Lost all credibility (in my mind) when it pointed to w3schools
Removed them all (except sql...still need a good one).
Any suggestions? https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages
A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
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Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#82Why 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?
I have no idea where to start with ColdFusion! If you have any suggestions, make a PR https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#83Why 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?
What about C# and Java? These are widely popular with big companies with a lot of money.
I think adding a "tools" section would be a little helpful for beginners, like myself, to find out about. I use jsfiddle for online code edit a lot, and I prefer Sublime Text 2 on my Mac and Netbeans on my PC workstation.
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#84The 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.
This. The boxes are bright, so you would want black text. In general, white text goes with muted backgrounds, black text on bright backgrounds. This hurt my eyes =\. Also, the page starts with black text on white background and transitions to white on colored. I'd stick with one for consistency, in this case, black. Here is what I mean, I just changed the box text color to black: http://i.imgur.com/ENnoGnv.png
That...looks good! I changed the text to be a dark gray. Should be updating soon :)
Re: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
#85Would like to see the Ruby micro-framework Sinatra on this list.
It's a great starting point for Ruby development and could be a good entry point into Rails, which can be intimidating for a beginner.
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#86Where 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.
Also disappointed about the lack of ASP . MVC.net - but so it goes, I would hope it wasn't being intentionally ignored out of some personal bias. Either way, the site is still a pretty nice resource even if it fails to recognize some stacks.
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#87For 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)
Awesome! I would love if you added it :) https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/blob/gh-pages/content.js
Done! Awesome to see an open source project to recommend resources. On a bigger scale there is the Odin Project to create an open source web development curriculum. It provides some of the "glue" to explain the connections between the technologies.
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#88Code snippets in the JSON tutorial are blocked by ad-block plus in Chrome
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#89I was hoping to see GO
I recently made this resource for a camp on learning Go with the end product being an http server. If it's helpful I can repurpose it for general use. It's a series of 2 quick tutorials currently, start here : https://github.com/rdallman/gofirst
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Today's most trendy baristas have nothing but negative things to say about PHP.
Programmers that use PHP would rebut, but they are too busy paying for their drinks using money they make from actually shipping code.