jwong42
Re:Ask HN: Best way for a beginner to learn Networks and Async Program...
on Thursday June 06, 2013 @04:55PM (#5835118)
Coursera also has a computer networks class - https://www.coursera.org/course/comnetworks. It might be what you are looking for. I checked it out briefly before. I think it's pretty good. For real time web apps, this stackoverflow post might help - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11077857/what-are-long-po....
Re:Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @03:57PM (#4780564)
Yea, I agree. I was planning get one but didn't get a chance. Even if we can't pre-order, it would be great if they release some info about when the next batch will be available.
Re:Ask HN: Hacker news clone script in Ruby?
on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @05:46AM (#4012344)
I bookmarked these articles when I was trying to search for algorithms to implement in a news website that I wanted to develop as a side project. But I haven't taken a closer look at them yet. Hope these help.
http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 - HN http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 - Reddit
Re:The 10k Bootstrap Challenge
on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:09AM (#3986112)
This is so awesome! Congrats to you for this amazing accomplishment. I'll try my best to be in that same situation!
Re:How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify
on Friday January 27, 2012 @07:40PM (#3520884)
Hey James, very inspiring read. I've been following your story and progress on the fastlane forum and glad to see that you had a successful launch! I've also been learning to program myself but my language of choice was python and django for framework. You are right that it takes some time to get through that initial learning curve but once you reach that first stage and figure out how to get past everytime you get stuck, it gets pretty exciting and fun. Congrats and best of luck to you!!
Re:Ask HN: Learning Django post-"Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw"
on Friday October 21, 2011 @04:34AM (#3138965)
I was a novice in programming and wanted to try web development so I chose python and Django as my starting point. I started learning Django by first doing the poll app tutorial found on the official Django documentation page. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/intro/tutorial01/
Then I read the online Django Book and followed along the examples found in those chapters. http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/
After that, I felt I had a good grasp of Django but wanted to get a more complete experience of building a simple but powerful web app so I purchased this book - http://www.amazon.com/Django-Website-Development-Ayman-Houri.... I really learned a lot from this book since not only did it provide me with a better understanding of the Django framework, it also helped me learn how to build all the nice features like tagging, search and integrate other technologies such as JQuery.
Now, I am trying to develop my own app using the book as a guide and I am having a lot of fun with it!