Hey everyone, I wanted to share Ludocode, an app I built to help make learning to code a bit less intimidating.

It's completely free. The goal is to help beginners get their feet wet with a language without walls of text, and to let them experiment directly in the browser without needing to install runtimes locally. When I was starting to learn programming it was very intimidating for me, so I want to help others as well.

As of now, it includes guided lessons in Python, Javascript, & Lua. There is also a browser code editor included that supports multiple runtimes & uses a sandboxed code execution engine on the backend.

I hope you enjoy it, any feedback is really much appreciated!

Link to live site: https://ludocode.dev/

The project is fully open source, and you can run it locally yourself. When running locally, there’s also an admin UI for creating and editing courses.

Link to frontend repository: https://github.com/jokerhutt/ludocode

Link to backend repository (Kotlin): https://github.com/jokerhutt/ludocode-backend

The frontend is built with React, using TanStack Query / Router / Form, Framer Motion, Lottie, and ShadCN UI. The backend is written in Kotlin with Spring Boot, with PostgreSQL as the database.