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Ask HN: What do you think of our programming tutorial platform?

Posted by prasidp on Friday August 22, 2014 @01:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.

We teach programming courses, and have recently released free, in-depth tutorials Skeleton, Swift, and now Webflow.We're planning to write two new tutorials per month for the next three months. What do you think of the content so far? What do you think of the platform?Here's what's inside the Swift tutorial: https://www.bloc.io/tutorials/swiftris-build-your-first-ios-game-with-swift#!/chapters/675

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Re:Show HN: Swiftris – Learn Swift by Building Tetris on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @12:01PM (#8102945)
yup i'll make note of your email. mine is prasid [at] bloc.io
Re:Google Offers A Free Crash Course In Android Development on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @05:33PM (#8039164)
It's smart to create more courses to teach Android, but the Android developer evangelism team needs to do first demonstrate the value of learning Android.

I'm the head of growth at Bloc - we have an online bootcamp in Android development, and another in iOS Development, and have found there is MUCH greater interest in learning iOS.

One quantifiable metric - the CTR on ads about Learning iOS vs. Learning Android are nearly quadruple.

In my promotions of Bloc's Android course, we've told beginners that:

- learning Android is great because the Google Play store's app review cycles are shorter, allowing beginners to iterate on their apps faster.

- According to Gartner, by 2015 Android will represent over 50% of all devices (more than Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, OSX, and all others combined)

- and that by developing for Android, you can get your apps onto watches, TVs, set-top boxes, and a slew of new form factors that are emerging.

Despite all of this, we've found very little interest in learning Android. Would love some help from the Google team if anyone is reading this. I'm @trybloc or @prasid

Re:Ask HN: Dev Bootcamps in Asia? on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @04:17PM (#8006540)
you could check out Bloc as well. here are some reviews: http://www.quora.com/Bloc-io/What-have-been-students-experie...
Re:Ask HN: What's keeping you from starting something? on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @04:45PM (#7059973)
Hey Henry - I work at Bloc - we offer a web development apprenticeship and most of our students sound pretty similar to you - read HackerNews, immersed in tech, tried learning on their own and realized they needed a more robust program like a bootcamp - but didn't want to quit their job / don't have $13K to spend on a bootcamp.

if you wanna chat - my email is [email protected]

Re:Applying to an accelerator? We predicted 2014 deadlines YC, AngelPa... on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @11:35AM (#7018150)
How do I get our accelerator added to this list? http://brandery.org/