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I think Code Academy's front page is too much like baby-talking to an adult. It starts "People write programs to make computers do things." then they tell you

I think Code Academy's front page is too much like baby-talking to an adult. It starts "People write programs to make computers do things." then they tell you to try using your computer to add numbers as if that's impressive. Is the layperson supposed to be surprised that his computer can work as a calculator? The entire front page is extremely condescending. Obviously it's worked for them this far, so it must be somewhat enticing to a certain demographic, but I think there's room for less condescension.

mattlutze 13y ago
I've been training some of my non-technical staff to support some of our lower-level tickets, requiring them to read and modify some HTML files. At the beginning for most of them, we open a simple nearly empty page with a few tags and their eyes gloss over. "Coding" is an incredibly opaque wall to the non-initiated, and, while using a simulated command line to do math won't be surprising, if someone is going to go from 0 to initiated, do not underestimate the size of the baby steps needed.