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Hackr.io
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Community trust
Instead of getting a recommendation from a single dev, you get recommendation from the entire programming community.
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Recommendation for every programming language/framework/library
You can find Python as well as Jenkins.
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Nice filters
Free, Video, Book, Beginner, Advanced, etc.
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Treehouse
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Great instructors
The course formats are flexible enough that instructors are able to employ their own styles so long as exercises are offered in consistent intervals and student progress is measurable. The instructors communicate very clearly and are very approachable.
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Regular participation is essential
This is not a good place to skip ahead and work backwards from a specific need. In fact, even skipping sections you have mastery in can be risky since the condensed material relies heavily on past examples.
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Great material presentation, instruction, and visualization
Their animations and screenshares supplement the instruction, giving a really good all-around learning experience.
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Credit card required to sign up for the free trial
Treehouse offers a free 14-day trial, but requires a credit card to sign up.
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Best beginner's option
Materials are very well made and it'll get you started with the technology as fast as possible. Haven't found tutorials that well made and understandable. Nothing is skipped or assumed without reference to courses within that were recommended to you earlier. This makes the site an efficient review resource if you ever forget a basic concept.
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The quality is inconsistent among courses
Treehouse has multiple teachers in order to provide such a variety of content. However there is a lack of consistency with teaching styles - Some courses provide content that is well explained and goes at a reasonable pace. Other courses can be quite hard to follow. The challenges are also inconsistent - Some are too easy and don't reinforce much of the material learned.
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Project-based learning
Soup to Bits videos show you how to build an app step by step in real time. Each is short and digestible yet illustrates many relevant new concepts.
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Way too expensive compared with other options
Most advanced materials are locked away as "Pro/Bonus."
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Learning tracks
Trying to figure out what language or tool to learn can be frustrating. TreeHouse groups their courses into learning tracks so you have more guidance, based on what type of development you want to do. Some of the tracks they offer: Web Design, Front-end Development, Full-Stack Javascript, and PHP Development (see the list here).
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Charges your credit card before the free trial expires
The Treehouse offers a free trial period, which is nice on the one hand. On the other hand you still need to register a payment method to be able to use it. And what's even worse, if you cancel the paid subscription before the FREE trial ends, you loose any access to free trial! So you will then have to pay a subscription fee to renew the access to the free course even though you SHOULD have some trial period left. That is absolutely unacceptable these days and smells as quite a shady business practice.
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Workspaces
You don't have to install anything to your computer and can learn from anywhere using their Workspaces. The effectiveness of this tool cannot be overstated. Even though instructors often preface courses with installation guides to setup popular environments the Workspaces allow you to jump right in, mimic the examples, work on your project, experiment with tangent thoughts, or even complete parallel courses simultaneously, within separate Workspace instances. Execution is very fast and space is ample.
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Has become very buggy/unreliable
The number of bugs has gradually been increasing to the point where the platform may be more frustrating than beneficial for some users (as of October 2016). The engineers seem to be doing their best to stay on top of things, but bugs appear to be occurring faster than they can fix them. Some bugs require you to refresh the page (often multiple times) before getting the information correctly displayed. UI elements jump around, some features on the site are broken.
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Build projects as you learn
Most TreeHouse courses allow you to build interesting real-world projects that make for a fun way to learn how to apply what you've learned (such as apps, websites, UI elements and more).
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The forum lacks conversation/engagement
TreeHouse provides a a forum for students to have discussions. However almost all posts are students looking for answers to the quizzes and challenges. Any attempts at general discussions about business, learning, programming, job seeking etc. tend to go without replies.
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New material added freqently
TreeHouse releases multiple new courses every month on various different topics. They do an excellent job of keeping pace with a changing industry. For example, they released courses on Swift not long after Swift was released.
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Not an in-depth resource
Most Treehouse courses are geared towards beginners, making it necessary to use other resources in order to gain a deeper understanding of the language you're learning.
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Forum
If you're stuck with an task you can easily get help on their forum. Most topics are visited by hundreds of students per day and responses are often returned within minutes if not seconds. In case your question cannot be answered by the imminent community, they can be pushed to recommended members or staff experts for prompt responses.
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Very Effective Resource
Criticizing the lack of advanced material seems unjustified considering how consistent the paths are with the costs and transparent intentions. Advanced resources are usually politely introduced then passed over.
