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Re: Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code

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Post by helen842000 »

justjimmy wrote: post #30

Still waiting for a code teaching site that actually explains how everything fits together. What's HTML used for? What's CSS? What's the bigger picture? What's the difference between java and javascript? Why are there so many languages. What are all these terms you are spitting out? Can we get some real world analogies so we can grasp some concepts? But every single lesson from all these startups starts with type 'th…

I agree with this. I think some attention needs to be paid into teaching people how to set up their environment outside of the browser.

I mean it doesn't sound too good if you say, 'oh I've learned to use Python' and someone asks you to show them & you have to show them inside of the learnstreet tutorial as you don't know any other way.

I do think it's great people are investing time and effort into this area but it just needs some context so that people can actually walk away with skills from it.

Re: Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code

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Post by AurSaraf »

lutusp wrote: post #48
intellegacy wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get it. It's just that I'm not a beginning programmer. I mean, unless the site is only for novices with zero programming skill, you're requiring all intermediate programmers to relearn stuff they've already mastered. Also, I wanted to browse around the lessons in order to evaluate the quality of the site so that I could decide whether to recommend the site to non-programmer friends.

> It's just that I'm not a beginning programmer. That should have been the first thing you said. :) But such tutorials are obviously for rank beginners, experienced programmers don't use these kinds of sites. Unless it's a dramatic jump, like from COBOL to Haskell, to learn a new language they go straight to the language's documentation: Python 2: http://docs.python.org/ Python 3: http://docs.python.org/py3k/

I'm mentoring a few people learning Python, and I wanted to quickly evaluate LearnStreet and decide whether to recommend it.

With Codecademy I could do that, here I cannot. So Codecademy it is.

Skipping is a really important feature for those who you hope would promote your service for you :-)

Re: Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code

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Post by aprasad »

AurSaraf wrote: post #63
lutusp wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's just that I'm not a beginning programmer. That should have been the first thing you said. :) But such tutorials are obviously for rank beginners, experienced programmers don't use these kinds of sites. Unless it's a dramatic jump, like from COBOL to Haskell, to learn a new language they go straight to the language's documentation: Python 2: http://docs.python.org/ Python 3: http://docs.python.org/py3k/

I'm mentoring a few people learning Python, and I wanted to quickly evaluate LearnStreet and decide whether to recommend it. With Codecademy I could do that, here I cannot. So Codecademy it is. Skipping is a really important feature for those who you hope would promote your service for you :-)

We will be adding this very soon.
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