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Re: Codecademy is great.

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ColorfulBrendon is not online. ColorfulBrendon
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15 Jan 2015 08:24 PM
Anyone else used that website before?
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lordrambo is not online. lordrambo
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15 Jan 2015 08:24 PM
Yes but I got lazy and decided I really didn't feel like learning JS and got emails for like a year about it.
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chimmihc is not online. chimmihc
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15 Jan 2015 08:26 PM
i somehow found my way to the ruby part of it, i was searching the web for pictures...
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ColorfulBrendon is not online. ColorfulBrendon
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15 Jan 2015 08:27 PM
@lord

js is actually pretty easy to learn if you've got background knowledge of lua
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JarodOfOrbiter is not online. JarodOfOrbiter
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15 Jan 2015 08:29 PM
I did it to learn Python, finished learning it in less than 7 hours at school.
Then I moved on to read various sections of ThinkPython.
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ColorfulBrendon is not online. ColorfulBrendon
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15 Jan 2015 08:48 PM
I feel like if the ROBLOX Wiki had tutorials based off of this website, people would be fluent in Lua much quicker.
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lordrambo is not online. lordrambo
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15 Jan 2015 08:51 PM
lol I know JS is easy enough since I learned a sufficient amount of it on my own. I'm too busy with other languages.
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cpmoderator12345 is not online. cpmoderator12345
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15 Jan 2015 09:02 PM
JS is easy once you know lua. [2]

-{cpmoderator12345}- ||:Conquerer of Role-Playing forum:|| ||:average scripter:||
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JarodOfOrbiter is not online. JarodOfOrbiter
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15 Jan 2015 09:04 PM
Machine Language is easy once you know lua. [3]
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ChiefDelta is not online. ChiefDelta
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15 Jan 2015 09:25 PM
CodeAcademy- garbage that makes you think you know a language you don't know.


How they would explain roblox Lua:

"make an if statement
if statement then
end

congratulations!
you're done!"
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lordrambo is not online. lordrambo
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15 Jan 2015 09:27 PM
lmao now that you mention it you're right
that information isn't going to be remembered at all
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ChiefDelta is not online. ChiefDelta
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15 Jan 2015 09:28 PM
if u wanna learn python here you go:

Learning Python, 5th Edition

enjoy
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ChiefDelta is not online. ChiefDelta
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15 Jan 2015 09:29 PM
"I feel like if the ROBLOX Wiki had tutorials based off of this website, people would be fluent in Lua much quicker."

yeah i know right

CodeAcademy Teaches FilteringEnabled:

"filteringenabled
stops the evil hacker

turn it on
please copy the code provided and hit the green button

congratulations!"
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ColorfulBrendon is not online. ColorfulBrendon
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15 Jan 2015 09:31 PM
"filteringenabled
stops the evil hacker

turn it on
please copy the code provided and hit the green button"


filteringenabled doesn't even have any methods in lua, it's just a little button on workspace
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ChiefDelta is not online. ChiefDelta
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15 Jan 2015 09:32 PM
"filteringenabled doesn't even have any methods in lua, it's just a little button on workspace"

yes it magically makes all the exploiter go away u just press button and poof exploiter go bye i wonder why not all game do that
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ColorfulBrendon is not online. ColorfulBrendon
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15 Jan 2015 09:34 PM
"yes it magically makes all the exploiter go away u just press button and poof exploiter go bye i wonder why not all game do that"

i don't recall any of codecademy's tutorials looking like that
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ChiefDelta is not online. ChiefDelta
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15 Jan 2015 09:35 PM
"i don't recall any of codecademy's tutorials looking like that"

Let me give you some perspective. This is a quote from a guy on Clans & Guilds:

"Im actually learning java from code accademy "

This. This is why CodeAcademy is awful.
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ColorfulBrendon is not online. ColorfulBrendon
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15 Jan 2015 09:38 PM
@chief

clanscrubs are awful but association fallacy isn't really valid support for a claim
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DrMathematica is not online. DrMathematica
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15 Jan 2015 09:39 PM
I learned Ruby for a Rails project on my website.

Hated it. Reverted back to PHP. Don't hate it until you learn it properly :P
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bosswalrus is not online. bosswalrus
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15 Jan 2015 09:43 PM
Yes but only for HTML and CSS. The way it teaches is too basic.
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ChiefDelta is not online. ChiefDelta
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15 Jan 2015 09:44 PM
HTML and CSS yes CodeAcademy's fine for that

anything else
no
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bosswalrus is not online. bosswalrus
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15 Jan 2015 09:47 PM
@Chief Agreed.
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Argelius is not online. Argelius
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15 Jan 2015 09:48 PM
I was using codecademy to learn ruby recently. One issue is that things are oversimplified, so much that sometimes important information is hidden from you just so that you don't get confused. Imo, this type of oversimplification might be helpful at first, but leads to confusion later. Take this for example:

"The lesson would have you believe that you're modifying & sorting a Hash, but this isn't actually true. sort_by returns an Array, not a Hash."
http://www.codecademy.com/forum_questions/50625a22e64a0300020441d9

The only place in the tutorial that mentions sort_by returning an array is the hint section, which is hidden by default. People who don't read the hints are left to assume that it returns a hash.
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ForeverDev is not online. ForeverDev
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15 Jan 2015 09:49 PM
code academy is waaaaaayyyyyyyyy too slow for me

once you know how to make a variable in one language, you can pretty easily make one in any other language

same with functions, loops, etc. they're extremely easy to translate between languages

and code academy is ssssssoooooo slow and spends way too much time on some things
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LucasLua is not online. LucasLua
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15 Jan 2015 09:50 PM
Am I the only one who goes to college to learn this stuff? lol
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