Yaaay, the second post of Hey, I Found These! is up! In this episode you will find technical and also non-technical stuff. Hope you find something useful that interests you. Let’s start!

  • While I was digging at hackernews like I always do, I came up to this article called How to Learn Efficiently which emphasizes on the concept of interleaved study. After reading that, I visited the comment section of the thread and saw that one the users was suggesting an online course called Learning How to Learn. Lucky me! The course is still ongoing and just at week 3. I completed the first week right away and learned a lot. The thing that got me at the first week was that sleeping is so much important for the sake of healthy learning process. So it is strongly recommended if you want to learn how the brain works.

  • Speaking of online courses, Class Central is a great source for them. You can see which courses are starting soon and review of the students who took the course previously.

  • Pocket shared a categorized list of articles that is most-read by its users. Here is the list of the articles in the Programming category.

  • With the advice of a friend, I bought The Little Schemer to begin learning functional programming. The book is amazing so far. The structure of the book based on questions and answers. It is an unusual tecnique to form a book but definitely a good way to learn.

  • Stephen Diehl, a haskell enthusiast, is writing a tutorial on building a simple functional programming language from first principles. The first eight chapter is done and according to his plan, the tutorial will be entirely finished at the end of August.

  • As you can tell, I got into functional programming, very different paradigm for someone with imperative paradigm background. If you don’t anything about it and at want to at least have an idea you can read Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming by Smashing Magazine.

  • I found a site, Assembly whose purpose is connecting people who has ideas and people who wants to contribute projects. Every task has its own reward and the person who completed the task gets the reward. If the product you contributed starts to earn money, you also earn money based on those reward points.

  • This episode’s Quora question is What are the best-kept secrets of great programmers?

  • An awesome podcast series called Talking Machines is started by Katherine Gorman (journalist) and Ryan Adams (Harvard professor). They’re posting new episodes biweekly. A nice way to spend time on morning commutes, I think.

  • If you want to read more, take the advice from Austin Kleon.

I planned to continue this blog series by writing a blog post for every week. But sometimes, (whining!) it can be hard to sit down and organize the post. That’s why there might be some long term delays. Anyway, have a good one!