This pulled me right in... and it has me intrigued and I'm playing around with it. This made me realize that the more you get me using it, and the more you teach me, the more likely I am to come back to you when there's a language I want to learn that I don't already know. Love the jump-right-in setup you have going.
Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
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#62Excellent work! This is the first interactive coding tutorial that I actually like.
Small bug: On http://www.codecademy.com/programming-intro/4#!/exercise/3, it says "We've given you an example for the first one", but there is no example.
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#63Is this affiliated to (or a domain change) of hackercs.com?
Or a new competitor?
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#64Really nice. I just did all of the exercises .
2 bugs I hit were the lessons not saving upon completion & if it hits an error, it froze the window which I had to close (Chrome running on Lion)
Proof of completion: http://www.codecademy.com/users/4e4da1c233a5480001000221
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#65This is definitely genius. Even for programmers the service could be very valuable in learning new languages. I love my O'Reilly books, but I would throw all of them away in a heartbeat if the content was wrapped up in an interactive console like this.
thanks! let us know if there's any course you're interested in seeing.
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#66This reminds me of (what was previously _why's) "try ruby!" at http://tryruby.org/ I always loved that, and I think this has a lot of potential. Tomorrow being Whyday, I think I'll send this to some people to try and spread the joy of programming. I do think that the parentheses and semicolon stuff might appear sort of abruptly for the completely non-technical, but it's hard for me to judge, really.
thanks! we love tryruby too. thanks for celebrating whyday!
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#67Really nice. I just did all of the exercises . 2 bugs I hit were the lessons not saving upon completion & if it hits an error, it froze the window which I had to close (Chrome running on Lion) Proof of completion: http://www.codecademy.com/users/4e4da1c233a5480001000221
looking into these now. thanks!
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 t…
Nope, not a road block for me. By the time you get to that point, the user has already got a taste of the fruit; it's decision time. I registered. I love this. Keep doing what you're doing, expand the library in a few months and contact foundations like Rockefeller for financial support if you need it. Kudos! I'm excited.
awesome. we're adding the option to skip registering but we hope most people do what you do.
Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#69Excellent work! This is the first interactive coding tutorial that I actually like. Small bug: On http://www.codecademy.com/programming-intro/4#!/exercise/3 , it says "We've given you an example for the first one", but there is no example.
looking into and fixing this now. thanks!
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#70Very nice. Really well made. Love the fact that I could just dive in and engage with the product from the homepage without having to dance through the usual annoying sign up routine. One thing I'd change is this error message which is not really an error message : "ERROR: Sorry, that's not correct. Please try again." It appears every time I try some command which is not exactly the next step defined in the tutorial.…
thanks! we're opening it up to free programming asap and we're going to stop the fake errors thing. this is exactly what we're planning on doing - let me know if you'd be interested in creating a lesson or if you have other feedback - zach (at) codecademy (dot) com.
For now, I'll be selfish and only want to learn and seek help when I get stuck while programming.
Are you on twitter?