By Pascal Oparada
Every Developer and/or Programmer searches for good platforms where they can best optimise their skills and get the required features and help necessary.
Here are top 5 online communities where they can harness their skills.
Github
This repository hosting service provider not only has an open source to business but has many of its own features. Github provides a web-based graphical interface and access control and collaborative features that allows developers and programmers the flexibility to operate at optimum level.
Github allows you host and review codes, manage projects and build software with other developers and programmers around the world.
Features of Github
Code Review. Lightweight code review tools are built into every pull request. You can create review processes that improve the quality of your code and fit into your workflow.
Project Management. Project managers and developers coordinate, track, and update their work in one place, so projects stay transparent and on schedule. You can see everything happening in your project and choose where to focus your team’s efforts on projects, task boards that live right where they belong.
Github also allows you buy apps from it Marketplace with your Github account.
Stack Overflow
This platform allows developers and programmers interface with each other. It allows them learn, share their knowledge and build their careers. According to the website, over 5o million developers and programmers flock to the platform every month to interact with each other.
Developers can also find jobs and ask questions from fellow developers and programmers on the platform.
If you are looking for a place to sharpen your programming skills, head over to StackOverflow.
This behemoth of a platform is a place for people from all walks of life, with all kinds of career and profession. Developers and programmers flock to Reddit to get ahead in their careers, ask questions and proffer solutions to coding or programming challenges.
On the search bar, enter your question and you are bombarded with a myriad of answers and solutions.
Quora
Quora is a place to share knowledge. It is a platform to ask questions and get updated on latest trends in programming. It is an invaluable platform for any developer and programmer who wishes to grow and broaden their knowledge.
Logging into Quora is easy if you are a first time user. You can create an account, use your Facebook account or Google account. Once logged in, you are confronted with a plethora of choices.
It uses your data on any social media (if you logged in through any social media) to determine and ask questions about your school, college, etc.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator provides seed capital for startups in the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you are getting started.
The kind of company you start determines how much funding you get from the platform. The goal is to get startups through several phases. As a developer, you can raise enough money from the platform once you get started on any venture.
“The most important thing we do is work with startups on their ideas. We’re hackers ourselves, and we’ve spent a lot of time figuring out how to make things people want. So we can usually see fairly quickly the direction in which a small idea should be expanded, or the point at which to begin attacking a large but vague one”, the company stated.
