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CodeLesson — Online Technology Learning for Professionals

11 points by kmfrk 16y ago

jespi88 16y ago
I am thinking about taking a course from them. I was hoping that I would be able to get some reviews from you guys about whether or not I should do it. Has anyone taken a course? Any thoughts?
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- kmfrk 16y ago
  If you consider taking a course soon-ish, I'd be sure to sign up for the courses ASAP, because they've received a stampede of traffic. The Etsy API course was beyond filled - but it was probably more attractive than many other courses.
enry_straker 16y ago
I can't speak about the site or the quality of the instructors but i have nothing but appreciation for Charles Max Wood, the instructor for the Ruby and Rails course. I think he also conducts the ruby programming language course. Check out his free online videos on rails at www.teachmetocode.com. They are free and will probably give you a good idea about the pace at which he conducts his online classes.
- jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
  Charles teaches Rails; Peter Cooper teaches the Ruby language. I'm a founder of CodeLesson and also an instructor. Happy to answer questions here or privately at my username at gmail.
  - YuriNiyazov 16y ago
    How can I become an instructor?
    - jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
      Most of our instructors are domain experts in the languages or platforms that they teach. Nearly all have extensive experience teaching or writing (most are book authors). A few of our courses have been suggested by users (there's a form for that here: http://codelesson.com/courses/suggest http://codelesson.com/courses/suggest). We also sometimes list courses that don't have instructors yet; those course pages contain an "Instructors Need" link you can use to let us know you'd like to teach. To teach on the site, it helps us if you have a complete CodeLesson profile, including LinkedIn and Twitter links if you have them.
zdw 16y ago
Why hide the pricing behind a link that just reveals it inline? The pricing isn't bad... it's just unusual to hide it.
- jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
  We're not hiding it -- just keeping it out of the way. The principal user intention on the course page is to learn about what's in the course and who's teaching it. Most of our courses have multiple discounts; there's not always a single price. Early testing and user feedback revealed that students found a giant price list to be confusing to navigate, so the choice was to either get rid of the discounts or make the list less obtrusive. Subsequent testing suggested that we made the correct choice.

11 points by kmfrk 16y ago

I am thinking about taking a course from them. I was hoping that I would be able to get some reviews from you guys about whether or not I should do it. Has anyone taken a course? Any thoughts?

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kmfrk 16y ago
If you consider taking a course soon-ish, I'd be sure to sign up for the courses ASAP, because they've received a stampede of traffic. The Etsy API course was beyond filled - but it was probably more attractive than many other courses.

enry_straker 16y ago

I can't speak about the site or the quality of the instructors but i have nothing but appreciation for Charles Max Wood, the instructor for the Ruby and Rails course. I think he also conducts the ruby programming language course. Check out his free online videos on rails at www.teachmetocode.com. They are free and will probably give you a good idea about the pace at which he conducts his online classes.

jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
Charles teaches Rails; Peter Cooper teaches the Ruby language. I'm a founder of CodeLesson and also an instructor. Happy to answer questions here or privately at my username at gmail.
- YuriNiyazov 16y ago
  How can I become an instructor?
  - jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
    Most of our instructors are domain experts in the languages or platforms that they teach. Nearly all have extensive experience teaching or writing (most are book authors). A few of our courses have been suggested by users (there's a form for that here: http://codelesson.com/courses/suggest http://codelesson.com/courses/suggest). We also sometimes list courses that don't have instructors yet; those course pages contain an "Instructors Need" link you can use to let us know you'd like to teach. To teach on the site, it helps us if you have a complete CodeLesson profile, including LinkedIn and Twitter links if you have them.

zdw 16y ago

Why hide the pricing behind a link that just reveals it inline? The pricing isn't bad... it's just unusual to hide it.

jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
We're not hiding it -- just keeping it out of the way. The principal user intention on the course page is to learn about what's in the course and who's teaching it. Most of our courses have multiple discounts; there's not always a single price. Early testing and user feedback revealed that students found a giant price list to be confusing to navigate, so the choice was to either get rid of the discounts or make the list less obtrusive. Subsequent testing suggested that we made the correct choice.