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user-inactivated  ·  4393 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What programming languages do you know?

okay, is there anything like tryruby for python? I like that kind of format, a repl formatted for learning.



viper1092  ·  4392 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll jump in and say that Codecademy is great. They have a Python track. It's free and interactive.

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user-inactivated  ·  4392 days ago  ·  link  ·  

awesome! turns out codecademy has in addition ruby! http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/ruby

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viper1092  ·  4391 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, man. I love Codecademy. If you wanna try out VILT I'd suggest Udacity.com or KahnAcademy.org (some people prefer that format). For straight C look towards computerscienceforeveryone.com.

Actually computerscienceforeveryone also has awesome low level basics about binary, ram, pointers, and memory management.

Sorry if any of this doesn't make sense. I'll blame it on 1) it being early, 2) typing on iPhone, and 3) likely autocorrected hilariously.

Edits: for clarity?

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user-inactivated  ·  4391 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What is VILT? I'm not a huge fan of watching videos (like on KhanAcademy) because I can read much faster than the person in the video can speak. Is there an online repl-tutorial for C?

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viper1092  ·  4391 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh sorry. Video instructor led trainings.

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user-inactivated  ·  4391 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, videos for learning aren't my thing. I get terribly impatient, begging, figuratively, for the speaker to speed up and get to the point. Haha, I remember in English class last year, we read a book out loud, a paragraph at a time. It was achingly slow because, for whatever reason, my peers can't read or something...so I ignored everyone else and reread the book every period :).

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user-inactivated  ·  4392 days ago  ·  link  ·  

after a debilitating attempt at learning js with web3schools (::grimace::), I learned js from codecademy. I'll give python there a chance, thanks!

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rozap  ·  4393 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not familiar with tryruby...I just picked up python on my own. It's such a common language there are a lot of resources for learning it. I hear that "Learn Python the Hard Way" is a good Python book, but like I said, I have no experience with any of that.

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