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RafaelKnuth
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Best resource to learn writing code in M language for beginners ?

I've just read "Rookie to Rockstar" and "M is for (Data) Monkey" which are both great resources to learn using M via the UI. However, I would like to learn to write code in M from scratch, and I was wondering if there are resources out there that would provide that service - very much like one would learn Python or Ruby from scratch on Codecademy, Treehouse or Code.org (asuming limited, if any, prior coding experience).

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Greg_Deckler
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One of your best resources is here:

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt270258.aspx

 

Also, I have a number of blog articles that do some interesting things with M in a kind of fun way:

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fun-graphing-power-bi-part-sqrtpowersqrt82-deckler-microsoft-mvp-/

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fun-graphing-power-bi-part-3i-greg-deckler-microsoft-mvp-

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Using-Recursion-to-Solve-Hex-to-Decimal-Conversion/b...

 

 



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Greg_Deckler
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One of your best resources is here:

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt270258.aspx

 

Also, I have a number of blog articles that do some interesting things with M in a kind of fun way:

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fun-graphing-power-bi-part-sqrtpowersqrt82-deckler-microsoft-mvp-/

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fun-graphing-power-bi-part-3i-greg-deckler-microsoft-mvp-

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Using-Recursion-to-Solve-Hex-to-Decimal-Conversion/b...

 

 



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DAX is easy, CALCULATE makes DAX hard...

cool, thanks for sharing!

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