If you want to become a programmer or developer, or just learn how to code, this episode will get you started and point you to lots of learning resources.

Full show notes

Things mentioned in this episode:

Codecademy

Code Combat

Treehouse

Lynda

Codecourse

CodingBat

Sublime Text

Brackets

Atom

Vim

Emacs

JS Beautifier

JS Fiddle

CodePen

Github

Stack Exchange

Dream in Code

Martin's Twitter

Martin's cool Linux desktop

Descent

GeoCities

Zao (my old website is dead and gone)

CIG v3.5

The ultimate guide to building a personal website

How to develop new skills quickly

AMpanic

WordPress

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

Game jam

Startup weekend

Unreal engine

Unity

A complete course on Unity game development

The Motivation Hacker

How I learned to build iPhone apps

Hour of Code

GameSalad

BuildBox

16 tools for making video games

How not to be afraid of learning programming

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