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Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by mg »

zealsham wrote: post #40
mg wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference to the other tutorials is that this one would not have prerequisites in terms of tools and services. It would not require anything but to copy+paste lines to go along. And that the format of shell commands makes the different approaches very easily compareable. And reproducable. You can put all of the commands into a script and have your own automated template to start new projects. A single Docker con…

On the other hand , a tutorial like this needs to be actively maintained as packages come and go . It’s essentially a documentation

Yes. I would expect the article to become an "eternal cornerstone of web development" which evolves with the stacks.

After a few years, the history if it would be very interesting. It would show how much maintenance a minimal web app based on the different approaches needed.

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by mg »

keyb0ardninja wrote: post #43
mg wrote: post #9

What I would find interesting is a page which lists all steps to be performed on the command line to create a web application from scratch. Say we start with a fresh Debian install, the first line might be apt update && apt upgrade The second line might be apt install php Or Python or Node. And then the commands to create the project directory, switching to it, installing a webserver etc would follow. At some point t…

That sounds like a Dockerfile

Similar but somewhat different. You would normaly not have

echo "Hello World" > index.php

in a Dockerfile.

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by hrnn »

this seems like a good thread to piggyback on. Could I get some links to " official development blogs"? I recently bumped into the one by Etsy (http://codeascraft.etsy.com/) and I'm sure there are many others.

I find the first hand story of how different architectural decisions turn out in real world scenarios are way more valuable than all the blogs out there writing about any new hot piece of tech. I'm curious what you found interesting and even check regularly.

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by mkl »

loh wrote: post #46
ciarcode wrote: post #32

I would be glad to find an integrated guide on how to build a state-of-the-art website and how to deploy/maintain it on a server like AWS or DigitalOcean. I mean, I'm not interested in a html/css/javascript tutorial, we have enough resources on that. What I found really missing on the internet (maybe I'm not that good at searching), is a step-by-step detailed guide on how to deploy/update/maintain a website. An unord…

This is actually exactly what Molecule.dev is all about. All of the documentation, guides, and tutorials are written with both teams and individuals in mind. It includes detailed step-by-step guides for every little thing you need to know to develop, release (and rerelease) your app on every platform you've selected, using the tools you've selected. It also covers many edge cases and obscure issues which we know that…

Where? There seems to be no way to access this documentation without spending hundreds of USD on a code platform.

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by notRobot »

kristopolous wrote: post #25

Earlier tonight I was making a programming challenge list for experienced programmers. These are all small tasks but the question is can you do them. Create a 1. Mandelbrot 2. Julia set 3. Ray tracer with shading and shadows of a few simple spheres 4. A simple virtual machine 5. Rewrite the first three programs in the virtual machines assembler 6. A simple language such as Forth for the virtual machine 7. Rewrite the…

I'm curious -- is this realistic? Can most experienced programmers really do all this? I've been coding for a few years and I can do maybe one or two of these.

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by notRobot »

ploika wrote: post #24

I think an under-served market is "intermediate to advanced programming for people who didn't study computer science but can already write half-decent Python and maybe some SQL, JavaScript or Matlab/Julia/R". People who are fine with control flow, git, unit tests etc, but who would be lost if you start talking about things like state machines or depth-first search. I'm largely talking about myself here, but I've work…

This would be great, because I definitely match this description

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by kulikalov »

WA wrote: post #30
kulikalov wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m an individual contractor. I design and implement cloud architectures that replace entire teams of developers and charge way above the average. Yet the things I do seem so obvious to me that I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t see that obvious solution I’ve implemented. This idea continuously make me doubt if my experience is valuable enough for other engineers.

> I design and implement cloud architectures that replace entire teams of developers I'm curious: How do you replace entire teams of devs by choosing cloud architectures? Is it because cloud architectures bring so much stuff out of the box that is otherwise implemented in a custom way by individual developers? What would be an example? Edit: Found your blog post about it: https://kulikalov.com/how-to-make-sense-of-cl…

Yep, stuff out of the box, correctly wired and monitored

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by loh »

mkl wrote: post #54
loh wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is actually exactly what Molecule.dev is all about. All of the documentation, guides, and tutorials are written with both teams and individuals in mind. It includes detailed step-by-step guides for every little thing you need to know to develop, release (and rerelease) your app on every platform you've selected, using the tools you've selected. It also covers many edge cases and obscure issues which we know that…

Where? There seems to be no way to access this documentation without spending hundreds of USD on a code platform.

Thousands of hours have gone into building Molecule.dev over the past year, which itself is the culmination of tens of thousands of hours of experience, honing in on the absolute best tools and approaches. It makes no sense to give it all away for free. As much as I would love to live in a world where we could all freely share our hard work like this, people need to make a living somehow.

Starting this week, however, we'll be publishing regular articles about the inner workings, design decisions, and architecture, among other things. We may actually cover some of the core basics and release sample code with documentation. We'll probably publish at least 2 articles per week.

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by mkl »

loh wrote: post #58
mkl wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where? There seems to be no way to access this documentation without spending hundreds of USD on a code platform.

Thousands of hours have gone into building Molecule.dev over the past year, which itself is the culmination of tens of thousands of hours of experience, honing in on the absolute best tools and approaches. It makes no sense to give it all away for free. As much as I would love to live in a world where we could all freely share our hard work like this, people need to make a living somehow. Starting this week, however,…

I understand that, but it makes it seem off-topic for this thread. There are other off-topic (but possibly great) for-profit courses and such too, and no one's bringing them up because that's not what the Ask HN is about.

Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

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Post by mkl »

mg wrote: post #9

What I would find interesting is a page which lists all steps to be performed on the command line to create a web application from scratch. Say we start with a fresh Debian install, the first line might be apt update && apt upgrade The second line might be apt install php Or Python or Node. And then the commands to create the project directory, switching to it, installing a webserver etc would follow. At some point t…

Writing code as a sequence of "echo ... >> ..." lines would be awful. It should at least use a text editor (doesn't lose the copy-paste functionality).
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