Codecademy
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Has anyone else done the courses from www.codecademy.com[^] ? What do you think?? Where is the best place to move from there? If you didn't know and liked the site... please share....
I've been working my way through the Ruby courses. I'm most of the way done, but I don't really have any sort of project in mind to work on when I'm done. I just thought it would be refreshing to learn something new, regardless of whether or not I need/want that something. :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Has anyone else done the courses from www.codecademy.com[^] ? What do you think?? Where is the best place to move from there? If you didn't know and liked the site... please share....
Looks neat. Thanks for posting that link. $coworker is interested in "getting in to programming." He's a smart IT guy who is leaning towards python (a good first language choice by any estimation.) I pointed him to it. Should be interesting. I'll definitely work through some of that stuff as well, but after 35 years of doing this nonsense I imagine I'll be less than objective.
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I've been working my way through the Ruby courses. I'm most of the way done, but I don't really have any sort of project in mind to work on when I'm done. I just thought it would be refreshing to learn something new, regardless of whether or not I need/want that something. :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Colin Mullikin wrote:
I just thought it would be refreshing to learn something new, regardless of whether or not I need/want that something. :laugh:
I'm with you there.... That was how I've found out how much you can improve when learning different programming languages..
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Looks neat. Thanks for posting that link. $coworker is interested in "getting in to programming." He's a smart IT guy who is leaning towards python (a good first language choice by any estimation.) I pointed him to it. Should be interesting. I'll definitely work through some of that stuff as well, but after 35 years of doing this nonsense I imagine I'll be less than objective.
Glad to help... :-D :-D :-D
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Has anyone else done the courses from www.codecademy.com[^] ? What do you think?? Where is the best place to move from there? If you didn't know and liked the site... please share....
I've played with it, it's a nice site. It gives a good basic intro. The API courses are kind of interesting though. I'd recommend playing around in that garden for a while. The basics are VERY basic, but the API courses are pretty decent overall.
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Has anyone else done the courses from www.codecademy.com[^] ? What do you think?? Where is the best place to move from there? If you didn't know and liked the site... please share....
Never seen it. Good you shared it...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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I've been working my way through the Ruby courses. I'm most of the way done, but I don't really have any sort of project in mind to work on when I'm done. I just thought it would be refreshing to learn something new, regardless of whether or not I need/want that something. :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Colin Mullikin wrote:
I've been working my way through the Ruby courses.
I'll check it out. I've learned Ruby and Ruby on Rails through a trial by fire process, taking two existing websites and upgrading them from Rails 2 to Rails 3. I'm pretty comfortable with most things now, but I know there's a lot of little things I don't know. :) Marc
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Colin Mullikin wrote:
I've been working my way through the Ruby courses.
I'll check it out. I've learned Ruby and Ruby on Rails through a trial by fire process, taking two existing websites and upgrading them from Rails 2 to Rails 3. I'm pretty comfortable with most things now, but I know there's a lot of little things I don't know. :) Marc
It's mostly basic stuff, but it could teach you how to do some things in different ways, since Ruby is so loose with its syntax. :thumbsup:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Has anyone else done the courses from www.codecademy.com[^] ? What do you think?? Where is the best place to move from there? If you didn't know and liked the site... please share....
It's a good place to start from scratch, I've done my ruby ABC there. Now, I'm enjoying more challenges with www.codewars.com[^]. You practice and learn by training, it covers from novice to hacker, it's new, it's community driven and it's free. Follow this link if you think I deserve some honor for the hint Codewars (my referral url)[^] :-O .
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
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Has anyone else done the courses from www.codecademy.com[^] ? What do you think?? Where is the best place to move from there? If you didn't know and liked the site... please share....
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Has anyone else done the courses from www.codecademy.com[^] ? What do you think?? Where is the best place to move from there? If you didn't know and liked the site... please share....
Love it! Learning Python, quite quickly for a 57-year-old. Hoping in a few weeks my Raspberry Pi project (PiLab) won't know what hit it.
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Has anyone else done the courses from www.codecademy.com[^] ? What do you think?? Where is the best place to move from there? If you didn't know and liked the site... please share....
I'm not familiar with Codecademy's offerings as I have not been working in the languages they teach. As for where to go next, coursera.org[^] offers many classes covering a wide range of languages and concepts. I'm also in the middle of two courses (self-paced) from https://www.udacity.com/[^].
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I'm not familiar with Codecademy's offerings as I have not been working in the languages they teach. As for where to go next, coursera.org[^] offers many classes covering a wide range of languages and concepts. I'm also in the middle of two courses (self-paced) from https://www.udacity.com/[^].
What are you talking about? they teach in English!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I've already looked up Coursera and Udacity, I'll probably do some of both. thx
