On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis < jurgis.pralgauskis@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I tried it via my students (found on http://code.org/learn) http://codecombat.com/?hour_of_code=true .

It looks really nice. After having a quick look, I am fairly impressed. My criticisms below are essentially nitpicking....

Neat pedagogical approach:

- attractive graphics (for boys esp.) ,

Yes

- - default coding language "python" :)

but uses camelCases instead of following the normal Python convention.

- - slow learning curve,

True ... but it starts with methods as opposed with functions, with no

explanation as to why "self." is needed .

- - line highlighting, - some "simplified" syntax for python loops (instead of "while True", just write "loop")

I have not reached that point (and likely won't) but this is something

that really annoys me when claiming to teach Python.

- didn't notice conditional statments so far

What about defining new methods/classes ? André

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ps.: Made with coffescript https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat

-- Jurgis Pralgauskis tel: 8-616 77613; Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) http://galvosukykla.lt

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