For the people who actually sign up for this and are learning rails -- ie have done the M. Hartl tutorial but might not have seen many projects live -- take a look a Rails Best Practices.
Its definitely doable within a weekend.
You can use Code School for free next weekend
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Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#42That'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.
Most people don't know what to learn, or where to find the resources. When you google around, you either find something too advanced or to "beginner" and it gets frustrating. When I started learning how to code, I was learning JavaScript, cause I didn't really get the "concept" of web apps, back end and front end. I didn't even know there was a concept to "get"... "Rails? What's that?" So really, that's what you're p…
>So really, that's what you're paying for with these online code schools, someone to show you the way.
No, just a way not the way. The confusion you point out even makes light of it: there are many ways.
Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Insightful review! What about HN? It seems you've spent about 10 minutes here. That should qualify you to review it, right?
I can't tell if you're comment is meant to be sarcastic ('10 minutes is not long enough to review') or not but i'm going to go with not: 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 redd…
Go back to Reddit
Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could have just unsubsidised. This will just do unnecessary harm to their email delivery rates.
Crappy business decisions deserve crappy responses. Don't advertise to your existing customers and then tell them they're ineligible for the product you spammed them with.
Codeschool has made crappy decisions in the past. I paid for a course and shortly after they made it free (but the free version had ads). They also discontinued said course so I can't even watch it anymore. Yeah ... they lost me as a customer.
Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#45I 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.
What you say simply isn't true. The Free Weekend is offered to all users (past or present) as long as they don't currently have a subscription to Code School.
Time extensions aren't stated because this is a limited-time event.
New Relic is our sponsor, in exchange with the agreement to be contacted by them via email you obtain access to all our content for 48 hours — something that would otherwise cost you $25. Is that really unreasonable?
Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#46Code School is not for people who know how to program. I found their material very basic and slow, even for things like node that I did not know at the time. I felt like the same material could be absorbed much quicker using other means (blogs, etc.)
That's a rather bold statement. We've helped quite a few people with prior programming experience learn new technologies and languages.
It's certainly possible that you're too experienced for the levels of expertise we aim for. In that case, of course, there are surely more appropriate resources for you out there.
Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#47They 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.
That sounds like a bug. If you want to help us resolve this for you, reach out to support@codeschool.com with your account details and I can look at what happened. Otherwise, sorry to lose you on such a sour note.
Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#48I've been meaning to sign up so it's a good option for me, thanks for the link. Am I supposed to get an email now or next week? Using a throwaway email that sometimes gets blocked, so just wondering.
You should receive a confirmation email soon, and you'll receive a link to access your Free Weekend next week when it starts.
Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#49If you're a newbie it says, which I know I'm not so keep that in mind. Edit: whilst saying noobs it actually just means subscribers are out, anyone already with an account seems eligible.
We meant "Code School newbs" as in people who haven't tried Code School before, not programming newbies.
Re: You can use Code School for free next weekend
#50If you're looking to learn iOS and know how to write other software, skip Code School and go to iTunes U. https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/coding-together-developin...
Or you could skip iTunes U and check out Try Objective-C for free right now: http://tryobjectivec.codeschool.com/ ;-)