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Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by __oh_es »

whalesalad wrote: post #55

I don’t have any general course recommendations but the strange loop conference videos have been the most inspiring for me. I hope to attend soon, and a life goal of mine is to have something interesting enough to present there. For Elixir, Dave Thomas’ coding gnome “elixir for programmers” course skips all the menial BS about “what is a string” etc and goes right into the meat and potatoes of leveraging the language…

Possibly mistaken but from what I understand 2023 was the last year of Strange Loop - I was hoping to attend 2024’s

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by Jtsummers »

More towards the advanced side I'd recommend Fred Hebert's Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir - https://pragprog.com/titles/fhproper/property-based-testing-...

It's also one of the best resources I've come across on property-based testing and is something I recommend to non-Erlang/Elixir programmers as well.

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by whalesalad »

__oh_es wrote: post #61
whalesalad wrote: post #55

I don’t have any general course recommendations but the strange loop conference videos have been the most inspiring for me. I hope to attend soon, and a life goal of mine is to have something interesting enough to present there. For Elixir, Dave Thomas’ coding gnome “elixir for programmers” course skips all the menial BS about “what is a string” etc and goes right into the meat and potatoes of leveraging the language…

Possibly mistaken but from what I understand 2023 was the last year of Strange Loop - I was hoping to attend 2024’s

I am going to pretend I didn’t see this =‘(

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by gorjusborg »

__oh_es wrote: post #61
whalesalad wrote: post #55

I don’t have any general course recommendations but the strange loop conference videos have been the most inspiring for me. I hope to attend soon, and a life goal of mine is to have something interesting enough to present there. For Elixir, Dave Thomas’ coding gnome “elixir for programmers” course skips all the menial BS about “what is a string” etc and goes right into the meat and potatoes of leveraging the language…

Possibly mistaken but from what I understand 2023 was the last year of Strange Loop - I was hoping to attend 2024’s

Was there bot enough demand for the content? It seems like the strange loop content was often top notch.

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by jantypas2 »

Well, I don't know how advanced I am (except in age). But I have found the best advanced training is the same as it was in college. No book makes up for the late night hours. I find other projects and offer to help -- there's always a shortage of coding labor (especially if it's free). You learn what the book or course never discusses -- things like "What the heck was the person trying to do here?" and "Even God doesn't know how this code works!" You know you're in trouble when you see "Oh God! What an evil hack! But it works... don't touch anything!" or "Good luck future Matt! You KNEW this was a horrible job, but did you come back in time and stop me?"

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by epiccoleman »

whalesalad wrote: post #55

I don’t have any general course recommendations but the strange loop conference videos have been the most inspiring for me. I hope to attend soon, and a life goal of mine is to have something interesting enough to present there. For Elixir, Dave Thomas’ coding gnome “elixir for programmers” course skips all the menial BS about “what is a string” etc and goes right into the meat and potatoes of leveraging the language…

+1 for Dave Thomas's course. Very refreshing and fun.

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by revskill »

No, there's no such thing as "advanced". It's just that people "forgot" fundamentals of things, then they see those "fundamentals" as advanced.

I do think, teaching is hard. It basically turned "advanced" into "fundamentals" with correct teaching/learning approach.

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by culi »

soultrees wrote: post #51
cobertos wrote: post #40

I'm still partial to LearnXinYMinutes[0]. It's how I learned enough MatLab/Octave in a couple hours to test out of an intro CS course. Usually I just use that site in addition to the official tutorial when a concept really stumps me. Here's their article on Elixir[1] [0]: https://learnxinyminutes.com [1]: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elixir/

What an amazing resource. Thank you for this. And even more thanks to whoever put this together.

The project was created and is maintained by Adam Bard, but is open sourced with over 1.7k contributors since 2013

https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by soultrees »

culi wrote: post #68
soultrees wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What an amazing resource. Thank you for this. And even more thanks to whoever put this together.

The project was created and is maintained by Adam Bard, but is open sourced with over 1.7k contributors since 2013 https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs

Haha yeah, I saw that after. In that case, great job everyone!
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