The Code Connector community responded with these Wonderful Answers:

1. https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ It just isn’t that hard to be helpful to others when it comes to code, no matter what your experience is. It was a fulfilling experience that I want to continue doing more of.

2. Worked with Ted Patterson to build a mobile application with React Native. This opened the world of mobile development to me.

3. I bought a dev domain and started learning JavaScript/Node well enough to build a custom resume site. Bryan Robinson turned me on to 11ty and self hosting a blog. Since then I've published 21 posts with most of them already published on dev.to . Writing about my development journey and has led to me better understanding myself, my brand, and my value.

4. Taught a boot-camp…One of the best decisions I ever made

Code Connector Contributors: Corey McCarty, James Quick

Code Connector is a non-profit that's organized tech meetups to help people start their journey into tech. You can join our daily conversations by joining the Code Connector slack channel.