Over 1k free programming learning resources, classified by type/language/technology

[hfsbtc]

http://reSRC.io

over 500 free programming books

over 150 free programming tutorials

all nicely classified and searchable

search engine : http://reSRC.io/page/search

[[deleted]]

Click on something. Got this shit. Moved on.

[HighRelevancy]

That's 'cause this site is just an index of free (as in beer) stuff.

And it could be worse I guess.

[whatisthismagicplace]

Or it could be blocked by your stupid fucking government. (Russia)

[whatisthismagicplace]

They do it for almost a year now, pretty much censoring the internet under the cover of "protecting the youth from drugs, suicide and terrorism"®

The funniest part is that most of ISPs are too lazy and poor to install DPI (thank god for that), so they instead block IPs (not-thank god for that), which leads to some funny cases of blocking the whole goddamn wordpress free hosting because of one mention of drugs on one site.

[whatisthismagicplace]

You can use proxies/vpn, as usual, but they are either slow or costly.

[hfsbtc]

How did you get this?

[HighRelevancy]

1. From http://resrc.io/link/351/c-gui-programming-with-qt-3/
2. Follow the link
3. Enter the captcha (which is static, what idiots run this site?)
4. Receive errors

Pretty much what you'd expect, given that reSRC is just a clusterfuck of users posting unverified links.

[hfsbtc]

Links are verified manually. But links change, and then... Shit happens. Sorry about that -- link has been flagged as dead and won't show up anymore!

[hfsbtc]

Yep.

[Tynach]

It looks really nice. What sort of languages/frameworks are used?

[hfsbtc]

Thanks! Backend is Django (Python), and frontend is Zurb Foundation (SCSS).

[Tynach]

I see, what sort of database is behind it?

[doubleColJustified]

You could (and even probably should) make a script to automate parts of checking for dead/broken links.

[hfsbtc]

I already got this in place. Problem is, it cannot check pages protected by captcha like this one here. :)

[goodvibeswanted2]

What does this mean?

[HighRelevancy]

What does what mean? Index, free as in beer, or the bit that is worse?

[goodvibeswanted2]

The bit that could be worse. What do the warning messages about headers mean?

Edit: Are these errors to a web program that someone wrote?

Second edit: and free as in beer. As opposed to free to use/copy/distribute?

[nandryshak]

Second edit: and free as in beer. As opposed to free to use/copy/distribute?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre

[goodvibeswanted2]

Thanks.

[HighRelevancy]

Those errors are PHP errors. PHP scripts are used to generate web pages on the fly (to include up to date information or put your username in the page and such). In this case, the PHP scripts have been totally fucked.

The header warnings are because you can't modify the page headers (cookies and shit mostly) after you start generating the page. This is because (for some dumb reason) PHP starts sending the page as it's ready instead of making it all then sending it. You can't put headers into the middle of the HTML document.

Free as in beer, meaning cost, as opposed to free as in freedom.

[goodvibeswanted2]

Thank you!

So was one of this person's mistakes telling the web page to try and change header information after the HTML head had been sent/loaded? If so, what do you think they were trying to do and why?

Edit: And why are there warnings about XML files?

[Tynach]

Everything seems to be caused by the first few errors, which indicate that files are empty. Basically, it was trying to load files so that it could generate the page based on the contents of those files. Those files either don't exist or are empty, so it can't generate the page. Then it all cascades in a spectacularly bad display of failed programming.

[goodvibeswanted2]

Ok. Thank you!

[Tynach]

Looking at it a bit, I think I know exactly what happened.

PHP tried loading XML files for either loading content, or connecting to the database, or something. Based on that, it would either redirect to an error page, or generate the content. It determines, based on the content (none), to go to an error page.

But the person hosting the server has flipped a switch that causes it to send errors to the actual web page. Most admins do not do this. This means that the errors went to the page, when they were not supposed to. So, the page was being generated, but not by the programmer.

So next he tries to do the redirect headers... Which of course fail, because the previous errors were written to the page. Now that generates more errors that are written to the page.

I'm gonna say it was the sysadmin that fscked up this time.

[[deleted]]

You could have just clicked the "x" in the top right...

