theodinproject VS textbook-curriculum

One way to contribute to The Odin Project is by helping to improve their documentation. You can contribute to their curriculum repository by suggesting improvements, reporting errors, or adding new documentation. They also have a great Contributing Guide to help onboard new contributors.

If you want to get meta about it, The Odin Project's site is open source https://github.com/TheOdinProject/theodinproject. Once you get the basics down it's worth poking around their source code. There's a number of sound patterns being used and lots of examples on how to do things.

Yes, they’ve changed the layout and are still working on it too. https://github.com/TheOdinProject/theodinproject/issues/3133

It is completely free and open source. The course content and the main site are both available for anyone to view on Github.

We have a very similar system on The Odin Project for tracking user lesson completions if you would like to take a look: https://github.com/TheOdinProject/theodinproject

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.