I've had a couple of PMs from people asking questions about programming in general, so I thought it would be a good idea to set something like this up. If you've got any questions about programming, post them under the #learnprogramming tag. I'll try to answer as many as I can as well as I can. Any programmers with some level of experience are welcome as well to answer questions and help out. Hopefully there should be a decent amount of interest in this!
I haven't done much with it yet, but the Khan Academy Computer Science videos are pretty solid too.
There was this online Python website which guided you through everything, with a built-in interpreter. You created an account and progressed through the language. I started the course but didn't finish it, but would like to - the only thing is, I've completely forgotten what website it was. Anyone know what website I'm talking about?
"Python the hard way" was a good resource, and a nice intro to a lovely language, by Zed Shaw. http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
bal, I've been teaching myself programming by learning Obj C now, and moving on to Cocoa framework next. Is it alright if I just occasionally pepper you with questions as I follow the API development and peruse the iOS app code if you decide to toss it on Git? :)
Absolutely! If you post any questions you have over in #learnprogramming I'd be more than happy to help.
Great. On a side note, have you much experience with the various reader apps out there for sites like HN and Reddit? Curious to know which apps you feel have gotten things right and wrong in their various ways. Nobody has nailed the 'comment section' on mobile imo, and I feel like there is room to really innovate on design and mechanics here.
The apps I use to browse reddit are Alien Blue on my iPod Touch and iPad, and Reddit is Fun on my Galaxy Note. I actually think both of those apps do a really good job of the comment section, so much so that I prefer to browse subs like /r/askreddit on them. What do you feel is their downfall?
I'm going to have to reinstall AB and give it a whirl again to digest it. I was just unsatisfied with the comments section and preferred the browser as it presented more conversation and replies to posts in a view. Mobile forum threading has always seemed obscenely claustrophobic to me and I feel like there has got to be a better way to do it. The small screen size is a tough constraint though. Even desktop panels often struggle inelegantly with right-margin creep in comment trees I use HackerNode as a Hacker News client and I rather like the UI. Still dissatisfied by the comments though.
Followed! Thanks for doing this. First question: If I wanted to create a site that matched up queries from people, where do I start? Which language should I learn first? EDIT: I'll move this over to #learnprogramming
None. I know some SQL, but that's about it. BTW, I moved this over to #learnprogramming at http://hubski.com/pub?id=51408