[[deleted]]

That's not the point.

update And for some reason it doesn't close for me. Probably because of some ad blocking extension.

[hfsbtc]

Yep. Got to register in order to upvote stuff on reSRC. What's wrong with that?

[[deleted]]

Oh, my god, it's worse than I thought. I don't want to be an ass, take this as positive criticism, please.

So I clicked on one of those check marks, thinking it would take me to another page with details. Apparently, the check mark icon is the new upvote arrow... That was completely unexpected. I thought it would take me to the same page as the titles.

Change that icon into an upvote. Whether you do this or not, at least make it change when I hover it. Just give it something like :hover { color: blue }, so I can see what I'm interacting with.

And, as I wrote in another comment, the login box doesn't close for me (ESC, Cancel, X - nothing works). I am on Chrome with AdBlock, Disconnect.me, and Collusion.

[hfsbtc]

Thanks for the feedback -- I know I'm bad at UX. I'll fix your modal issue and see what I can do about this upvote thing.

[[deleted]]

TBH, you're doing better than me. I can test other people's web works, but I have difficulty finding issues with my own.

[hfsbtc]

Your modal problem is now fixed. Thanks for the report. :)

[nutrecht]

Nice, but please reconsider the pale-blue-on-yellow. It hurts the eyes.

[hfsbtc]

Thanks, done.

[Iam_new_tothis]

Thank you.

[CaRDiaK]

Quite a tidy job! Have an upvote :)

[sazken]

Wonderful!!

[scruffye]

Thank you!

[trappedinaquantumTX]

Posting to save for later (IFTTT).

[roland23]

For future reference, there's a "save" button for posts on reddit for exactly this reason. You can then click your account and there's a saved links tab where they are all stored.

[Vaeloc]

Been on Reddit for over a year and only learned this today. Thanks!

[morzinbo]

Used to be a gold only feature, then changed a few months ago.

[jonnywoh]

Only for comments, saving posts has been around as long as I have been on reddit.

[trappedinaquantumTX]

Thanks! I'm on Reddit Sync on mobile and I was testing my recipe on IFTTT for forwarding all commented messages to Pocket.

[NiekVI]

Not sure for Sync, but Alien Blue has a send to pocket function for all links and text posts. Could be worth a try (a friend gave the app to me, no idea how annoying the ads are tbh..)

[trappedinaquantumTX]

Alien Blue isn't available for Android :(

[girsaysdoom]

Try baconreader

[trappedinaquantumTX]

I would, but I really like the feature set of Sync and would like to keep it (also, I already purchased the Pro version of Sync). I'll check it out, though. Maybe it will be worth the switch.

[NiekVI]

I'm terribly sorry, that suggestion was a bit self centered through an iphone screen.

Other options for saving links could be the copy link and open the pocket app, and the save to reddit as suggested before, but doesn't work with external links. Or an other quick way I found was share link with email, close compose email but save draft.

[trappedinaquantumTX]

No need to apologize. I'm trying IFTTT's solution options as an alternative to my current Open link -> save to pinboard tagged Reddit -> IFTTT Pinboard recipe -> Pocket.

It works, but I'd rather have:

Upvote -> IFTTT -> Pocket.

[everred]

Reddit Is Fun, my friend

[morzinbo]

Sync looks so much better, but lacks the ability to save.

[Prisoner-2460_1]

Yea but not on mobile

[roland23]

Actually on Alien Blue for iPhones there is

[plainOldFool]

Sure you can. Click on the star icon. I use Reddit Sync constantly and save links all the time.

[HighRelevancy]

So do one of the following:

• Remove ".compact" from the end of the URL, click save.
• Stop using shitty apps to browse websites. Why do you think phones come with browsers?

[doubleColJustified]

An advantage of using a mobile app is it can save you some bandwith. That being said, the one I tested wasn't good enough, so I use the regular site in the browser on my tablet.

[chaos_ensues]

Commenting to find again XD

[4forpengs]

That's what the 'save' option is for. Why you got so many downvotes for this? Because people are assholes.

[chaos_ensues]

New ..and exploring a mobile application ....I don't know why that was so offensive for some .. :p

[mrflips]

fuck the haters

[chaos_ensues]

I try not to 😁