[awwducks]

After reading the first few bits in the "beginner" section, this reminds me of my experience with "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go" by Kageyama Toshiro 7p [0] (Go the game). It's a terrific book where he stresses the fundamentals even if you feel like you're above it. I read the book cover-to-cover many times at different stages of my life as a go player, each time learning something new.

The book starts on ladders, a pretty basic concept that I teach to beginners within 15 minutes or so of learning the rules. [1]

  Still on ladders?  Ridiculous!  Even looking at this page is beneath me.

  Yes, but even if you feel you are being cheated, read on a little further.
  Don't forget the fundamentals.  Our study begins with ladders.

[0]: http://www.gobooks.info/g28.html

[1]: http://senseis.xmp.net/?Ladders

[Zelmor]

What a good book that is! I am reading Kageyama for the third time now, always coming away just a bit stronger.

[srcreigh]

What's "don'"?

[pavlov]

It's a long line of text. HN puts monospace text in a fixed-width container, so you need to scroll right inside the box to see the rest of it.

[dave2000]

Ugh. It's like Slashdot with its interface where you need to hover. How do do you hover on a mobile? I don't visit Slashdot much any more, because most of my surfing is on mobile. And I won't be scrolling little windows of monospaced text left and right, left and right, over and over, any time soon.

[awwducks]

There's a horizontal scroll bar :)

I'm not sure how to format a block quote without it.

Edit: Well, just added newlines. Seems to look ok.

[DanBC]

Don't use leading spaces, just use >

Or do use leading spaces, but insert line breaks. Remember that people on mobile have very short screens.

[nickpsecurity]

Scrollbars are invisible in my mobile browser until I scroll the box. It just looks like a badly-formatted quote. Something to keep in mind if you're a ddveloper.