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My co-founder taught herself web development using online courses and resources. This “Learning Path” outlines the resources she found most helpful, and lays them out in a sequence that a beginner should be able to follow. We realize this is a curriculum, not the best curriculum. We'd love your feedback on whether this is useful, and what we might change or add. Also if you’re so inclined, we’d love feedback on our p…
Devops is something not included by majority of web dev classes. Yet it is not ignorable in this profession. Do include something on that.
Yes, even if it's just the basics. You have to structure your stuff good, so most of it can be automated. Doing this later can be a real PITA.
Are you planning on adding a feature like this?
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Dan Grossman's Programming Languages class on Coursera includes a good treatment of OOP in the later weeks. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
To be honest, I pretty much lost interest in OOP. I found the ML/Racket parts of the course much more interesting (and less confusing) - even though I barely knew any FP and had actually studied some OOP. Perhaps I was biased, either against OOP or Ruby, which was used to teach it. Hmm...
I wish more subjects/professions were accessible like this.
We're working on it! Next up: Data analysis. Which ones would you like to see?
As a theoretical, how about medicine, pharmacology, every flavour of engineering, fine art, music, architecture.
Coding, graphic design seem to have a few things going for them that make them a very natural fit for self learning online. Part of it is not needing much outside of a laptop and an internet connection, but math needs even less and you find far fewer autodidact mathematicians.
I suspect that not needing a curriculum is actually a part of it. I don't dispute that having a curriculum available to you can be useful and that following a curriculum will get you from start to finish will probably give you a relatively efficient, high success rate path. But, I think that the more self contained and small an effective quanta of learning is, the more suited it is to self learning.
My co-founder taught herself web development using online courses and resources. This “Learning Path” outlines the resources she found most helpful, and lays them out in a sequence that a beginner should be able to follow. We realize this is a curriculum, not the best curriculum. We'd love your feedback on whether this is useful, and what we might change or add. Also if you’re so inclined, we’d love feedback on our p…
For me the biggest hurdle by far is deployment. It's honestly impossible to describe how much of a gulf there is between those who see it as a completely trivial matter and to those who don't know what's going on.
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I enjoyed that course a lot; I took it in its first run soon after I started teaching myself programming. My only complaint with the course was that, for me anyway, it left a lot of mystery in terms of answering how it's all actually working. There were a lot of pieces, such as Django boilerplate code and using Google App Engine, where they showed you how to use them in a specific manner, but never really explained h…
Steve, the Udacity instructor, here. I actually deliberately didn't use Django specifically because it's so complicated for beginners (and for pros, IMHO). I was trying to avoid magic. Webapp2, which is the web framework GAE users, and what we used in the course, is about as simple as you can get without starting from scratch.
Yes I agree, if you're wanting to learn web development, then rails is the way to go, there's more resources for current problems and fixes in rails than anything else.
http://www.reddit.com/r/cs50/comments/1nx2au/life_after_cs50...
It's another really good list of courses :)
http://www.reddit.com/r/cs50/comments/1nx2au/life_after_cs50...
It's another really good list of courses :)