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Educational channels

Note: This page include +250 educational channels for developers.

There is a widely held belief among developers that this profession requires continuous learning, mainly to stay current and competitive. This is due to the fast pace software technologies emerge and evolve, and that's probably right, but please hold you fear of missing out feeling, you don't need to adopt every trend.

Said that, it's good to keep up to date, that's why I have made this compilation where you can find relevant content that you can add to a news aggregators, or subscribe (channels / newsletters / podcasts / ...), or follow other people to help you with this.

For me, the best way to keep up with developer technologies is to engage with highly motivated and passionate developers. So, if you don't find those people in your current environment, I encourage you to find them in a developer community that matches your passion and interests.

Note: As soon as you feel prepared, I encourage you to contribute too, that's why I have separated those mediums accepting contributions in it's own section. In addition to those, you can always search for organization with developer relations teams and get in touch with them (e.g. companies list, DevRel careers, or check in Linkedin). Many of us are happy to help/guide you on how to do it.

Written content​

Magazines & Blogs​

These are 30 popular magazines / webzines / blogs about development, startups, general technology, etc.

Emojis meaning: 📥 site accept contributions vs ✉️ under invite only | ⭐ largest social channel subscribers.

📥 A List Apart (+130K ⭐) | Development

Webzine that explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute

📥 App Developer Magazine (+8K ⭐) | Development

App Developer Magazine is an app programming and software tech media property, dedicated to covering news, nd stories for iOS iPhone, Android, Gaming, IoT, VR, and AR app developers

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute

📥 Better Programming (+7K ⭐) | Development

Advice for programmers. We cover code tutorials, leadership and management, productivity and coffee.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute

📥 Business Insider (Tech) (4M ⭐) | General technology

What You Need To Know About Tech.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute

📥 Code Project (+16K ⭐) | Development

Free source code and tutorials for Software developers and Architects. Articles about: AI, Programming, Containers, database development, desktop programming, devops, game development, general programing, hosted services, IoT, mobile apps, programming languages, web development, ...

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute

📥 CSS-TRICKS (+537K ⭐) | Development

Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using CSS.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute

✉️ DailyJS (+580K ⭐) | Development

JavaScript news and opinion.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X

✉️ DevOps.com (+57k ⭐) | Development

DevOps.com has the largest collection of original content related to DevOps on the web and one of the top results for DevOps-related search terms. Powered by @TechstrongGroup.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X

📥 Dzone (+76k ⭐) | Development

Programming, Web Development, and DevOps news, tutorials and tools for beginners to experts. Hundreds of free publications, over 1M members, totally free..

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Eye on Tech / TechTarget (+79k ⭐) | General technology

Eye on Tech focuses on the latest business technology and IT topics, including AI, DevOps, security, networking, cloud, storage and more. Programmed strategically to inform the business tech buying cycle, Eye on Tech features insight and commentary from the writers, editors and experts at SearchSecurity, SearchNetworking, SearchStorage and other sites in the TechTarget portfolio.

🌐 Web | 🎥 YouTube (+79K) | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 FreeCodeCamp News (+839k ⭐) | Development

Browse thousands of programming tutorials written by experts. Learn Web Development, Data Science, DevOps, Security, and get developer career advice.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Geeks for Geeks Guest Blogs (+60k⭐) | Development

A Computer Science portal for geeks. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 HackerNoon (+86k ⭐) | Development

HackerNoon is a free platform with 25k+ contributing writers. 100M+ humans have visited HackerNoon to learn about technology.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Infoq (+55k ⭐) | Development

Helping dev teams adopt new technologies and practices since 2008. Written by software engineers. Read by over 1.5 million developers worldwide.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

✉️ InfoWorld (+90k ⭐) | General technology

Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies

🌐 Web | 🐦 X.

