Learning materials

Some useful materials for learning technical skills.

Short courses

freeCodeCamp

Free and high quality.

Udemy

Quality varies but courses are usually cheap.

Pluralsight

Expensive to subscribe yourself but useful if your organisation pays for it.

Upcase trails

Some trails consist of videos, like our tmux trail. Others use our coding exercises. In those, you’ll clone down a git repo and write code on your own machine. The trails are each broken down into clear steps to allow you to tackle them in manageable chunks.

Learn technology best practices

Resources for improving your programming and software engineering skills.

Exercises

A framework and lessons to learn java syntax

A framework and lessons to learn java syntax and idioms in a logical sequence.

Exercism

Programming exercises with an option for free code review.

Codepip

Learn to code by playing games.

Magazines and mailing lists

Increment

While there are a lot of materials about how to write code and how to deploy distributed systems, there’s much less about how humans can work together more effectively to achieve their goals faster. This stuff is complicated, and it matters. Version control, code review, pager rotations, DevOps practices. Increment exists to provide practical and useful insight into what effective teams are doing so the rest of us can learn from them more quickly.

Software lead weekly

A weekly email for busy people who care about people, culture and leadership.

Python weekly

A free weekly newsletter featuring the best hand curated news, articles, new releases, tools and libraries, events etc related to Python.

DB weekly

A weekly round-up of database technology news and articles covering new developments, SQL, NoSQL, document databases, graph databases, and more.

SRE weekly

SRE Weekly is a newsletter devoted to everything related to keeping a site or service available as consistently as possible. SRE (Site/Service Reliability Engineering) isn’t just about automated failover or fault-tolerant architectures — although of course those are important. It’s about a holistic view of reliability that takes into account everything from servers to human factors to processes to automation and more.

Podcasts

Hanselminutes

Deep tech talk from an inclusive perspective