Best Of: Twitter for Aspiring Programmers
When I decided to start learning web development, I took a “total immersion” approach. I listened to programming podcasts at the gym, filled my inbox with web development newsletters, and made HackerNews my homepage. Thinkful’s “Best Of” Series aims to help you do the same, by guiding you to resources that will bring you up to speed with the world of web development and inspire you to keep learning.
This week we’re focusing on Twitter. Here’s an awesome list of people to follow as a newcomer to web development.
p.s. You can follow them all by subscribing to this list.
Educators
Bio: CTO of Flatiron School, Founder of Girl Develop It
Tweets about: women in tech, meetups, learning resources, cats
Michael Hartl, @mhartl
Bio: Author of Ruby on Rails Tutorial
Tweets about: Ruby, various programming languages, Tau Day
Pamela Fox, @pamelafox
Bio: CS curriculum developer at Khan Academy
Tweets about: JavaScript, Python, learning resources, CS education
Zed Shaw, @lzsthw
Bio: Writer of Learn Code the Hard Way series including LPTHW
Tweets about: coding tips, learning resources, programming books
Gregg Pollack, @greggpollack
Bio: Founder of Code School
Tweets about: programming languages and frameworks, learning resources
Mattan Griffel, @mattangriffel
Bio: Founder of One Month
Tweets about: Rails, growth hacking, writing, productivity
Phillip Guo, @pgbovine
Bio: Creator of PythonTutor, Edtech researcher
Tweets about: Python, EdTech, MOOCs, CS education
Writers and curators
Bio: Author of Designing with Web Standards, Co-creator of A List Apart
Tweets about: design, front-end development, web standards, UX
Chris Coyier, @chriscoyier
Bio: Curator of CSS-Tricks, Designer of Codepen.io
Tweets about: design, CSS, UI
Lea Verou, @leaverou
Bio: formerly worked for W3C in Developer Relations, currently writing a CSS book for O’Reilly
Tweets about: front-end development, web standards, CSS, design, UX
Peter Cooper, @peterc
Bio: Author of Beginning Ruby, Curator of JavaScript Weekly, HTML5 Weekly, Ruby Weekly and more
Tweets about: Ruby on Rails, learning sources, projects
Louis Lazaris, @impressivewebs
Bio: Editor for SitePoint, Freelance web developer, blogger, writer for Smashing Magazine
Tweets about: web dev tools, code examples, web design, CSS
Creators and Evangelists
Bio: Mozilla Developer Evangelist
Tweets about: open web, HTML, CSS, Firefox, and hedgehogs
Chris Wanstrath, @defunkt
Bio: GitHub Co-Founder & CEO
Tweets about: GitHub, collaboration, open source
Angelina Fabbro, @angelinamagnum
Bio: DevTools team at Mozilla
Tweets about: developer tools, mobile web, web standards
Paul Irish, @paul_irish
Bio: Works for Chrome Developer Relations
Tweets about: mobile web, front-end development, developer tools, Chrome
Addy Osmani, @addyosmani
Bio: Engineer at Google, Creator of TodoMVC, Yeoman
Tweets about: developer tools, Chrome
Inspiring developers
Bio: Learned web development by building 180 websites in 180 days
Tweets about: JavaScript, Ruby, learning resources & strategies
Saron Yitbarek, @saronyitbarek
Bio: Hacker-in-residence at NY Code Meetup, runs a weekly #codenewbie chat on Twitter with @carlosplusplus
Tweets about: learning to code, developer communities, Ruby, JavaScript
Nicole Sullivan, @stubbornella
Bio: Software engineer at Pivotal Labs
Tweets about: CSS, performance and scalability
Leah Culver, @leahculver
Bio: iOS and Python developer, Developer Advocate at Dropbox
Tweets about: APIs, iOS, Python, Django, open source
Alex Payne, @al3x
Bio: Programmer, writer, angel investor, early employee at Twitter and Simple
Tweets about: tech, startups, various programming languages
Language and framework founders
Bio: Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder and CTO of Basecamp
Tweets about: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, general tech, politics
Guido van Rossum, @gvanrossum
Bio: Creator and “Benevolent Dictator for Life” of Python programming language
Tweets about: Python
Brendon Eich, @brendoneich
Bio: Creator of JavaScript, Founder of Mozilla
Tweets about: JavaScript
John Resig, @jeresig
Bio: Creator of jQuery, Dean of Computer Science for Khan Academy
Tweets about: jQuery, JavaScript, learning resources
**Honorable LOLs**
Written by: Sonja Peterson Edited by: Bhaumik Patel
p.s. Next week’s post on Best Newsletters is up!