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Re: Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding

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Post by songzme »

nefitty wrote: post #47
songzme wrote: post #2

Last year, I mentored a few students who are learning coding to become a software engineer from non-traditional backgrounds. Rather than encouraging them to leetcode and practice for interviews, I taught them software engineering practices and mentored them to build c0d3.com together as a team. c0d3.com will be a free learning site where other students like them can learn coding and then help improve the site. As a s…

You said, “ Rather than encouraging them to leetcode and practice for interviews, I taught them software engineering practices...”. How do you square that with the reality that many software jobs have leetcode as a gate to an offer? I find myself stuck at this juncture. I am comfortable with software practices, but the reality of these sorts of interviews has me basically trying to figure out how to “hack” the coding…

"How do you square that with the reality that many software jobs have leetcode as a gate to an offer?"

I face the same issue so I'm not sure, I'm hoping HN could help. Personally, I don't want to feed into the whole "just leetcode and get a job mindset" so I'm going to keep my course and follow what I believe in.

Re: Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding

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Post by exclusiv »

falcor84 wrote: post #50
exclusiv wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nowadays the kids are into: "How To Win Followers and Influence People"

Nowadays? I'll assume you're being sarcastic, since this has of course been the case from before the invention of language

Not being sarcastic. I was referring to the rise of the social media influencer as a potential profession. What other interest would kids be into regarding winning "Followers" these days?

Of course kids are into influencing in any generation. I was commenting on what they're into now.

Re: Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding

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Post by benmw333 »

songzme wrote: post #2

Last year, I mentored a few students who are learning coding to become a software engineer from non-traditional backgrounds. Rather than encouraging them to leetcode and practice for interviews, I taught them software engineering practices and mentored them to build c0d3.com together as a team. c0d3.com will be a free learning site where other students like them can learn coding and then help improve the site. As a s…

Very cool and congrats!

Re: Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding

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Post by manimm »

blastro wrote: post #12
songzme wrote: post #2

Last year, I mentored a few students who are learning coding to become a software engineer from non-traditional backgrounds. Rather than encouraging them to leetcode and practice for interviews, I taught them software engineering practices and mentored them to build c0d3.com together as a team. c0d3.com will be a free learning site where other students like them can learn coding and then help improve the site. As a s…

I've saved your Notion curriculum, and intend to run a program like this soon in my local community. Very inspiring project, and awesome end result. Thank you for your contribution to this area.

Where is the notion curriculum please?

Re: Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding

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Post by songzme »

thomspoon wrote: post #36

Software engineering is more than just software development. Writing requirements, drafting documentation, testing, verification, maintenance. I hate to be hypercritical, but five weeks of javascript doesn’t make you a software engineer.

Exactly. Which is why c0d3.com emphasizes understanding users and working together as a team. All code contributions are code reviewed and there is code coverage: https://github.com/garageScript/c0d3-app/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%...

Re: Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding

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Post by songzme »

brlewis wrote: post #35
songzme wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our decision behind JavaScript: We want our students to understand technology at a conceptual level first, end to end: 1. Client side - Mobile, web, terminal 2. Server side - Database interactions, system design and optimization 3. Batch - ML models and scripting AFAIK, JavaScript is the only language that is able to cover everything end to end (front end to backend to scripting to even ML) so I'm able to come up wit…

Are there times when you think TypeScript could make some of the advanced projects less frustrating for the students?

Yeah after the curriculum, the students transition to using typescript. It is a natural progression towards wanting to type your function arguments and return values for clarity and consistency.
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