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Many of my former students had wildly inaccurate mental models so I built a platform that focuses on addressing that particular issue: https://wakata.io https:/
by rathereasy 6y ago
Many of my former students had wildly inaccurate mental models so I built a platform that focuses on addressing that particular issue: https://wakata.io https://wakata.io
It teaches JavaScript, but most mainstream programming languages have the same semantics. It's particularly challenging because building a good mental model of programming takes a lot of time and effort.
- truckerbill 6y agoHi, this is great. A few bits of feedback - let people skip lessons (those variable declarations are very tedious if you know what you're doing). It would also be good to automatically highlight the value field after creating a new frame variable. It takes about 4 keyboard actions to enter the value which is a bit frustrating. I get the forced restart is helpful for newbies to learn but I also found it a bit frustrating coupled with the interface.
- rathereasy 6y agoThanks for the feedback! You mentioned things I never thought of before, like selecting the value instead of typing it out