Hi all

Python noob here (I've been learning it for about five weeks in my spare
time)

Codecademy can be pretty annoying, for instance some code they've recently
changed has made the site painful to use in a webkit browser. I, and
others, have found that pages need numerous refreshes before you can
successfully submit code.

I played around with their JavaScript examples at the end of the year and
got disheartened after a month or so. Examples and requirements were badly
explained, which meant it was incredibly frustrating to try to move through
the course as you'd write code according to what you thought they wanted,
which was often wrong. Right now, I'm trying the Python course because I'm
getting frustrated with Learn Python The Hard Way (I really do not have the
patience to type out his lengthy game examples, and I'm finding his
explanations/support getting worse as the book progresses). I'm curious to
see how it's going to progress. If it sucks, I'll go hunt for a new book.

Cheers

Francis

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Emily Strickland <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been curious about the thoughts of people who have actually learned
> using this.
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> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Looks pretty neat. Haven't played with it much yet.
> >
> > http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python
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