Really great stuff for beginners. Thanks for the list. I'll forward it along to a few people who are interested but don't know where to start. However, it does look very python-django specific route on the back-end side. My suggestion, branch out the back-end side to include paths using different frameworks and such?
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#12This is really cool - thanks for laying out out like a progression! There are so many resources on the internet I find myself relearning a lot of things several times.
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#13This is a great idea. I'd love to see something like this for other topics such as Data Science, Digital Marketing, Lean Start-Up, Marketing Strategy etc. I'd love to help/contribute to the marketing related courses if you decide to expand your subject offerings.
Thanks, that's indeed the plan! We're working on a Learning Path on Data Analysis, should be ready soon!
Checked out your profile. I'll be in touch if/when we decide to expand to marketing.
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#14Really great stuff for beginners. Thanks for the list. I'll forward it along to a few people who are interested but don't know where to start. However, it does look very python-django specific route on the back-end side. My suggestion, branch out the back-end side to include paths using different frameworks and such?
Good call! We built this one first because my co-founder taught herself Python-Django, so this was easiest for us to create. But we'd love to branch it out to RoR, etc.
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#15I would also mix in Jeffrey Way's tuts for HTML, CSS, and jQuery. (They say 30 days but you can do them each in less than a week.) https://courses.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-html-c... https://courses.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-jquery
Thanks, will check these out!
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#16This looks great! It reminds me of this Google Doc I put together a while back, which you are free to copy/draw inspiration from. And I've already added this page to it, so that should already be a good lesson on recursion :p https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jlJCxNG7XyCPpUNRybH1b2Pb...
Thanks, this looks very comprehensive. Especially like the list of blogs and FB pages, these are hard to find. Did you ever think about rank-ordering the resources within each section?
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#17nothing about node.js ?
I spent a good amount of time trying to find a decent good place to learn node but couldn't find anything I liked.
I ended up buying Manning's Node.js In Action. It's not bad and I'm about halfway through it. I'd like if it included some exercises instead of the follow along approach.
http://www.manning.com/cantelon/
Do you have any recommendations?
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#18I really liked the Udacity course. It's by no means exhaustive or representative of the ecosystem (it focuses on Python/Google App Engine, I took it quite a while ago but I assume it has not changed), but introduces a lot of basic concepts (client/server, templating, routing, caching, security, cookies...) in a very concise and efficient way.
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#19This is a great list.
I do think 80+% of this material (maybe everything but the "learn to code" piece) is covered in Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
That book singlehandedly took me from "crappy C programmer" to "someone with enough knowledge to be dangerous" as a web dev.
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