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

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Post by tjr » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

The Little Schemer

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

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Post by r053bud » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:29 PM UTC

Would have to be Nand2Tetris. You build an entire computing system from "scratch" using a set of emulator tools. You design logic chips all the way to an operating system. It's a lot of work, but is very self-contained.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

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

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Post by northfoxz » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

The Rust Programming Language https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/index.html

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

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Post by TACIXAT » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

I'm getting started making a computer security course. Right now the material is very beginner focused.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCBa7DpNda1mNKLCb2K8zQ/pla...

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

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Post by dmead » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:37 PM UTC

the Haskell gentle intro is very well written.

https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/

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Post by mmartinson » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

aphextron wrote: post #11

Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book

I haven't looked at it since 2014, but this + codecademy took me from pedestrian interest in programming to writing prototypes

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Post by TheHypnotist » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

larrydag wrote: post #69

Wil Wheaton's TableTop series on how to play various boardgames is really well done and engaging. https://geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/

I'm so glad you thought of this. This is precisely what I used to learn how to play a series of new board games. I now have multiple friends hooked on Catan and Pandemic.

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

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Post by shyish » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

ohaideredevs wrote: post #12

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...

I can certainly vouch for CS50, when I was in middle school I messed around with programming, but taking CS50x was what made the intuition and process come together for me.

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Post by aasasd » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #60

tptacek wrote: post #20

Easy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY0lrdXar8

I don't know the proper french word for it - but the strings around the chicken always struck me as very complicated but he explains it so well it appears easy.

Personally, what I saw is “how to bind a box with rope or tape without looping all around it a dozen times.” And it's so simple in fact that either I'm a dumbass for never thinking of it, or I possibly did try it and failed miserably.

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Post by landonxjames » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

I'm looking for good tutorials for getting started with DSP stuff (in Rust if possible although I know that may still be too niche) if anyone has suggestions