Top N Most Valuable Metaskills for Technical People
(continuing the theme of “me writing posts for friends I’m teaching to code”)
- How to ask technical questions artfully: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+ask+technical+questions
- Get faster, better, more accurate responses
- People like you for asking questions interestingly and respectfully
- Feel the fear, and do it anyway
- How to read documentation
- Python docs are good for reference, but they do not often explain well
- Sites like Geeksforgeeks, w3c are good for finding examples of how to do a specific thing you want
- How to submit good pull requests
- Be cheery and polite!
- https://github.com/ianklatzco/psky.app/issues/4