Category Archives: learning to program

Using and learning Git

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Peter

Any time you want to be able to keep track of all the aspects of a project, particularly to be able to roll back the state of a set of files to a previous version, you want to use version … Continue reading →

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Using Ruby to learn to program

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Peter

I got interested in the possibility of learning Ruby after seeing Ruby for Kids: teach programming by writing games in Ruby on Reddit last month. I’m still not “ready” to dive in, but I did want to line up a … Continue reading →

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More resources for learning Python

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Peter

I keep turning up more stuff; some better than others. This is just a list of the most recent ones: DaniWeb Python Forum. Haven’t explored this much yet, but it looks like a reasonable starting point. Learn Python the Hard … Continue reading →

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Conway’s Game of Life

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Peter

Learning to program, at least if you’re going in a more scholarly direction, means at the least hearing about John Conway’s Game of Life. It’s all about cellular automata, and it was invented in 1970–but it still is perfectly relevant, … Continue reading →

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Resources for Learning to Program

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Peter on Lists

I keep making posts with titles similar to this one, but then again, I keep finding new resources. There are a lot, including books (many of them freely available for download), videos, on-line courses, and so on. Invent Your Own … Continue reading →

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Why does the PHP universe do this?

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Peter on Lists

Something odd, that I sort of have figured out. It’s an opportunity to learn something new and useful, but I’m not quite there yet. I got XAMPP installed and up and running last month, that was great actually, pretty much … Continue reading →

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More programming-related links of interest

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Peter

As the title suggests, another hodge-podge of links that look to be useful (or that I’ve already found to be useful), relating one way or another to programming, especially learning about programming: Vi Cheat Sheet is indeed a very handy … Continue reading →

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