Thanks a lot for this! looking to give a try in 2018. How do you recommend understanding these tutorials?
Something like: understand a single video concept, do some programming on that concept, read a book(chapter) on that concept and then move on to next video?
This is just a quick reference link for some of the important points mentioned in the book. Skimming them once a month or so, can help me staying focused on targets. Thought this can help others too!
"Watching paint dry in the real world is more pleasing than doing anything on a computer anymore" --and things like these --will be bore after doing it every day of every month. If you don't hate software field, stick with it. "Years ago you used to be able to interact with a computer on your own terms and walk away" -- I think this is still possible, just eat your share and don't try to run all the time with ever changing technologies. I concur with some points of 'wallflower' and try reading 'Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi'. Pls let me know if there is an improvement in your thinking and life (I am interested in understanding the effect. Thank you!)
Hey, thanks for the reply! lynx is good but sometimes the formatting of the web page throws me out of context and there are many parameters to play around. I am looking for a web browser(like firefox) like text structure displayed on the terminal.
Interesting point! Even the author of Hackers and Painters (Paul Graham) has specified Lisp was one of the important factors for their success at viaWeb and gave an edge over competitors. But I was expecting more user friendly (and useful) from this end for higher level languages in last decade or so... But couldn't find any perfect match!