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Before flights with patchy/no wifi, I often download a long, single-page tutorial. This is perfect. Curious if anyone knows of any for other languages/tech (e.g. beyond SQL).



If not familiar: https://learnxinyminutes.com/


Funny on that one, there is so much but not SQLite :-)


Zig docs are all one page:

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/


Wow - gave me a goofy smile.

Also cool 'Zig Zen': https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#toc-Zen


Shameless Plug:

- Not single page _per se_ but I have plenty of Jupyter Notebook based tutorials here: https://github.com/DataForScience/

Self contained with slide decks and notebooks.


These are great, thanks!


Got any other favorite tutorials you've used for this kind of flight?


I made a couple of my own (they're incredibly scrappy, probably won't make sense to anyone but me):

- Ruby: https://github.com/stevecondylios/ruby-learning-resources/bl...

- Rails: https://github.com/stevecondylios/ruby-learning-resources/bl...

But this vim cheatsheet was great:

- https://vim.rtorr.com/

A failed attempt was to load (very) many (e.g. about 100) pages of javascript lessons from w3schools before the plane took off, but for some reason the pages tried to refresh during the flight and I lost them all, so that was a massive waste of time (opening them all before the flight took about 20 minutes).


Thanks! Bummer about the js course


https://devdocs.io


each one of Peter Norvig's etudes at https://github.com/norvig/pytudes

from the sudoku solver http://norvig.com/sudoku.html to things like "NPL in python" https://colab.research.google.com/github/norvig/pytudes/blob...

...

https://cryptopals.com/ (a remake of the Matasano crypto challenges) understand crypto by actually building and then subsequently breaking it (it's not strictly single-page, but wget can mirror it nicely)


Rust's tutorial isn't single page but it comes with the compiler.

Just run `rustup docs --book` after installing rustup




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