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iOS and Android app
Treeehouse provides an app for both iOS and Android that is easy to use.
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Portfolio
You can share courses that you successfully completed when you're applying for a job. Probably after completing course you have a solid understanding in given technology.
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Motivates Students
The community is very supportive and the company convincingly more interested in your positive referral than in your subscription, though both is obviously preferred. Besides recognition and gamification, your timely progress is actively encouraged. There are even employer monitored sections with suggestions of how to meet career goals with related skills.
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Student discount
You can get a student discount easily using their email support.
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HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP, Objective-C, Java, Swift
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Coursera
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Some courses offer a verified certificate for a fee
There is an option to earn a verified certificate as proof you completed the course (for use on LinkedIn, resumes etc.). The cost varies between courses, but is generally around $49-$60.
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Courses are not always available
Courses are run on set dates, though some courses provide access to the material whether or not the course is running (however, there will be far less student activity in the forums when the course is not running). Some courses only make their material available when the course is running, so you may have to wait a long period (sometimes months) for your course to be offered.
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High quality courses from well known universities
Many courses offered at Coursera are from well known universities (such as Stanford and Princeton) and instructed by their professors. Often the material taught in the Coursera courses is material from the actual university course.
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You cannot take the full courses for free
While you used to be able to take courses for free and earn a statement of accomplishment, this is no longer the case. You can only audit the courses if you are not paying. Coursera makes it seem like you should also do the quizzes, but the submit button says "Upgrade to submit".
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Wide selection of courses
Coursera offers over 1000 courses on a variety of different topics. Courses are offered on learning to code and specific languages, but there is also a large selection of courses that would be beneficial to someone wanting to learn more about computer science as well (algorithms, data science, computer security) and plenty others.
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You can audit courses for free
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Courses offered in a variety of languages (with transcriptions available)
Coursera offers courses from all around the world, resulting in courses taught in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Turkish and a long list of others. Transcriptions for a large number of languages are offered for each course.
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English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean
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Video tutorials, tests, forum
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Lynda
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Quality and quantity
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Lacks a community
With no user forum, there is very little opportunity to engage with other students and discuss the learning material.
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Video tutorials with commentaries
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iOS and Android apps are somewhat poor
Compared to the experience available on the web, the mobile apps are severely lagging behind.
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Extensive
There are a lot of different languages to choose from thanks to their large offering of courses (almost 4000 total that cover various subjects).
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More ways to help retain the information would be helpful
More quizzes, tests and assignments to help practice and retain the presented information would be helpful.
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Build as you learn
Many courses offered on Lynda take a hands-on approach, encouraging you to apply what you learn by building projects.
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It's possible to get transcripts of videos
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Videos can be watched at 2x speed
If you feel yourself getting bored with the lecture, it's possible to speed it up to get through it quicker.
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Video tutorials, progress saver, tutorials
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Udemy
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Wide range of courses
If one course doesn't meet your needs, there is a sea of other courses to choose from.
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Quality varies
The quality control for the content offered is fairly limited. As there are so many different instructors offering courses on Udemy, many of which lack formal training and teaching experience since anyone can be a teacher on Udemy, the quality varies quite a bit between the different courses.
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Value for money
A +10 hour high quality course for under $20 is great value.
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Most courses are expensive
While Udemy does offer free courses, most of them are around $100.
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Regular discounts
Often run discounts 50 - 90% off resulting in sub $20 courses.
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Difficult to take multiple (10+) courses at the same time
The system becomes messy and hard to follow if you plan on using the site to learn more than a handful of things at once.
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Offers intermediate and advanced courses
Udemy offers plenty of courses for beginner programmers, but also has a large variety of more advanced courses to choose from.
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Some courses are free
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Courses available in over 80 languages
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Friendly community
Both on site and on various social networks Udemy aims to create a community of friendly people that can help each other out.
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Quality of top courses
The quality of top courses (+4.0 rating & high enrollment) is exceptional.
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exercism.org
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Human review and feedback
Rather than merely test for code correctness, Exercism uses peer review to improve general programming techniques. Users are encouraged to comment on others' solutions, and refine their own based on feedback.
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Custom commandline client
Exercism requires using a CLI utility to fetch and submit exercises. This is inconvenient compared to web-only alternatives, and poses an additional barrier to entry for some users.
