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Learn X in Y minutes mentions (146)

• 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... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Scripts should be written using the project main language

  > Learning a new language shouldn't be difficult. Programmers are expected to familiarize themselves with new tech. I wish any large company agreed with this. I've worked for a company that on boarded every single new engineer to a very niche language (F#) in a few days. Also, everybody I worked with there was amazing. Probably because of that kind of mindset. Meanwhile google tiptoes around teams adopting kotlin... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• The Shen Programming Language

  When I want to get a quick feel for a language I've never heard of, I usually look for the Learn X in Y Minutes[0] page for it. Shen doesn't have one. Perhaps the author and/or poster should remedy that? [0] https://learnxinyminutes.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• 100+ FREE Resources Every Web Developer Must Try

  Learn x in y minutes: Concise tutorials to learn various programming languages and tools quickly. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• 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... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

MIT OpenCourseWare mentions (240)

• Ask HN: Best basic to advanced Physics book(s)?

  There are a lot of books, and online courses. Given the breadth of topics in undergrad physics, may I suggest materials from MIT Open Courseware? https://ocw.mit.edu/ My theory is that you can get a sequence of courses, or at least the materials for them, that are consistent. I know this doesn't really answer your book request, but by perusing the online courseware, you might get an idea of which books are... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Free online courses for gifted maths students

  If the kid is interested in college-level courses, MIT makes many of them available for free on OpenCourseWare: https://ocw.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Best 33 YouTube Channels Every Coder Must Subscribe Now

  A free and open online publication of educational material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum, ranging from introductory to the most advanced graduate courses. On the OCW website, each course includes a syllabus, instructional material like notes and reading lists, and learning activities like assignments and solutions. Some courses also have videos, online textbooks, and faculty... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Would you forgive student loan debt if you were the President?

  Here you go. https://ocw.mit.edu/ That's from the highly acclaimed M.I.T. "MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere." Enjoy your free education. More important than money, right? Go ahead, it's right there, no... Source: 6 months ago

• So how DO you do your due dilligence?

  Apply as needed to topics you care about and use. If I was ever seriously using the information Dan presented to me, I'd have to learn more about how to interpret film. One way could be to check out MIT Open Courseware and find a media studies course, look at the readings, and find some basic texts from an introductory course that could help me understand how the information is generated. Another could be to watch... Source: 6 months ago