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Hm, looks nice! The coloring of the columns doesn't seem to be meaningful in any way I can come up with. I think it would make more sense if things were grouped
by rryan 13y ago
Hm, looks nice! The coloring of the columns doesn't seem to be meaningful in any way I can come up with. I think it would make more sense if things were grouped into categories (e.g. databases, web frameworks, frontend languages, backend languages, style/presentation). If you use color I would make it meaningful (e.g. represent order of learning things with color something?).
- jonhmchan 13y agoYeah there's been a ton of suggestions for what the colors should mean but I'm leaning towards something like what you're suggesting!
- Zaheer 13y agoThe problem for me when I was beginning was not necessarily learning each technology, but rather the glue between each. That is what I tend to find confusing and is much harder to find resources for that clearly and exclusively demonstrate how to bridge the different technologies. Would love if you could add those type of items. For ex. I know Node, some Mongo, and am a avid user of Heroku. Recently I was trying to set up a system using all three and struggled quite a bit.
- jonhmchan 13y agoYeah - I know what you mean. When I first learned python, I had to figure out on my own how to piece it together with mongo heroku and tornado. I'll look into it!
- billnguyen 13y agoyes, seconded! the most difficult part is not the languages themselves but how to glue everything together... Does anyone on hackernews have a resource like that? Its been such a pain trying to glue together a site.
- icambron 13y agoSeconding categories, though I'm not sure they should be columns. Maybe sections like "Styling" with a one sentence explanation of what they are, and then the boxes below that.
- nabnob 13y agoThere is useful coloring - "Beginners, start by clicking the html box and the next lessons you should learn will get highlighted."
- bookface 13y agoI still don't quite get what that means. If you click Python, why is Ruby highlighted, but not Django?
- atom-morgan 13y agoThis is exactly what I was wondering.