futurecoder

e a course about pandas or a French translation then I'd be keen to implement the necessary architecture to make that possible for you.

and a student will need to find another resource with more content once they finish futurecoder. Even then, they may still find the debuggers and IDE helpful long after. - The course is not designed for a teaching/classroom environment. It's usable, but it may not fit with how some teachers want to teach. For example, students can get solutions to any exercise. However the IDE may still be useful in a classroom even without the course. - For mobile devices: Tablets seem like they might be OK but it's not optimised for that and you still have to type lots of code. Phones will technically work but the CSS is basically broken at that screen size. (EDIT: just discovered that telling my browser to look at the desktop site works pretty well) - Safari doesn't work at all because it doesn't play well with Pyodide, see e.g. https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/441 - There's no videos, which I assume some people would prefer, but honestly I don't think that's the right way to learn coding.

active course: run code at every step which is checked automatically, keeping you engaged and learning by doing. - Every exercise has many small optional hints to give you just the information you need to figure it out and no more. - When the hints run out and you're still stuck, there are 2 ways to gradually reveal a solution so you can still apply your mind and make progress. - Advice for common mistakes: customised linting for beginners and exercise-specific checks to keep you on track. - Construct a question that will be well-received on sites like StackOverflow: https://futurecoder.io/course/#question ---- I'm obviously biased but I honestly think futurecoder is better than Codecademy or any other similar website, without even counting the fact that it's free. For example, here are some drawbacks of Codecademy: - Still on Python 3.6 instead of 3.9 - No interactive shell/REPL/console - No debuggers - Basic error tracebacks not suitable for beginners - No stdin, i.e. no input() so you can't write interactive programs, and no pdb. - No gradual guidance when you're stuck. You can get one big hint, then the full solution in one go. This is not effective for learners having difficulty. Unless you're looking for something targeted at children, I believe this is the best way for any complete beginner to start learning programming. That's obviously a bold and subjective statement so I'm keen to hear other opinions and feedback. What do you think futurecoder needs? Videos? Quizzes? Gamification? These are all possibilities. ------ I posted futurecoder here over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24020906 It's had a major overhaul since then, including the switch to running in the browser with Pyodide, signup being made optional, and a whole bunch of major new features (e.g. IDE mode, question wizard, Parsons problems, friendly tracebacks, linting, auto-installing imports, and multiple choice questions) and course content. While there's plenty more to do, futurecoder is no longer a 'work in progress'.