Beej's Guide to Git
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Beej's Guide to Git
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Re: Beej's Guide to Git
#2I remember reading the excellent Beej's Guide to Network Programming[0] and Beej's Guide to Unix IPC[1] as a teenager, which were incredibly approachable while still having depth—fantastic reads both and very influential on the programmer I ended up being.
[0] https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ [1] https://beej.us/guide/bggit/
Re: Beej's Guide to Git
#3Well, what's terrifying is that the guide is so long.
I am aware that beej's guides are typically quite comprehensive, but the vast nuances of git truly eluded me until this.
I guess Jujitsu would wind up being a much slimmer guide, or at least one that would be discoverable largely by humans?
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#4Initial impressions: Looks great.
As a cloud security analyst that is thinking of going back to coding or DevSecOps, if I'm honest with myself, there is nothing new here that I have not seen before... (This is not a criticism or anything. If anything the problem is myself: if I can allocate time to learn this or use Anki to retain this).
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#5Wowza a new Beej guide!
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#6I have nothing but fond memories of reading Beej's guides.
It's also this sort of work that's becoming less necessary with AI, for better or worse. This appears to be a crazy good guide, but I bet asking e.g. Claude to teach you about git (specific concepts or generate the whole guide outline and go wide on it) would be at least as good.
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#7The Beej books are awesome. I remember reading these and watching the 3DBuzz video tutorials when I was first learning how to program.
Re: Beej's Guide to Git
#8I have nothing but fond memories of reading Beej's guides. It's also this sort of work that's becoming less necessary with AI, for better or worse. This appears to be a crazy good guide, but I bet asking e.g. Claude to teach you about git (specific concepts or generate the whole guide outline and go wide on it) would be at least as good.
Seems more efficient to have one reference book rather than generating entire new 20 chapter books for every person.
I also think if you are at the “don’t know what you don’t know” point of learning a topic it’s very hard to direct an AI to generate comprehensive learning material.
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#9I'm a fan of Beej's writing style.
Re: Beej's Guide to Git
#10I have nothing but fond memories of reading Beej's guides. It's also this sort of work that's becoming less necessary with AI, for better or worse. This appears to be a crazy good guide, but I bet asking e.g. Claude to teach you about git (specific concepts or generate the whole guide outline and go wide on it) would be at least as good.
Seems more efficient to have one reference book rather than generating entire new 20 chapter books for every person. I also think if you are at the “don’t know what you don’t know” point of learning a topic it’s very hard to direct an AI to generate comprehensive learning material.
Definitely more efficient in terms of power consumed, not so in terms of human effort to build such guides across nearly every topic one could think of. But you're right, we shouldn't ignore the power consumption.
I have found that asking AI "You are an expert teacher in X. I'd like to learn about X, where should I start?" is actually wildly effective.