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Notes from Dane Dolph on building cracked.guide and following it.
- Why I Built cracked.guide
Every programmer has Crafting Interpreters and Knuth on a someday list. Why I put dates on them, made the site check the work, and kept it free.
- The cracked.guide Path, Explained Phase by Phase
What happens in each of the 145 weeks of cracked.guide: two interpreters, five volumes of Knuth, NeetCode, ten games, and how pace and catch-up work.
- What 5,500 Knuth Exercises Look Like, Volume by Volume
How many exercises are in TAOCP Volumes 1 to 4B, how hard they are, how many Knuth recommends, and which ones the cracked.guide path picks for you.
- Verify Your Interpreter with the Lox Test Suite in GitHub Actions
How cracked.guide runs the official Crafting Interpreters test suite on your jlox and clox with GitHub Actions on every push, with no secrets to set up.
- Playing Zachtronics as Homework: Why the Path Has a Play Track
Why cracked.guide schedules ten programming games next to Knuth and Crafting Interpreters, what each checkpoint asks, and how to keep them in their lane.