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Beyond Wikipedia, what are some of your favorite online learning resources? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From time to time I find a dive into the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy useful for refreshing my memory on some ideas and concepts.

Also the MDN Learning Area is really useful for getting a handle on some web development details.

What others are you fond of, whether esoteric or exoteric*?

one of my other favorites is any sort of thesaurus that provides antonyms, 'cause some antonyms just aren't as commonly used!

🤞 this federates properly this time (sorry if the old post eventually emerges, I initially posted this shortly after the Lemmy update kinda threw a wrench in things across instances)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm a software engineer, for stuff that are related to library/programming languages, I usually try to look at the official documentation first. Some of the best documentation pages IMO are: SQLite, PostgreSQL, and Rust book. MDN is good too, like you said. Looking at the source code helps too, especially the test files. I currently write lots of Go (programming language) code, and IMO their test files are so good, and you can learn how some functions behave or how to use it.

Other than that, I actually starting to learn to draw too, and for that I, so far, use drawabox. I think it's a good starter for learning to draw--as it gives you the most fundemental stuff when drawing. (technically not online, rather a book, but just before opening this thread I found this resource for learning drawing perspective: https://ia801206.us.archive.org/34/items/PerspectiveMadeEasy/Norling%20-%20Perspective%20Made%20Easy.pdf)

I also wanted to start playing guitar, but haven't got the money to buy one, but from what I hear Justin Guitar is a good free online resource. Haven't used it though