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I'm the cofounder of Codecademy - we've done a lot of work on our platform for a while and our lessons are community generated (but occasionally edited in-house
by zds 14y ago
I'm the cofounder of Codecademy - we've done a lot of work on our platform for a while and our lessons are community generated (but occasionally edited in-house). The lessons by Twitter, Evernote, etc. have been created by those companies and QA'd both by our community (in beta) and in-house. Let us know if you see anything amiss!
- paulwithap 14y agoSince you're here, I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents on the API lessons: There seems to be a pretty big knowledge gap from the HTML/CSS/JS tracks to the API tracks. It's nice that you give some basic info on HTTP requests and responses, but after that we're sort of left hanging without really knowing what to do with the material we've been presented. The Youtube lesson, for example, shows you how to retrieve JSON with the top videos for a given query and insert it into an HTML file, but what good does that do? Honestly, most of them seem more like advertising space for the company making the lesson than anything else.
- pkteison 14y agoI wish that error handling would be a front-and-center part of any API instruction. There are a few obvious spots in the Evernote lesson I looked at where a sentence or two and a link to more info about how a remote network call might fail or a call could kick out errors due to input validations would really help someone who really wants to learn.
- ismaelc 14y agoFirst of all we here at Mashape love what Codecademy offers. As one of the APIs on the list, we would like to encourage everyone to try out our tutorial if everything's in order. We welcome comments and suggestions to further improve our API mashup tutorial. Having said that, what language would you like to see next? (we started with Ruby)