Looking for a tech job that doesn’t require you to code every day (or even at all)? Want to learn enough skills to land your first web design clients and start your career as a freelancer? Trying to transition from a different design career into something more tech-oriented? Or perhaps you’re just interested in gaining valuable new skills, even if you don’t have a 5-year plan for what to do with them yet.
Whatever your situation,
What is Skillshare? Skillshare is an online learning platform that offers thousands of courses (video lecture style), mostly focusing on creative, tech, business, and personal development topics. Some courses are free, but the full library is available with a subscription.
The majority of Skillshare courses focus on community, interaction, and hands-on projects, rather than just sitting and watching a lecture.
Is Skillshare worth it? In this Skillshare review, we’ll cover some key things to know about taking courses on the platform,
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Interview Cake is a study platform designed to help software engineers (and aspiring ones, including self-taught programmers) prepare for coding interviews.
Created by Parker Phinney, it features free practice programming interview questions, expert coding interview tips (ranging from “How to get unstuck” to “Organizing your interview timeline” to all kinds of FAQs about tech interviews), a free 7-day email crash course on coding interview strategies, and a full tech interview course that could help you earn higher salary offers (potentially by tens of thousands of dollars)!
Product management is a career topic near and dear to Learn to Code With Me, since I (Laurence) worked in that field for several years!
As you’ll read below, it’s a great job to have if you like variety in your workday, since there’s no one “product manager definition” and it’s often somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades role.
In this special guest post, I’m pleased to welcome product management thought leader Stephen Cognetta, who used to be a product manager at Google before co-founding the career-prep tool Exponent.
When you’re just getting started exploring the world of tech, having the right programming tools for beginners makes a world of difference. You want coding resources that make it easy and fun to learn the skills you want—not dry, incomprehensible teaching that you can barely wrap your head around.
The programming resources list in this article contains many of my favorite websites to learn coding, courses, tutorials, guides and books, including many I used when I was just starting out!