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

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Post by inancgumus »

Learn Go the Complete Bootcamp course teaches to a complete beginner step by step with easy to understand animations, and 1000+ exercises.

To me, Go is a great starting language because it's in the sweet place between high-level and low-level.

https://www.udemy.com/learn-go-the-complete-bootcamp-course-...

Shameless Plug: I'm the author :)

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

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Post by earenndil »

IMAYousaf wrote: post #105

I am a huge fan of Build Your Own Lisp in C. I knew how to program since I was a kid. It was all inelegant but working code. Using this website's walk through helped me to refine my understanding. Anecdotally, I suggested it to 2 beginners I knew, and they found it very intuitive. http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

I started going through it, and thought it was nice until the author suggested using his parser combinator library.

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

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Post by dwheeler »

zengargoyle wrote: post #136

Leo 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. https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

+1 for "Starting FORTH". FORTH is very different from any other programming language (system), so creating a tutorial for it was especially challenging. Brodie did an amazing job of turning it into something clear. I don't think FORTH is a good match for many problems today, but I think the book would be a useful example of how to explain things clearly.

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

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Post by sam0x17 »

player1: how do I change weapons?

player2: ALT+F4

player1 has disconnected

This regular exchange is the most concise and hands-on tutorial on life ever conceived.

On another note, this is a pretty damn good tutorial for learning how to write shaders in opengl: https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Shaders

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

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Post by gregsadetsky »

pvorb wrote: post #145

SQL Island is a very nice text adventure game that you play by typing SQL queries. http://wwwlgis.informatik.uni-kl.de/extra/game/

The game did not work for me under Chrome (it does work on desktop Safari). Is it available in English, or in German only? Thanks!

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

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Post by aasasd »

aasasd wrote: post #83

More 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 lo…

To clarify why I like it: wave forms, filters, envelope and LFO are things with which you'll need to do Lotsa Fiddling, all at once, to get some decent sound. To a beginner, it's rather overwhelming and difficult to see if they want to do all of that and why. So, instead of frantically getting through the definitions in ten minutes and twenty seconds, Dean keeps turning knobs and explaining what he does, letting you hear the change. He actually takes almost ten minutes to make one string sound at the end of the first part.

And the, uh, pace of the vid lets you think about what you hear.

If there were a “Tweaking Synth Knobs” series by this dude in 26 episodes, I might've watched it.

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