Sunday, October 20, 2013

Class 7, FINAL PREPARATION: Choosing a JavaScript programming track.

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Generally, I found Kahn Academy kind of hard to navigate at first. I think it is ok to use if you have some very specific lesson in mind, but otherwise, I didn’t find it to be something that I could start and stop and sort of study what specifically I wanted to try out.  What I did like about Kahn Academy was that once I found the lesson that I wanted to do, it was very curated. The instruction was pretty clear and the questions were very visible within the actual class, unlike some of the other online tutorial sites (like Codecademy where it is a separate object within the lesson and LearnStreet where I didn’t really see anything for shared question/answers).  What I liked about LearnStreet was that some of the commentary about what you were doing was within the page of code, so it was clear as you kept going what specifically you had reacted to, which is different particularly from Codecademy.  I’ve used Codecademy a lot in the past, so I’m more familiar with it in general. I do like it, except that sometimes it can be a bit buggy. I do like that the rendering box is very separate from what code you’re writing, but I have found that many lessons don’t have too much coaching or narrative depending on the instructor who set it up.



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