Nothing really surprising to me, but the burnout rate really worries me.

Also having only 5% females in the field is a shame, would love to see that increased over the next decade.

Disagree on this one, even though I can see where you are coming from. I first learnt programming in Java, and it gave me massive problems to understand the structure and typings. Obviously Java isn’t the most beautiful language anyways, but once I picked up python it started to click for me on how to solve problems, because I didn’t have to think about that many things. I could just go for it. Yes, my code was messy in the beginning, but I wasn’t working on any important projects. It was just for fun.

So I think learning how to solve problems is as important as writing clean code. And python really helped me with that.

I have read the text 4 times now, but I neither see a question nor understand what you are talking about. Could you please rephrase?

Good call, thanks :) For now I would just let the people do how they want and see. Luckily we are not reddit

As much as I like the idea of pointing newcomers into the right direction, post says basically nothing at all. All 5 points can be used for literally everything not specific to coding really.

Coding and CS in general has become so huge that finding a place to start can be very overwhelming, so just linking some resources won’t do the trick.

A beginner should ask himself “what do I like to do” which then would point into a direction of what programming language to use. E.g. “I want to automate my daily tasks” would point towards python. Whereas "I want to make own game’ would point towards the unity world and C#. “I want to make my own website” to javascript. And obviously “I want to write almost unreadable loads of boilerplate code” would be java.

From then on your resources could make sense to explore.

Also “talk to people” is easier said then done. Most people not in a programmer bubble don’t even have the access, so linking to programming communities would be nice.

Hope my 2 cents help to make it a bit more concrete

Let’s add some more

Utilities: https://ninite.com/ - Install and Update All Your Programs at Once

https://www.notion.so - productivity and note-taking web application

https://www.voidtools.com/ - Everything, a Windows search function that actually works

Network https://kubernetes.io/- Kubernetes (if we have Openshift on the list, we should also post the real OG)

https://k8slens.dev/ - Kubernetes IDE