points by westurner 8 years ago

Here's an answer to a similar question: "Ask HN: How to introduce someone to programming concepts during 12-hour drive?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15454421

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python3/ (Python3)

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/ (Javascript)

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/git/ (Git)

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/markdown/ (Markdown)

Read the docs. Read the source. Write docstrings. Write automated tests: that's the other half of the code.

Keep a journal of your knowledge as e.g. Markdown or ReStructuredText; regularly pull the good ones from bookmarks and history into an outline.

I keep a tools reference doc with links to Wikipedia, Homepage, Source, Docs: https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/tools/

And a single-page log of my comments: https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/

> To get a job, "Coding Interview University": https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university