Codecademy?
Monkey Forums/Monkey Beginners/Codecademy?
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| Hi there! I'm new to the Monkey community, although I've been aware of the project for quite some time now. I was wondering if anyone had thought about putting up a beginner's course in Monkey on a site like codecademy? The videos by InvaderJim are great, but I have a hard time following video tutorials because I'm constantly pausing the video to switch to the IDE, etc. Anyway, I was just wondering. I look forward to getting to know you all as time goes on. :) |
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| Hi- Jim's videos are indeed awesome. I made a couple of tutorials myself during the summer, aimed at a beginner level: Part1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FemgEQ7Pto Part2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RotqUaSFeLE Codeacademy isnt really somewhere I hang out though. I'd like to do some more (better ones?!) but they are a lot of work :/ It would be a huge job to build an entire course, but someone might do it! I know what you mean about actually using the IDE yourself versus just watching a video. I think the monkey examples folder is also very useful for learning - after going through those I was pretty confident to make a simple game. good luck, baz |
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| I've heard of CodeAcademy, but it sounded like a really bad idea from what I heard. It's like they're trying to teach everyone to program when very clearly not everyone should program. I can attest to this being in a programming class where I was a tutor for a number of the students. Even with a 45 minute explanation, this guy could not understand the printf command in Java. I digressed though, maybe I'll take a look to see just what it is. I like to teach sometimes, although I drift off into tangents a bit too frequently. Edit: According to the site, it's only for teaching web-related languages and you can't go outside that bubble. So just sit down and learn Monkey the classic way everyone else learned it, by doing. |
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| Nice vids Baz, well done! :) |
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