(Idea Feedback) Learn to code via interactive mini workshops
Hey all, happy Sunday.
I'm thinking about building a platform for helping people learn to code. Currently, the vast majority of online learning platforms use videos to teach programming (Treehouse, Udacity, Coursera, etc.). These are fantastic resources, but i've always thought learning by doing is best, especially when learning to code.
I'm thinking of building a platform that provides miniature interactive lessons that are worked through in the users own native environment (their own editor, their own terminal). The best example of this would be https://nodeschool.io/.
The service would initially focus on Android and iOS development. Is this something that users here who are are either interested in or currently learning to code would want?
Well, good luck but codecademy and tons of other similar services do exactly the same.
Not really. I can't say i've used codecademy much, but IIRC it's all online on their actual website, and you don't actually build anything real using your own environment, like you would when normally coding.
That's true. What I meant those services didn't use videos at all but some practical exercises.
Okay, another example is coursera. Even if they use videos for lectures, you will have to do a lot of projects as practice. Is it what you want to build or still not?