📥 Javarevisited (+90k ⭐) | Development

A humble place to learn Java and Programming better.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 OpenAPI Initiative blog (+8k ⭐) (OpenAPI)

The OpenAPI Initiative provides an open source, technical community, within which industry participants may easily contribute to building a vendor-neutral, portable and an open specification for providing technical metadata for REST APIs – the “OpenAPI Specification” (OAS)

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Opensource.com (n.a. ⭐) | Open Source

Articles, resources, and guides to help everyone learn more, do more, and be more. Topics: Python, Kubernetes, Bash, Linux, Programming, CI/CD, Git, Java, Ansible, DevOps, and more!

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (n.a.) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Postman Guest blogger program (+49M ⭐) | Development

API platform for building and using APIs. Postman blog covers APIs and Postman.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 ReadWrite (+1.4M ⭐) | General technology

The latest #news, analysis, and conversation on the #InternetOfThings , #ai , #crypto, and more. Topics like transport, smart cities, fintech, connected devices, industrial, health and more. All content shared is intended to assist our community of readers understand today’s technology, including how to invest in, apply, and benefit from it.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 SD Times (+24K ⭐) | General technology

Software Development Times, better known as SD Times, is a magazine published by D2 Emerge, in both a print version nd an online electronic edition. The leading site for software developers and development managers, offering news, analysis, and live webinars on a range of IT topics.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 SitePoint (+113k ⭐) | Development

Become a better developer. Build a better web. Teaching web development and design since 1999. Trusted by millions every month. Topics: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, ...

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+113k) | 📘 Facebook (+95k) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Slashdot (+373k ⭐) | General technology

News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues. #tech #news #software #engineering #AI #bitcoin #tesla

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📘 Facebook (+133K) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Smashing Magazine (+904k ⭐) | Development

Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers. Curated by Iris, Vitaly and the team. 🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+904k) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Techcrunch & Extra Crunch (+10.2M ⭐) | Startups

Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley. Experiences about starting, growing, or funding a tech company. Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+10.2M) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 TechRepublic (+228k ⭐) | General technology

Providing IT professionals with a unique blend of original content, peer-to-peer advice from the largest community of IT leaders on the Web.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X | 📥 Contribute.

📥 The New Stack (+36k ⭐) | Development

Authority on DevOps, covering cloud native computing, frontend and backend software development. For developers and engineers building and managing new stacks around the world that are built on open source technologies and distributed infrastructures (disclosure guidelines).

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+36k) | 📘 Facebook (+21k) | 🔗 Linkedin (+16k) | 📥 Contribute.

✉️ The Register (+103k ⭐) | General technology

Enterprise technology news for IT decision-makers and professionals. Views since 1998 – Biting the hand that feeds IT.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+103k)

📥 The Startup / Start it up (+41k ⭐) | Startups

Get smarter at building your thing. Stories that help today’s creators get smarter at building their thing. Moving away from traditional ways of building a business. Big business/corporate, leadership, hiring and data stories no longer have a place here. We will still accept stories that target technology startups. +8 million monthly readers & +772K followers.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+41k) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 TheNextWeb (+1.6M ⭐) | General technology

TNW is a global digital brand that informs, inspires and connects people who love tech through media, events and services. Learn what's next in tech now at TNW Conference. TNW Conference

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+1.6M) | 📘 Facebook (+1M) | 🔗 Linkedin (+266k) | 📥 Contribute.

✉️ TheVergue Tech (+3.3M ⭐) | General technology

The Verge covers life in the future.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+3.3M) | 🔗 Linkedin (+378k)

✉️ Visual Studio Magazine (+9k ⭐) | Development

The home page of Visual Studio Magazine online, the leading site for enterprise .NET developers.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+9k) | 📥 Contribute.

More about guest blogging: Recommended readings: The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO (by Matt Cutts, Google), A reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns (Google Search Central) , guest blogging remains the absolute best. Find more at: awesome devrel collective or searching in Google and use keywordseverywhere.com to check MOZ DA

Corporate engineering blogs​

This list include ~30 engineering blogs from well-known brands:

Jan. 2024 update: I have found kilimchoi/engineering-blogs repo with over 565 engineering blogs.

