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Re:Codecademy Partners With The White House by nhangen on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @09:44PM (#3477639)
Tryruby.org has been doing that for years, has it not?
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Re:Codecademy Partners With The White House by wahnfrieden on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:05PM (#3477689)
tryruby.org is totally unrelated. It's not directed learning - it just drops you into an REPL, what good does that do people who have never coded before (the primary audience of codecademy)? It has a help feature, but it's clearly not the main point or call to action.
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Re:Codecademy Partners With The White House by nhangen on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:20PM (#3477738)
Seems to me that they have a similar learning curve and call to action.
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Re:Codecademy Partners With The White House by wahnfrieden on Thursday January 19, 2012 @01:54AM (#3483481)
Codecademy instructs you immediately. Tryruby has a tutorial hidden as a "help" link among other identical-looking links. It is not a clear call to action.
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Re:Codecademy Partners With The White House by ludicast on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:30PM (#3477768)
yep, not to mention tryruby is currently a codeschool activity.
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