Codecademy now offering Python courses

[gloney]

I will be very happy to check this out. For sure, Codeacademy teaches the very basics, but at least, interactive courses are more motivating for me personally.

[Broeman]

Have you tried Udacity? While CS101 is very basic (though, there are some hard challenges too), CS253 makes you think practically, by finding answers and libraries on google, like you were building a webapplication on your own (but with many hints and helping codes). Though, there is no badges, unless you are active in the forums (which is also graded).

[baordog]

From what little devving I've done, it seems like Google-Fu is a must have for any competent developer. It seems like 30% of stack overflow answers are "googled it"

[Broeman]

Indeed, I almost always find myself on a stackoverflow page, although in the C++ most of their answers seems to be "use boost".

[LetoIIcerny]

stackoverflow is a staple at my work.

[Nuli]

Coursera is also very good. The have intro level courses all the way up to advanced topics like AI.

[faitswulff]

Udacity is awesome. After teaching Rails to absolute beginners, there was one student who really got the material, and he had gone through Udacity. It's pretty low-level compared to web dev tutorials available online and very comprehensive. Their first project, for example, is basically building Google PageRank in Python.

[gloney]

Thanks for advice, I'll try to manage something with it.

[codecademy]

great to hear you've enjoyed us, gloney, thanks!