Great work - I've got loads of non-techy friends who are looking for an intro to coding.
thanks tom! would love if you sent it to them.
Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
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Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#92I first thought this is going to be another site with a bunch of long tutorials.
But I was wrong. My instinct tells me this can be the way to get wanna-be young coders excited about programming. Reason being is teenagers/young adults can feel like they are actually talking to a person, not a machine.
(I am the programmer of 5 websites/apps/plugins and a high school sophomore.)
Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#93Why doesn't this say right at the very beginning what language you are trying to teach? The tone of the site is incredibly arrogant. What makes you qualified to teach? Have you heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
It should be more explicit that this site is teaching Javascript (are you teaching other languages? it is not clear) and it is for complete beginners, and that the site creators make some very patronizing assumptions about the students.
This is like clicking on a link to "poetryacademy.com" and finding a site that is teaching you how to sing the alphabet song.
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#94This has the hidden benefit of being great for review when you forget a concept. I gave up on programming as a trade after almost 15 years of false starts, but I do have to dip into code from time to time. Having this to review with will be handy.
yep, that's what we're trying to help with too. just wait until we have some more advanced topics! thanks for checking us out.
License this out for things. It can do anything a textbook can do better. Do you know how much easier math would be with this? So much potential. There's your monetization model.
Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#95I've been a longtime member @ HN, but I haven't been a developer. In fact, my only HN submission has been one asking how to learn to code ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820741 ). We decided to solve the problem by making a simple, interactive way to get started with Codecademy. We'd love your feedback. If you're interested in helping us to get more courses up (on any topic!), please send us an email at HN (at)…
Awesome, thanks! I've always thought the use of books to teach programming was a bit ironic, especially for interpreted languages.
Back in the early '90s I had a book called Master C, which came with a floppy that ran a similar type of tutorial.
http://www.amazon.com/Waite-Groups-Master-Book-Disks/dp/1878...
Seems like a long gap between then and now.
Also, please let me request a course on Clojure. That would rule!
Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#96I'll get back with what my 12-year-old brother says about it.
Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#97It isn't completely clear what Variables -> CaSeS wants me to do. It seems like it's asking for:
myFullName = "Thomas Edison"
myFullName = myName lastName
Because I'm a programmer, I know that the + operator concatenates strings, but I don't think everyone will think consider that, and it hasn't been mentioned at that point.
Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#98It isn't completely clear what Variables -> CaSeS wants me to do. It seems like it's asking for: myFullName = "Thomas Edison" But it's reminding me of making sure my variable names are correct, so maybe: myFullName = myName lastName That doesn't work. Because I'm a programmer, I know that the + operator concatenates strings, but I don't think everyone will think consider that, and it hasn't been mentioned at that poi…
It was looking for var myFullName = "First Last";
Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#99I've been a longtime member @ HN, but I haven't been a developer. In fact, my only HN submission has been one asking how to learn to code ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820741 ). We decided to solve the problem by making a simple, interactive way to get started with Codecademy. We'd love your feedback. If you're interested in helping us to get more courses up (on any topic!), please send us an email at HN (at)…
I think this is going to be an interesting experiment:
I am going to test how many students at our high school can get interested in programming after trying out Codecedemy.
Re: Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
#100awesome i proposed a similar idea yet a different way of teaching one of the popular web languages at a Start-Up Weekend.
Most there dont know how to code, but none too surprising none were interested in creating a service to learn how to code. I'm not bitter that my idea wasn't selected as these non-coders wanted to create a fashion site or the AirBnB for restrooms (HA) :)
Well Im going to get started on that idea I proposed a few months ago. Besides this Ive seen some other things popping up that show a real need for such a service.
My wish for your site is to have a log in option so I can save my scores and it remembers what I did with each lesson.
Good luck!