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I wish these courses would be less newbish. I might not know Objective-C, but I know what a variable is.
They e-mailed me earlier today, with the message "New Relic wants to buy you a free weekend of Code School to celebrate!" however, after typing in my e-mail on the promo page, I was told I was not eligible! Have now added Codeschool to my e-mail block list.
You could have just unsubsidised. This will just do unnecessary harm to their email delivery rates.
Emailing people offers they can't take advantage of is not good practice.
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.
They also provide freebies/discounts, like free Peepcode screencasts, discounts on Michael Hartl's screencasts, etc (varies by course). I personally feel it gives me its $25 (often $20 - you get $5 vouchers for courses you complete) value.
They e-mailed me earlier today, with the message "New Relic wants to buy you a free weekend of Code School to celebrate!" however, after typing in my e-mail on the promo page, I was told I was not eligible! Have now added Codeschool to my e-mail block list.
You could have just unsubsidised. This will just do unnecessary harm to their email delivery rates.
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.
Why pay to watch movies on Netflix when there are so many free videos on youtube? Why pay to buy games on steam when there are so many free games on sourceforge.net? Why pay for Google Apps or mail chimp or any of those million other tools when there are free alternatives? I would guess codeschool is trying to prove to us that it is worth paying for.
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…
I'm definetly going to be spending some time on codeschool, seems like a great site.
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…
I've tried codeacademy briefly before (Spent ~8 hours total on there). After only 10 minutes on codeschool it feels a lot better. It seems like it's much easier to learn it show you 'real life applications' which is one thing that I thought codeacadmy didn't do well. I'm definetly going to be spending some time on codeschool, seems like a great site.
How is their Node.js course? Are there comparable courses out there for learning Nodejs from scratch?
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I've tried codeacademy briefly before (Spent ~8 hours total on there). After only 10 minutes on codeschool it feels a lot better. It seems like it's much easier to learn it show you 'real life applications' which is one thing that I thought codeacadmy didn't do well. I'm definetly going to be spending some time on codeschool, seems like a great site.
Insightful review! What about HN? It seems you've spent about 10 minutes here. That should qualify you to review it, right?
I've been lurking on HN for a few months, have recently come back to it after a month hiatus and wanted to comment on something so signed up this morning :)
I love this site, I'm usually a redditor but I find that there is much more interesting and gripping content here whereas reddit is more of a quick laugh. I do find that I can easily waste an hour on the front page here but I just learn so much in that hour! I'm sure that I'll stick around and find out lots of new stuff.