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The reason is Zed Shaw. He has a large following here on HN.
The reason is Zed Shaw. He has a large following here on HN.
And it's a pretty decent way to learn some basic programming skills, irrelevant of the actual language.
I think it goes beyond simply being Zed's name. It is genuine good stuff. My son has been using LPTHW to learn programming from 0 with positive results so far.