Question

I’m a beginner when it comes to programming, and I have the nasty habit of googling anything I want to do, or don’t understand. When I have to work offline it’s of course really hard for me.

I’m trying to make a handbook out of any good cheat-sheet and refcards I’ve found.

So far I have a Vi cheat sheet, some docs from Addedbytes and a few about standard OS commands.

The question is:
What documents are absolutely essential to avoid being useless while offline. (The more synthetic, the better)

Answer 1

Unless you want to lug around a whole binder of cheat-sheets (which then poses other problmes such as searching for the info), i’d recommend a usb key with the cheat-sheets regarding

• the OS you’re working on
• the language you’ll be working with
• the technologies you’ll be building upon

If you really insist on being exhaustive, a site like http://www.cheat-sheets.org/ may help you go on a cheat-sheet splurge, and you may want to have a look at other answers on stackoverflow