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Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by mrborgen »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #28

Hey, I love Scrimba. A few on our team used it to quickly get up to speed with modern React. There is a lot good I have to say about the React course and the platform! I wrote a post about it recently: https://www.exploringreact.com/2020/09/19/need-a-comprehensi... where I recommend your course as THE React course to do for a verity of reasons and many of them are to do with the Platform itself, although Bob Ziroll i…

Wow, thank you so much for that awesome blog post! It's thanks to acts like that we've been able to keep the wheels going at Scrimba the last year, as we haven't had money to spend on paid advertising, so we've had to rely on organic growth.

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by mrborgen »

swyx wrote: post #25

i loved the email courses you did. congrats on the launch and good luck as you grow!!

Thanks! We're soon going to start a new newsletter which will give people one coding challenge per week. It's inspired by the one-week email course we did, as people seemed to like it a lot :)

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by habosa »

Scrimba is basically magic. It's a video of code but when you click on it ... suddenly you're in an editor. It's such a fantastic format. Imagine if every coding tutorial video on YouTube could let you do that!

Oh and the team is full of kind and intelligent people, so that's nice too. Congrats on the launch!

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by subrat_rout »

Great and awesome resource. Just signed up as a paid member. My only minor gripe is that most of the courses are geared towards frontend development. It would be great if founders can invite authors to develop some courses on backend development, databases and some SRE etc.

Any courses on frameworks such as ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails or Django would be great. I can see the complexity arising in creating in-browser tutorials involving any backend or framework etc. But I think it will add tremendous value to the platform.

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by mrtimo »

This is awesome! Plans to include data science topics? Seems awesome for web (and the python course).

Just tried it out for a couple hours, a little feedback on the UI: -After I changed code around, I clicked "play" on the video (mistakenly thinking it would run my code)- of course it resumed the video, and all my code changes/additions were gone. Frustrating for a few times, until I learned my lesson. -After a video finished, I started editing code, but the auto-advance kicked in, moving me to the next video, and ending my code edit.

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