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

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Post by gregsadetsky »

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…

Great one!

A wonderful intro/tutorial to synths that was recently posted -- https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

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

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Post by defterGoose »

Legogris wrote: post #2

http://learnyouahaskell.com is a fun and accessible intro to Haskell that's a great complement to denser material

This is one of the better language tutorials on he web, IMO. It's very conversational, and if the FP concepts don't draw you in, wondering what stupid thing he's going to draw in the next chapter will.

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

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Post by jonplackett »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #150

Shaders -- https://thebookofshaders.com/

Second this - I went from not even knowing what a shader was to writing some pretty complex stuff in a few weeks.

Some of the later tutorials are still a work in progress though, hope they get finished soon!!!

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

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Post by aasasd »

epiphanitus wrote: post #129
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…

There was a study done on what separates chess masters from beginners. Chess masters and beginners performed equally well on memorization tests. Where they began to separate was pattern recognition - chess masters are really good at pattern recognition. When I was a beginner I would agonize over every move and drive everyone crazy. Eventually after enough games I started to recognize some patterns. If I were to do it…

I actually have an observation about this: it's difficult for me to get some feedback from whole chess games because the loop between a move and its consequences can easily be too long while the situation changes pretty fast, in my eyes. Would my play be better if I chose differently seven moves ago? Pfft, who knows anymore.

I have a much better time with action or racing video games precisely because the feedback loop is very tight. Finally figured out that I should try chess puzzles, increasing the length gradually.

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

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Post by jonplackett »

All the Michel Thomas courses - a true genius of language teaching. https://www.michelthomas.com

I listened to his Spanish beginners course a few weeks before visiting Spain and successfully talked myself onto a bus I shouldn't have been on in Spanish. I'm now mostly fluent but would never have gotten over my childhood hatred of learning languages without him. Thanks Michel. RIP X

Watch the BBC documentary about him where he teaches the worst kids in a school french in a few weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0w_uYPAQic

Also read about him on wikipedia - he was in the french resistance and just generally awesome - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas

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

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Post by aasasd »

sam0x17 wrote: post #147

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

It's said that in the times past, putting an ‘Any key’ sticker on the ‘Reset’ button greatly increased a secretary's knowledge of computers on the following day.

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

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Post by aasasd »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #151
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…

Great one! A wonderful intro/tutorial to synths that was recently posted -- https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

Yeah, that's also good for the same reason: it lets you hear the effect of each control instead of just dumping them at you at once.
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