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 wh…
Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
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Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#72I 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…
I'm really surprised to see this as the top comment. I've spent my career specializing in most of your bullet points. Lately I've been meaning to start a tutorial series with either those concepts or general "learn to code" kind of stuff. Clearly there is more interest in the operations type content than I would have guessed.
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#73I 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…
“I think an under-served market is "intermediate to advanced programming for people who didn't study computer science…”” I find this too. I’m self taught and have made a lot of good projects with blog tutorials and SO. Python has let me do a lot quickly, but I get stuck on some odd things. Last time it was data structures. For a project I was expanding, the data structure was insufficient. I imagined there must be mo…
>> Right now I’m stuck on an aspect of Django. Django is a Python module. When I want to add another module to modify how Django behaves I need to override in my code. It’s all too complicated to imagine for me. Example, adding wiki pages to django by adding django-wiki module, then adding tags to the wiki pages by adding danio-tagulous. I know this is some kind of class override, but I just can’t imagine it.
Can you expand on what you're trying to achieve? It sounds like it's a mixture of frontend and backend in Django?
>> Also, How to think through adding API data to your project? Like swagger.
Tell us more what you mean. What's your end goal?
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#74I 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…
I'm really surprised to see this as the top comment. I've spent my career specializing in most of your bullet points. Lately I've been meaning to start a tutorial series with either those concepts or general "learn to code" kind of stuff. Clearly there is more interest in the operations type content than I would have guessed.
> I'm really surprised to see this as the top comment.
Me too. I consider most of these trivial too. But there's another aspect. Many things (version control flow, release model, rollbacks, etc) has to take into consideration and will inevitably affect the workflow, meaning the way engineers write code (feature flags? dynamic config? gitOps? what about rollbacks? Do we keep the tip of the branch synced with prod or no?).
The _state of art_ is different based on things like: Monolith or micro-service (like smaller, well defined scope)? Is the app written in Java, NodeJS or Python? Do we have 5 developers, 1 or 400? Do we need to testing because the app is handling medical data or we don't care if we don't case because our SaaS doesn't handle sensitive data? Do we need integration tests? Do we care about raw computation perf? Mem leaks? What about testing thresholds?
All the above and many more, depend on business goals and domains, engineering cultures and less obvious intangibles. These evolve "naturally" over time.
There's no "state of art", just business needs. The "state of art" is the sweet spot between engineering velocity and reliability, which is a moving target anyway :-)
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#75i am looking for frontend course/tutorial that can show me how to create real world dashboard with javascirpt however all i find is bits and pieces scattered all over the internet. Most of the javascript tutorials want to teach language syntax which if you already know some language is kind of useless. May be i am not able to search properly with the right keywords.
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#76I like to read articles by people who feel they have something that's important to say. If you don't know what you should to write about, then anything you write is probably going to be pretty uninspiring. Good writing comes from a place of passion and urgency, a real drive to inform people about something that the author thinks is worth reading. This might be an answer you don't like very much, but seriously, all th…
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.
> why they didn’t see that obvious solution I’ve implemented.
Not trying to be bring you down or anything, but the most likely answer is that every senior engineer in the company knows what needs to be done but lacks the political capital/will/etc to implement the change.
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#77I like to read articles by people who feel they have something that's important to say. If you don't know what you should to write about, then anything you write is probably going to be pretty uninspiring. Good writing comes from a place of passion and urgency, a real drive to inform people about something that the author thinks is worth reading. This might be an answer you don't like very much, but seriously, all th…
> all the best articles that I've read and shared in the past have been been things that the author would probably have felt compelled to write even if no one bothered read their work
Now I am curious of some examples of such articles. I like good articles that makes me think.
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#78I like to read articles by people who feel they have something that's important to say. If you don't know what you should to write about, then anything you write is probably going to be pretty uninspiring. Good writing comes from a place of passion and urgency, a real drive to inform people about something that the author thinks is worth reading. This might be an answer you don't like very much, but seriously, all th…
I like this comment a lot.
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#79Hacking open source. I would love to see architectural overviews and code tours of major open source projects
Re: Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
#80Earlier 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.
> Can most experienced programmers really do all this?
I hope not.
The point is to give experienced people challenges that are achievable but are both hard and simple