Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?

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Post by aphextron » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across.

https://www.railstutorial.org/book

Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?

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Post by ohaideredevs » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 3:38 PM UTC

How guns work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJnhr08aIJs

How a car differential works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI

Downright the best zero-to-programmer course in the world. Wish I knew about it when I was starting out: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction...

Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?

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Post by zeroego » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 3:42 PM UTC

As someone who was recently a total beginner, I've found two that I have really appreciated:

1. Learn to Program, by Chris Pine https://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

2. The C# Player's Guide, by R. B. Whitaker

Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?

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Post by jordanmoconnor » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 3:45 PM UTC

conception wrote: post #8

https://selectstarsql.com - SQL tutorials for non-technical folks. This 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 SQ…