The colors are off. Particularly the yellow. It is hard to read. The blue is nice, could be a shade darker. The last square position is empty. Why not put one there with links to your blog or whatever? Its prime real estate, because the reader will flow into it. Having a blank space there takes away from the design.
A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
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#42Where is knockout.js, SignalR, ASP.NET MVC, Azure?
Call it "hipsterbentobox.io".
PS: I am on BitBucket, I know it's not as hip as GitHub - sorry.
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#44descriptions about why I would want to learn each one would be helpful.
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#45The thing I was most interested in was backbone, and it just links to the original site. I mean the colors are nice but this is pretty much useless.
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#46I've always been looking for something like this to send to friends wanting to learn to code. A couple of recommended
This step by step guide to learning Github: http://www.thinkful.com/learn/a-guide-to-using-github-pages/
My first [hilarious] exposure to Ruby http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-1.htm...
Eloquent Javascript [built in console with examples]: https://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html
If anyone's interested in some front-end web development sources: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-sources-to-learn-web-... [You won't need to make an account with this url] [1st answer has the skills you'll need to learn with documentation and 2nd has a great collection of resources for newbies]
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#47Great stuff :)
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#48I would rather hide blocks instead of graying them out.
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#50Hm, 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!
The problem for me when I was beginning was not necessarily learning each technology, but rather the glue between each. That is what I tend to find confusing and is much harder to find resources for that clearly and exclusively demonstrate how to bridge the different technologies. Would love if you could add those type of items. For ex. I know Node, some Mongo, and am a avid user of Heroku. Recently I was trying to set up a system using all three and struggled quite a bit.