Hackety Hack — the Coder's Starter Kit

[zridling]

Coders of the world, be fruitful and multiply yourselves! At least that's one idea behind a clever new effort called, Hackety Hack, which holds — among other things — that coding has gotten too damn expensive lately with too little return. So, "let's take things into our own hands and bring hacking to the young folks." Even comes with a cheatsheet.

Hackety Hack was not written in seclusion for my imaginary friends. It was written with the help of fifty budding hackers who I personally mentored. Most had tried to program, but had failed to catch on. Some wanted to teach their kids.

[app103]

I couldn't help but smile. 

Where was something like this 3 years ago? (I could have used it)

This link is being bookmarked for passing along to the curious that drop into my chatroom.

Thanks!

[justice]

Sounds like great stuff, man! But you know, it is so easy?! People might get tired! Being all enthousiastic like that, wow!
But I guess it's still refreshing in the programming language world, better then reading long dry volumes of reference manuals.

[wuwei23]

Where was something like this 3 years ago? (I could have used it)

-app103 (May 01, 2007, 05:03 AM)

3 years ago you should've used why's (poignant) guide to ruby, out of which I'm guessing Hackety Hack evolved

why the lucky stiff has a great style, if you're interested in dynamic langs and Ruby in particular his guide makes an excellent starter.

[Lashiec]

The design is cool! Now the only thing you need to be a true hacker is a "clickety clack" keyboard

[nite_monkey]

Sounds like great stuff, man! But you know, it is so easy?! People might get tired! Being all enthousiastic like that, wow!
But I guess it's still refreshing in the programming language world, better then reading long dry volumes of reference manuals.

-justice (May 01, 2007, 07:15 AM)

Its a good introduction to programing if you have never done it before I guess.

The design is cool! Now the only thing you need to be a true hacker is a "clickety clack" keyboard

-Lashiec (May 16, 2007, 05:06 AM)

I need to master this HH stuff, and then get a keyboard that each time you push a button it would say Hackety Hack, that would be a sweet key board.

[cthorpe]

I keep getting errors:



The Hackety Hack forums indicate that they are aware of the problem.  Unfortunately, in my case, I can't continue using the program, as every time I click Ignore, the error pops back up.

Carl Thorpe

[nite_monkey]

I get that error all the time. it is so anoying.