

Becoming a professional developer without any prior experience can be a surprisingly challenging endeavor. If you are serious about changing careers and want to do so in a structured environment filled with peers, you should consider taking part in a full-time multi-week professional bootcamp. The following bootcamps will prepare you with practical software development skills and are designed to be affordable for anyone:

Viking Code School - Remote high-touch online course with lots of peer collaboration teaching web development and free of tuition until you find a software developer role.

Telegraph Academy - 12-week Software Engineering accelerator for underrepresented minorities. Focused on being affordable to anyone regardless of their financial situation.

App Academy - 12-week Software Engineering bootcamp that does not charge any tuition or fees until after you are placed as a software developer.

There are many other bootcamps that often charge tuition costs ranging from $8-20k. If cost isn’t a major factor for you, here are a few more of the best bootcamps targeted at beginners:

HackReactor - Remote and in-person courses to teach web development with a layer of computer science fundamentals.

Galvanize - In-person classes at several campuses focused on comprehensive classes on web development or data science.

Hackbright - Engineering fellowship for women interested in learning how to become a professional software developer.

If the tuition costs are too high or you just aren’t prepared to make a full-time commitment, be sure to check out community events listed below.

Events

When first getting started with software development, having a community to learn with, people to learn from is indispensible. In order to find a position in the industry, building your professional network is paramount. Check out these resources as a great way to get started going to events:

Meetup - Find local events which help you meet others interested learning to code.

Railsbridge - Free events in many different cities which teach you the basics of web development. This organization was created with a focus on traditionally underrepresented groups in technology.

RailsGirls - Free events in many cities which teach you the basics of programming and web. This organization was created with a focus on traditionally underrepresented groups in technology.

MobileBridge - Sister organization to RailsBridge under BridgeFoundry. Free weekend events in many different cities to teach iOS and Android development. This organization was created with a focus on traditionally underrepresented groups in technology.

Finding events and a community to be a part of can be a surprisingly important part of maintaining the motivation to become a professional developer.

Learn to Code

If your goal is simply to “learn to code”, then you should start with a simple language to get going like Python or Ruby. These are languages you can use to build web applications, write scripts for your computer or even build basic mobile applications. For starters, check out this best way to learn python and this Coursera Python class.

Here’s a bunch of great resources including:

Codecadamy Python

Codecadamy Ruby

Interactive intro to Ruby

Awesome free book filled with python exercises

Learn how to build websites with Python

Another free python course

RubyMonk Tutorial

Here are a few more generally on the basics of computer science:

Udacity Intro to CS

Coursera Computer Science 101

Other programming resources:

Free way to learn programming online by working with others and building real apps for non-profits

Learn Rails (super popular web development framework) for $99 in a month

Learn about Websites

If you want to learn about how to build web pages, often you want to start with learning HTML and CSS to develop the look and feel of your website with these resources:

Dash - Interactive tutorials on web design

Codecademy HTML

Codecademy Web

KhanAcademy HTML+CSS

Learn from ShayHowe - Great reference for learning HTML / CSS

After learning HTML and CSS, we can add more powerful features to our site by learning Javascript:

Learn JS in 14 Days

CodeSchool Javascript

Codecademy Javascript

Khan Academy JS

Eloquent Javascript

Codecademy jQuery

Javascript Garden

Learn Android

If your goal is to learn how to do Android app development, you may still want to start by learning how to code above. If you’d prefer to skip that and jump straight into mobile development, then you can give that a try without learning another language first.

To get started, please check our Android getting started guides and/or our SF / Bay Area Android meetup for events and learning resources. If you have never programmed, you probably want to start with learning how to code with Java which Android is built on.

Learn Data Structures and Algorithms

Learn about fundamental data types (stack, queues, and bags), sorting algorithms (quicksort, mergesort, heapsort), data structures (binary search trees, red-black trees, hash tables), and Big O. These are very common interview questions and make up the core of computer science fundamentals.

MIT Introduction to Algorithms

Coursera Introduction to Algorithms

Algorithms Design Manual

Coderbyte

Coderwars

RosettaCode

InterviewCake

LeetCode

Reading Code

Searching or exploring GitHub and reading other developers code can be extremely helpful. A great way to find good code to read is by exploring Github:

Explore Github

Project Showcases

Often reading code can be a great way to mentally “put together the pieces” especially when you then borrow the code applying the concepts to your own project.

Additional Resources

Google’s Guide to Technical Development - Links to various recommended resources.

So You Want to Learn How to Code

Note: Above Info from: CodePath