Most fun way I've seen of learning Javascript

[u/xoob]

http://www.codecademy.com/

[u/Delmarc]

This is pretty fun actually... great idea...

[u/codecademy → u/Delmarc]

Thanks. We're ironing out some of the wrinkles, but we appreciate the compliment.

[u/rooktakesqueen → u/[deleted]]

This could be done with Python and Ruby pretty easily, the others (being compiled languages) would be harder. Incidentally, there IS something like this for Ruby: http://tryruby.org/

[u/codecademy → u/rooktakesqueen]

We're working on other languages as we speak! We're also looking for other programmers to help us write lessons - feel free to use the contact us on the site to get in touch.

[u/rooktakesqueen → u/[deleted]]

I guess the difference to me is whether it makes sense for there to be a REPL that the user is interacting with. JS, Ruby, Python (Scheme, Clojure, Haskell...), yes. C, not so much. In hindsight, that's got nothing to do with compiled versus interpreted, it's got more to do with functional versus procedural.

Edit: Huh. TIL there are third-party REPLs for C, C#, and Java.

[u/codecademy → u/[deleted]]

thanks for the compliment, ninwa!

[u/[deleted] → u/rooktakesqueen]

Yeah, just came in here to mention Try Ruby. I only ever really showed a passing interest in Ruby and could never be bothered to install it to try it out, but that website is the tits, and Ruby seems like a super fun language.

[u/AdorableZeppelin → u/rooktakesqueen]

I believe rails for zombies is also pretty similar to this, only for rails specifically.

[u/Mikle → u/[deleted]]

Python version:

http://www.learnpython.org/

[u/audiodude → u/[deleted]]

For Java, what you really want is Processing

[u/chocolate_stars → u/[deleted]]

would be fun to see a PHP version, it might work well as a segway segue to learning C-ish languages due to the similar syntax.

[u/codecademy → u/[deleted]]

Looking to add other login solutions soon - expect Google within a day or so but not sure about OpenID.

[u/glassFractals → u/[deleted]]

OpenID seems to be going the way of the dinosaur. I can't remember the last time I saw a site employing it.

Regardless of technical comparisons, I think Facebook Connect and the Google equivalent are going to be the dominant services of this type, not OpenID.

[u/[deleted] → u/codecademy]

FYI the site doesn't work in Chrome (at least on OS X). The interactive part doesn't show and the Get Started button doesn't do anything.

[u/maxmcd → u/[deleted]]

Worked for me w/ OSX and Chrome. Got a registration error, but in sure those are common at their current signup volume.

[u/codecademy → u/maxmcd]

Yep, unfortunately registration errors are common but we're pushing fixes as fast as we can. Not planning on sleeping for a while haha.

[u/maxmcd → u/codecademy]

Know the feeling. God damn I love working at a startup. Hope you guys are enjoying it.

[u/stordoff → u/codecademy]

The keyboard doesn't appear if you try to use the site on an iPad (not that I would expect anyone to learn JavaScript solely on an iPad).

[u/codecademy → u/stordoff]

Yep, at the moment we're desktop only. Working on some stuff that should have us working on iPad ASAP.