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

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

Thank you, such a classic. His omelet video is incredible too. Learned his French variety a few years back, took a few tries to perfect but now can open nearly any fridge and make a great meal in 2 minutes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X1XoCQm5JSQ

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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…

For chess, there's a PC game Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition It has narrated step by step tutorials by Josh Waitzkin, it put you in special situations to learn basic tactics like discover attacks , pin or skewer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_tactic ). There are also tutorials for knowing the tiny details about endings with specific pieces, like bishops vs bishops where you have to be very wary of the color of…

I heard good things about Chessmaster's teaching features, way back from the time of Windows 98. So now I get another thing to lament—that Ubisoft seems to have forgotten about Chessmaster, and it's not on mobile platforms.

(Upd: apparently there was an Android release by Gameloft in 2004, but it looks very questionably: https://www.mobygames.com/game/chessmaster___)

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

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post #72

Would 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/

This nand2tetris-inspired game is really great too -- it was very hard to resist and not finish it! [0]. It was posted as a Show HN [1] about a year ago.

[0] http://nandgame.com/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17508151

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

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Wil Wheaton's TableTop series on how to play various boardgames is really well done and engaging. https://geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/

They make a lot of rules errors, so it's not necessarily a great way to learn games. Mad respect for what Tabletop has done in terms of popularizing the hobby, though.

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

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post #110

https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid-blogr/en/lat... - because I wrote it. I've found that newcomers struggle with many concepts during presentations so I wrote my own tutorial for beginners. On many meetups and hackathons I've noticed people break their environments or Linux installations. It's a bit much but we try to start from scratch showcasing how to use venv to get things going and create a small ap…

FYI the first link is broken. https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid-blogr/en/lat...

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

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post #161
post #20

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

Thank you, such a classic. His omelet video is incredible too. Learned his French variety a few years back, took a few tries to perfect but now can open nearly any fridge and make a great meal in 2 minutes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X1XoCQm5JSQ

> now can open nearly any fridge

You'll get much better results with room temperature eggs. Straight from the fridge they take longer to cook and the bottom layer might be overcooked by the time the top is done.

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

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post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Save Bandit! (sorry)

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

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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…

Would definitely recommend the mini-series documentary "Howard Goodall's Big Bangs".

Episode 3 in particular, which was about equal temperament, is especially good. It explains things like scales and chords in a very satisfying way for both experienced musicians and those who have not had a formal education. He even ties it back to the actual physics of sound and harmonics.

It's only got half a dozen episodes, so it's worth a go.

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

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post #24
post #20

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

I also really like his garlic video: https://jp.foundation/video/garlic-puree

This is easily my favorite food video online. Possibly my favorite video online period. This technique creates a world of possibility since it creates a smooth spreadable raw allium. I recommend it to every novice and intermediate cook I know.
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