Ask HN: What is the best (online or offline) resource to learn to code? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is the best (online or offline) resource to learn to code?

#11

Post by Lasher » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 1:12 AM UTC

I've found Lynda.com is an awesome resource for getting a quick overview or refresher on the basics of a language with more in-depth classes if I find something interesting enough.

If you're looking at learning a single language in depth they're probably not the best for anything, but a lot of breadth on there, they cover a lot of apps too. Not free, basic plan is 25 a month but they do have a free trial.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best (online or offline) resource to learn to code?

#12

Post by spuiszis » Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 4:18 AM UTC

I've been pretty happy with RubyMonk.com and CodeSchool thus far. Also, Coursera and EdX have open programming courses taught by professors from Cal, MIT, Stanford, etc.

Also, Why's Guide to Ruby has been good to me so far if you want to get into Ruby.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best (online or offline) resource to learn to code?

#13

Post by knwang » Fri, Sep 21, 2012, 12:15 AM UTC

knwang wrote: post #10

roryliam wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I kind of deliberately left the question fairly wide just to see how people would reply. I think I would edge towards websites and similar but I would like to understand the processes involved in developing software for Linux. What would you recommend for a beginner (apart from JS and Python)?

The Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails framework would be your best bet. The ecosystem is quite polished on building web apps.

If you are a beginner, I wrote a post about how to start with Ruby / Rails as a beginner that you may find interesting:

http://www.railstutors.com/blog/the-best-way-to-learn-ruby-o...