Link here: http://beta.whatispolymath.com<p>Despite all the educational material on the web, I found it pretty hard to learn how to code and design. I had trouble finding high-quality content, figuring out what to learn next, and staying motivated without easy ways to track my progress. So, my co-founder and I built Polymath.<p>Our MVP is pretty simple right now: you can find & submit good content, bookmark & track your progress across different resources, and rate/comment on the material. We’re trying to build a really fun online learning community, and we’ve got some more cool features in the works.<p>We're really excited about going live, and we'd love your feedback & comments.
We're just getting started with this, so please add any great content you think should be on the site -- help us make this the web’s best open resource for learning programming/design!<p>Note: We currently require Facebook for login, with more options to sign up coming soon. Sorry about that-- we hope you'll still give us a shot even if you feel strongly about that :)
Clickable: <a href="http://beta.whatispolymath.com" rel="nofollow">http://beta.whatispolymath.com</a>.<p>Curation is huge, especially as the number of available resources continues to increase. In the past few months I've either used or thought about using:<p><a href="http://teamtreehouse.com" rel="nofollow">http://teamtreehouse.com</a><p><a href="http://www.udemy.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.udemy.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.udacity.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.udacity.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.lynda.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lynda.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php</a><p><a href="http://www.codecademy.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.codecademy.com/</a><p><a href="http://tutsplus.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tutsplus.com/</a><p>Edit: Forgot <a href="http://www.codeschool.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.codeschool.com/</a><p>...and probably half a dozen more that I can't think of off the top of my head.<p>I've just been using a google doc to stay organized, but this looks like it would work a lot better, and I would love to see some comparisons between equivalent courses on different sites.
As far as front-end web development is concerned, I was in a similar boat – not sure what was the best place to start learning 'everything'.<p>Then I found a copy of _Javascript: The Definitive Guide_ and it solved the problem. The book has everything in it, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, Node, JQuery, Ajax, etc. I spent one evening skimming through it and now I have a solid foundation. Now all I need are docs and Stack Overflow.<p>OTOH, though _The Guide_ is full of "best practice" tips, they evolve so quickly that this is something I'd like to see curated. Psyched to check out this website.<p>For design, especially UX/IxD, there are a number of 'guide' type books, but there's something fussy about design that makes it less amenable to being contained in book like that. I think it's very important in design to be constantly exposing yourself to new information.<p>I'm still looking for a good graphic design basics book.
The first course I went to was actually a book. Maybe move the books to a totally separate section? I was excited about learning about designing visual interfaces only to be presented with an amazon link.
This is great. When I first learned web development, I found it pretty hard to figure out which tutorials were best and which ones were a waste of time. This would have helped a ton.
bravo! this is something a friend and I have been discussing on and off for more than 3 years, good that someone actually is doing it (rather than just talking ;-D).<p>Break a leg
I have a wide array of free learning sites at <a href="http://www.noexcuselist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.noexcuselist.com/</a><p>Check out the programming section of it.
nice job, but you might want to optimize your landing page. Some of the images you are using are way too big, bloated css and js. I had to download 1.72MB just to view this page. Other than that this looks like a great product.
This looks great, but (as many others have stated) the Facebook only login is a deal breaker. I'll check this out as soon as there is another method, which I hope is soon.