[HN Gopher] Fireship - Learn to Code Faster
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Fireship - Learn to Code Faster
Author : WallyFunk
Score : 132 points
Date : 2022-12-09 19:04 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| 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
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