The tutorial that helped your programming the most in 2008

Question

In addition to this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/407448/the-application-that-helped-your-programming-the-most-in-2008

I'd like to bring up a topic which can be very useful for many programmers. Despite language; What is the 2008 years best Programming Tutorial?

Only regulations here are that it's published 2008 and that it's about How to program something specific and/or how to learn programming.

The purpose of this is for a lot of new / old programmers to find new resources for their favorite language or to completely learn a new language by finding a good resource for that.

There is however this thread, but this thread covers more generic tutorials about programming, what I'd like to see is a more in-depth tutorials that covers more than just the edge of the language. So no generic url like "msdn.com"

Answer 1

One tutorial page that helped me out a lot 2008 is the ASP.NET MVC video-tutorials that can be found here. They've toghether with Rob Conerys blog helped me learn ASP.NET MVC.

Answer 2

I started web programming in 2008. Thus the w3schools website was immensely helpful.

For class I needed to learn HTML and CSS. And for my job I needed to learn XSLT.

All in all I have seen w3schools a lot this year.

Answer 3

LPEG is a pattern-matching library for Lua, based on Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs). The author has a video talk here that was quite instructive.

Answer 4

Ryan Bates' screencasts at Railscasts, and the 15-minute Rails blog video.

Answer 5

The most eye-opening tutorial I saw was this one on IoC by Dimecasts.net

http://www.dimecasts.net/Casts/CastDetails/33

But I also have to mention all the great stuff at asp.net/mvc, lots of good tutorials there, and Rob Conery's series (MVC Storefront) is a must-see.

Answer 6

I've had to do some ActionScript, and these tutorials have helped:

http://www.actionscript.org/resources/categories/Tutorials/

Answer 7

Not in specific order * Bjarne Stroustrups web site (Technical Papers, FAQs) * Martin Fowler's Blog * SICP online book

Answer 8

Easy. Something that all beginning Java developers should have in their bookmarks tool-bar.

The Really Big Index : Every single page of the Java tutorial, all rolled up into one easy-to-follow index.