The Problem with Codecademy

[xDesPvP]

Script is mostly just for fun now, I am trying to learn past it. With script you can make neat things and all but Java is where the real stuff is at.

Yeah, I've made a lot of horrifying stuff with coding in general. I've coding multiple rats on different types of coding languages. By the way what a rat is like a virus put into your PC, and I can do multiple stuff, I'll show you guys a picture on the first rat I've ever coded.

http://prnt.sc/bohbye

Now, I'm coding more advanced stuff. By the way if you know how to code fluently, I highly suggest don't make rats because it's illegal and I am dumbass certified.

 

[Feelz]

Yeah, I've made a lot of horrifying stuff with coding in general. I've coding multiple rats on different types of coding languages. By the way what a rat is like a virus put into your PC, and I can do multiple stuff, I'll show you guys a picture on the first rat I've ever coded.

http://prnt.sc/bohbye

Now, I'm coding more advanced stuff. By the way if you know how to code fluently, I highly suggest don't make rats because it's illegal and I am dumbass certified.

Yah I know about Rats and etc. I am a whitehat if anything, I stay with the law

 

[jewice]

My point wasn't that the mentioned breed of websites are bad resources for trying to learn a programming language. The topic of my thread was that it's frustrating to be degraded by companies making something that, in reality, is very hard to learn and understand, seem easy and simple-to-grasp, in order to attract you to their site. Whether learning a language is difficult or not depends on the person trying to learn it, but corporations making it out to be self-explanatory and elementary process is unfair to those with no prior developing experience, but who are interested in learning a language. I have almost four years of experience, at this point in web design, with lots of training in HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, SASS, (the list goes on). I can make a decent page in under an hour now, but I didn't start that way. It took me years to get to where I am in web languages, and I still find myself constantly learning new methods and teqhniques to get certain things done, even now. Anything is possible to learn, with proper motivation and effort, but instructional websites shouldn't give people the false impression that mastering a programming language can be simply accomplished in under a month.

 

[xDesPvP]

My point wasn't that the mentioned breed of websites are bad resources for trying to learn a programming language. The topic of my thread was that it's frustrating to be degraded by companies making something that, in reality, is very hard to learn and understand, seem easy and simple-to-grasp, in order to attract you to their site. Whether learning a language is difficult or not depends on the person trying to learn it, but corporations making it out to be self-explanatory and elementary process is unfair to those with no prior developing experience, but who are interested in learning a language. I have almost four years of experience, at this point in web design, with lots of training in HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, SASS, (the list goes on). I can make a decent page in under an hour now, but I didn't start that way. It took me years to get to where I am in web languages, and I still find myself constantly learning new methods and teqhniques to get certain things done, even now. Anything is possible to learn, with proper motivation and effort, but instructional websites shouldn't give people the false impression that mastering a programming language can be simply accomplished in under a month.

Yeah, I feel your pain. It took me 2 or 3 years to fully understand coding itself. It took me like 3 months to learn each coding language, because a coding language is just telling your PC to do certain things. I am starting to learn website developing, and I got the proper motivation. Good luck with pursuing coding.

 

[jewice]

Yeah, I feel your pain. It took me 2 or 3 years to fully understand coding itself. It took me like 3 months to learn each coding language, because a coding language is just telling your PC to do certain things. I am starting to learn website developing, and I got the proper motivation. Good luck with pursuing coding.

Thanks a lot. If you can learn actual code (Java, C, etc.), then I'm sure you won't have a problem with learning web languages. Best wishes, though, and have fun!

 

[Feelz]

You don't really need to "reverse engineer" Javascript code. It isn't a compiled language like Java or C#. All you have to do is Inspect Element in your browser and you can view any scripts in the dev tools.[DOUBLEPOST=1468596394][/DOUBLEPOST]Codeacademy is meant to be a supplement to programming courses you take in college or high school. Nobody intends for it to be the "one stop shop" for learning to code.

No not reverse engineer java script, I am talking about other coding languages as well which do include java script. I know a few methods one simply being CTRL+S to save the current webpages html file and then the other method does not always work but it copies all the sites files using HTTRack or something called that. And also another mean that I was stating by reverse engineer is taking the code from a website and changing it up and adding it to your own site.

I don't really use other sites codes but if I want to learn how its done I just use the CTRL+S method