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Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by panchicore3 »

mrborgen wrote: post #49
panchicore3 wrote: post #41

is this platform available b2b? as school I would like to use the solution using my courses with my own students.

You can already sign up, create casts, add them to a playlist, and share it with your students. That won’t cost you a dime. However, the current version of Scrimba isn’t really tailored for this B2B use-case, as I can imagine you’d want to be able to follow students’ progress and perhaps even get assgnments from them?

Thank you, I will sign up and explore more, I'm very interested because I feel the social responsibility to leave some legacy, I can educate 100 people before I retire as professional software developer.

RE: exactly, what you call the student metadata metrics and ways to detect who/what/when to reinforce.

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by ArtWomb »

Yes! Interfaces predict outcomes. And Scrimba's well-architected front and back end looks ridiculously engaging.

Will recommend to all prospective coders. And am definitely mining that Imba scheduler for ideas and inspiration ;)

Best of Luck, Per!

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by edotrajan »

i love learning with scrimba. when they first introduced monthy subscription, I enrolled without thinking twice. Been following per before scrimba days from his medium posts. They have recently improved UI so much. I'm half way through the program. hope to do my entire coding learing via scrimba in the coming years, like both frontend and backend.

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Post by framebit »

Oh wow, I had no idea Scrimba was brand new!

I signed up for the Responsive Web Design course last week and I'm getting a lot out of it. This is actually my first time taking any kind of web course of any type, programming or otherwise.

I work in the data/ml stack, not the web stack, and I've avoided learning anything serious about frontend for _years_. Figured it was about time to fix that so that I can get my personal website to look a little less terrible.

The Scrimba course looked like it would check all my boxes about technical content without forcing me to a timeline or a certificate program or being crazy expensive. I'm not looking for a career change into frontend, I'm just somebody who thrives in a structured learning environment for a new subject area.

I can definitely recommend the lesson + interactive in-browser editor combination. It's a powerful tool for fast, real learning. And I'm very grateful that somebody finally explained CSS margin collapsing to me!

My biggest critique so far is that the preview window for the project doesn't really work in Firefox, but things seem fine in Chrome.

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by jagannathtech »

asiachick wrote: post #44
rizpanjwani wrote: post #27

I'm not sure about beginners, but as a coder wanting to pick up other languages/frameworks quickly, I prefer text based courses with in-browser interactive code editors. This allows me to move at my pace with minimum distraction and fumbling around, and also when I want to refer back to something later, I can find it in text much more quickly than trying to find the right clip and time.

I wonder if this is this a generational thing or a personal preference. I too generally prefer text with in-browser code editors. I can search text. i can jump exactly to the part I want to reference later. etc... But, AFAIK most people under 30? will chose a video on youtube over a text (webpage) based lesson at something like 10 to 1 or 20 to 1. Note: I'm pulling those numbers out of thin air, it's just my percepti…

You mean like if Google homepage had a recommendation algorithm like YouTube? interesting but it might be very compute intensive and not much be benificial to Google as all ads on websites are not their ads.
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