Best courses for Developer Advocates

What you will learn

• Words, active voice and clear sentences
• Short sentences, lists and tables
• Paragraphs, audience and documents
• Beginner Markdown (optional)

Good for

The quickest way to write clearer tutorials, posts and docs. Take it in your first weeks, before you publish at volume.

Also stated by the provider

• Made for engineers and engineering-adjacent roles such as product managers
• Needs a little English writing proficiency, not a strong writer
• The pre-class lessons are useful on their own

What you will learn

• Interactive courses that run inside GitHub
• Getting started on GitHub in less than an hour
• A first week on GitHub: workflows, collaboration and tools
• GitHub Actions workflow artifacts
• Finding vulnerabilities and securing your code

Good for

Anyone who must be fluent in GitHub before running workshops, publishing samples or contributing to open source.

Also stated by the provider

• For beginners and experts
• Courses run on GitHub itself

What you will learn

• Getting started modules for complete beginners
• Core modules in the essential front-end skills
• Extension modules for specialisms
• Test your skills and challenge articles

Good for

Developers whose audience builds for the web, and anyone who needs to judge front-end examples with confidence.

Also stated by the provider

• Takes you from beginner to comfortable, not to expert
• Last updated August 2025 (as stated on the page)

What you will learn

• Self-editing and organising large documents
• Introducing a document’s scope and prerequisites
• Writing a tutorial for a beginner audience
• Sample code that shows a range of complexity
• Using language models to draft, edit and summarise documents

Good for

The follow-up once you publish regularly. It covers tutorials, sample code and larger documents, which fill an advocate’s week.

Also stated by the provider

• Intermediate topics
• Pre-class and instructor-led parts; the pre-class lessons stand alone

What you will learn

• How to start writing technical documentation
• Documentation principles
• Style guides and writing resources
• Developer documentation and APIs
• Building documentation mindshare in a company

Good for

A practical reference when you design or fix documentation, or argue for time to write it.

Also stated by the provider

• A living guide from the Write the Docs community
• Includes sections for open-source developers

What you will learn

• Four kinds of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, reference and explanation
• Diátaxis in five minutes (primer)
• Applying the framework to a real set of docs
• Theory and principles for documentation needs

Good for

When your tutorials, guides and reference pages blur together and you need a clear way to decide what to write and where it belongs.

Also stated by the provider

• Start with the five-minute primer
• A framework for content, style and architecture

What you will learn

• Starting an open source project and finding users
• Building welcoming communities
• Working practices for maintainers
• Leadership and governance
• Open source metrics
• Codes of conduct and the legal side

Good for

A strong free primer on how open-source communities work. Use it before you try to build or grow a developer community.

Also stated by the provider

• Guides for first-time contributors and maintainers
• The content is open source and accepts contributions

What you will learn

• The shell and the command-line environment
• Development environment and tools
• Debugging and profiling
• Version control and Git
• Packaging and shipping code
• Agentic coding and code quality

Good for

Fills in the practical tooling skills that talks and demos rely on, especially if you came to engineering through a non-standard route.

Also stated by the provider

• Lectures and notes from MIT’s 2026 session are online
• Topics change from year to year