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lidangzzz/How-to-run
立党零基础转码笔记
A README-only roadmap in Chinese for people switching careers into software engineering from zero background — a sequenced list of free/paid courses (Python, data structures, React, Java/Spring, PostgreSQL), interview prep, and grad-school options, written by a Twitch/Twitter personality known for this transition story. It's for Chinese-speaking career switchers, not developers looking for code.
The curriculum is actually sequenced (Python basics before DSA before frameworks) rather than a flat link dump, which is rarer than it sounds in this genre. It opens with a concrete self-assessment gate — 11 specific LeetCode problems — so a reader can tell in a weekend whether this path is realistic for them instead of finding out six months in. Most links point to primary sources (official Coursera specializations from UMich/UCSD/Duke, MDN, the React and TypeScript docs) rather than reseller or course-aggregator sites.
This isn't code — it's a single README of external links, so the TypeScript tag and 5,957 stars are misleading about what you're actually getting; the repo's only real code is an unrelated CodeNavyDAO Solidity/Hardhat subdirectory that has nothing to do with the stated subject. Everything is in Chinese with no English version, so the computer-science/python topic tags overstate its reach for anyone who doesn't read Chinese. No commits since May 2024, and the whole value of the repo is live external URLs (course prices, enrollment links, program costs) — nothing here suggests they're checked for rot. The advice is delivered as fact rather than opinion ('only recommend Java for backend', steering hard toward specific paid Master's programs costing $9k–$70k) with no disclosure of whether any of those recommendations are compensated.