In a world where people spend more than 20 hours per week on applications created by code, it is fascinating to me that most individuals do not have an understanding of how software development works. As an entrepreneur, you don’t need to become the next l33t hax0r to…
As a co-founder, I’m obviously biased, but having taught myself all of the technical skills needed to run multiple online businesses, the School has been designed to help ease this process for others. With a Skills Library of tutorials, plus in-depth courses for the most common online tools, students have…
The best advice you can get will likely come from discussions with other people who are dealing with or have dealt with similar issues themselves. Find clubs, organizations and groups such as the Young Presidents’ Organization that you can join speak to other entrepreneurs who are doing great things themselves…
As the Web rapidly transforms the way we consume knowledge, here’s a quick look at some of the innovative tools, programs, and startups that are rapidly changing how we learn. Startup technologists are the new rock stars to be emulated, which means learning how to write code is finding its way into
I always pictured myself a “follow your dreams” kind of parent, but I have come to realize that I should add a “but first learn to code” disclosure. It is blindly apparent how important technology is, and if you know how to build technology, even the basics, well that’s just pure gold.
If you went to school with Pinterest and Spotify, you would have to be pretty rad to hang out in their lot. Inc.com just released their list of the 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs under 30 for 2012. These young entrepreneurs are working hard to prove that playlists and pinboards aren’t the only cool startups in school.
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The creation and evolution of Codecademy reads like a sitcom. Two guys, smart, young, and in their final years of college at an Ivy League school become close friends. One, Zach Sims, is a people-person, gregarious, friendly, confident and smart. The other, Ryan Bubinski, is a life-long computer geek, adept at coding and web development whose father was a computer salesman.
Programming isn’t for everybody, and no matter how hard some people try and how many books and videos they get their hands on, there is always a certain point they can’t get past. And if you’re there yourself right now and you feel like giving up, then this site might be all you need to pull through. Codeacademy will give you a series of interactive programming tutorials right on your browser, with the emphasis firmly put on giving you a fun and relaxed experience. As a matter of fact, you can use the site without even needing to register first. Codeacademy invites you to start coding right as you land on its homepage, and it gently guides you along for a couple of lessons. And then, when you’re hooked, it asks you to register for an account in order not to loss your progresses.
On Codecademy, lessons revolve around completing some increasingly-difficult tasks, and a web-based terminal is provided for you to type the code, the way you see fit. It will be instantly executed, and you will be able to correct any mistakes that you might have made right away.
Users of Codecademy are given points for all the exercises they get right, and (later) they even get trophies to feature on their profile pages. And it seems pretty likely that tournaments and competitions will be implemented in the near future.
And if you are already familiarized with Java (or when you think you have achieved a certain degree of mastery here), then getting acquainted with something like Grails might as well be the logical step in your evolution as a programmer.
