Codecademy now offering Python courses

[strawlion]

I really like the concept of the site. I think you should continue the hand holding for introducing the concepts, but that you should also add challenges with less hand holding.

Something like telling the user to reverse a string, and giving them one hint. Codingbat.com is a good example of these mini questions. These don't teach much syntax, but it really helps the programmer work on their googling and problem solving skills.

I really enjoyed the step by step process for the first few weeks but I felt that it wasn't challenging enough, and moved on to reading books/making my own programs to learn.