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Ask HN: A good platform for volunteering time to mentor novice programmers?

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Ask HN: A good platform for volunteering time to mentor novice programmers?

#1
Ideally I would love a platform or medium that facilitated something along the lines of: I, the (more) experienced dev, have a couple free hours and want to provide my time to field questions on general computer science/programming for junior developers. Before anyone suggest to just go answer Stack questions, I'm specifically looking for 1:1 or conversation style dialogue.

For example, a very new programmer recently came to me with frustrations about the feeling of confusion (that we've all had) about how a React app or Python print statement is somehow eventually just 1's and 0's. That sort of topic I think is very helpful to learn through conversation, and personally I tend to learn a lot myself when eventually questions arise that I hadn't thought of/learned yet.

On a related note if anybody here is a curious junior dev - I have a couple free hours and want to provide my time to field questions on general computer science/programming for junior developers

Re: Ask HN: A good platform for volunteering time to mentor novice programmers?

#3

You can have a look at https://www.zimbopy.com/become-a-mentor

I love this, though I am still looking for something more informal also. Are you affiliated with this program? I'm interested but it looks inactive from their Github.

Re: Ask HN: A good platform for volunteering time to mentor novice programmers?

#7
You should probably leave your email in your about page. Also - post your offer to /r/webdev, /r/programming, /r/learnprogramming, etc. And tech specific subreddits - /r/python, /r/javascript, whatever you like. I'm sure you will find people eager to learn!