These are not called "engineering" blogs, but the content is pretty close:

Newsletters​

Awesome 😎 Find hundreds of newsletters at github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters

Self-paced tutorials​

📥 Codecademy.com (+519k ⭐)

Free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, and Swift, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+519k) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 FreeCodeCamp tutorials (+839k ⭐)

Browse thousands of programming tutorials written by experts. Learn Web Development, Data Science, DevOps, Security, and get developer career advice.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+839k) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 JavaTpoint (+2k ⭐)

Tutorials, Free Online Tutorials, Javatpoint provides tutorials and interview questions of all technology like java tutorial, android, java frameworks, javascript, ajax, core java, sql, python, php, c language etc. for beginners and professionals.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+2k) | 📥 Contribute.

📥 Khan Academy (+795k ⭐)

It provides a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short video lessons. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. It has produced over 8,000 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, including mathematics, sciences, literature, history, and computer science. All resources are available for free to users of the website and application.

🌐 Web | 🐦 X (+795k) | 📥 Contribute.

Find more at #video-courses

News aggregators​

Video & audio content​

YouTube channels​

Programming in general:

Awesome 😎: Lot of YouTube channels in JoseDeFreitas/awesome-youtubers repo

If you are looking for a way to get exposure of something you have done in a third party channel, keep in mind that many organizations producing SDKs, libraries, APIs, developer tools, ... have a section where they publish stories, spotlights, ... within their YouTube channels. For example, playlist like these:

Note: Also keep in mind that you can also submit a presentation to a technical events. Many of these are recorded and uploaded afterwards to their video channels.

Video courses​

Most of the most popular the e-learning platforms, MOOCs, ... based on video are:

Developer Streams​

Find +200 developers doing streamings at github.com/bnb/awesome-developer-streams 😎.

Podcasts​

A good way to make the most of your time while exercising, driving, cross stitching, cooking, playing video games, ... is listening to podcasts about technology.

Find hundreds of podcasts in the following awesome lists😎:

Geospatial podcasts / Mapping / GIS podcasts​

Note: not all are necessarily developer focused:

📥 Contribute to podcasts: Many, or I would say... most podcasts use to have guests or interview relevant people to their podcasts. So identify relevant podcasts where you think you could contribute and engage with the host to assest if you are right. There are tools to match hosts and guests (check: How to Get On Podcasts as a Guest in 2024: The Easy Way)

Tech Conferences​

Global conferences​

Awesome 📢😎 call for papers Check conferences with open call for papers (C4P): Awesome DevRel > CFPs and Speaking Resources. Many organizations producing SDKs, libraries, APIs, developer tools, ... within their own events will have a section like "Community Show & tells", "Customer/User/Developer stories", "User presentations", "Demo theathers", ....

Spanish Conferences​

Challenges & competitions​

Below you will find a compilation of "gamified" hands-on learning experiences.

Challenges​

Challenges, games and gamified experiences to learn programming:

Related to hiring / recruiting processes:

Coding competitions​

Coding competitions and hackathons:

Awesome lists 😎:

Games of coding​

Find more +30 games at github.com/michelpereira/awesome-games-of-coding 😎

Courses​

The idea of this section is to include supervised/guided/directed learning options

Coding bootcamps​

Awesome 😎: more at https://github.com/theodesp/awesome-coding-camps

Formal education​

  • Professional education
  • College/University
  • Master degrees
  • Business schools (programming related courses, e.g.: Big data)
  • ...

Communities​

Many developers with related interests join together in different ways. Many of these can be found in Meetup.com.

📥 Willing to contribute to a community?: Communities are all about collaboration, knowledge sharing, contributions, ... And almost every community going online or in person meetup are always searching for speakers.

Mailing lists​

Tradditionaly, lot of developer communities used to host they own mailing lists isolated in their own servers, but most organizers tend to use ready-to-use services nowadays.

Find more programming communities on Meetup.com.

Forums​

Forums are a great way to find answer to your questions and also help others:

There are many other forums there, issues on repos, corporate forums (e.g. community.esri.com), etc.

Instant Messaging (IM) channels​

Social platforms​

Reports and listings​

Note: top content channel are sometimes found on these reports

Other places​

Developer blogging platforms​

Documentation & training​

Miscelanea​