Sink or Swim - 5 life jackets to throw to the new coder by Lynn Root

So, you went through learn Python the Hard Way, now what? Visit newcoder.io for 5 tutorials to teach you how to "swim" after LPTHW.

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1. 5 life jackets to throw to the new coder or Swım Sink
2. Red Hat @roguelynn roguelynn.com econchick LYNN ROOT lifeguard on duty:
3. why am I here?
4. how we learn how we should learn what to learn with
5. 15 minutes of fame
6. “stop writing classes” “write more classes!”
7. learning how to code in our industrial revolution
8. n00b vs l33t
9. “it takes about 10 years to turn a novice into an expert programmer”
10. From Learn Python the Hard Way to... what?
11. concepts for granted vs concepts for context
12. We’re less likely to develop an advanced understanding of what we are trying to master,
13. than if we were searching for an underlying meaning, trying to integrate the newly-learned concepts into what we already know.
14. episodic vs cumulative
15. project-based learning
16. learn through frustration (›°□°)›ớ ᵲᴸᵲ
17. passing on the frustration
18. “Knowledge is actively constructed by the student, not passively absorbed from textbooks and lectures.”
19. defined goals
20. if you’re curious
21. in action & where to go from here
22. 5 tutorials
23. dataviz
24. APIs
25. Web Scraper
26. IRC bot
27. Sudoku GUI
29. newcoder.io
30. swim safely @roguelynn