I am having a hard time finding examples....

12    17 Jan 2016 18:18 by u/Nokilter

I have placed a large interest in becoming a self-taught programmer but I am slogging through github's repositories for examples and failing to find what I need. Much of the content is either too advanced for my novice ability or too shit written for any programmer to want to read or learn from. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. The following are what I'm learning at the moment: Python, Java, Html, Css, and the Django framework.

10 comments

1 u/Drenki 17 Jan 2016 18:39

O'Reilly books have traditionally been a good source for explaining a language or technology. They won't give you a fundamental understanding of the theory of programming, though, and unfortunately I don't know of any resources off-hand.

Have you tried any of the online learning places like Codecademy? They are pretty basic, but serve as a good introduction.

1 u/Nokilter [OP] 17 Jan 2016 19:06

I'm past most the introductions with the exception of java so i'll give codeacademy a try in that case.

0 u/WhiteRonin 17 Jan 2016 23:17

GitHub is a well like you said.

I'd consider looking for a smallish project to follow. A solid blog or if you wanna go all out look at plone.

I do php so sorry about it being able to recommend a python project.

0 u/Pawn 18 Jan 2016 02:46

some of the highest quality programming books in my opinion are the ones by deitel and deitel, unfortunately they are expensive as fuck at $140, and as a result I buy the international versions for $20 - $40. I don't own any deitel US versions cause they are way too expensive. Oreily books are also good too. Cheap and good. I own two. I have Java, C++, and C# from deitel, and I have emacs, Erlang, intro to erlang from Oreilly. These books have high quality examples, and I'll admit it, im a noob, I can do basic Java CSS HTML C++ and C#, and im just starting into the meaty advanced parts.

0 u/Tecktonik 18 Jan 2016 09:55

Ditch the framework and try rolling your own set of tools for publishing content to a site. At the very least you will get some insight as to why Django is structured the way it is, and if you are lucky you will achieve satori. Give yourself from 6 months to 5 years to accomplish this.

0 u/forgetmyname 18 Jan 2016 10:46

Github is quite like a junkyard, if you have been there a while, you know treasure when you find it, but to the indoctrinated, its all crap.

try http://inventwithpython.com/ then buy the books?

There are lots of online classes. If you wanted some more structure than codeacademy You could try signing up for something like https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython1/