https://vuejs.org - it's just magic, that's the very first documentation that hasn't required from me diving into any other resources while learning.
Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
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Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#132I 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…
For Chess, it sounds like you need to improve looking at Tactics and Endgames.
Tactics are looking for specific exchanges that benefit you. I'd recommend https://www.chesstactics.org/ as a great resource for being taught the tactics and being able to recognize them. There's a lot of Chess Puzzles out there on things like chesstempo and lichess. If you can easily recognize and execute these tactics, then you won't lose opportunities to gain serious material advantages.
I don't have a good endgame one on hand. Fundamentally though if you know how the game will end, you can push your game state towards a useful winning position. And it helps make sure you don't give away a game by stupid mistakes.
The next layer on top of that is understanding the strategic choices. Sometimes higher level players will make what seems like a really boring move that doesn't have an immediate effect (doesn't solve or generate a threat), but it help their "position" for the future. Things like placing a rook on the open file, or positioning a bishop/knight on a "good" square.
As for openings, since you're a participant in the game you can pick a main opening line that you like and then dive into it, learning all the typical variations in the book that you might see. For example, someone might offer a Queens Gambit, but you get to choose if you Accept or Decline as Black. So experiment a bit, and if you really enjoy 1.E4 openings, then dive into the variations (and counters for when you're black).
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For music, trust me learning theory doesn't turn you into an academic. It lets you recognize things, but they are merely the bones on top of which you build everything else. It's like Assembly (incoming not-great analogy). Sure you can program without ever getting into that. I have a musician friend who never got formal training and he's doing just fine and actually has a great intuitive ear and sense of the music. But the moment he learned Theory, suddenly everything clicked because he had the underlying bones for all of his intuitions he's build up over the years and can communicate them in a standard language.
I don't have great resource on-hand. But just dive into learning the theory alongside playing a lot.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#133Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book
As a beginner trying to learn to program a long time ago, rails was possibly the worst resource I attempted to use. You follow a complicated, tutorial to set everything up so you can actually start. Then you type a few words and then a bunch of complicated looking files are generated automatically in a way that it's hard for a beginner to even know what sections he's supposed to be able to understand. Maybe it clicks…
Nobody would recommend learning rails without a decent understanding of html, css and javascript.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#134I have recommended bandit to many people wanting to learn Linux tools and how the shell works: https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
Is it down? Using "ssh bandit0@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220" I just get "ssh: connect to host bandit.labs.overthewire.org port 2220: Connection refused"
I'm getting the same thing. It's always worked for me before. It might have gotten hugged to death.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely. Learning about microtones was an absolute game-changer in my mental appreciation of music.
See, this is really an example of what I'm talking about. You wouldn't need to learn about microtones if you didn't follow the twelve-tone standard before. I'm pretty sure that the brain by itself is pretty sloppy in regard to intervals and even more so with tones and keys.
12-tone standard actually falls nicely out of the natural harmonics inherent in music though. So there's a pretty good reason for using 12 distinct tones.
That doesn't mean you can't have amazing music once you break away from them, but just because these deviations are interesting and cool doesn't mean they aren't useful and normative for a reason.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#136Leo Brodie's Starting FORTH book. Thirty years ago, sixteen year old me learned to use that FORTH thing found on a public domain Fred Fish disk.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#137Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book
As a beginner trying to learn to program a long time ago, rails was possibly the worst resource I attempted to use. You follow a complicated, tutorial to set everything up so you can actually start. Then you type a few words and then a bunch of complicated looking files are generated automatically in a way that it's hard for a beginner to even know what sections he's supposed to be able to understand. Maybe it clicks…
We realized the same thing—the Rails Tutorial is a little too advanced for complete beginners, so we created seven more beginner tutorials that work step by step to teach the prerequisites for full-stack web development. More info on the courses is available here: https://www.learnenough.com
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#138I'm getting started making a computer security course. Right now the material is very beginner focused. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpCBa7DpNda1mNKLCb2K8zQ/pla...
Awesome, looks really good so far.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#139Easy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY0lrdXar8
We actually learned this in Gabriel Chen's Chinese cooking class back in Ann Arbor, among many other things.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#140LazyFoo's introduction to SDL - the style of writing is perfect for someone who is new not only to SDL but also to programming, I have to confess that's probably one of the major reasons why I wanted to do games programming when I was a kid: