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Ask HN: What are some communities that self-teaching novices can join?

Often times I am hitting some walls while trying to understand the theories like concurrency models, state machines and stuff. Most of time I am not sure what I need to google to find what I want and don't have a solid question that warrants asking on SO or here. These are the times I feel like discussing these topics with someone knowledgeable would clear things up. So are there any such places where I can do that?
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Re:Ask HN: What are some communities that self-teaching novi... by wingerlang on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:53AM (#15390670)
Various IRC or Slack channels for the given topic might be a start.
Re:Ask HN: What are some communities that self-teaching novi... by tiuPapa on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:39AM (#15393125)
That's the problem, I couldn't find something for general discussions. There are Slack channels and IRC for particular languages or software projects, but none for general topics.
Re:Ask HN: What are some communities that self-teaching novi... by wingerlang on Sunday October 08, 2017 @02:54AM (#15427257)
Isn't there some general named "programming", subreddits like "/r/programming" might also work? They should be general enough that you could ask and maybe be given "try posting on X or Y instead"/
Re:Ask HN: What are some communities that self-teaching novi... by Lufton on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:27PM (#15406521)
90% sure this is a silly question. But what's IRC?
Re:Ask HN: What are some communities that self-teaching novi... by tiuPapa on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:25PM (#15419088)
Internet Relay Chat.