Show HN: Learning Ruby on Rails by creating an app(codelearn.org)
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Show HN: Learning Ruby on Rails by creating an app
http://www.codelearn.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial/1/Learning-Rails-basics/1/Ruby-on-rails-for-beginners
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Point 1 & 2 taken. I agree to your observation. The user should be shown 'Aha' moment ASAP & we are only delaying it which is bad.
Point 3 - guess this is classic example of we founders trying to show the philosophy as the first thing to the user. While he/she wants to learn RoR. Guess we should create a separate link 'Philosophy' on the main page & link the content there. Something like https://supportbee.com/ .
Point 4 - guess the command out is too long (especially the rails new part) which is making it look long.
Point 5 - a linux user is needed at the backend & hence there is a signup process for that. We need to figure out a sub-optimal way to provide console access to non-signed up users as well like what Codecademy etc do on their main page.
Point 3 - guess this is classic example of we founders trying to show the philosophy as the first thing to the user. While he/she wants to learn RoR. Guess we should create a separate link 'Philosophy' on the main page & link the content there. Something like https://supportbee.com/ .
Point 4 - guess the command out is too long (especially the rails new part) which is making it look long.
Point 5 - a linux user is needed at the backend & hence there is a signup process for that. We need to figure out a sub-optimal way to provide console access to non-signed up users as well like what Codecademy etc do on their main page.
This is Hemanth, other co-founder at codelearn. all that code you see is actually command output, not exactly code. You only have to type in small commands at console, for first 5-6 lessons.
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It would be nice if the images in the documentation were full-sized (they're just uselessly small), otherwise this is quite an effective way to learn.
I agree. Some of the images are plain wrong actually. They show screenshot of older version of Codelearn Playground. We will fix them.
Nice! But what's up with all the typos?
Feels like it was translated from something..
Our bad. Being non-native speakers, guess the grammar is bad. Please excuse.
I really admire anyone who is willing to write up good documentation.
What is your native language?
What is your native language?
Its Hindi (national language of India) for me & Kannada (a local language here in India) for my co-founder. We are reasonably good with spoken English but guess the written part is reasonably bad. We are on a lookout for a good tech guy who likes what we are doing, loves to write & can help us with the content creation & proof-reading.
Will do! I love what you guys are trying to do. Thanks!!
Thanks. Do give the Codelearn Playground a spin. The tasks are not prominently visible & you would need to wade through the lessons to see them. Would appreciate some feedback here or you may drop them to us personally - [email protected]
Caution: Things should be reasonably stable but you may expect some beta hiccups. Some hiccups might also come due to high HN traffic. We have reasonably low traffic otherwise. The server is a small EC2 instance.
Caution: Things should be reasonably stable but you may expect some beta hiccups. Some hiccups might also come due to high HN traffic. We have reasonably low traffic otherwise. The server is a small EC2 instance.
2. Once I click on take the course, you redirect me to a page where I only find text. Wait...this is not what I wanted...bail. I think that once you redirect, the first thing you should see is the course (or the console), so you can start exploring and falling in love with RoR.
3. There is way too much content in that second page...it feels more like a blog post. I would put a link to that content in the main page under three small links: Why codelearn? Why Ruby on Rails? Do I need Ruby? or something like that.
4. Most important: Why is all the scary code in the first class? If I am a newbie and I see that, I would think its way to complicated! Start with something easy...there is a reason why "Hello World" is the first thing you learn in any language out there.
5. Also, I cannot try the things as a anonymous user (I don't know about registered ones), because the console is nowhere in the page!
Good luck guys, I wish you the best.