I like the idea. Did you borrow inspiration from www.tryruby.org ?
Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
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#32We are going after the same problem with a different solution - http://codeacademy.org Looks great, looking forward to seeing it develop!
Charging $41/hour to learn Rails isn't a different solution.
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#33Great work - I've got loads of non-techy friends who are looking for an intro to coding.
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#34This is very nice.
Some more informative messages would be helpful. Some errors are genuine errors while others are simply an issue of not typing in precisely what the lesson wants you to type in.
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#35We are going after the same problem with a different solution - http://codeacademy.org Looks great, looking forward to seeing it develop!
Good luck with http://codemountain.org
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#36Very nice design. You can almost compete with the adult education colleges if you can get certification.
By the way, the design is very nice.
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#37This is a wonderful start - kudos. If you're targeting beginners/novices, which it looks like you are, your current approach looks ideal. I wonder how this scales to more advanced topics/languages. I think there is a market (a much smaller market though) for advanced learning, and if done right a lot of beginners can be encourages to deepen/broaden their skills. Crowdsourced lessons, simplified to fit in with a successful learning framework like Khan Academy or Codeacademy.com is probably what will make this possible.
Any thoughts/plans to go that route?
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#38Beautiful! But if I keep trying to explore after the "You've completed this lesson! Start the next one." message, I get ERROR: Cannot read property '_id' of undefined In my opinion, exploration in this context is extremely important. The guided tours are nice, but I'm confident that you don't want to limit people's use of the site Also, "You're doing great! To continue, you'll need to register or sign in. Otherwise a…
Agreed with all of the above points. Beautiful and easy to use.
The "You're doing great! To continue, you'll need to register or sign in. Otherwise all that awesome progress you've made will be lost. Sign In\Register (it's free)" dialog is most definitely a road block as there were no links available to go back to the home page.
Only two options were sign in or register. So yeah, there should be a cancel, or return to homepage
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#39Amazing stuff! Slow and buggy, but as a guy who can't program for shit, this is awesome!
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