I love what Codeacademy is doing, but hope they'll be rolling out some meatier lesson content with that 2m round before too long. The entire venturebeat-post-worthy jQuery lessons take about 3 minutes to go through (<a href="http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom/1#!/exercise/0" rel="nofollow">http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom/1#!/exe...</a>)
Loving this product. Especially the fact that you jump right into a lesson when you arrive at the homepage. Deliver value before asking the user for anything. Awesome.
Did you guys see teamtreehouse.com that launched today?<p>This space is an interesting one, as the material can be taught thru videos & code quizzes or through gaming type systems.<p>Though I wonder which is the best way to teach this material in a broad sense; gaming or videos with coding quizzes?
“It really takes people back to the exciting part of programming, which is building things, breaking things, and seeing how they work,” - reminds me about what I loved about playing with Legos, Logo and BASIC as a child. Way to go Codecadamy team!
I like the product, but I wish it was a bit more involved.<p>Right now, all you do is 1 simple exercise...and it's really simple stuff. i.e. they give you an example of how to use jQuery to change the color to yellow...and the "practical" experience, is changing the color to red.<p>I think something a bit complicated where you have 10 different examples for each step(progressively complicated), so that people would really learn this stuff.