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Practice with production tools
Unlike many code practice websites, Exercism requires the user to develop and test entirely offline, submitting only the finished code. This promotes familiarity with essential tools and workflow, not just the bare language.
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Bash, C, C++, C#, Clojure, Dart, Elixir, Erlang, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, Rust,TypeScript
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Code School
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Practice the code after each video
After each video, there are a series of challenges that give you a chance to apply what you just learned. The great thing about these challenges are that they force you to think through a problem, and use the new skills to solve it. It's not just regurgitating facts; it requires some effort.
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Acquired by Pluralsight
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Paths for learning different skills
While you can jump into any video you like, there is also the option to follow a path for what you are wanting to learn. These give a nice direction if you are wanting to improve on a particular area and guide you into what to do next. They currently offer Ruby, Javascript, HTML/CSS, and iOS.
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Videos are of a tone that some people cannot stand
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Videos show how to build an app in real time
Soup to Bits is a series of videos that shows a developer creating an app from scratch in real time. It's easy to pause a video and follow along with the developer.
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Requires paying to complete courses
Although the beginning of each course is free and you can see if you are interested in pursuing it, to complete the course you must pay.
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Video tutorials
Videos give an overview of the course/lesson plan before a single line of code is written. This gives context and a general understanding of what is possible and how teaching will be approached.
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A bit too basic
There is not a lot of advanced content.
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Fun and engaging teaching style
The instructors often use humour throughout the videos while letting their passion for the topic show.
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In-depth courses
Code School is not just for beginners to programming, but provides plenty of intermediate and advanced courses for students as their skills grow.
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C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, Objective-C
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Editor, video tutorials, progress saver, forum
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W3Schools
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Easy to learn
All the tutorials are written in a straightforward and easy to understand way.
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Outdated practices / problem solutions
The practices that are shown to solve the problems at hand are rarely, if at all, updated. Usually, their tutorials and learning material is updated only after they see their profits drop.
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Built in editor
Almost every example has a "try it yourself" button which opens up an editor in a new tab. It allows you to play with the example code and see how it works.
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Doesn't care about teaching right
There are multiple errors in the data they show. Although the solutions they show work, they will lead to unmaintainable code. That happens even when the maintainable code alternatives are as easy or accessible to new programmers as the alternatives.
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Well organized tutorials
All of the lessons are separated into their own pages, which makes it easy to learn about specific concepts.
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Certifications not recognized
Many professionals in IT agree that w3s certifications are not recognized by them and are deemed useless. Good luck finding any respectable professional that accepts a w3s certification.
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Great source from Google search's perspective
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It is for profit
What defines what goes is and what gets fixed on w3schools is what gives them profit and what doesn't (through their ads system).
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Written tutorials only
While many learning resources offer a mixture of media in their courses (such as videos, challenges etc.), w3schools offers only written tutorials and code editors. This makes w3schools more beneficial as a quick reference rather than a primary learning resource.
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Think Python
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Free versions available
The book is available for free in PDF and HTML formats. A hardcover version can be bought from Amazon.
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Some missing instructions for absolute beginners
Some exercises sometimes require taking steps that aren't explained. Some functions and commands are used without explaining their purpose.
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Beginner-friendly
Think Python is a free book designed for those with no background in programming. It starts with basic concepts of programming, and is carefully designed to define all terms when they are first used and to develop each new concept in a logical progression. Larger pieces, like recursion and object-oriented programming are divided into a sequence of smaller steps and introduced over the course of several chapters.
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Google's Python Class
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Great for people with little programming experience
This is a free class for people with a little bit of programming experience who want to learn Python.
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Some programming experience is required
While the courses cover the very basics of Python, basic understanding of programming is needed to start learning from Google's Python class.
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Good mix of theoretical and practical material
The class includes written materials, lecture videos, and lots of code exercises to practice Python coding. These materials are used within Google to introduce Python to people who have just a little programming experience.
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Official Android developer's guide
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Best source for the most up-to-date information
The guides are actively maintained as they are the official guides for Android.
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Requires some programming experience
The guide is much better suited for those who have programming experience.
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Free
Available online for free.
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Covers both beginner and advanced topics
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Well-organized
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Comprehensive
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CheckiO
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Community backed solution reviews
Users can publish their solutions for different problems and other users can review the code and give their opinions on how they would have solved the problem. Sometimes, some of the most active users get their code reviewed by Guido Van Rossum (the creator of the Python language) himself.
