Last year, the open source community that I run, Free Code Camp, did a big live stream. This was a fun way for us to connect with people who were learning to code and answer a bunch of their questions.
This year, we're doing it again, and we've have some awesome guests:
Jeff Atwood - creator of Stack Overflow
Kyle Simpson - author of You Don't Know JS
Anil Dash - a late 90's developer and blogger who's now CEO of Fog Creek Software (GoMix which used to be HyperDev)
And a ton of other guests.
The full schedule and guest list is here: https://www.freecodecamp.com/open2017
We also have a YouTube chatroom and a hashtag: #Open2017
I agree with the last point 100%. It seems that this Coder Camps company has experience running different programs in full stack development and data science, so I imagine they know what they're doing.
He's talked about systems for sharing code so that non-programmers can find code that does what they want without actually needing to dive in. Not sure how well this will work out.
Haven't had a chance to play with it yet but clicked around and it looks interesting. I like the idea of users posting their own coding challenges. The one thing I noticed this suffers from is a lack of a community base. Just clicking through the challenges on the front page I saw no discussions. But with that said I think this could be a neat application for new programmers. I know someone who is going through freecodecamp now. I'll ask them to take a look at this and see what they think.
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2015/10/28/free-code-ca...
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