Reading

I’ve sprinkled in very valuable reading bits all throughout the lesson. Over here I put them in one place for your reference. I added a couple more that I like.

Book

Automate the boring stuff with python this book isn’t 100% what I’m doing but has largely the same approach that I like. It starts of giving the basics of python really quickly and then jumping into interesting automation tasks that have a lot of real life application. I highly highly suggest you do this one, even partially.

Blogs and essays

• The start of learn python the hard way this book has some very solid advice on how you should learn as a beginner when working through resources.

• Hackers and painters - perhaps my favourite of all time which relates a lot of parts of programming with the act of creative processes and art. It’s a very interesting view that you should definitely read.

• What you wish you would have known

• Undergraduation

• Great post on the true nature of talent

• Why procrastinators procrastinate and part 2 How to beat procrastination

• short one explaining an interesting effect of Python vs Java

• The road to superintelligence

Videos

• Humans need not apply on automation and the future of tech.

• The Rise of the Machines – Why Automation is Different this Time

• You can learn anything

• Not Everyone Should Code

Comics

People dismiss comics but they also contain a lot of wisdom and important lessons you need on a lifetime of being a programming.

• Ira glass advice for beginneers

• Make gifts for people

• An astronaunts advice

Other

• Me on online courses (Control+F to find me)