this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
31 points (100.0% liked)

Programming

21831 readers
759 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
snowe@programming.dev
Ategon@programming.dev
MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz
UlrikHD@programming.dev
31
Thoughts on codecademy site? (leminal.space)
submitted 2 days ago by GrumpyCat@leminal.space to c/programming@programming.dev
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Im 19 and for years my mother has been telling me to use codecademy but most of its locked behind a paywall. Have any of you used this site, what are your thoughts on it? Are there better totally free alternatives that walk you thru everything?

Someday i want to make games or something like that but im unsure what programming language to choose. I like the look of lua but im not sure if i should go with it or what projects to learn from? Everyone here tells me if i i choose to go with gamedev someday, to pick up godot but i feel im not ready to make games and that i need to start learning the basics.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 16 points 2 days ago
  1. There are many courses that are free -- the only payment is at the end if you want a certificate.
  2. Lua is as good as any other language to start with. Python, Ruby are also popular starting languages. If you're going to continue to program, then you'll probably change languages several times in your career. What's important is to learn the generic concepts of programming, such as input/output, looping, functions; once you are familiar with concepts, changing languages isn't a big deal. Start anywhere and build from there.