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Re: Show HN: Learn to Code for Free

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OT: The reviews on the frontpage are fake right? I'm not bashing the course by any means, I'm just curious. I see lots of services display similar user quotes and was wondering if it's a standard marketing practice.

They are real. Some of the students are international where English is not their first language. I'm happy to put you in touch with these students, or any past students if you'd like to hear more from them.

Re: Show HN: Learn to Code for Free

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for you it sounds great but for someone like me I like to understand how things work under the hood. Yeah I made a blog in 15 minutes using Ruby and Rails but how did that happened under the hood? I like to fully understand things not just be told how to do it. I guess that's why PHP being embedded in HTML allows me to see the bigger picture.

Well, I think there's two things to that. First, from what I understand, Rails has a lot of "magic". So on that note, you're probably just not going to like Rails or Rails-like frameworks in general (like Django, lots of magic). PHP or even something like Flask might be better for you. Different people like different levels of abstraction, and believe it or not you can write web pages in C. PHP was originally designe…

that's good to hear because as a beginner I struggle with the magic parts of the web . Most tutorials nowadays are all magic.

Re: Show HN: Learn to Code for Free

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all most all of the web is written in PHP, a beginner can't understand how everything fits together by learning Ruby. With php you can literally insert it into HTML. For me is all about the big picture, Plus I think there are more jobs in PHP than Ruby

Well, and then you get people who insert php into html in production environments. Believe me, I've seen it more than once. I don't see how PHP is easier than Ruby. It's not Haskel, after all.

cause PHP isn't magic like Ruby on Rails.

Re: Show HN: Learn to Code for Free

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Looks like this is from the same guy that did Codermanual. Wonder if he is actually going to be around to help for this course as he more or less abandoned the other one after a couple of months of it getting popular. I have a pretty bad taste in my mouth for this instructor still from that experience.

Re: Show HN: Learn to Code for Free

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I'm looking for courses that seem to be the opposite of this... no language or programming at all, but instead looking at the process of breaking down problems. We've hired several devs out of bootcamp, and they're all taught how to code, but not how to solve problems using code... Anyone have material that might be good for this? Books, videos, courses?

if you want something that is language agnostic check out watchandcode.com

He is teaching in javascript but the language he is showing you is irrelevant and it's all about the process

Re: Show HN: Learn to Code for Free

#137

i'm pretty sure that if you can't learn for yourself for free by using the internet (or even libraries and help files etc. like i did) your already starting on the wrong foot. having the ability to solve that problem for yourself is important... if you struggle with that you will struggle in most real world dev roles imo, because you will need to continue to do this for yourself throughout your career.

Is this not considered "learning on the internet for free"?
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