Sometimes getting into new development can be difficult. With these resources, you can learn how to develop, and sometimes get rewarded for your efforts.
MSDN
Did you know Microsoft has lots of free resources for students? Watch the video about how to get free offerings for these Microsoft products: Azure, Office 365, and VSCode.
Stack Overflow
Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for anyone that codes to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million unique visitors come to Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities.
Channel 9 for Beginners
Bob Tabor from LearnVisualStudio.net has created several beginner series for aspiring developers to learn programming languages in Visual Basic, C#, HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript and how to build apps for Windows Phone 7. Each series come with different concepts that are broken into their own video and source codes. Watch, learn, and begin to code!