I completed a 10-week programming course (Hackbright) in SF this summer and am currently waiting for my visa to come through to come back to the Bay Area to start a job at a YC company.
There are lots of resources out there for picking up a language (or coding, to begin with), eg, codecademy, treehouse, udemy, even offline courses like Hackbright, DevBootCamp. Beyond that, what are some of the best ways to go from a programmer to a good programmer?
I find writing code a couple hours a day and working on my personal projects helpful, but only to a certain degree as I feel I am re-using a lot of my existing knowledge (or hitting some kind of roadblock).
Hence, reading more quality codes has been one of the priorities for me to keep up the learning. The major challenge though is to find good code to read. Perhaps a weekly curated "reading list" akin to StartupDigest but for coders, instead of startup related articles, they can be handpicked "codes of the week" on github / other sources? Or, do these things already exist out there?