Favorite Resources

Favorite Books, Tutorials and Tools

Books

Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories

Learn to Program, 2nd Edition (The Facets of Ruby Series)

HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites

JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

No Degree, No Problem *

Quit Law and Code: A Guide to Transition from Law to App Development

The 4-Hour Workweek

Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS and WordPress *

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time *

Essential Scrum

The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay

Tutorials

Free Code Camp *

Practical Javascript

StackOverflow (not a tutorial, but you can learn a lot)

Codeschool (is no longer as it was closed down by Pluralsight)

The Odin Project

Michael Hartl’s Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Git a Web Developer Job: Mastering the Modern Workflow, by Brad Schiff

The Web Developer Bootcamp, by Colt Steele

Tools

Github Student Developer Pack *

Wunderlist (Soon leaving us. Thanks Microsoft.)

Hyperdev, now GoMix

Mac Only Tools: Colored, Spectacle , Homebrew

Get Mac Apps – Install multiple Mac apps from the command line automatically *

*Faves of the faves

These are things, I have found, used and found useful.

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C# Day 2

We’re delving more deeply into C# and already I’m a bit behind. Gotta catch up this weekend. Here are my notes from this section:

C# Day 1

I’m taking notes this time, in class. I did that at the beginning but stopped. I found a great app that is still beta called Typora. It allows you to take notes in WYSIWYG Markdown which is truly awesome and slick. Free while in beta. Anywho, here are my notes from tonight. My Github for […]

Unit 2 . . .Web Fundamentals

We are deep into Unit 2, Web Fundamentals, and we are learning about building a web application with Python and Flask and SQL. It has been hard; Hurricane Dorian messing with our class schedule didn’t help. I have really valued the camaraderie and assistance of the Teaching Assistants as well as my classmates. LC101 utilizes […]

LC101.2

My repl for miles per gallon. Python Style Guides Hitchhikers Guide to Python Style Guide for Python code from python.org My repl for the turtle (not exactly working)

LaunchCode LC101 Day 1

Or as we will be calling it from now on, LC101.1, to be followed by LC101.2, LC101.3, etc. So our Day 1 Agenda was pretty light, it being an orientation type of day. A full room of aspiring coders, of all shapes, colors, sizes and ages, was pretty inspiring to see. Learned how to access […]