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Learn X in Y minutes mentions (149)

• How would you start to learn coding today?

  I can't fathom it, but if I had to start over today, I'd: - Pick something I want to build - Pick the tools -- whatever's at the top of the latest SlackOverflow survey, though I'm not sure SO matters anymore - Peruse the https://learnxinyminutes.com link for the chosen tools - Use an LLM with good prompting to assist me in making what I decided. I'd use chat and hand type the code from the LLM and try to... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• 100+ FREE Resources Every Web Developer Must Try

  . HTML Cheat Sheet: Quick reference guide for HTML elements and attributes. . CSS Cheat Sheet: Comprehensive guide to CSS properties and selectors. . JavaScript Cheat Sheet: Handy reference for JavaScript syntax and concepts. . Git Cheat Sheet: Essential commands and workflows for Git. . Markdown Cheat Sheet: Markdown syntax guide for creating rich text formatting. . React Cheat Sheet: Quick overview of React... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Lua: The Modular Language You Already Know

  This is a small code example to get the basic idea. If you want a bit of a bigger file to play around yourself Or ever want to learn about a new language you can use LearnXinYMinutes which is a great starting point to learn any language you desire. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Screeps mentions (43)

• Show HN: A Competition Game to write bots for the most efficient algo

  Reminds me (in spirit) of screeps https://screeps.com/ - any inspiration? - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• AI Wars – control your 2d space shooter with AI

  I love the idea of having an AI prompt to write code for the bots. There are already games like https://screeps.com/ or https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Replaced/ where you program your bot to do things, but they do require some minimal coding experience. Being able to describe behavior in plain english would be pretty cool. However, I think having real-time feedback is a huge part of... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Show HN: Engineering Games (List)

  I've heard about Screeps which is close to what you describe: https://screeps.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Games like Stone Story RPG

  I have tried Screeps in the past, and I'm not a huge fan. I really like Stone Story, but they do not have an easy way to take your saves across multiple platforms -- you have to manually import/export your save. Source: over 1 year ago

• Helping a young coder

  -For JavaScript, my advice would be to introduce coding games. That way it's more fun and the environment would be set up better (less worrying about deep technical errors). The two games that come to mind are Bitburner (free) and Screeps (free offline/paid online), though they both have their own learning curves and require actual coding; so for a 9 year old YMMV greatly. Source: almost 2 years ago