My very limited and one person experience with online video tutorial sites. Don't read too much in to it, just my experience.
- Lydia: Probably the best in terms of depth and options. But I only tried couple of them.
- TutsPlus: Second best in my opinion. But again, limited experience with only one author.
- Khan Academy: Love the UI, love the gamification, love the concept. But its more for entry level education (for now) and less of high-level, in depth learning. If they can apply the gamification to higher level learning (or just have more higher level content) it would be awesome.
- Treehouse: I have very very limited experience (just the php video series), I felt that it was a bit goofy. Like their target audience is someone who is not computer savvy or 12 year old.
I feel video is probably not the best medium for learning programming related contents. I think video can definitely supplement a text heavy learning, but otherwise I think textbooks are better way to learn programming (maybe its just me).
I would love to know experience from other HN-er's or any other online video tutorial sites they might have tried.
I've tried code school, codecademy, and treehouse, myself (never really got into Lynda.com, seemed like the quality was too varied).
I like the treehosue approach - videos plus quizzes plus exercises plus projects - but I do think it's aimed mainly at beginners (which is probably why it felt goofy to you, because they're trying to make it approachable for people who aren't yet comfortable with technology).
I do wish there was a resource out there like Treehouse for learning more advanced topics.
GA's Dash and CodeSchool have taught me more in the last two weeks than I could have gotten at the same rate in all the self-help books I've collected.
It's not video. It's video+challenges. CodeSchool in particular has challenging challenges where you have to actually think, not just regurgitate.
Some feedback: the button hover states could be a bit more intense and some transitions would be nice (e.g. the navigation flyout on smartphones). The navigation button is also missing a cursor: pointer attribute.
The new site looks great guys! I have had our dev staff using treehouse for over a year now, and for the devs that get into it, I can see their excitement after each new technology they start to pick up.
[+] [-] pavs|12 years ago|reply
- Lydia: Probably the best in terms of depth and options. But I only tried couple of them.
- TutsPlus: Second best in my opinion. But again, limited experience with only one author.
- Khan Academy: Love the UI, love the gamification, love the concept. But its more for entry level education (for now) and less of high-level, in depth learning. If they can apply the gamification to higher level learning (or just have more higher level content) it would be awesome.
- Treehouse: I have very very limited experience (just the php video series), I felt that it was a bit goofy. Like their target audience is someone who is not computer savvy or 12 year old.
I feel video is probably not the best medium for learning programming related contents. I think video can definitely supplement a text heavy learning, but otherwise I think textbooks are better way to learn programming (maybe its just me).
I would love to know experience from other HN-er's or any other online video tutorial sites they might have tried.
[+] [-] russelluresti|12 years ago|reply
I like the treehosue approach - videos plus quizzes plus exercises plus projects - but I do think it's aimed mainly at beginners (which is probably why it felt goofy to you, because they're trying to make it approachable for people who aren't yet comfortable with technology).
I do wish there was a resource out there like Treehouse for learning more advanced topics.
[+] [-] MWil|12 years ago|reply
It's not video. It's video+challenges. CodeSchool in particular has challenging challenges where you have to actually think, not just regurgitate.
[+] [-] bendoidic|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jonolay|12 years ago|reply
http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/
[+] [-] clupprich|12 years ago|reply
Some feedback: the button hover states could be a bit more intense and some transitions would be nice (e.g. the navigation flyout on smartphones). The navigation button is also missing a cursor: pointer attribute.
[+] [-] ltcoleman|12 years ago|reply
Treehouse is AWESOME!
[+] [-] ryancarson|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] MWil|12 years ago|reply
Do you have any plans to offer free 3 days trials?