[HN Gopher] Fireship - Learn to Code Faster ___________________________________________________________________ Fireship - Learn to Code Faster Author : WallyFunk Score : 132 points Date : 2022-12-09 19:04 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (fireship.io) (TXT) w3m dump (fireship.io) | ilrwbwrkhv wrote: | The best hackers I know are all super fast. That is the one | quality that is common. They can create huge amounts of business | value in a very short time by using fewer but better | abstractions. | peter_d_sherman wrote: | They are also super terse! | | They do the _most_ amount of work -- with the _least_ amount of | code! | | (Compare to long-winded political speeches where a lot is said | -- but very little is actually accomplished! <g>) | ilrwbwrkhv wrote: | Correct | cybrox wrote: | I haven't used the Fireship site or any of their courses but I do | really enjoy their YouTube channel. Especially the XYZ in 100s is | a nice bite-sized introduction to some things you might have | never heard of. https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship | mrtksn wrote: | Their videos are often the best introduction to frameworks, | technologies or concepts. I'm consistently surprised how well | that channel manages to pack quite technical topics. | baron816 wrote: | +1 for the YouTube channel. The Code Report is a fun watch as | well. | ConradKilroy wrote: | I concur, their yt channel of 100s video series is succinct. | calny wrote: | 100% agree about the YouTube Channel. It's especially useful | for being a self-taught programmer trying to decide between | frameworks, other development options, etc. Also I just watched | their video from a couple days ago, "Things are gonna get weird | in 2023" about how tech trends will play out next year, and | it's both on point and hilarious. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_TEnpqHXE | troebr wrote: | I read this as "Learn to <code faster>", instead of "<Learn to | code> faster". Heck yeah I want to code faster! | w-m wrote: | Me too, must be the advent of code leaderboard envy! I'm | reading the puzzle text, implementing a nice little solution, | debugging it a little bit, and after a few tries get the | correct result. Entering the result, happy that it has worked, | and realizing, that there were 4000 people faster than me | again. | | It does not bother me too much, but it is humbling. And I guess | speed puzzle solving is a skill that can be trained like any | other, so given the context I too thought, that these a website | to learn exactly that. | steve76 wrote: | 147 wrote: | Me too! I thought there was a ship that'll burn down if you | don't code fast enough. The video thumbnail showing "100 | seconds" made me think there was a timer. | KMag wrote: | Yea, I was thinking some kind of spaceship RPG where you'd | need to quickly code up short programs to deal with various | surprise situations. | | "Quick, generate a prioritized list of polar coordinate | firing directions based on this CSV of enemy ships in | cartesian coordinates and their offensive strengths" | | Edit: Chatting on AIM was how I finally learned to touch-type | properly. It's funny how a small amount of urgency really | improves the value of certain exercises. | DylanSp wrote: | This might go well with some theming based on A Fire Upon | the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, given how Vinge | describes programming and automation as critical to | operating spacecraft in those books. | chrisweekly wrote: | Those were fun reads! | Sakos wrote: | Really? I was critical of it because the bottleneck is almost | never coding speed for me. xD | KMag wrote: | There are broadly two aspects to my last couple of roles: | infrastructure development and operational support. My infra | development isn't speed-limited, but operational support | involves a lot of quick back-of-the-envelope estimates of | large datasets and/or one-off automation many invocations of | commandline tools. | | My infrastructure work is in C++ and Python, whereas I most | often reach for jq, awk, tr, sort, uniq, comm, etc. for | operational support tasks. | omarhaneef wrote: | Same. | | 1. Ask chatgpt to write the code | | 2. Debug the obvious errors | | 3. Ask stack overflow to find the non-obvious errors | | 4. Repeat | | You accidentally become a better programmer like the old days | when people would learn by typing in listings from compute. | bitwize wrote: | One word, my dude: Lisp. | RobTonino wrote: | Learned a lot from him in my super early days. Sometimes can | teach whole topics, others it can give you the right amount of | knowledge to search it and study it your self. Keep going Jeff | kecupochren wrote: | The landing page says every course starts free but it's only | intro "overview" videos I can watch. None of the actual content | can be seen before paying. | HiroProtagonist wrote: | I had the same experience. I was disappointed. | digitallyfree wrote: | They also talk about how their "project-based" learning is | better than video learning, but it doesn't provide any examples | of that. All I can see without registering are sample video | lessons. Obviously they don't need to provide everything for | free but they do need to prove to potential customers that | their approach is better. | sosodev wrote: | "You can't learn to code by watching videos" -- this is 100% | false | | "I create short highly-focused videos" -- a bit contradictory, | no? Sure it's "project based" but so are many other free courses | humanistbot wrote: | I think you can't learn to code *just* by watching videos. | Videos can be a start, but you need practice. You can't learn | to be a carpenter by watching videos either, but videos can be | a great way to get started. | hr0m wrote: | I have nothing to do with web development but the YouTube channel | fireship is great. Funny and informative. | kleiba wrote: | So, I click on "start here", get to three pages of promises of | greatness and then - while I still don't have a clue what this | thing _really_ is - I get asked to sign up. | | Err, no, thank you. | 63 wrote: | $30 /month feels like a lot to me. It reminds me of leetcode | where I would actually consider paying for the service but the | price is just so high I can't justify it for how little time I | would spend with it. Maybe the price makes sense if you're going | through every course on the site, but I'm really only interested | in one or two so it just doesn't make sense for me. I'll just | learn from other sources. | eachro wrote: | Leetcode's problem is that the free option is already really | good. The premium version's offering just isn't compelling. | Official solutions while nice are often not as helpful as the | community submitted solutions. Getting access to more interview | questions also isn't a selling point given how many questions | are already on the site for free. | epolanski wrote: | Those prices are ridiculous but I guess they have optimized it | and figured it's the best option. | digianarchist wrote: | You think $30 a month is ridiculous? | ChuckNorris89 wrote: | The worth and value of something is all relative to every | each person. | epolanski wrote: | Yes. | mistercheph wrote: | -Digianarchist | xenospn wrote: | People go to leetcode when they're preparing for interviews, | but the site has no long term retention IMHO. | 999900000999 wrote: | 30$ a month is a ton to spend compared to something free like the | Odin project. | | https://www.theodinproject.com/ | | If you charged 10$ for it I would off already signed up. I | actually want to learn front end React ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-09 23:00 UTC)