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Learn to code by creating working applications

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Re: Learn to code by creating working applications

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Post by treyfitty »

This is awesome. There are too many tutorials out there that don’t show how to fit all the pieces together. They’re more of the “learn functions, and solve math problems in a REPL environment.”

To that end, is there a platform that regularly provides updated/crowd sourced tutorials that are more software engineering based? For example, these tutorials can be taken to the next logical level and shown various ways to host these applications, and using SQL to manage user databases...etc.

Re: Learn to code by creating working applications

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Post by DanSmooth »

Could link directly to https://hyperskill.org/ and the disclaimer in their terms is of importance:

"Hyperskill is a part of JetBrains Academy's learning experience. While most of learning will be happening online on hyperskill.org, some parts of the service are accessible only via JetBrains IDEs."

Re: Learn to code by creating working applications

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Post by ithrow »

treyfitty wrote: post #2

This is awesome. There are too many tutorials out there that don’t show how to fit all the pieces together. They’re more of the “learn functions, and solve math problems in a REPL environment.” To that end, is there a platform that regularly provides updated/crowd sourced tutorials that are more software engineering based? For example, these tutorials can be taken to the next logical level and shown various ways to h…

They are called books.

Re: Learn to code by creating working applications

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Post by phased20 »

ithrow wrote: post #4
treyfitty wrote: post #2

This is awesome. There are too many tutorials out there that don’t show how to fit all the pieces together. They’re more of the “learn functions, and solve math problems in a REPL environment.” To that end, is there a platform that regularly provides updated/crowd sourced tutorials that are more software engineering based? For example, these tutorials can be taken to the next logical level and shown various ways to h…

They are called books.

This seems dismissive. Books are great, but they're usually put together by a single, knowledgeable author, rarely demonstrate how to construct a full-stack application, and definitely don't lend themselves to consistently staying up-to-date. Something like the RealWorld repo [0], which shows how to put together something in a variety of different languages and styles, is better for this.

[0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

Re: Learn to code by creating working applications

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Post by signaru »

treyfitty wrote: post #2

This is awesome. There are too many tutorials out there that don’t show how to fit all the pieces together. They’re more of the “learn functions, and solve math problems in a REPL environment.” To that end, is there a platform that regularly provides updated/crowd sourced tutorials that are more software engineering based? For example, these tutorials can be taken to the next logical level and shown various ways to h…

Some game dev tutorials walk through full simple games.

Re: Learn to code by creating working applications

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Post by my_usernam3 »

killIdeas wrote: post #6

This is a jetbrains ad. They have a huge marketing budget. Annoying to see their spam everywhere.

Did you click on the link or visit the tutorials? It appears to be a pretty sweet e2e application development course.

Obviously their end goal is to eventually get you to get comfortable and prefer their IDE, but thats not a bad thing. The alternative is a paid course which gate-keeps people without financial means.

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