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

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Post by gen220 »

grepthisab wrote: post #85

Agree 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.

Not necessarily a collection of beginner tutorials, but for what they're worth, these are some very high quality in-depth articles on pieces of the language:

- https://dave.cheney.net/practical-go

- https://www.ardanlabs.com/all-posts/

If you're looking for more high-level, "get-things-done" stuff, this has been a great resource for getting off the ground:

- https://github.com/astaxie/build-web-application-with-golang

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

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Post by Loughla »

Paul Seller's original how to build a workbench video series. They're so quick, but he walks you through so much technique in this series. Everything he says is a lesson that applies to other aspects of building objects with wood. Everything he does is on purpose. If you're interested in woodworking, this is where to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru2ZiNs_Wek

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

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Post by aasasd »

I have two requests in this regard.

- If there's some way to learn playing chess beyond just the rules without memorizing an encyclopedia of openings, I'd be grateful for links. I.e. I currently can stare at a position for a while and figure out a couple next moves that should be good. I'd like to elevate this to figuring out a bit more moves. (Though I have a suspicion that it's a question of ‘rinse and repeat until I remember all the openings anyway’.)

- Similarly, I'd like to drill music lingo of chord progressions and stuff, as a total noob, without turning it into a ‘compose by the book’ approach. I'm actually somewhat afraid to learn about keys and scales since I'll likely start hearing them everywhere and promptly fall into patterns and academic ivory-towerity. Is there a way around that while still understanding music talk?

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

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Post by mal10c »

Causality1 wrote: post #37

Bell Labs' 1959 video "Similarities of Wave Behavior." By far the best introduction to the subject of waves of any sort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k

Thanks so much for posting this link! I've been trying to wrap my head around SWR for a long time and this made it so simple to understand. Thanks!!!

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

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Post by tptacek »

fasteo wrote: post #50
tptacek wrote: post #20

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

Absolute mastery. Thanks for this.

He does have absolute mastery, but it's my favorite tutorial because it is an _excellent tutorial_. I can do 2 chickens in a minute at this point; more, if I don't bone out the legs.

Just as importantly: if you can do this with a chicken, you can do it with a pheasant, a duck, or a goose as well. It works pretty much the same way.

If you eat chicken, I strongly encourage you to try this yourself.

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

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Post by ohaideredevs »

aasasd wrote: post #93

I have two requests in this regard. - If there's some way to learn playing chess beyond just the rules without memorizing an encyclopedia of openings, I'd be grateful for links. I.e. I currently can stare at a position for a while and figure out a couple next moves that should be good. I'd like to elevate this to figuring out a bit more moves. (Though I have a suspicion that it's a question of ‘rinse and repeat until…

As someone who is (was?) fairly good at chess because I grinded it in chess clubs as a kid, I can tell you that all the books are pretty useless and you just need to practice.

You CAN memorize common openings if you want, but I am not sure that's a good way to spend your life unless you are super serious about chess.

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

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Post by ohaideredevs »

jolmg wrote: post #68

Spinning Levers - How A Transmission Works (1936) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ

Good stuff. Edit: But I still don't get it. Would need to spend some time with it. Can't help but feel like the goal back then really was to educate, whereas now it's to fill pages and sell new editions.

Dramatic, but CS50 is a good example of it - it starts of super simple, but builds on that simplicity. Same with these videos.

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

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Post by rantosaurus »

aasasd wrote: post #93

I have two requests in this regard. - If there's some way to learn playing chess beyond just the rules without memorizing an encyclopedia of openings, I'd be grateful for links. I.e. I currently can stare at a position for a while and figure out a couple next moves that should be good. I'd like to elevate this to figuring out a bit more moves. (Though I have a suspicion that it's a question of ‘rinse and repeat until…

I highly recommend "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" (by, duh, Bobby Fischer). A diagram on every page, with the solution on the next. Cool format: you get to the back of the book, turn it upside down, and work to the front. First few pages get in the basic moves, then on to simple checkmates, then more complexity.

Another great diagram-heavy book but for intermediate to advanced is Lev Alburt's "Chess Training Pocket Book".

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