[Year 12 SofDev] The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job

[Mark]

"Wanna be a programmer? That shouldn’t be too hard. You can sign-up for an
iterative online tutorial at a site like Codecademy
<http://www.codecademy.com/> or Treehouse <http://teamtreehouse.com/home>.
You can check yourself into a “coding bootcamp” for a face-to-face crash
course in the ways of programming. Or you could do the old fashioned thing:
buy a book or take a class at your local community college.

But if want to be a serious programmer, that’s another matter. You’ll need
hundreds of hours of practice—and countless mistakes—to learn the trade.
It’s often more of an art than a skill—where the best way of doing
something isn’t the most obvious way. You can’t really learn to craft code
that’s both clear and efficient without some serious trial and error, not
to mention an awful lot of feedback on what you’re doing right and what
you’re doing wrong.

That’s where a site called Exercism.io is trying to help. Exercism is
updated every day with programming exercises in a variety of different
languages. First, you download these exercises using a special software
client, and once you’ve completed one, you upload it back to the site,
where other coders from around the world will give you feedback. Then you
can take what you’ve learned and try the exercise again."

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/exercism/

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Mark Kelly
mark AT vceit DOT com
http://vceit.com

*"Due to recent advances in DNA analysis, I will no longer be spitting in
your coffee."  *Anon
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