plots2 VS textbook-curriculum

Citizen science! It's great when people realize they can answer their own questions with observation and data, and for activism because data is a powerful story. One friend of mine started https://publiclab.org to feed this, and another is doing data journalism to highlight holes in the government's environmental data. https://www.muckrock.com/project/

My first contribution ever was to PublicLab's plots2 back in 2018. I had no idea what I was doing or what plots2 was. What attracted me was how welcoming they were (and still are) to first time contributors. With them: I opened my first PR, discussed in PR's conversation, and pushed the changes requested. Back then, that was a lot!

Hmm so to your first question: That pattern of selecting from a pre-populated list is often used with a tag or chip system where you can select and deselect one or more items from the list, something like this: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/6026 in this case the search CTA acts as the final decision to search while the selections are populating the search criteria. It sounds your system design is a bit different though. Sounds to me like an issue of heuristics of UI https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/ the third heuristic states:

Maybe public lab would be a good home? https://publiclab.org/

https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 A collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! balloon

Initiatives like Girls Who Code and Ada Developers Academy are working to change this and are dedicated to making tech more representative of society at large. But, it's an ongoing battle, as women still only hold 1/4 of tech-related jobs.

Also checkout https://adadevelopersacademy.org/ ada developers academy. They target women and gender expansive adults. There are corporate programs such as at Oracle where they will only consider ada graduates. I can't speak to the quality of the program or outcomes, but I would have definitely looked into it if it was an option for me. Entry level roles are tough, and anything like this program to give you a leg up doesn't hurt.

I can recommend: Ada Academy. Hard to get into and not in all cities.

Ada Developers Academy. It’s a free, full time, year-long program that includes a 5 month paid internship. It is only for women and gender diverse people though.

Check out https://adadevelopersacademy.org/ for a free coding school + internship. I went there and have had a successful career so far w/ initial salary 150k in Seattle (my cohort had starting salaries between 100k and 175k). I was promoted after a few years now at ~250k, however I’m looking to switch companies for better work life balance in the next year or so and will prob take a pay cut. Tech is going through a rocky period and some companies are laying off folks and hiring freezes. I’m also finishing up BSCS degree from WGU, which is another route to consider r/wgu_CompSci

Ada Academy might be an option for you. This is a well respected institution in the industry with direct lines into FAANG. https://adadevelopersacademy.org/

Find out more: https://adadevelopersacademy.org/

A few, ADA Development Academy is one of them.