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Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend

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post #9

I was mildly interested until I read the T&C at the bottom. Not being available to current or past users, agreeing to learn more about New Relic, and explicitly stating no time extensions being possible came across as overly negative for 2 days of free access.

To be fair, the terms are all the way at the bottom of the page.

Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend

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post #4

That's great and all, but why pay for an online coding school in the first place? The web has a ton of freely available programming learning materials.

CodeSchool has a consistent quality, with professionally done videos. By now, the site has enough of a reputation, that you can show around your profile that lists what challenges and courses you've passed.

Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend

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post #4

That's great and all, but why pay for an online coding school in the first place? The web has a ton of freely available programming learning materials.

Because people learn differently. I learn a ton from google searches every day at work but new topics are better served by a structured program.

When I learned Rails I paid $100 or so to Hartl and another $30 for the Obie book. That's one hour of consultant work to have people who know their stuff tell you about it.

Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend

#17

How is their Node.js course? Are there comparable courses out there for learning Nodejs from scratch?

I really liked it. Good introduction, but it won't offer too much if you've worked with Nodejs in the past. It goes over the basics, some refactoring, then introduces socket.io and redis. Their Rails courses are also quite excellent.

Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend

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IMO, there should be a free trial period who users who sign up. At least a day, or one premium course? But yeah, looking forward to seeing what Code School is all about

They have seven courses that are always free, mostly intro stuff but they are worth checking out: Ruby, RoR, Objective-C, DevTools, Git, R & jQuery

http://www.codeschool.com/courses#all

Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend

#20
In April of 2011 we pitched codecademy type service at a startup weekend. It didn't get picked as an idea to work on but after seeing reaction to codecademy we created CodePupil and then everyone and their mom created a codecademy clone too.

There is room for more/better, but to do these types of start-ups/concepts it takes a ton of testing and iteration.

Good to see codeschool is still in the game, they were around prior to codecademy.

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