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Setup a box

• grab your computer, make it yours
• create a GitHub account
• create a Meetup account
• set up xcode for iOS development
• set up git and xcode command line tools
• set up sublime for non-iOS development

Start learning

join meetups

HTML & CSS:

• HTML meetup
• meetup about the next version of CSS

iOS:

• calendar for iOS Development SF meetup
• calendar for iOS Planet meetup

javascript:

• JS meetup calendar

ruby / rails:

• RailsBridge workshop on SF Ruby meetup

python:

• Silicon Valley Python meetup group
• SF Python meetup group

start tutorials

HTML & CSS:

• RailsBridge Frontend Curriculum (and this is one I help maintain, so let me know what's easy and hard to understand about this one.)

iOS:

• Intro to Objective-C
• Shiney's XCode Screencast
• Sanford's Objective-C class
• Apple's Getting Started Roadmap
• Apple's Guide to Your First App
• Apple's Objective-C Introduction

javascript:

• Getting Started in Javacript by Mozilla

ruby / rails:

• Learn Ruby the Hard Way
• _why's Poignant Guide to Ruby

python:

• Learn Python the Hard Way

read books

Computer Science:

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, the introductory computer science text used at MIT

HTML & CSS:

• HTML and CSS by Jon Duckett: an accessible and readable book, only available in paperback.
• Core HTML Canvas , focusing on graphics, animation and game development

iOS:

• Programming Objective C on amazon
• iOS Programming Ranch Guide on amazon

javascript:

• Javascript the Good Parts on amazon

ruby / rails:

• Chris Pine's Learn to Program on amazon
• The Well Grounded Rubyist on amazon
• Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby on amazon

python:

• The Quick Python Book on amazon

related resources

• command line tools tutorial
• the git book a reference for version control
• Try Git is a way to learn git as a series of games or challenges, which is probably more fun than a book.
• rubular for regular expressions in ruby