Does the color coding indicate anything?
A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
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Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#32Hm, looks nice! The coloring of the columns doesn't seem to be meaningful in any way I can come up with. I think it would make more sense if things were grouped into categories (e.g. databases, web frameworks, frontend languages, backend languages, style/presentation). If you use color I would make it meaningful (e.g. represent order of learning things with color something?).
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#33I can't say how many times I have been asked 'How can I start learning to build stuff for the web?' and wanted to give this as an answer. It's not perfect, but it's on GitHub!
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#34Hm, looks nice! The coloring of the columns doesn't seem to be meaningful in any way I can come up with. I think it would make more sense if things were grouped into categories (e.g. databases, web frameworks, frontend languages, backend languages, style/presentation). If you use color I would make it meaningful (e.g. represent order of learning things with color something?).
Yeah there's been a ton of suggestions for what the colors should mean but I'm leaning towards something like what you're suggesting!
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah I have this for ruby I think. Will add it in - or you can make the pull request and put it in there!
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#36I can't say how many times I have been asked 'How can I start learning to build stuff for the web?' and wanted to give this as an answer. It's not perfect, but it's on GitHub!
Yessir! Please contribute! https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#37I'm not sure if the order is supposed to matter that much, but I feel like the blocks should be ordered from easy to hard. Why is PHP at the end of the list? Why is JSON so close to the front? But yea, I just think the ordering could be better, still a nice resource!
It seems to be in order of relevance -- that would explain PHP being at the end. :)
Haha oh man, that's just asking for trouble isn't it?
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#38I found out about this cool site a few days before it was posted on HN. Pats self on the back
Really?? Where?
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#39I'm not sure if the order is supposed to matter that much, but I feel like the blocks should be ordered from easy to hard. Why is PHP at the end of the list? Why is JSON so close to the front? But yea, I just think the ordering could be better, still a nice resource!
It seems to be in order of relevance -- that would explain PHP being at the end. :)
What a zinger. Unfortunately a basic understanding of PHP is still required for enough tasks that I would recommend learning it early on. It is also a very forgiving beginner language that naturally segways nicely from html/javascript.
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#40everything about web development... apart from the two of the biggest languages/platforms for web development.
And what are those two?
I was going to say PHP but then I saw it at the bottom. I am guessing they mean ASP/.net? I am not sure though, the list looks pretty complete to me.