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

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Post by kevinmchugh »

tptacek wrote: post #95
fasteo wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Dave Arnold mentioned this week that Pepin claimed 12 seconds as his personal best; 30 seconds for a non-professional cook seems extremely impressive.

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Post by mcbetz »

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…

Hooktheory.com strikes a nice balance between theory (the books) and writing music that works from minute 1 (the software).

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ohaideredevs wrote: post #12

How guns work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJnhr08aIJs How a car differential works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI Downright the best zero-to-programmer course in the world. Wish I knew about it when I was starting out: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction...

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Post by orky56 »

aphextron wrote: post #11

Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book

I was up and running very fast using OneMonth Rails. It oversimplified some things but ensured I had a running app pretty quickly. It got me over the hurdle of being stuck in books and videos and instead had me tweaking something I could be proud of.

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Post by pvorb »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #148
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!

I think it's also availabe in English. You can switch in the menu, but unfortunately the link doesn't change, so I could not link to the English version and expected it to auto-detect your browser language.

I once played it in desktop Firefox, which worked fine. I'm not on a desktop right now, so can't try. On a phone it's almost unplayable.

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Post by audiometry »

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…

For music check out Rick Beato and "The Beato Book" on youtube. However, it's pretty advanced stuff ultimately.

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Post by hnick »

ohaideredevs wrote: post #12

How guns work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJnhr08aIJs How a car differential works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI Downright the best zero-to-programmer course in the world. Wish I knew about it when I was starting out: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction...

I've seen those first two on Reddit before, and they're amazing. They take the time to explain thoroughly but still remaining engaging with no special tricks. The use of physical models instead of diagrams (or Powerpoint slides) doesn't seem like it should be important, but it is.

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Post by Legogris »

aphextron wrote: post #11

Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book

10+ years ago I also found great joy in Why's Poignant Guide To Ruby (https://poignant.guide/)

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

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Post by bakoo »

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.

If you're a beginner, Todd McLeod's Golang video course is absolutely fantastic. If you're already familiar with a language or two, you'll probably want to run it at 1.5-2x speed: https://greatercommons.com/learn/golang

He also shares tons of excellent Go resources.

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