Creating a Forum

Why a forum of our own? Why not just point people at Stack Overflow? The answer is that many of our learners don't yet know enough to ask a good question there, or to recognize an answers when they see one. Bootcamp participants have also told us that they find SO and other sites intimidating or unwelcoming; fewer than 10% of SO participants are women, and as Margolis and Fisher pointed out in Unlocking the Clubhouse, that kind of imbalance is often a sign that other people don't find it congenial either. We try hard to make everyone feel like they belong, regardless of what they do or don't know coming in, and we hope they (and you) will find our forum useful.