RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy) • Hacker News Board

Re: RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

#21

Post by gdi2290 » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 8:11 AM UTC

hhemanth wrote: post #20

gdi2290 wrote: post #19

if you want to see everyone's email address $ cd ..

We have fixed this , by changing permissions. Sorry for the trouble

okay that's good. is that why I'm having trouble logging in at the moment? the console is telling me

No directory, logging in with HOME=/

Re: RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

#22

Post by hhemanth » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 8:35 AM UTC

We had to take the site down. We have a few issues, we will fix them and inform you when we are up!. Meanwhile pls drop us a mail at founders@codelearn.org if you are interested to sign up and we will revert to you when we are up.

Re: RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

#23

Post by hhemanth » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 11:25 AM UTC

Hey,

We have taken down the site. Please leave your email ids on the site. We will get back to you ( in a couple of days), once we are up.

hemanth

Re: RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

#24

Post by schrijver » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 10:10 PM UTC

Smerity wrote: post #3

I know I'm just nitpicking, but the grammar in the title of the video ("_Whats_ the best way to learn coding?") kills my confidence. Admittedly that isn't indicative of the quality of the product but it's something best avoided. I spend my summer teaching high school students to code, but I doubt this resource would help at all. To be honest, I'm not sure what the target audience is for this. The tutorial assumes kno…

Speaking from personal experience, a large MVC framework like Rails is horrible for learning coding. I tried to learn Django at the same time I learned Python and my head exploded with all the conventions you try to learn at the same time. Flask provided a much better start. There is a direct coupling between query and response, and the web-app is but a thin layer around the basic language.

In the Ruby world, this would mean starting with Sinatra instead of Rails. The added benefits of MVC only become apparent in larger projects.

Learning this kind of stuff in the browser is a great idea though.