- Chandler Baskins spoke on "Angular Air" about lowering the barrier of entry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBvpwE7tbGU
- Ideas for how to get started?
- think about how you learn; visual?
- https://www.udemy.com/ worked for Chandler
- Video can be misleading. You may think you are retaining more information than you actually are. Generally you may only take away 15% of what you see.
- Maybe don't try to work along as you watch, but instead watch and then apply concepts on your own so that you have a chance to experience what you're learning in additional to just typing out something that's being presented
- Having your own project to work on is a great learning strategy whether you're visual or not. It's just a good way to learn.
- Side projects are also a good way to continue learning even once you're working fulltime.
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/ was mentioned
- tests/koans are a great way to get familiar with a language and programming concepts
- play with languages without having to install a bunch of stuff
There don't seem to be a many people around here that are into technology?
(Jay) I've found that folks are often scared away from technology under an assumption that they aren't smart enough to do it. That's not true in my experience. It doesn't require any deep mathmatical knowledge for example. I've also found (through meetups and other conversatoins like these) that there are more folks around here than we realize. They just tend to be a little introverted or believe they're alone :)