FoxHound Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 (edited) Has anyone done or plan on doing this hour of code thing? They're are doing it in my geometry class on Friday (12/12/14) pretty hyped Edited December 11, 2014 by FoxHound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giants745 Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 That's great! More people need to learn how to code. I personally believe in 5-10 years, coding will be just as relevant as math and English in school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EThatsMe Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Do the codecademy stuff when you do it. The rest is not "real" programming. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dode Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 For those who don't know what this is http://hourofcode.com/ Some of the tutorials don't really seem like actual coding kinda like Ethan said. I recommend the codeacademy and khan academy ones, since those are the only ones that I have tried that are actual coding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Oracle Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 I'm doing this as well, get to make teachers mad by asking them if we can do 20 minutes of Code and they have too lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Jesus that puzzle shit looks terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RageQuit Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Really, the coding that they try to introduce is just watered-down scripting. It's much more educational to pull up Terminal in Linux/MAC or whatever you want to use or just mess with an IDE. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnPrePared_ Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 I've been coding 6 hours straight enough for today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul :) Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giants745 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Some people need to start with hourofcode.com It helps a lot, it is very basic and simple scripts. It gets people interested into it, and gets people into it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malice Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 I have tried some of those programming websites they have never really helped me much I don't guess. I learned some python relatively easy just from going through this text I found online and messing around moding the codes. Getting a little bit of the experience with the code and then going through and changing it and making it do different things is the easiest way to get good at it I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giants745 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 I have tried some of those programming websites they have never really helped me much I don't guess. I learned some python relatively easy just from going through this text I found online and messing around moding the codes. Getting a little bit of the experience with the code and then going through and changing it and making it do different things is the easiest way to get good at it I believe. Just about. Only way to get better is keep trying and making better things. Practice makes perfect. I recommend Codingbat. It tests your skills based on different things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleenaLove Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 HYPE! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxHound Posted June 26, 2015 Author Share Posted June 26, 2015 HYPE! Lol the hype train is LOOOOOONG gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleenaLove Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Lol the hype train is LOOOOOONG gone. That's the joke m9. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamy Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 (edited) I have tried some of those programming websites they have never really helped me much I don't guess. I learned some python relatively easy just from going through this text I found online and messing around moding the codes. Getting a little bit of the experience with the code and then going through and changing it and making it do different things is the easiest way to get good at it I believe. Try thenewboston or just search for youtube videos for your favorite languages. After learning the basics, is all about practicing. If you want to improve the basics on python and also get to know different libraries, I highly recommend you to play The Python Challenge! Also, I can help you out if you have any questions. Just PM me Edited June 26, 2015 by Dreamy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxHound Posted June 26, 2015 Author Share Posted June 26, 2015 That's the joke m9. Understood... o_o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAman Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Their was one like 4 months ago and I was chosen. If I get chosen in school I'll do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnt Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I've personally been using a mixture of codeacademy as well as some mobile applications on android that work with YouTube videos with breaks that give comprehension based questions such as filling in blanks in code or asking about which of these are true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamy Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I've personally been using a mixture of codeacademy as well as some mobile applications on android that work with YouTube videos with breaks that give comprehension based questions such as filling in blanks in code or asking about which of these are true. Those apps are actually quite decent. In my case I always prefer to just watch videos with a compiler around so I can kind of copy what I'm learning and also play around with the algorithms. After you learn the basics, practice is the next step for which I recommend: Project Euler: Math problems to solve programming. Python Challenge: Good variety of problems mainly for Python and Python's libraries but solvable with almost any language. Hacker Rank: Really huge amount of problems. Nice interface where you can test your algorithms directly with their compiler. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazzleBerry Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 I used Hour of Code a few months ago to learn some basic HTML. It was sort of useful I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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