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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

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Post by CeRRuTiTo »

wongarsu wrote: post #9
keldaris wrote: post #2

The 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.

Hey, I am sorry for you bad experience, but I guess you have seen the site through mobile. Unfortunately, our intention is for it to be seen on desktop (the system, when ready will be used on desktop as well).

Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers

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Post by glxybstr »

CeRRuTiTo wrote: post #7
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #5

Just 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.

I think the parent comment's referring to the ability to write code quickly. At least, that was my first impression.

Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers

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Post by wongarsu »

CeRRuTiTo wrote: post #11
wongarsu wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey, I am sorry for you bad experience, but I guess you have seen the site through mobile. Unfortunately, our intention is for it to be seen on desktop (the system, when ready will be used on desktop as well).

No, I have seen the site on a 1080p monitor, on my desktop (Firefox on Linux). That's how it looks for me: http://imgur.com/aL1KxqZ

Edit: to be sure I just tested it with Chromium. It looks the same, but most animations aren't even fluent (about 5fps), making the whole thing worse. And this is by no means a slow computer.

Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers

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Post by CeRRuTiTo »

CeRRuTiTo wrote: post #11
wongarsu wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey, I am sorry for you bad experience, but I guess you have seen the site through mobile. Unfortunately, our intention is for it to be seen on desktop (the system, when ready will be used on desktop as well).

Thank you for pointing this out! It's good to have that kind of feedback, so I can check it and fix it :)

Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers

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Post by amitport »

Can you tell us more about you and about the user experience? how are you planning to evaluate a participants current progress? who is going to write the content? (best practices and exercises)

Disclaimer: I've created CardForest.com (in-progress), which is possibly targeting a similar audience.

Re: Bitlean: Learn to code fast by competing against other developers

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Post by FeymanFan78 »

It seems like a cool concept. However I would like to see it have some type of functionality. Am I missing something. This appears to be a demo to me. As such I feel a little bit duped that it doesn't make it abundantly clear that it is just a demo.

If I was a VC I would be frustrated that this does not at least have some type of simulation even if you don't have the multi-user competition working yet. At least coding against a clock or virtual opponents would be a nice touch. To me this is not proof of concept but just a story board if you will, good marketing. I am sorry to be harsh but I hate going somewhere with the promise or implication of one thing and then getting something different.

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