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Hey, everyone! I've built this project because I want to collect the best learning resources for Web Developers and Startup Founders, and make it easy to discov

by rayalez 10y ago

Hey, everyone! I've built this project because I want to collect the best learning resources for Web Developers and Startup Founders, and make it easy to discover them. I hope you guys will find it useful! The project is open source, you can find our repo here: https://github.com/raymestalez/webacademy https://github.com/raymestalez/webacademy I'm actively working on making this platform better, and I would really love to hear any comments/feedback/suggestions/critique!

brudgers 10y ago
As a user, I am unable to efficiently differentiate between similar resources to determine which might be better or worse for me. Each resource appears in an identical box without supporting information - I do not know if a link leads to is a video or a pdf or a blog post or an interactive website. It would also be useful to have information about why each is considered best and who it is best for (beginner, intermediate, advanced?). The votes don't really provide information. Finally, the number of topics might be too broad too soon. Drilling down on one topic and getting all the details right is an alternative. Resources for ounders and web developers and backend engineers do not have a lot of overlap and the competing topics are noisy from the user's perspective...filtering by the user is not a substitute for the benefits that can come from a narrowly focused design. Good luck.
- rayalez 10y ago
  Thank you very much for your feedback! There are tags at the bottom of each post, indicating it's type and difficulty level. To drill down on one topic and get the details right I'm planning to use tags, like this one: http://webacademy.io/react-tutorials/ http://webacademy.io/react-tutorials/
  - brudgers 10y ago
    The top link has a |level:all| tag. The difficulty may be that the website does not express clear opinions...I mean 'opinions' in the sense of Ruby on Rails where agree or disagree the number of decisions the user must make is reduced. For comparison consider Zed Shaw's Learn X the Hard Way. There are other ways of teaching that might be better for some learners. Those people are able to make a quick decision that Shaw's work is not for them. He does not waste their time searching and trying to be all things to all people. Rails does not try to be all things to all people either. That's good.

by rayalez 10y ago

brudgers 10y ago

As a user, I am unable to efficiently differentiate between similar resources to determine which might be better or worse for me. Each resource appears in an identical box without supporting information - I do not know if a link leads to is a video or a pdf or a blog post or an interactive website. It would also be useful to have information about why each is considered best and who it is best for (beginner, intermediate, advanced?). The votes don't really provide information. Finally, the number of topics might be too broad too soon. Drilling down on one topic and getting all the details right is an alternative. Resources for ounders and web developers and backend engineers do not have a lot of overlap and the competing topics are noisy from the user's perspective...filtering by the user is not a substitute for the benefits that can come from a narrowly focused design. Good luck.

rayalez 10y ago
Thank you very much for your feedback! There are tags at the bottom of each post, indicating it's type and difficulty level. To drill down on one topic and get the details right I'm planning to use tags, like this one: http://webacademy.io/react-tutorials/ http://webacademy.io/react-tutorials/
- brudgers 10y ago
  The top link has a |level:all| tag. The difficulty may be that the website does not express clear opinions...I mean 'opinions' in the sense of Ruby on Rails where agree or disagree the number of decisions the user must make is reduced. For comparison consider Zed Shaw's Learn X the Hard Way. There are other ways of teaching that might be better for some learners. Those people are able to make a quick decision that Shaw's work is not for them. He does not waste their time searching and trying to be all things to all people. Rails does not try to be all things to all people either. That's good.