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Re:Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code by lutusp on Thursday October 11, 2012 @05:31PM (#4642905)
> I don't need to start at lesson 1; i want to skip around to different lessons.

There's a good reason for this, which I will explain with an analogy:

Lesson 1: Write the Great American Novel.

Lesson 2: Learn how to write engaging, readable short stories.

Lesson 3: Learn how to write internally consistent essays.

Lesson 4: Learn how to write coherent paragraphs.

Lesson 5: Learn how to structure grammatically correct sentences.

Lesson 6 Learn how to use and spell common English words.

Lesson 7: Learn how to enter text on a keyboard.

Get it? Lessons have a natural order, and each lesson requires what was learned beforehand.

Re:Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code by intellegacy on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:41PM (#4643139)
I get it. It's just that I'm not a beginning programmer. I mean, unless the site is only for novices with zero programming skill, you're requiring all intermediate programmers to relearn stuff they've already mastered.

Also, I wanted to browse around the lessons in order to evaluate the quality of the site so that I could decide whether to recommend the site to non-programmer friends.

Re:Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code by lutusp on Thursday October 11, 2012 @08:54PM (#4643472)
> It's just that I'm not a beginning programmer.

That should have been the first thing you said. :)

But such tutorials are obviously for rank beginners, experienced programmers don't use these kinds of sites. Unless it's a dramatic jump, like from COBOL to Haskell, to learn a new language they go straight to the language's documentation:

Python 2:

http://docs.python.org/

Python 3:

http://docs.python.org/py3k/

Re:Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code by AurSaraf on Saturday October 13, 2012 @04:44PM (#4649626)
I'm mentoring a few people learning Python, and I wanted to quickly evaluate LearnStreet and decide whether to recommend it.

With Codecademy I could do that, here I cannot. So Codecademy it is.

Skipping is a really important feature for those who you hope would promote your service for you :-)

Re:Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code by aprasad on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:28PM (#4685016)
We will be adding this very soon.