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Is codecadamy a good resource?
| The python course was OK. That + lots of stackexchange was all I ever learned.
| It's good for figuring out if you want to pursue more learning but once you exhaust their courses you're either gonna have to do some paid learning or learn by doing. Just start building something and look up stackexchange as you need help
| Yeah, it would be a good resource if its something youd want to pursue. Otherwise itd just be useless in a sense that no one would use it cuz no one needs it nor wants to use it. But if theres just that 2% of people who want to pursue coding then its worth while
| Pirate an intro course book to some language, and read a good part of it; you don't even need to finish it to get a good grasp of the language, and start working on projects. The rest you learn from trial and error, and lots of googling.
| >>60487
>pirating books
Just what kind of a barbarian are you?
Ah, but I do only jest.
So far I've completed HTML+CSS+"Building Websites" courses on this site, but it feels like a whole fricking lot of stuff was left out. Seemingly important stuff, too. I guess I really would be better off learning by doing and vigorously googling, but I suck at setting short-term goals as steps for myself.
| Had to use codeacademy for my class
| >>61048 the "googling" phase happens quite naturally, it's a need basically, and you learn from that need, by reading explanations for crashes and such
| > the "googling" phase happens quite naturally, it's a need basically
This. So much. Learning programming is like 1% lesson, 49% googling, and 50% going off and doing your own thing with what you've picked up.
Codecademy is pretty good for that 1%
| >>62138
Maybe that's what happens at first, especially if you pick up programming by yourself, but once you have some experience with a pl you can grab some resources, try to understand as thoroughly as possible what you want to work with, and then start your project. The "learn by doing" strategy works, but it's not necessarily the best one, ane constantly googling inevitably leads to deconcentration
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| Maybe someone can speak from experience, does it give a nice base of knowledge to keep learning stuff on your own afterwards? Or maybe there's something better in terms of free (it's important) online courses? So far I've completed their python, html and css courses, but I feel like they have left out so much stuff. So, any thoughts on the matter?