Feb 06 2012
School Code invite anyone Programming for Free to try
Orlando, FL (PRWeb) February 1, 2012
School Code, a startup that helps programmers to improve their skills through online courses, their course 9th – CSS Cross-Country – today. Code the school is one of the top companies compete in the technology education area, as depicted in net magazine and The New York Times.
CSS Cross-Country course helps students understand the fundamentals of CSS and have fun in the process. While CSS has been around for a while, is much misunderstanding of the concepts, and advanced concepts can be overwhelming. CSS Cross-Country has a custom user interface design based on the ski that feels more like a game than a coding lesson.
Programming skills are in high demand, but the initial set-up and the cost of the learning program can be frustrating and discouraging. Beginning with the first free schools code release, rails for Zombies, it aims to remove this obstacle and make learning fun. Students watch screencasts based on entertaining topics (everything from zombies to aircraft), followed by the in-browser code challenges. Since Rails for Zombies, the School Code released another free programming courses, including Try Ruby, jQuery Air: First Flight and the first level of their course CoffeeScript
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school use game mechanics to make learning fun. Because students receive points for each challenge completed, they can be very competitive. Hints are available, but often used because they arent taking points. At the completion of levels and courses, students sharing their achievements on social media sites.
In addition, points students earn weapons for completing levels, and a final weapon for finishing the course. Badges are then displayed on the public profiles of students for the world to see. Students can link their profiles to their personal websites and resumes, the code for school performance potential employers eager to hire programmers selected.
Code School recently held a subscription model, which includes a weekly TV Code screen cast members added. These screencasts keep skills sharp developers with issues such as HTML5 & CSS3, Ruby Gems, JRuby, setting up a Rails environment, and respond to Web Design Initializer. Code school invites guest presenters on TV code, and even provide training on how to create professional screencasts.
more advanced programmers happy to keep code school courses that are slightly more complex than its competitors, namely Codeacademy and Treehouse. These guys have some great fans, and School Code did everything without investment or other funding, and is owned by the development team at Envy Labs. At present, Envy Labs seeking funding for the next project, an initiative to learn code entry-level programming environment for learning, focusing on middle school age groups. This initiative will be available for free for all.
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recent announcement also demonstrates that education is the way to the more dynamic and engaging learning experiences. The school code is at the forefront of a very interesting trend in textbooks is replaced by an interactive classroom teachers and online exercises. Is just the beginning of the technology race something more effective to students.
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