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Learn X in Y Minutes

98 points by mlejva 7y ago

chubot 7y ago
I like this site! I’ve referred to it many times while designing my programming language.
einpoklum 7y ago
Obligatory counter: "Teach yourself programming in 10 years" http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
LandR 7y ago
I don't feel you are really learning anything from this site. It's more like a collection of cheat sheets.
- mieseratte 7y ago
  Learning syntax and convention is something. I’ve been programming for 15+ years, everything from assembly to the latest JS. I don’t need a $50 book for, say, C# that is targeted at everyone and so spends time explaining basic programming concepts. I need a 10,000 foot view and then I can drill down into the things that are unique or otherwise unclear.
frfl 7y ago
This isn't a site you should rely on to truly understand a language, but I have successfully used it to learn enough syntax to follow along with Ruby code in a book I was reading. I imagine if I needed to learn enough Go or Kotlin, or some other language that's not totally a different paradigm to C/Java(script)/etc, to get a superficial understanding (enough to following along a blog post or some simple snippet of code) it would be sufficient and convenient.
dlphn___xyz 7y ago
pretty good as a reference
Royalaid 7y ago
I love Learn X in Y minutes! It is a great reference (how do I do basic thing x in language y) or useful for teaching yourself the basics of a language if you know one that rhymes e.g. C# and Java. I used it recently to get my barings in Bash and then used the terminology I learned from the examples to finish my glue code. Was this code good and super idiomatic? I don't think so but I also don't care. That job is done and I am on to bigger and better things. Much like Wikipedia with regards to research, it's an overview and gives you the tools to dig deep but it doesn't really "teach" you any given language.
oweiler 7y ago
The Lua one is pretty neat. https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/

98 points by mlejva 7y ago

I like this site! I’ve referred to it many times while designing my programming language.

Obligatory counter: "Teach yourself programming in 10 years" http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

LandR 7y ago

I don't feel you are really learning anything from this site. It's more like a collection of cheat sheets.

mieseratte 7y ago
Learning syntax and convention is something. I’ve been programming for 15+ years, everything from assembly to the latest JS. I don’t need a $50 book for, say, C# that is targeted at everyone and so spends time explaining basic programming concepts. I need a 10,000 foot view and then I can drill down into the things that are unique or otherwise unclear.

frfl 7y ago

This isn't a site you should rely on to truly understand a language, but I have successfully used it to learn enough syntax to follow along with Ruby code in a book I was reading. I imagine if I needed to learn enough Go or Kotlin, or some other language that's not totally a different paradigm to C/Java(script)/etc, to get a superficial understanding (enough to following along a blog post or some simple snippet of code) it would be sufficient and convenient.

dlphn___xyz 7y ago

pretty good as a reference

Royalaid 7y ago

I love Learn X in Y minutes! It is a great reference (how do I do basic thing x in language y) or useful for teaching yourself the basics of a language if you know one that rhymes e.g. C# and Java. I used it recently to get my barings in Bash and then used the terminology I learned from the examples to finish my glue code. Was this code good and super idiomatic? I don't think so but I also don't care. That job is done and I am on to bigger and better things. Much like Wikipedia with regards to research, it's an overview and gives you the tools to dig deep but it doesn't really "teach" you any given language.

oweiler 7y ago

The Lua one is pretty neat. https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/