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Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

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Post by daeken »

zds wrote: post #3
hansef wrote: post #2

I love what Codeacademy is doing, but hope they'll be rolling out some meatier lesson content with that 2m round before too long. The entire venturebeat-post-worthy jQuery lessons take about 3 minutes to go through ( http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom/1#!/exe... )

I'm the co-founder of Codecademy - we'll definitely be rolling out meatier content soon. This is just a peek at what some of our beta users have created. If you'd like to create a course, sign up - we're rolling out access to the course creator slowly to make sure our content is all high quality. Let me know if you have any other feedback!

I've been watching Codecademy off and on for a while and I think your comment finally touched on something that I seem to have missed this whole time: you're not focusing on creating the content, you're focusing on making it easy for people to create and find high-quality content.

I see you have a signup form for course creators, but I'm not seeing any data on what exactly you want to focus on (is reverse-engineering out of scope, for instance?), whether or not course creators are paid, etc. I'd love to be involved, but just don't have enough information to go on yet; if you could fill in the blanks, I'd greatly appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

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Post by zds »

daeken wrote: post #11
zds wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm the co-founder of Codecademy - we'll definitely be rolling out meatier content soon. This is just a peek at what some of our beta users have created. If you'd like to create a course, sign up - we're rolling out access to the course creator slowly to make sure our content is all high quality. Let me know if you have any other feedback!

I've been watching Codecademy off and on for a while and I think your comment finally touched on something that I seem to have missed this whole time: you're not focusing on creating the content, you're focusing on making it easy for people to create and find high-quality content. I see you have a signup form for course creators, but I'm not seeing any data on what exactly you want to focus on (is reverse-engineering…

Hi daeken - you're right. We're going to be a lot more than a content company.

I'd love to share what we're working on with you - feel free to send me an email at contact(at)codecademy(dot)com and I'll fill you in.

Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

#13

Post by zds »

chefsurfing wrote: post #10

“It really takes people back to the exciting part of programming, which is building things, breaking things, and seeing how they work,” - reminds me about what I loved about playing with Legos, Logo and BASIC as a child. Way to go Codecadamy team!

thanks!

Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

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Post by paul9290 »

Did you guys see teamtreehouse.com that launched today?

This space is an interesting one, as the material can be taught thru videos & code quizzes or through gaming type systems.

Though I wonder which is the best way to teach this material in a broad sense; gaming or videos with coding quizzes?

Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

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Post by inconditus »

zds wrote: post #7
grombert11 wrote: post #6

i'm really digging this, but is this related to http://codeacademy.org/ ?

we're not related to codeacademy.org.

It took me a few tries to remember your website. Codecedemy, Codemy, Codeacademy, codecademy. Hopefully a useful data point.

Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

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Post by xiaoma »

zds wrote: post #7
grombert11 wrote: post #6

i'm really digging this, but is this related to http://codeacademy.org/ ?

we're not related to codeacademy.org.

Why buy the .com version of their domain? Or, I suppose the better question is why go after their name to begin with? It makes you guys look pretty bad and a little of that smears off on YC.

http://howilearnedeverything.com/2011/10/30/clearing-the-air...

Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

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Post by [deleted] »

zds wrote: post #12
daeken wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been watching Codecademy off and on for a while and I think your comment finally touched on something that I seem to have missed this whole time: you're not focusing on creating the content, you're focusing on making it easy for people to create and find high-quality content. I see you have a signup form for course creators, but I'm not seeing any data on what exactly you want to focus on (is reverse-engineering…

Hi daeken - you're right. We're going to be a lot more than a content company. I'd love to share what we're working on with you - feel free to send me an email at contact(at)codecademy(dot)com and I'll fill you in.

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Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

#19

Post by tekromancr »

zds wrote: post #3
hansef wrote: post #2

I love what Codeacademy is doing, but hope they'll be rolling out some meatier lesson content with that 2m round before too long. The entire venturebeat-post-worthy jQuery lessons take about 3 minutes to go through ( http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom/1#!/exe... )

I'm the co-founder of Codecademy - we'll definitely be rolling out meatier content soon. This is just a peek at what some of our beta users have created. If you'd like to create a course, sign up - we're rolling out access to the course creator slowly to make sure our content is all high quality. Let me know if you have any other feedback!

Very cool! I just put in an application to create a novice python course. If I like the experience of creating a course, I hope to make more.

Re: Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

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Post by eogas »

zds wrote: post #3
hansef wrote: post #2

I love what Codeacademy is doing, but hope they'll be rolling out some meatier lesson content with that 2m round before too long. The entire venturebeat-post-worthy jQuery lessons take about 3 minutes to go through ( http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom/1#!/exe... )

I'm the co-founder of Codecademy - we'll definitely be rolling out meatier content soon. This is just a peek at what some of our beta users have created. If you'd like to create a course, sign up - we're rolling out access to the course creator slowly to make sure our content is all high quality. Let me know if you have any other feedback!

I haven't read a whole lot about your guys' operation, in fact I didn't even know the content was user submitted, but I'm wondering how you're moderating content for quality. I ask because as I was checking out the site last night, I was noticing typos and grammatical errors here and there. There are also technical downfalls, which are probably not as easy to fix.

If anything, a lazy way to get information on this would be to 'robustify' the feedback tool. If I notice a typo, or a bug, am I happy? No, not really. But I'm not confused either. The feedback tool should also act as a quality assurance tool IMHO.

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