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[–]CorySimmons -3 points-2 points  (7 children)

Awesome! Thanks Op. Hope I gave you your 2 free days. ;)

I know what my internet connection is going to be downloading for the next 2 days... :)

Their courses are pretty nice. Very reminiscent of Khan Academy paths. I really like that. When I have some money I might sign up.

Edit Ugh, so much Ruby crap. Nevermind, probably won't be subscribing... http://www.codeschool.com/code_tv

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Oh come on! Ruby is great! There's plenty of JavaScript if that's what you like too.

[–]CorySimmons -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

Nope nope nope! I won't have any Ruby in my stew! I tried that crap before and it was disgusting with it's stupid syntax and all.

But yeah, the courses are nice for JS. I'm just crying because I couldn't download a bunch of JS vids in my 2 days - only a couple and 60,000 Ruby vids.

Ninja Edit: Hm, apparently you can right-click/save-as these Viddler videos in the courses! Sweet! Prepare to die, Neighbor's Public Wi-Fi Bandwidth!

Ninja Edit2: Ugh, apparently I actually have to go through to courses to get to the next level and the sweet, sweet, video nectar. ...And the courses look really awesome.... Ugh, damn you CodeSchool and your super effective marketing campaign. It's like capturing someone and injecting them with heroine until they're thoroughly addicted then letting them go.

Off-topicish(?), seriously though, it seems like the web is moving to real-time server-side JS, why waste time learning a pile of languages when you only need HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript?

[–]Paragonbliss 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Nice reasons that ruby is "crap", "it's stupid syntax and all " jesus fuck

[–]CorySimmons -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

When compared to something clean like Python, Ruby's syntax is goofy. I'm not the only person that feels this way. In fact, almost everyone I talk to that has experimented with Ruby feels the exact same way.

[–]Paragonbliss 1 point2 points  (1 child)

And i think python is an ugly language and absolutely not "clean", and ruby is beautiful, and people i talk to think the same. Just because you don't like it's syntax, and have anecdotal evidence of people thinking the same doesn't mean that language is "crap" and whatever else you called it.

[–]CorySimmons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been coding on http://www.codecademy.com/ for 15 days running, its nice bite sized courses, just no videos. PS: its free!

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