Mine is Django Girls Tutorial (https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/) because it does not assume any prior knowledge and has a good balance between the big picture and small details.
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#3http://learnyouahaskell.com is a fun and accessible intro to Haskell that's a great complement to denser material
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#4https://github.com/MJoergen/nexys4ddr/tree/master/dyoc
See how a cpu gets made from scratch.
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#5https://www.railstutorial.org/book (Michael Hartl's Rails Book)
And I don't even use rails.
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#6Glad to see Michael Hartl's book on rails was suggested here, that's what prompted me to post my thread.
As a summary of that thread:
drracket: http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html
VueJS: https://vuejs.org (not a tutorial)
freecodecamp
K&R
Laracasts
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#7Honourable mention to 'Automate the Boring Stuff with Python' [2], which does what not a lot of tutorials do - motivate programming for non-technical users.
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#8This is an interactive book which aims to be the best place on the internet for learning SQL. It is free of charge, free of ads and doesn't require registration or downloads. It helps you learn by running queries against a real-world dataset to complete projects of consequence. It is not a mere reference page — it conveys a mental model for writing SQL.
I expect little to no coding knowledge. Each chapter is designed to take about 30 minutes. As more of the world's data is stored in databases, I expect that this time will pay rich dividends!