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
Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
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Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#82Would 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/
The makers of this have also created a 2 part paced course on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=from%20nand%20to%20te...
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#83More of an explanation than a tutorial, and dunno how it is for total beginners, but — Intro to Synthesis: The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis, by Dean Friedman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvtBE6t48M
It explains the things that you'll constantly fiddle with on a synthesizer (and sometimes even in a DAW with samples: envelopes are likely to appear there). The series benefit greatly from being three hours long in total instead of ten or even thirty minutes.
The first vid is followed by:
- Intro to Synthesis Part 2 - Types of Synthesis & Programming Examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJkxGvhOS-M
- Intro to Synthesis Part 3 - Additional Synth Features, Performance Controls & Wrap Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3m8sMkTE4
Also, since the vids are from sometime in early 80s, you'll have fun trying to figure out exactly how high the guy is.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#84Not technology, but a great video for absolute beginners who want to get into drifting, or just improve their on-track car control.
"The Drift Bible" with the Drift King, Keiichi Tsuchiya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQyQgyuNMI
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#85Agree with the Django Girls tutorial in OP. I ran into them at Pycon and expressed my appreciation for helping me learn Django. Was really exciting stuff.
Does anyone happen to have a good resource for learning GoLang? It's nearly impossible to find good tutorials (outside of the golang site's tutorial) because the name Go is super common and "GoLang" isn't used by everyone.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#86Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book
Rails is modern? Seriously I thought it has a lot of baggage like django does towards the old way of rendering web pages on the backend. If it's not true please correct me and elucidate.
Rails is modern. People still develop with it. Something like Perl and its frameworks would not be considered modern, probably.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#87What a thread! So many awesome recommendations. I too wanted to ask this exact question.
Anyone reading my comment, please do post your favourite beginner friendly tutorials/blogs/books irrespective of the field.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#88https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-GMzB31yAbM
You've been showdead for over 6 months (which isn't surprising to me given 99% of your comments are the equivalent of just saying "no"), I'll vouch for this one though so people can see it.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#89Repeating something from a previous Hacker News thread...
Children's publisher Usborne have made available for free some classic computer books from the 1980s aimed at kids that use text and illustrations to clearly explain computer concepts.
These books have been discussed a few times before here on Hacker News. Scroll down to the bottom of the link below to the section 'Usborne 1980s computer books' for the free PDFs.
https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...
You might be thinking, why would I read books aimed at kids? Not only are these books well written with clear, concise explanations, they are also more readable and enjoyable than many programming books published for adults today.
Anyone writing a technical guide (of any kind) would benefit from reading these as a source of ideas and inspiration.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#90Agree with the Django Girls tutorial in OP. I ran into them at Pycon and expressed my appreciation for helping me learn Django. Was really exciting stuff. Does anyone happen to have a good resource for learning GoLang? It's nearly impossible to find good tutorials (outside of the golang site's tutorial) because the name Go is super common and "GoLang" isn't used by everyone.
I really like this - https://gobyexample.com/
It's very practical. Simple examples on most aspects of the language / common tasks together with commentary.
I still refer to it quite often when I can't remember how exactly to do something from the top of my head.