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I've been a longtime member @ HN, but I haven't been a developer. In fact, my only HN submission has been one asking how to learn to code (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820741). We decided to solve the problem by making a simple, interactive way to get started with Codecademy. We'd love your feedback. If you're interested in helping us to get more courses up (on any topic!), please send us an email at HN (at) codecademy.com.



this must be why you have such a unique empathy for the user. you've truly put yourself in the user's shoes instead of lecturing.

its obvious something is great when you instantly think why the hell hasn't everything been like this all along.


thanks! i learned JS while writing the tutorial so it definitely was quite an experience. really appreciate the compliment!


Awesome, thanks! I've always thought the use of books to teach programming was a bit ironic, especially for interpreted languages.

Back in the early '90s I had a book called Master C, which came with a floppy that ran a similar type of tutorial.

http://www.amazon.com/Waite-Groups-Master-Book-Disks/dp/1878...

Seems like a long gap between then and now.

Also, please let me request a course on Clojure. That would rule!


http://www.try-clojure.org/


(+ 3 3) is really how arithmetic is performed in Clojure? Okay, I'm done with learning Clojure.


It may look like a weird way to type things, but it has hidden advantages when you try to do more complex things, like treating data as a program... or programs as data.

It's a small price to pay, really, for the power to make some really complex things a lot easier, even if it's a bit weird at first.

After a while, it won't even seem weird any more.


Thanks - I don't think they had the tutorial when last I saw it.


one course on clojure, coming right up!


I, for one, would prefer clojurescript.


will you use clojurescript?


I think this is going to be an interesting experiment:

I am going to test how many students at our high school can get interested in programming after trying out Codecedemy.


Any advice on starting something if you're not a developer, or how you gathered the resources to do it with your limited knowledge? I'm not a developer but I just started doing LPTHW, I'd love to create something of my own but I was never good at making something from 'nothing'.


LPTHW is terrific. we're hoping to offer courses beyond basic javascript so you'll be able to learn from Codecademy too. the easiest thing to do is make something - think of what you'd like to make and keep referencing books on your way to completing it!


Thanks for the tip, I linked your website out to some of my non-programmer friends who I would have never thought would like it, and one of them is already on lesson 3!


great! thanks for sharing it!


could you write about how you went from a non-programmer to be able to launch that web site? would be super-interesting.




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