I have found a couple of solutions through the forums, but remember my first point. Also you can click on hints for the problem you are on and in a number of hints I have gotten "have you tried adding numbers?" or a comment of the sort (no, I am not kidding, most of the hints are nigh insulting). All of a sudden perfect answers have errors and there is absolutely no explanation for that. but even this is broken in the later lessons. After enough banging your head into a wall, you can click to see the solution, an exemplar, which is great for learning purposes.
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Now Code Academy has one great feature (until it is not). This really really a simple lesson planning 101 flaw that could easily be corrected, but alas it has not.Īgain, being new to coding, when I have somebody saying syntax error to my face, I do not know what I need to fix. That being said I cannot tell you how many times the instructions said something along the lines of "Why don't you try using (thing you have never learned or been taught before)." Literally, a number of lessons ask new coders, such as myself, to use things in lessons that they never introduced in the first place. Lesson planning is kind of a big thing for me. I have a Master's in Education and I have taught for seven years. oh, I did get one response, but it was essentially trying to crush my enthusiasm, and well yeah, the community was a real let down.
I had staff hide my posts a couple of times though. I made a number of posts on the forums, staying highly positive, and I never got a helpful reply. I understand that there are some elements I probably would not get till I pay but at the same time the community seemed bleak and disconnected. Now let me say why I came to this conclusion in my experience.
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Needless to say, I am not considering that option anymore.Įssentially the free sample sucks and you have to make it good for people to want to buy your product. I started encountering lesson ruining elements every single step of the way. I was thinking about paying for Code Academy over the summer when I would have more time to work at the lessons, but the more I did them in my down time, the more it became like I was a debugger getting paid $0 an hour. After crumpling to the floor, blue faced, you contemplate "should I buy this product?" That is exactly how my experience went. You start gagging, you double over and everyone around you stops their carts to look at you.
You plop it in your mouth and are initially satisfied, but then it tastes awful. I was getting badges, it saves your progress, offers hints and solutions, it seemed very inviting/easy to get started learning about things, it essentially has training wheels (and I needed those a bit) and most importantly in was free.īut imagine a free sample in a grocery store. So Code Academy was initially very appealing.
that being said, my review is just from a new user/Python perspective. Been working on it for about two months, off and on, all I have done is basics to HTML and Python (and about 15-16 pages of notes). First off, let me say that I am relatively new to coding.
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