Paths Educational paths toward programming Self-taught - blogs, articles, tutorials, online platforms like Udemy, code academy 4-year computer science degree 2-year “web design” degree 12-week full-time boot camp 6-month part-time bootcamps Bootcamps that specialize in a discipline like data science, graphics design Bootcamps that serve underrepresented groups - resilient coders, shecodes.io , time, attention, resources Master in computer science Side door and back door entryways to tech Product management The mom test product school Project management Support, then technical support Solution architects Developer marketing Advice for people thinking about getting into programming Learn hello world Go through a codeacademy or similar interactive course Try to build something on replit or glitch where you don't need an actual environment set up Connect with other new devs on Twitter Use https://exercism.io/ to get feedback about your code, don’t work in a silo https://roadmap.sh/ How to pick a language or stack to start with in 2022 Programming languages are tools Some are more commonly used to build specific things JavaScript/TypeScript - web (started as front end, now is also backend, is what browsers run), iot, drones, most things support javascript (Airtable, lambdas, google sheets, etc.) HTML/CSS - web (front end only, structure and style) Python - web, data, machine learning Ruby - web, small utilities PHP - web C#/F# - enterprise, windows, azure, games like X-Box Go - CLI tools, scalable servers and large-scale programs Elixir - web, event-driven systems, distributed systems Java - enterprise tools SQL - data only, not for building applications R - data Fortran, COBOL, VBA, objective-c, Perl - I would not invest much in learning these unless it was required for a job I was already hired at CJ says - learn javascript, but then I say learn ruby and ruby on rails Whatever you decide, stick with it until you feel comfortable building decent working applications Cord management Braided cable managers https://www.amazon.com/CrocSee-25ft-Management-Protector-Self-Wrapping/dp/B08FJ2WDMK Conway Electric pretty extension cords https://www.amazon.com/s?k=conway+electric&gclid=CjwKCAjw3qGYBhBSEiwAcnTRLmh5ke7bwCi9XoBwyjybypGPUD-TeEmXgoa4Ge6FBDkyFNYkRSpe0hoC7EUQAvD_BwE&hvadid=616991286179&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9002297&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=16357591836090420375&hvtargid=kwd-3626162047&hydadcr=24660_13611807&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_27vjmz70n7_e Instagram desk setups - Other mentions Product school - https://productschool.com/ Black tech pipeline - https://blacktechpipeline.com/ wnb.rb - https://www.wnb-rb.dev/ codeacademy - https://www.codecademy.com/…