Lost all credibility (in my mind) when it pointed to w3schools
A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
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#62Good stuff! Commenting so I don't forget about it.
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This is great! I thought Bentoboox was good but I feel like it s too narrowly focused on learned each exclusive technology. I love how you have guides and other resources that bridge the gap!
It is definitely meant to be narrow. I think that a lot of beginners are overwhelmed by how many resources there are for each piece (hence the I would love to put something in here for integration between each technology, though I'm struggling to figure out how...
Definitely agree with you about keeping clutter to a min due to overwhelming. This may be stretch but maybe just another pane appearing on the right third of the screen when you click a box labeled 'Connecting It All' and just providing links to other resources the demonstrate how to connect the technologies highlighted.
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#65Hm, 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?).
Seconding categories, though I'm not sure they should be columns. Maybe sections like "Styling" with a one sentence explanation of what they are, and then the boxes below that.
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#66Why is ColdFusion always the ugly red-headed stepchild? I realize that the amount of people using it in comparison to PHP is very low, but it still exists! Can we get some love?
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#67Awesome! I'd be great if the title of each language was a link to the language's home page (if applicable) rather than having a Home in every box.
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#68This is great! Thanks! As a beginner, figuring out what to learn, as opposed to how to learn, is a struggle. This provides a pretty great roadmap and explains how things fit together.
As for feedback, you could potentially add: -Hartl tutorial to the rails section -Udacity to the python section.
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#69For Rails, the article "What is Ruby on Rails?"
http://railsapps.github.io/what-is-ruby-rails.html
It's getting a lot of praise as a good starting point for beginners. (BTW I wrote it)
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#70Awesome! I'd be great if the title of each language was a link to the language's home page (if applicable) rather than having a Home in every box.
That is an EXCELLENT idea. If you can make the pull on github that would be even better!