NinaLevin

Growthhackers.com is a killer resource for finding scrappy, metrics-driven marketers.

Meetup, as someone mentioned below, is a decent resource, but truthfully I think it requires a lot of time/energy and can often be a bit fruitless.

A friend actually used TaskRabbit to find a co-founder. He posted a task for an intro to someone fitting his requirements and offered to pay $75 for a valuable lead. His inbox was filled with intros and awesome folks from a variety of backgrounds.

A (smart) friend recently bought me Raspberry Pi as a gift. As a non-technical person, I thought it was kind of a strange present at first. I figured I'd play around with it and learn some basic code before inevitably getting bored and tossing it aside.

That didn't happen. I started a couple Python tutorials on coursera and code academy and haven't looked back since. It's been a little taxing at times (pretty sure I experienced a similar semi-colon blunder) , but learning to program is really fun if approached as a hobby and not the end-all be-all of being successful in tech. I think the key is not to be too hard on yourself and get help whenever possible.