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Code School Launches

57 points by PStamatiou 16y ago

norova 16y ago
I'd recommend putting the price for the level next to the "Buy Now" button after the level description. The price already exists in the top right, but after I've scrolled down and read everything, I'd rather see the price next to the button I'm about to click, rather than having to scroll back up to the top.
austinB 16y ago
I am excited to give this a try. As someone who did not study CS or MIS at school (in fact far from it, accounting & finance) I am open to any resource to assist code education online. I have found a few decent offerings such as w3schools.com, Mozila's p2p school of webcraft, and dreamincode.net but don't know if these will give me all I need.. On a side note if anyone has any other sites I should be considering, don't hesitate to shout them out!
- doyoulikeworms 16y ago
  It doesn't look like these are what you are looking for, but projecteuler.net and programmingpraxis.com are great. I imagine these are more for maintaining and honing skills, rather than building them, but still great.
- Nat0 16y ago
  Stanford has some top quality material up for CS. I have completed cs106a and am working on cs106b and they are both top notch! http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx If you are looking at more web based stuff then David Malan (Harvard) has some great free stuff as well. http://cs50.tv/2010/fall/ http://cs50.tv/2010/fall/
- spacemanaki 16y ago
  MIT's Open Courseware is also top-notch stuff. The intro-to-CS and programming with Python has a set of lecture videos and assignments, I think there are a few others with lectures (including the famous 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Mafana0 16y ago
More discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354776 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354776
gacba 16y ago
I'd like to be able to see more about the classes & the site before you demand with a stop-screen to "You must login to continue"...I think you'll have stronger conversion rates if you let people look around a bit first. Registering just to check it out is a bit of a barrier.
- nigelsampson 16y ago
  Agreed, given the home page says "featured courses" I'd love to be able to see the other courses available without having to sign up.

57 points by PStamatiou 16y ago

I'd recommend putting the price for the level next to the "Buy Now" button after the level description. The price already exists in the top right, but after I've scrolled down and read everything, I'd rather see the price next to the button I'm about to click, rather than having to scroll back up to the top.

austinB 16y ago

I am excited to give this a try. As someone who did not study CS or MIS at school (in fact far from it, accounting & finance) I am open to any resource to assist code education online. I have found a few decent offerings such as w3schools.com, Mozila's p2p school of webcraft, and dreamincode.net but don't know if these will give me all I need.. On a side note if anyone has any other sites I should be considering, don't hesitate to shout them out!

doyoulikeworms 16y ago
It doesn't look like these are what you are looking for, but projecteuler.net and programmingpraxis.com are great. I imagine these are more for maintaining and honing skills, rather than building them, but still great.
Nat0 16y ago
Stanford has some top quality material up for CS. I have completed cs106a and am working on cs106b and they are both top notch! http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx If you are looking at more web based stuff then David Malan (Harvard) has some great free stuff as well. http://cs50.tv/2010/fall/ http://cs50.tv/2010/fall/
spacemanaki 16y ago
MIT's Open Courseware is also top-notch stuff. The intro-to-CS and programming with Python has a set of lecture videos and assignments, I think there are a few others with lectures (including the famous 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Mafana0 16y ago

More discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354776 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354776

gacba 16y ago

I'd like to be able to see more about the classes & the site before you demand with a stop-screen to "You must login to continue"...I think you'll have stronger conversion rates if you let people look around a bit first. Registering just to check it out is a bit of a barrier.

nigelsampson 16y ago
Agreed, given the home page says "featured courses" I'd love to be able to see the other courses available without having to sign up.