"Any good books or screencasts or anything to get my feet wet on become a web developer? I like udacity but it costs money and don't have money for it."

Did you read what the OP asked for? Even though OP said he does not have the money to pay for web training,you still went ahead to suggest this paying site to him.Too bad.

Really,I cant make head or tail on what you saying here.You are just dithering.To me,I will warn developers about your company.We need to start speaking out about disrespectful potential employers.There are quite a lot of tech companies that are treating potential employee badly.Asking candidates to do many hours of take-home code interview and simply ignore them thereafter;passive-aggressively interview candidates;And your comments here are not helpful.

We don't do "take home" interviews. Engineers are asked to do a 1-hour tech screen, then asked to visit for a pairing interview, up to one day.

The pairing interview is, basically, the job. You sit next to a real engineer working on a real product on a real business need.

There's no whiteboard. No brain-teasers. No CS101. Just the real thing.

I concur.It is time we let the whole world knows some of these companies that treat potential employees shabbily.

He does not need to apologize on his donation.Apologize over what?.It is folks like you that are creating problem where none exits.

Most open source project teams are decent except Mozilla,which is vindictive at best.

Agree 100%. It is shameful the way they treated the man.I wont encourage anyone to participate in open source work in Mozilla.

Too many articles are duplicated in Hacker News recently.eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532349

I don't think it's changed recently? But we're working on it.

I think this is a duplicate post as this article is already posted and discussed here.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529716.

magda_wang, God bless you for bringing this piece to HN.Keep it up.

Nice.Let all other CEOs follow.