I haven't had time to maintain it in a white but 
[Exercism](http://exercism.io), the free and open-source language-learning 
platform, has the beginnings of a Factor language track, which is designed to 
use the Exercism model to help people learn Factor:

http://exercism.io/languages/factor/about

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On January 19, 2018 4:39 PM, Andrew McDowell <andyji...@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I’ve worked through Your First Program and gotten exposure to a few 
> concepts (and had fun!). It would be nice if there were a series of such 
> hands on tutorials leading me through further steps in my programming 
> education and factor education. I don’t suppose that is the case though. I 
> will continue as best I can, stumbling and experimenting, and I”ll make 
> progress, but is there anything available anywhere that provides a more 
> structured path?
> Just an example to show that despite the First Program tutorial I am still 
> fundamentally ignorant:
> After playing with my newly built ‘palindrome?’ program, I began getting call 
> stack overflow errors. Ok, but I am flat-footed at this point. What’s the 
> call stack? What an overflow? Is my code causing the overflow? How, when it 
> was just working a moment since and suddenly produced overflow errors? I’m 
> sure the answer is simple and obvious to someone with just a little more 
> experience, but what it shows me is that I’m really stumbling in the dark 
> from this point. There’s obviously so much more of a very fundamental nature 
> that I need to grasp before I even think about more intermediate concepts, 
> let alone advanced. Yet I could not even find an explanation of the stack 
> overflow error and how to fix what caused it. I’ll mess around and search 
> around and figure it out eventually, but there must be a more systematic way.
> How do I proceed from here in learning factor? And programming?
> Andy
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