Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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  • learnxinyminutes-docs

    Code documentation written as code! How novel and totally my idea!

  • I'm still partial to LearnXinYMinutes[0]. It's how I learned enough MatLab/Octave in a couple hours to test out of an intro CS course.

    Here's their article on Elixir[1]

    [0]: https://learnxinyminutes.com

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  • advent-of-code-jq

    Solving Advent of Code with jq

  • Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/)

    It's not a programming course per-se, but it's a great resource to master the skill of coding and problem solving.

    It's just one part though, it won't teach you anything about architecturing a bigger system.

  • ebook-1

    A collection of classic computer science books from Internet

  • Hello, recently I've enjoyed Casey Muratori's Performance-Aware Programming course[0]. You could read Algorithms for Modern Hardware[1] to learn similar set of stuff though. Casey's course is aimed at bringing beginners all the way to a nearly-industry-leading understanding of performance issues while the book assumes a bit more knowledge, but I think a lot of people have trouble getting into this stuff using a book if they don't have related experience.

    I've also found Hacker's Delight Second Edition[2] to be a useful reference, and I really wish that I would get around to reading What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory[3] in full, because I end up reading a bunch of other things[4] to learn stuff that's surely in there.

    [0]: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/welcome-to-the-performance...

    [1]: https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/

    [2]: https://github.com/lancetw/ebook-1/blob/80eccb7f59bf102586ba...

    [3]: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

    [4]: https://danluu.com/3c-conflict/

  • amh-code

    Complete implementations from "Algorithms for Modern Hardware"

  • Hello, recently I've enjoyed Casey Muratori's Performance-Aware Programming course[0]. You could read Algorithms for Modern Hardware[1] to learn similar set of stuff though. Casey's course is aimed at bringing beginners all the way to a nearly-industry-leading understanding of performance issues while the book assumes a bit more knowledge, but I think a lot of people have trouble getting into this stuff using a book if they don't have related experience.

    I've also found Hacker's Delight Second Edition[2] to be a useful reference, and I really wish that I would get around to reading What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory[3] in full, because I end up reading a bunch of other things[4] to learn stuff that's surely in there.

    [0]: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/welcome-to-the-performance...

    [1]: https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/

    [2]: https://github.com/lancetw/ebook-1/blob/80eccb7f59bf102586ba...

    [3]: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

    [4]: https://danluu.com/3c-conflict/

  • python-mastery

    Advanced Python Mastery (course by @dabeaz)

  • I came here to mention Dave Beazley's courses and talks.

    In particular, I recently prepped/ran a week-long, in-house training session of Dave's Python-Mastery[1] course at my day job. We had a group of 8 with a mix of junior and senior Software Engineers and while the juniors were generally able to follow along, it really benefited the senior SEs most. It covers the whole language in such depth and detail that you really feel like you've explored every nook and cranny by the time you're done.

    [1] https://github.com/dabeaz-course/python-mastery/

    (I enjoyed teaching the class so much that I've considered offering my services teaching it on a consulting basis to other orgs. If that interests anyone, feel free to reach out to the email in my profile.)

  • 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!

  • This is a really good fundamentals resource: https://teachyourselfcs.com/ They list books and videos.

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  • full-speed-python

    Full Speed Python: a book for self-learners

  • If you're learning Python, and know other programming languages, I have this online ebook [1] that I use with my students so that they learn Python fast enough so that I can teach them about socket programming.

    Basically, in each chapter I give a small detailed introduction to the topic and then students do some exercises to solidify things.

    [1] https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python

  • Exercism - Scala Exercises

    Crowd-sourced code mentorship. Practice having thoughtful conversations about code.

  • You might like https://exercism.org/

    Learning by doing, with the help of mentors. Excellent way to learn a next language (as you are already familiar with the programming concepts).

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