Ask HN: How to get a non-technical friend into tech?

By yesitcan · 2026-07-05 · 4 points · 5 comments

My friend wants to learn software engineering and eventually land a job at FAANG / big corp. Trouble is, they have zero engineering or leetcode experience. They also dropped out of their bachelors degree a decade ago. Do I point them to a intro Python book? Something else?…

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