Boost Your Beginner Tech Career

The Beginner Boost is a quick start into the tech world for absolute beginners with little or no experience in tech. All you need is a computer, an Internet connection, and the time, motivation, and patience to learn it (most simply lack the latter). There's actually a shortage of qualified technologists in the world, which is why they continue to command such high salaries. Here's how you can become one of them.

Get started

• Follow Rob's socials (specifically Twitch, YouTube, GitHub) and say hello
• Like, subscribe, and follow the YouTube playlist
• Introduce yourself in our discussion forum (no Discord)
• Dive into the content starting with the overview
• Review the list of revelant technologies most tech jobs require
• Explore the Linux terminal by setting up the boost container
• Create a GitHub account
• Star and follow this repo
• Learn to write and edit GitHub Flavored Markdown
• Create your own GitHub repo and start taking notes
• Contribute

Old beginner boost content

• https://rwxrob.github.io/skilstak/boost

Legal

Copyright © 2026 Robert S. Muhlestein (rwxrob). All rights reserved.

This repo is released under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license meaning you can read it, share it, fork it, modify it, and use in your personal projects provided you give full attribution to the copyright owner and do not use any part of the content for commercial purposes. Since this content changes very frequently to keep up with changes in the tech industry it is strongly recommended that links back to this authoritative repo are highly visible (since they are already needed for attribution).