Code School now open to the public

#1

Post by acrum » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 3:21 PM UTC

Code School now open to the public
codeschool.com

Re: Code School now open to the public

#2

Post by JesseDearing » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:11 PM UTC

Loved Rails for Zombies and I can't wait for the others to open up. The format that Envy Labs has for online learning is really just brilliant.

Re: Code School now open to the public

#3

Post by Jabbles » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:18 PM UTC

Can you claim that something is on sale the moment you release it?

(A genuine question, I thought there may have been a requirement to note that something is an "introductory offer", but there are almost certainly different laws that apply to online sales.)

Re: Code School now open to the public

#4

Post by Stratego » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

Tested this and learned a ton of from the Rails Best Practices course, whereas it usually takes me a while to learn how to refactor code properly using a new language or framework or even to care.

Definitely trickier than Rails for Zombies for people how have used Rails before but much more rewarding.

Re: Code School now open to the public

#5

Post by peteysd » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:22 PM UTC

Rails for Zombies is brilliant. Very high-quality stuff, and the website design is beautiful. I can't wait to see their JS courses.

Re: Code School now open to the public

#6

Post by acangiano » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:26 PM UTC

Jabbles wrote: post #3

Can you claim that something is on sale the moment you release it? (A genuine question, I thought there may have been a requirement to note that something is an "introductory offer", but there are almost certainly different laws that apply to online sales.)

You can if it's a special "launch price" which will be increased after a given amount of time.

Re: Code School now open to the public

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Post by PStamatiou » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:36 PM UTC

Been using Code School for a while now (beta) and absolutely love it. Just posted my thoughts on it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355091

Re: Code School now open to the public

#8

Post by Stratego » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

Jabbles wrote: post #3

Can you claim that something is on sale the moment you release it? (A genuine question, I thought there may have been a requirement to note that something is an "introductory offer", but there are almost certainly different laws that apply to online sales.)

It's called introductory pricing. A groundbreaking idea.

Re: Code School now open to the public

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Post by MattyBE » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:45 PM UTC

This is awesome. I've been wanting to try ruby and get better at coding in general.

Re: Code School now open to the public

#10

Post by nathanwdavis » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 4:47 PM UTC

peteysd wrote: post #5

Rails for Zombies is brilliant. Very high-quality stuff, and the website design is beautiful. I can't wait to see their JS courses.

I sincerely hope they don't do a course on Website performance or page asset loading. Turn on Firebug and refresh the site, and you'll see no script/css combining, lots of un-minified js, and a total download of more than half a megabyte on the homepage. It feels slow too.