You make good points about the need to develop skills for finding information and learning on your own. I do think, though, that there's a lot of value in incr

You make good points about the need to develop skills for finding information and learning on your own. I do think, though, that there's a lot of value in increasing the visibility of that information to increase the efficiency with which that information can be accessed -- think how Google and Stack Overflow have changed the productivity of programmers. Having a good set of resources laid out for me certainly doesn't take away from the fact that I've still got to learn them but it does prevent me from wasting time with inferior ones. There's also value in producing and marshaling those resources because there will always be a set of people who might have been great developers but never really entered the learning funnel because they didn't have access to good resources at the time when they were ripe to explore them. In terms of ease of learning, sites like codecademy make it extremely easy to get started but you're certainly not going to be able to learn an employable skillset by working solely in a hand-holding browser environment. That's why I've tried to focus on building real (and often difficult) projects along the way in this curriculum. Start to finish, it will likely take ~1000 hours to complete. I guess my points are that A) development will (and should) require a certain degree of actual effort to learn because that's how you develop problem solving skills but finding the right resources to do so shouldn't, and, B) making those resources more accessible helps more people potentially great find their way to the profession.