A beginner's cheat sheet for web development • Hacker News Board

tagawa wrote: post #10

jonhmchan wrote: post #2

OP here: in case anyone has suggestions, this is also on GitHub: https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages Would love your feedback!

You should have links to webplatform.org - this is a varied collection of docs and tutorials contributed by browser vendors and other key web players, via the W3C.

Awesome - is it good for any particular technology or topic?

Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

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Post by jonhmchan » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

ocfx wrote: post #3

jonhmchan wrote: post #2

OP here: in case anyone has suggestions, this is also on GitHub: https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages Would love your feedback!

I would recommend adding HTML5 Doctor http://html5doctor.com/ as they do a very good job of explaining the specific use cases of the semantic elements in html5 which is something many people either overlook or they use incorrectly. I really like it!

Yeah I definitely agree. I got your pull request, so I'll merge it in soon!

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Post by brd » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

jonhmchan wrote: post #6

brd wrote: post #5

The title and the pitch on the actual site are kind of disingenuous. This is a collection of resources to learn web development. Its hardly a cheat sheet or "everything you need to know". A cheat sheet would be a succinct set of syntax/concepts/examples required to get by. Having said that, its a pretty website and its a worthy cause so please don't take my critique too critically.

Thanks for the feedback! Anything to add in terms of tech I'm missing or better links?

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

As far as tech, you're covering a lot of different topics. My knee jerk reaction would be add more of the competitors (i.e. foundation since you have bootstrap) but there's value in maintaining a smaller list of technologies since this seems to be targeted at true beginners.

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Post by jonhmchan » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 4:23 PM UTC

lbarrow wrote: post #13

"SQL" is not a database.

You're right - should change it to query language.

You can make the change directly too if you spot others! https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages

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Post by scottrblock » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 4:24 PM UTC

I think the web would be a better place if you encouraged beginners to start with the HTTP block, rather than HTML.

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Post by shahed » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 4:24 PM UTC

I found out about this cool site a few days before it was posted on HN.

Pats self on the back

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Post by kintamanimatt » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 4:27 PM UTC

shahed wrote: post #19

I found out about this cool site a few days before it was posted on HN. Pats self on the back

D'oh! You missed out on incrementing your integer in a database!