Has anyone seen a syllabus for Code Year?<p>I have a friend who's never programmed asking me if it will help him gain a working knowledge of web development.<p>I'm not sure what to tell him. The site says, "...you'll be building...web sites in no time," but I'm not sure how much prerequisite web experience is expected.
<i>"They just launched Codeyear.com which will send one lesson each week (starting with JavaScript, ending up in Python) to give people a well rounded set of skills[...]"</i><p>From: <a href="http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=630049" rel="nofollow">http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=630...</a>
I feel like for now, CodeYear is a bit of a novelty. If they are serious about learning, I highly recomend starting them on a few books:<p>Begin with a solid HTML + CSS book. If they do well, get them going on Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial (available in several formats) and Chris Pine's "Learn to program" (Beginning programming with Ruby).<p>If rails is too much, I'd go for Eloquent Javascript: <a href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/" rel="nofollow">http://eloquentjavascript.net/</a>