ROrolae·Jul 23, 2017
I am currently learning with the odin project. I see most of the discussion so far focused on whether ruby is right language. I think the project is very valuable not for its choice of language but for its overall excellent content and approach. A few examples
- When doing my first lessons on ruby you are asked to read several tutorials. I thought, well I already learned that, but in every article I managed to find something new.
- It uses a multitude of other learning sources, does not even try to cover too much themselves. So you get to learn in very different ways. Reading good articles, watching some talks, downloading a repo where you need to write the code to make the test run successfully. Overall I feel, I get the best content, not because they write the best content (who could do that for all the subjects?), but it points you to
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great content.
- Contrary to many online tools, it forces you to work on your own system, which is a good thing.
- It often forces you to define the problem you are solving yourself. Many online courses make it too easy, you just learn coding. You don't learn to structure the problem.
- It also tries to give you a solid programming knowledge before going into web development. I really appreciate that. It's so easy to learn some angular or vue.js, then you... just need to fetch some data, ah how do I store data, oh and authentication and authorization, oh and... and quickly you get lost. I think it's is very beneficial to first get some solid programming knowledge before diving into the whole server / db / frontend stack.
So I can highly recommend this approach. BTW: even the creators are thinking of driving the course more towards JS (https://github.com/TheOdinProject/curriculum/issues/5633)
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