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missing-semester
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Ask HN: I want to learn to use the terminal, where do I start
The missing semester of your cs education
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
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Please advise, still struggling intensely
You mentioned having issues with accessory concepts so perhaps this might help: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/. There's also a chapter on git
- Curso del IPN
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CS2030S and CS2040S advice
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ is a good way to pass the Dec-Jan break if you want to prep for CS2030S + some more general stuff.
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I cancelled my Replit subscription
Reflecting a little bit more I don't think it was replit's fault, per-say. But that change should have been made together with a larger adjustment to the program. Like adding a class/unit in the style of [the missing semester](https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) to make sure people came away with a good range of intuitions.
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Advice to a Novice Programmer
From MJD's post: I think CS curricula should have a class that focuses specifically on these issues, on the matter of how do you actually write software?
But they never do.
FWIW, MIT's "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education" attempts to deal with this lack, though, even there, it's an unofficial course taught between terms, during MIT's IAP -- Independent Activities Period[1] -- and not an actual CS course.
[0] https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditions_and_student_activit...
- School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
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Advice / Resources from a "Seasoned Beginner"
Link to the "missing semester of your CS degree" course by MIT.
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MIT's Missing Semester Class: Beyond the CS Curriculum
Rightly called The Missing Semester (of Your CS Education), this class from MIT will teach you how to use some of the tools that are fundamental to the software engineering ecosystem. From shell scripting to the fundamentals of information security—spanning around 12 lectures—you can add a bunch of practical skills to your toolbox.
- ÂżRecomendaciones sobre que aprender?
learnxinyminutes-docs
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Scripts should be written using the project main language
> Sure, maybe for some esoteric edge cases, but 5 mins on https://learnxinyminutes.com/ should get you 80% of the way there, and an afternoon looking at big projects or guidelines/examples should you another 18% of the way.
Not for C++, and even for other languages, it's not the language that's hard, it's the idioms.
Python written by experts can be well-nigh incomprehensible (you can save typing out exactly one line if you use list-comprehensions everywhere!).
Someone who knows Javascript well still needs to know all the nooks and crannies of the popular frameworks.
Java with the most popular frameworks (Spring/Boot/etc) can be impossible for a non-Java programmer to reason about (where's all this fucking magic coming from? Where is it documented? What are the other magic words I can put into comments?)
C# is turning into a C++ wannabe as far as comprehension complexity goes.
Right now, the quickest onboarding I've seen by far are Go codebases.
The knowledge tree required to contribute to a codebase can exists on a Deep axis and a Wide axis. C++ goes Deep and Wide. Go and C are the only projects I've seen that goes neither deep nor wide.
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100+ FREE Resources Every Web Developer Must Try
Learn x in y minutes: Concise tutorials to learn various programming languages and tools quickly.
- SQL for Data Scientists in 100 Queries
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New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality'
StackOverflow's making their own competing LLM for all this stuff.
IMO, one of the biggest problems with the way people use LLMs right now, is that they're being treated as a single oracle: to know Java, it must be trained on examples of Java.
It would be much better if their language comprehension abilities were kept separated from their knowledge (and there are development efforts in this direction), so in this example it would be trained to be able to be able to read a Java tutorial rather than by actually reading a Java tutorial, so when the overall system is asked to write something in Java, the language model within the system decides to do this by opening https://learnxinyminutes.com and combining the user query with the webpage.
I think this will help make the models more compact, which is a benefit all by itself, but it would also mean that knowledge can be updated much more easily.
Someone would have to actually do this in order to see if those benefits are worth the extra cost of having to load a potentially huge a tutorial into the context window, and likewise the extent to which a more compact training set makes the language comprehension worse.
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Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
The project was created and is maintained by Adam Bard, but is open sourced with over 1.7k contributors since 2013
https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs
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Ask HN: How to learn to be a programmer in 20 years?
So you have studied programming for at least 5 years, what kinds of programs have you written? Apparently you have already applied your skills, since you have "created a good reputation among developers"? Why a time-frame of 20 years, why not 20 months or 20 weeks? Heck, you can learn a lot in even 20 days!
Once you have learned a few languages, libraries and frameworks then learning new stuff becomes much easier. At that point I'd recommend to check the website https://learnxinyminutes.com. Meanwhile, continue asking questions here and elsewhere :)
An other tip, if you are into computer science and algorithms stuff I recommend you try to solve problems which are posted at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com. You don't need to try solving them in less than X characters, but just to get them solved by any means necessary. And don't take too much bad influence from the posted solutions.
- Lean 4.0.0, first official lean4 release
- Learn X in Y Minutes
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how long will it take to learn JS?
If you want a brief overview, go to https://learnxinyminutes.com/ and look for Javascript. I guess it should be roughly the time it took to learn C++ or possibly less, but JS has its own quirks. Often learning a second language is difficult as the first.
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Anyone got good resources for experienced devs that don't know front end?
Very light compared to the other resources people have linked for you, but I love https://learnxinyminutes.com/
What are some alternatives?
cs-topics - My personal curriculum covering basic CS topics. This might be useful for self-taught developers... A work in development! This might take a very long time to get finished!
learn-x-by-doing-y - 🛠️ Learn a technology X by doing a project - Search engine of project-based learning
computer-science - :mortar_board: Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!
the-road-to-learn-react - đź““The Road to learn React: Your journey to master plain yet pragmatic React.js
CS50x-2021 - 🎓 HarvardX: CS50 Introduction to Computer Science (CS50x)
materials - Bonus materials, exercises, and example projects for our Python tutorials
vimrc - The ultimate Vim configuration (vimrc)
You-Dont-Know-JS - A book series on JavaScript. @YDKJS on twitter.
javascript - JavaScript Style Guide
tour_of_rust - A tour of rust's language features
CppCoreGuidelines - The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++