missing-semester VS flexboxfroggy

> The realization came a few weeks ago when someone shared The Missing Semester of Comp Sci on HN. It’s full of basic things you’d expect any programmer to somehow magically know … but they don’t learn this anymore. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

I do feel somewhat jealous though that these resources are now available for students to learn in a structured, borderline spoon-fed way when this stuff took me a number of years and hacking around to build up and gain muscle memory over. Still, I think the knowledge you struggle to learn yourself sticks around a lot longer than knowledge that was fed to you from school. :shrug: I could see it either way.

> "Why does it have to be so complicated? I just want to install a program"

> "Why would you do that in the command line? It's way easier using $Program"

A concerning observation that’s slowly dawning on me is that more and more programmers don’t know how computers work. They can write code, build software, and do lots of useful things. But they have no idea how computers work. They’re more akin to lusers as we used to call them than they are to hackers of old.

Fantastic at their specialty and the tools they use. But move a button to an unfamiliar place or throw them into a new (but fundamentally same) environment and they’re lost.

The realization came a few weeks ago when someone shared The Missing Semester of Comp Sci on HN. It’s full of basic things you’d expect any programmer to somehow magically know … but they don’t learn this anymore. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

Seeing that link shared connected the dots in my mind. I’ve been wondering for months ”Why does everyone at work have so many random local environment issues all the time?” … it’s been working fine for me for years. Same code and hardware. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is a webpage I refer people often to: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

This from MIT is called "The missing semester of your CS education" and provides some practical hands on skills like Git https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

The Missing Semester: Made to address shortcomings in software engineers and teacher Vim.

Try this to learn the basic concepts https://flexboxfroggy.com

Flexbox Froggy

You say flexbox is kicking. Try flexboxfroggy.com they can help I learned it from Zero to mastery web developer course on udemy.com

Maybe this frog game will help

For side by side content there are multiple methods. But the "current standard" is probably flexbox. https://flexboxfroggy.com/

https://cssgridgarden.com they also have https://flexboxfroggy.com

Also it's kind of "out of order" for the curriculum but for a taste of web development, Flexbox Froggy is a browser-based game that teaches part of CSS called flexbox, which is used to position things. It might be a way to get a taste for what writing code feels like.

I’d suggest getting the grasp of Flexbox at least. https://flexboxfroggy.com/ is a good resource and won’t take you long.