Learning Strategies

Asking Questions

• Short Self Contained Compilable Example (While this is addressed at Java audience, the principle applies to programming questions in general.)

• Asking Questions the Smart Way is a classic article that has been kept up to date.

Mentored Learning

• Exercism.org is a crowd-sourced mentoring platform. Learn by doing small coding exercises, then improve the solution with help from a live mentor. Note: that the name is spelled like "exercise" as in "coding EXERCISe Mentoring."

Structured Learning

• Coursera provides free access to university level classes. Classes include videos, TAs and online forums. There are many other MOOCs to check out. Some examples:
• Khan Academy is aimed at K-12, which means it is very approachable if you are starting off fresh on a topic.
• MIT Open Course Ware has excellent content in the format of videos and PDFs.
• edX

Spaced Repetition

• Anki automates reviewing old topics.

Exploring Small Examples

• Code Sandbox is a code playground. Work backwards from a working product to learn how the pieces are put together.
• Replit is an online editor. Like Code Sandbox, it makes it easier to play with small examples.