The "The Node.js Handbook" and the "The JavaScript Handbook" from https://flaviocopes.com/page/ebooks/
Very handy and turned later into official doc at https://nodejs.dev/
Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
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#52Can someone recommend an easy tutorial for beginners for getting into electronics?
There's "Make:Electronics". It's a book but it's good.
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#53The first level of Super Mario Bros is a great example of learning by exploration.
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#54I would really love one for containers/docker if anyone has a suggestion
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#55Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book
Rails is modern? Seriously I thought it has a lot of baggage like django does towards the old way of rendering web pages on the backend. If it's not true please correct me and elucidate.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#56Easy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY0lrdXar8
This video gobsmacked me.
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#57Easy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY0lrdXar8
Masterful.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#58Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book
I tried a few times to give the rails tutorial to rank beginners and they couldn't get from power user to programmer without major hand holding or sheer maddening drive. The learning curve is still too steep.
Re: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
#59Hartl's Rails tutorial. Probably the best intro to modern full stack development I've ever come across. https://www.railstutorial.org/book
This book got me into the tech industry. Not because it taught be Rails, but because it showed me that I was capable of building features that seemed difficult and complex with relative ease as long as I approached it with the right methodology and determination.
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#60Easy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY0lrdXar8
I don't know the proper french word for it - but the strings around the chicken always struck me as very complicated but he explains it so well it appears easy.