I am hoping to become a fairly nimble noob with jQuery (and understand the javascript logic that goes with it) in about 3 weeks. What is the smartest way forward?
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posted by OlivesAndTurkishCoffee
on May 7, 2013 -
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I am teaching myself how to program. But there seems to be a big gap between intro courses/resources (CodeCademy, O'Reilly books, Learn X the Hard Way) and Actually Doing Things. Help me figure out a road plan?
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posted by Phire
on May 6, 2013 -
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StatFilter: Would anybody be able to recommend a good introduction to the statistical computing language "R" that a reasonably quantitatively-adept psychologist might be able to work through on his own? Something like a step-by-step book or textbook with exercises would be great to help me become more fluent in R. (My colleagues at work who use R are primarily computer scientists who either first learned MatLab or are brilliant autodidacts when it comes to learning different scripting languages, and thus don't have any suggestions; Googling has mostly proferred a somewhat obscurely structured guide from the R authors and lots of invocations to just learn on my own, somehow...). I've become familiar with how to do many individually useful tasks in data structuring and analysis, but I feel a bit like a very high-functioning tourist who has learned a lot of phrases to get around but who would be lost and mugged in an alleyway if I strayed off the beaten path.
posted by Keter
on Feb 7, 2013 -
16 answers
Looking for books and articles on programming, design patterns, information architecture, and whatever else. Clear information on Things To Do and Things To Avoid, with a smattering of theory and opinion, would be great.
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posted by jsturgill
on Aug 23, 2011 -
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What is the most reasonable way to try and autodidact your way into reading French well and speaking it passably?
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posted by jsturgill
on Jul 9, 2011 -
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Looking for general advice, tips, personal anecdotes, etc from autodidacts (or anyone else) about learning a complex craft/set of skills
on your own. (details on the particular discipline inside)
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posted by Griffinlb
on Dec 6, 2010 -
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My superpower is the ability to rapidly attain competency in skills and processes with an absolute minimum of instruction or oversight, with an additional secondary power of optimizing processes. My kryptonite is doing the same thing twice. For what careers might I be perfect?
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posted by Netzapper
on Jul 17, 2009 -
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LanguageFilter: Having a little bit of a few languages under my belt, I'd like to add more/get better at the ones I know.
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posted by ikahime
on Sep 17, 2008 -
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What is the best way one could learn the basics of electrical and mechanical engineering?
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posted by saraswati
on May 11, 2007 -
21 answers
Kendall Hailey wrote a
delightful book and was a talented stage actor in Pasadena a few years later. It surprises me immensely that she seems to have done no writing or acting since then (or at least none that I can find out about). Anybody know what she's been up to?
posted by bac
on Apr 28, 2005 -
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