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

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Post by jkcchan » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 4:56 PM UTC

Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #43

why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby: https://poignant.guide/

+1 +1 +1 Amazing guide

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

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Post by leafmeal » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:03 PM UTC

intellectronica wrote: post #9

The Emacs interactive tutorial (type "C-h t" to start) is awesome. After you complete it you know all Emacs basics and can get to work.

In a similar strain, vimtutor is an excellent intro to vim and probably already installed on your computer.

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

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Post by kdamica » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:06 PM UTC

I'm a huge fan of Miguel Grinberg's Flask Mega-Tutorial. It's been around for a while, but he did a major update in 2017 to bring it more up to date.

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...

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

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Post by chdlr » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

learnxinyminutes.com

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

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Post by tvegesna » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

A movie about "how internet works" from early 2000s:

http://www.warriorsofthe.net/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWhzz_Gn10

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

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Post by arayh » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

quadcore wrote: post #35

Paul Graham's tutorial on arc/lisp: http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt oh the link is broken :)

No worries. I got your back.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190212201350/http://old.ycombi...

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

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Post by larrydag » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

MikeTheGreat wrote: post #52

marai2 wrote: post #28

Can someone recommend an easy tutorial for beginners for getting into electronics?

There's "Make:Electronics". It's a book but it's good.

Unfortunate what happened to Maker Faire and Maker Media. Hopefully revived somehow.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/make-magazine-maker-media-...

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

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Post by jolmg » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

Spinning Levers - How A Transmission Works (1936)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ

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

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Post by larrydag » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

Wil Wheaton's TableTop series on how to play various boardgames is really well done and engaging.

https://geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC

mcbetz wrote: post #3

Legogris wrote: post #2

http://learnyouahaskell.com is a fun and accessible intro to Haskell that's a great complement to denser material

Gladly there is an online IDE with compiler ( https://repl.it/languages/haskell ) so you don't even need to install Haskell locally (which honestly seemed a bit heavy for a starter's tutorial - "First you need Haskell Platform, then you can start the tutorial")

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