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Not for absolute beginners
CheckiO does not teach syntax, instead it teaches how to solve problems using a particular programming language therefore some basic programming knowledge is required to start.
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Available in multiple languages
CheckiO crowdsources translations for problems. Currently problems have been translated in 10 languages. So it's highly possible that eventually more languages will be supported.
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Ability to create new challenges
New missions can be created and uploaded using GitHub. After that is done, it's suggested to CheckiO and if it fills all the requirements after being reviewed by a CheckiO team member, it's pulled into the game.
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Challenges from GitHub, O'Reilly, Dropbox and Hubspot.
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Codeasy
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The "reading story" approach is interesting and helps to start in programming
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Has only one programming language
Only has a C# track.
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Really good explanation of the topics
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Covers only basics
It would be nice if this tutorial would cover more in depth C# topics.
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Step-by-step tutorials
The fundamental theory is represented systematically, from the basic things to more complicated as a whole adventure story.
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Unique approach to tech stuff learning
No cold theory, fun way to learn coding.
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Slack for Help
Deeper explanation about the course tasks directly on Slack.
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C#,Python
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Code editor, exercises, story based education
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Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
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Free
Available online for free.
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Entertainment can be distracting
Being entertained while learning is not for everyone.
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Entertaining
The book includes drawings and jokes that can make the learning process more enjoyable.
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edX
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Free
Both edX and the classes are free.
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Lack of engagement in the forums
edX does not have the same forum participation from both students and instructors that other websites do, and the form of engagement often does not encourage discussion.
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Offers courses from well known schools
edX offers courses from a wide range of well known colleges and universities including Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Cornell and more.
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Courses aren't always available
While edX does offer some self-paced courses, you may end up waiting for the course of your choice to be run.
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Large selection of science courses
edX offers a wide variety of science-related courses. This makes it a great resource for learning not only specific programming languages, but also other topics relating to computer science.
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The forums are difficult to navigate
The forums are difficult to sort by date and topic, and are unintuitive to navigate.
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A lot of topics (subjects)
Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, food and nutrition, history, humanities, law, literature, math, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, science, statistics and more.
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Offer certificates for some courses
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Computer languages, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, English, Russian, French
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Forum, video tutorials, written tutorials, projects
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The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development
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Covers a lot of different subjects
This is an extremely large book at around 3500 pages. The table of contents is extensive, with topics ranging from the process model to power drain and memory leaks.
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PDF only
The updated versions are no longer available in print, and are only available for purchase from the site in PDF.
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Updated frequently
"The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development" is frequently updated (every couple of months) to insure all information is relevant.
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Code Avengers
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Reinforces concepts through fun interactions
Code Avengers makes their material engaging and interactive, which aids with understanding and retention of the material.
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A little slow
It may be slow, but that's only because it's thorough.
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Full of context
Explains what everything is before you must use it, unlike Codecademy, which just kind of tells you to do stuff. To figure out what everything is exactly, you must either look at the glossary or google it.
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Limited selection of courses
Compared to many other paid learning resources, Code avengers currently has a limited number of courses to choose from.
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Wide selection of courses
Not only do they offer Python, CSS and HTML, and all the works, they offer them in context packages, where you can work on a project that utilizes one or the other. Also, there are different recommended tracks for different purposes - web designer, etc.
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HTML / CSS / JavaScript / Python
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The Pragmatic Studio
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Will teach you to think like a programmer
The projects are designed in a way that allows you to visualize how OOP (object oriented programming) concepts fit together from the ground up.
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High cost
The course is quite expensive, with a regular price of $199 (current sale price is $149).
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Awesome instructors
The instructors (Mike and Nicole Clark) have a very clear and concise teaching style.
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Khan Academy
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Free
Khan Academy is 100% free and does not require you to sign up in order to access the courses.
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Limited programming courses
The programming courses are not in-depth, giving students only a basic knowledge of programming. The language choices are also limited (HTML, CSS and JavaScript).
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Motivation through gamification
Users collect badges and points through completing missions, watching videos, adding comments and more.
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Q & A Section
There is a Q & A section after every video where you can ask questions there and let other users answer them.
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Languages:
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
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Editor, progress saver, video tutorials, written tutorials
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Styling Android
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Actively updated
The blog is updated with a new post once a week.
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Not a good starting place for beginners
The blog assumes some knowledge of Android development.
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Free
Available online for free.
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