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- lots of links in this wiki could honestly go here but I want to try and limit this to resources aimed at people with little to no coding experience in general or in a specific area and looking to break into this crazy world
- (2023-05-28) I have yet to try any of these but these projects are on my neverending list of self-study resources to go through.
- all or most of the books are free to read electronically. we love our free learning materials here!
- (2025-01-28) https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog is essenetially a paid version of this with language specific tracks. also looks very cool!
- as someone who has learned lots of different data visualizations frameworks, I definitely support the thinking behind this. Vega is described on the homepage as “a visualization grammar, a declarative language”. now i just need a project to try with this. I’m sure I’ll think of something
https://farawaytimes.blogspot.com/2023/02/how-to-make-good-small-games.html
- one of the hosts of this video game podcast i started listening to mentioned this article. It’s long, but well worth the read. i’ve long planned to try making some games and as this post points out, it’s not only ok to start with something small, but encouraged! it’s also ok for your game to remain small in scope. one day i’ll make a game. one day!
https://pldb.io/books/index.html
- pretty much the moment I saw this little database of programming books I added a bunch of them to my storygraph for safe keeping. i’m putting it here to so I can see if any new books get added over time. As of this writing, the count is at 70!
- free, online book that looks to describe the practical topics needed to build quality software that undergirds machine learning systems. I very much want to read the Pragmatic Programmer that does the same but for programming more generally
https://learngitbranching.js.org
- learn git by playing a game! very simple and easy to use UI. I found it useful even though I’ve been using git professionally for a couple years and on and off for about eight years. There’s an advanced section that goes into things like cherry-picking.
https://weborigami.org/language/hello
- funky little framework for defining the content and structure of site simultaneously
https://blog.knhash.in/gentle-guide-to-self-hosting/
- eventually, i will follow one of these self-hosting tutorials…eventually
- what if your personal sites and project sites were accessible via a TUI when deployed? very intriguing
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/dirty-coding-tricks
- 9 hacky things game devs have done to end the crunch once and for all
https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/
- i do get terrified rebasing sometimes and I’m not afraid to admit it