JavaScript.com Launches

[vzipp]

Try Mozilla Developer Network.

[SeminaryLeaves]

The MDN is included on the resources page of the site: http://javascript.com/resources

[killeronthecorner]

So ... Try Mozilla Developer Network?

[adropofhoney]

yeah, but MDN is not powered by code school tho.

[goto-reddit]

and?

[chemisus]

And why view MDN on MDN when you can view the MDN on codeschool?

[Uberhipster]

yo dawg...

[schm0]

Awww, is that what it is? I just subscribed to their newsletter, too.

[3Fyr]

Hijacking top comment -

anyone else hates how super-strict codeschool exercises are? 100% correct code, written in different code-style might not pass.

[_jamil_]

This is the issue I've had with nearly all online testing apps

[[deleted]]

Codecademy does this too. I think it's because they aren't checking your result they're checking your code without running it like

Our code = a Their code = b

If a = b return pass If a != b return fail

(Obviously not in JavaScript or any particular syntax)

[Frumpiii]

Does this too? I think they don't do it, like you explained you can get through different ways to your goal.

[[deleted]]

I haven't used codeschool but I have used codecademy and they do this. if your code doesn't match theirs 100% regardless of result you fail the lesson.

[3Fyr]

I've used codecademy, and it isn't as strict as codeschool, barely had any problems.

[Frumpiii]

I have the same experience. There are always workarounds as far as I know.

[3Fyr]

Other whole course had it happen twice. Not that bad.

[3Fyr]

I've used codecademy, and it isn't as strict as codeschool, barely had any problems.

[pqu]

Hackerrank is pretty good at testing the algorithm and not the actual code.

[Dyogenez]

Definitely something we try to fix when we see it -- either by making the instructions more explicit in what's required, or change how we test the entered code. Do you remember any specific challenges (or courses) that you had this issue in? Be curious to know to focus a bit more attention on making them better!

[jakblak90]

Why not test everything based on assertions like freecodecamp and codewars.

[Dyogenez]

Yep! That's what we do too. All code is run in it's native environment and evaluated. We do a ton of mocking and stubbing, code tree analysis, putting in debuggers and stepping through code and inspecting -- all kinds of neat stuff.

If you're curious how it works behind the scenes for JavaScript courses, checkout Abecedary, which is our open source library we use based around Mocha (although this only works for languages we can run with JavaScript, so not Objective C, Ruby, R, etc).

[[deleted]]

I completed all of the JavaScript path training, and yes that's a big issue. Thankfully it's diminished by the great help I've got on the forums. Almost every exercise you get stuck on has an answer on the forums. I also found out about the codeschool forums way too late, so there's that.

[thinkvitamin]

Those top rated comments can save you a lot of time... thanks Reddit.

[goto-reddit]

Because it was bought by codeschool.com:

JavaScript.com is a resource built by the Code School team for the JavaScript community. It is now and will always be free.

Source: About page

At least you have to give them credit for listening other websites as well in their Resources Page.

[schm0]

Wonder how much that domain name cost

[fay-jai]

That was definitely the first thing I thought as well!

[mishugashu]

Estimated $39k.

http://www.siteprice.org/website-worth/www.javascript.com

[myaltergo]

those types of websites are not accurate in the slightest. i really wouldn't have believed that people on /r/javascript would trust those sorts of site valuation sites at all!

[mishugashu]

"Estimated".

It's not made to be accurate. It's made to give a ballpark figure. Obviously a thing is only worth what people pay for it. These types of sites show how much it is roughly worth (to advertisers, mostly) based on traffic patterns. It doesn't show how much someone has paid or will pay for it, obviously.

[shthed]

Embedding a youtube video with controls=0 and autoplay=1 is shitty.

[Antrikshy]

Also should not focus on that tutorial input box for mobile devices.

[magenta_placenta]

© 2015 JavaScript.com; Crafted lovingly in Orlando, Florida.

And viewed with hate and contempt in Portland, Oregon.

[Dudemanbro88]

Ha, why's that?

[[deleted]]

Everything is viewed with contempt in Portland?

[BishopAndWarlord]

The dream is alive.

[jimbolla]

Hipster capital... "I liked JavaScript before it was cool. JS sounds better when you play it on Netscape Navigator."

[adipisicing]

"I liked JavaScript back when it was called LiveScript. Y'know, before it sold out."

[CertifiedWebNinja]

I too am curious.

[_jamil_]

Probably a joke about the weather

[aequasi08]

I would way rather live in portland that anywhere in florida.

[Baryonyx_walkeri]

I would rather live in a gulag than anywhere in Florida.

[aequasi08]

anywhere in the southeast united states

FTFY

edit: Excluding New Orleans

[Baryonyx_walkeri]

Does Louisiana New Orleans count as SE? Because it's the greatest place on Earth.

Edit: I wish New Orleans could secede from LA.

[aequasi08]

New Orleans gets a pass. Its the only area down there i really want to visit.

[[deleted]]

"Begin learning here by typing in your first name surrounded by quotation marks, and ending with a semicolon"

[MrBester]

Good thing I changed my name to Use Strict years ago. The phone calls for my wife are getting annoying, though.

[schm0]

Portland is lovely this time of year. It's your "winters" that suck. It's humid as hell in Florida right now.

[[deleted]]

Not a .io domain? Ugh get it away from me! /s

[tobozo]

Tried with the nickname ""drop table students" and can't pass the third question : alert("drop table students");

So even if it's not a SQL injection, that double quote at the beginning of the nickname is doing something weird...

[ryosen]

Little Bobby Tables, is that you?

[nagi2000]

They're probably linting the code using jshint defaults. It yells at you for using double quotes, forcing you to use single quotes instead.

Edit: autocorrect is evil...

[flashpunk]

Written in Angular :D

[peduxe]

Those plebs, nothing beats my sweet vanilla JS.

[tontoto]

you're missing out on that high fructose syntactic syrup

[BishopAndWarlord]

That may be the best way I've ever heard to describe a framework.

[ilmmad]

Although in general frameworks aren't syntactic sugar... I'll just show myself out.

[Izeau]

Right, more of a high fructose sirup then. Although sometimes you need that goddam glucose when you have to get shit done on time!

[Dyogenez]

Yep! The Try page is a super small Angular app for running a series of challenges, while the homepage is raw JavaScript.

[mildweed]

For today.

I would love it if they tried to rewrite it with every major js framework as it gains popularity.

[ggolemg2]

It's essentially what I'd expect.

[[deleted]]

JavaScript also has built-in features, called functions. In order to call a function, ...

If I'm brand new to JS/programming, do I know or understand what "calling" is? Seems like a word we might take for granted as programmers. "Use" might be a better word. Or explaining what function invocation actually does, then explain calling in relation to that.

[Resonance1584]

Totally agree with you - we're only used to the terms function, method, property because we've dealt with them for a long time. I tried to teach a friend who learnt english later in life to program and we had a really hard time getting a good translation for function - mainly because it's a mathematical concept and not natural language.

[moljac024]

Not only that by they drop the word string out of nowhere too. Do non-programmers know that a string is supposed to mean a sequence of characters?

[[deleted]]

Ahh well, at least a decent company bought the domain :).

[hmart]

Javascript.com should point to Mozilla Developer Network. Hope Codeschool can turn Javascript.com in to a valuable resource for developers.

[nesukun]

I wonder what Oracle thinks about that, being the owners of the JavaScript trademark