💻 Learn to code by building projects!
Enlight is the educational network where you can learn to code by building real projects. What started as a blog of a few different tutorial write-ups is transforming into a fully fledged launchpad for your coding journey.
We're getting our brand out there on college campuses, hackathons, and online communities because we understand that the worst way to learn to code is by yourself. We want to bring people into our community, which we host on Discord, who also love to learn, build, and share what they're working on.
Ever wanted to code but didn't know where or how to start? Check us out! Want to completely roast our idea? Please, that's what we're building in public for — my cofounder and I want to build the resource and community we wish we had when we were learning to code, so we want to make it as great as can be.
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I love the "learn by building" strategy and it's essentially the tagline I start all my videos with.
That said, it's a bit cruel to drive beginners towards JS as a first language!
I see your point! It's definitely different but we focus on exploring the JavaScript that lets learners add interactivity to their web dev projects. Once we start diving into the nitty gritty then yeah it can be overwhelming. On the other hand, we have an amazing community and it's quite impressive to see how fast people learn to search the internet efficiently for the answers they need (a skill in itself!)
Probably the best solution is to just use a minimal subset of the language that hides as much complexity as possible (at least for a while).
Its a really nice thought. Let me know if I can help.
Seems interesting! I think far too many people start learning to code in a theoretical manner (at least in my circles :)) and finally end up realizing that building real projects is very different! This could be a great way for people to start learning!
How has your experience been so far? Is someone who has never coded before able to cope with the course?
We've done very well with beginners and semi beginners (people who've tried to learn to code at least once before) because the instant gratification of making stuff is super encouraging, especially because they have the support of our awesome community!