Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
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Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#2The idea itself seems nice, but it remains to be seen how useful it will be beyond learning basic language concepts and syntax.
However, I would like to compliment your website. I run an extremely restricted browser that blocks most JS, cookies, XSS, etc. by default and most new project announcements I see on HN I close immediately because they haven't demonstrated enough value for me to bother unblocking the ungodly mess of JS on their sites. Your site isn't just well designed, concise and readable, it actually works out of the box (the only thing I blocked were the social buttons), barely uses any resources and looks lovely. I wish more web developers thought this way.
Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#3The idea itself seems nice, but it remains to be seen how useful it will be beyond learning basic language concepts and syntax. However, I would like to compliment your website. I run an extremely restricted browser that blocks most JS, cookies, XSS, etc. by default and most new project announcements I see on HN I close immediately because they haven't demonstrated enough value for me to bother unblocking the ungodly…
Thank you very much for your kind comment!
Our intention is actually that there would be different levels of difficulty, but for the purpose of showing only the main idea we skipped all additional features. But it really remains to see if this kind of learning would be appropriate and functional.
Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#4Two white guys at the top.
Black guy in third place.
Woman is last.
Maybe not the best way to represent progress in the demo...
Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#5Just had an Eats, shoots & leaves moment with that title.
I was thinking, why does anyone need to learn to code fast?
Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#6Just had an Eats, shoots & leaves moment with that title. I was thinking, why does anyone need to learn to code fast?
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Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#7Just had an Eats, shoots & leaves moment with that title. I was thinking, why does anyone need to learn to code fast?
Well, learning a programming language is slow process, our idea is to make it faster and help the skills to stick better. I can't remember all the cases in which I learned something and had to relearn it again after that - only if my process of learning was better, it might have sticked from the first time. :)
That's what we are trying to do. I don't know if we will succeed or not, but we are going to at least try.
Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#8Two white guys at the top. Black guy in third place. Woman is last. Maybe not the best way to represent progress in the demo...
I would have called that guy middle eastern, not black.
With every order somebody will be able to construct it as offensive to someone, but putting the woman that far behind the rest is indeed asking for trouble. If her position was swapped with that of the second-place white guy people would be much less likely to be offended.
Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#9The idea itself seems nice, but it remains to be seen how useful it will be beyond learning basic language concepts and syntax. However, I would like to compliment your website. I run an extremely restricted browser that blocks most JS, cookies, XSS, etc. by default and most new project announcements I see on HN I close immediately because they haven't demonstrated enough value for me to bother unblocking the ungodly…
Having all fancy Javascript enabled I found the navigation of the page cumbersome. The only way I found to progress to the next slide (of what is essentially a fancy slideshow) was to click on the three lines to open the menu and then click on the next menu item. That's not fun at all.
Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers
#10Two white guys at the top. Black guy in third place. Woman is last. Maybe not the best way to represent progress in the demo...
First, I very much agree with your point. The demo results could easily be randomly assigned per view instead and Bitlean should fix this.
But, let's not be too harsh. For much of the tech industry, 1/4 women is good representation. It is positive that they made some effort towards inclusiveness and diversity (at least in their marketing material).