Primer Series
Fast, applied fluency across languages, tools, and architectural patterns.
Primers help you become productive quickly while building the mental model needed to grow your expertise over time.
Each primer can be read in under an hour and applied immediately. They prioritize practical knowledge over exhaustive coverage, focusing on what you need to get productive quickly while providing authoritative references for deeper exploration. Unlike tutorials that walk you through step-by-step exercises or reference manuals that exhaustively document every feature, primers occupy a sweet spot:
Practical orientation:
You learn the philosophy, idioms, and tooling needed for real work.
Structural consistency:
All primers follow family-specific templates, making navigation predictable.
Trade-off awareness:
Primers acknowledge limitations and appropriate use cases, not just strengths.
Authoritative grounding:
Content draws from official documentation, canonical books, and community standards.
Entry-level friendly:
Assumes familiarity with programming concepts but not the specific technology.
Each primer can be read in under an hour and applied immediately. They prioritize practical knowledge over exhaustive coverage, focusing on what you need to get productive quickly while providing authoritative references for deeper exploration. Unlike tutorials that walk you through step-by-step exercises or reference manuals that exhaustively document every feature, primers occupy a sweet spot:
Practical orientation:
You learn the philosophy, idioms, and tooling needed for real work.
Structural consistency:
All primers follow family-specific templates, making navigation predictable.
Trade-off awareness:
Primers acknowledge limitations and appropriate use cases, not just strengths.
Authoritative grounding:
Content draws from official documentation, canonical books, and community standards.
Entry-level friendly:
Assumes familiarity with programming concepts but not the specific technology.
Markdown Primer
Lightweight markup for readable, version-controllable documentation
PlantUML Primer
Text-based diagramming for version-controlled architecture documentation
Perl Primer
There's More Than One Way To Do It (TIMTOWTDI)
