build-your-own-x VS languages

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26039706

Other resources:

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

https://github.com/AlgoryL/Projects-from-Scratch

https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning

All suggestions are welcome,thanks in advance

Make sure that apart from learning you're using the knowledge to create something either your own idea or maybe something from https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x (with your own twist if possible.). It helps a lot to be working on something separately and seeing the results of your new knowledge outside of a tutorial scenario.

28. Build your own X

Do some projects. Come up with your own ideas or pick something from a list like https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

ello! i'm 20f and humanities student (ir/poli sci) with interest in coding since high school, but just now i have the time to start learning it. i opted for learning pyhton first mostly because i'm interested in automation, data analysis, plus was skimming over the tutorials of build your own x and was surprised that you can do a lot of things with just pyhton.

As for exercises there are plenty of programming task websites out there, most of them are quite boring but you can use a fun one like https://adventofcode.com/ . However the best things to work on are things you actually like so do some small projects. Games (start with command line stuff like hang-man) are common, otherwise pick something from https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x or whatever else ideas come to your mind.

We don't currently have Swift yet (not a highly requested language yet) but I just wanted to highlight that our language support mechanism is actually OSS.

https://github.com/codecrafters-io/languages

Also, I wouldn't actually say we're the best resource to learn to use Redis (the Redis docs are probably more ideal) — we focus on helping you create your own version of Redis from scratch, so that you understand the fundamental pieces behind building a project like Redis. Same for Docker, Git, etc.

We do have a lot of users that actually discover Redis on our site, and do the learning Redis + building it out in parallel, often times while also simultaneously learning a new language!

Love your spirit.

Most key pieces of https://codecrafters.io are OSS.

We've found that users who want to learn a new programming language, and don't see it listed contribute language support before they attempt the course.

That was pretty mind blowing to me.

e.g Our Build your own Docker course got Rust support from a community contribution, https://github.com/codecrafters-io/languages/pull/93 — and it's among our most popular combination till-date!

I'd also recommend https://codecrafters.io/ - I did the Redis challenge recently while trying to (re)learn Java and it was a good experience.

I'm a former Engineering Manager, now working on Codecrafters, a site for programming challenges based on the Build your own X format.

For those of you who're interested, I've been working on converting these into hands-on coding challenges: codecrafters.io.

PS. If you're really interested, the repository that powers language support is open source, so you can contribute support for any language you'd like. Most of the recently added languages were contributed by early access users. Here's an example PR.