Using the Community

You can’t always successfully google problems when you’re starting out - usually because you don’t know the correct terminology for the issue or solution. Often you might still get a newbie StackOverflow hit, but when there’s not even that, you need a human to help out.

One of the things ZTM do with their courses is to have a Discord based community, then set tasks to encourage it’s use - for example one of the exercises I’ve already had was to go there and answer a question. Earlier ones were to introduce yourself and to find a partner to work with - both of which would have forced anyone not used to Discord to figure it out.