What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course? • Hacker News Board

Re: What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course?

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Post by timg » Fri, May 11, 2007, 7:38 AM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #23

TAKE CLASSES AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE. You might be able to teach yourself from a book, but that only works for a very few people (ususally those who are trying to learn a new language rather than someone with no experience). I tried to teach myself some SQL (with no database or programming experience), it didn't work. After 6hours/week for 4 weeks at school, I was doing ok. Heck that was 3 months ago, and it has treme…

I personally volunteer to mentor anyone who is desperate enough to take this path.

Re: What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course?

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Post by timg » Fri, May 11, 2007, 7:43 AM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #13

timg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your acceptance is based entirely on your idea (even though ideas are worth "nothing," heh) and your past projects. So learn some lisp to score brownie points and outsource a resume-filler project of your design to some cheep foreigners. You'll be ready to go. As for hacking in general. The only way to learn is to create real programs. Books are a very small part of learning. I wouldn't recommend any. Oh and don't te…

As for not telling the YC guys...they'll notice. You won't have to tell them. Ideas don't matter (except to show that you're thinking hard about solving a real problem for someone). You want to have a working demo to show them.

heh. Was joking.

Still, I think that toying around with other's code in order to make it do something new is an excellent and fun way to learn a new language.

SwellJoe: Nice comment at the top of this page, most agreeable one here.

Re: What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course?

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Post by vlad » Sun, May 13, 2007, 3:31 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #23

TAKE CLASSES AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE. You might be able to teach yourself from a book, but that only works for a very few people (ususally those who are trying to learn a new language rather than someone with no experience). I tried to teach myself some SQL (with no database or programming experience), it didn't work. After 6hours/week for 4 weeks at school, I was doing ok. Heck that was 3 months ago, and it has treme…

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Re: What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course?

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Post by vlad » Sun, May 13, 2007, 3:56 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #23

TAKE CLASSES AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE. You might be able to teach yourself from a book, but that only works for a very few people (ususally those who are trying to learn a new language rather than someone with no experience). I tried to teach myself some SQL (with no database or programming experience), it didn't work. After 6hours/week for 4 weeks at school, I was doing ok. Heck that was 3 months ago, and it has treme…

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Re: What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course?

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Post by litepost » Mon, Jun 18, 2007, 12:23 AM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #38

litepost wrote: post #33

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the bogus elitism in this community is truly astounding, symptoms of a deeply-held inferiority complex

Could you clarify how that relates to the parent? (The parent was wrong on at least two counts, but not due to bogus elitism that I could detect.)

"Oh and don't tell the YC guys that you are hardly a hacker. They wont like that."

The definition of "hacker" is somewhat arbitrary but is nonetheless given inflated status by the majority of this community, it seems.

(I could be mistaken, of course.)