plutus-pioneer-program VS developer-portal

If you want an easy entry into Plutus and Cardano smart contracts take a look at https://demeter.run/ and plutus pioneer program cohort 4 content

and the course materials, including assignments and HW are updated weekly here: https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program

Step Three: learn Plutus. Check out the Plutus Pioneer Program.

GitHub repo

There's a little more to it than cloning an existing repo and installing it somewhere. I think the very first thing you should do is go through the pioneers program. https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program

You wanna develop dApps/run a stake pool? https://developers.cardano.org/

If you see broken links please open an issue in the repository, though perhaps IOHK's server (https://hydra.iohk.io) is just down in this instance.

Had heard there has been some improvement here https://developers.cardano.org/

Also, there's forum.cardano.org and developers.cardano.org where you can find other looking for help.

Another useful source is the Cardano Foundations https://docs.cardano.org/ and for the more technically minded the Cardano Developer Portal https://developers.cardano.org/

I'd start with the official developers portal at https://developers.cardano.org/

check: https://developers.cardano.org/

It’s easy to make a repo look very active. I guess they count commits, which is a terrible metric. Look at this PR in one of the Cardano repos: https://github.com/cardano-foundation/developer-portal/pull/471/commits

For getting started with Cardano specifically https://developers.cardano.org/ is a really good place to start.