This is a busy year for the sleep giant of Learn to Code movement - Codecademy.com. Thankfully it has come back with a bang, launching solid courses in Ruby on Rails, Authentication, AngularJS, and now Command Line, Unit 2. +Codecademy #commandline #learntocode
It covers the basics ls, pwd, nano in Unit 1, now it's ready to show some serious chaining and piping, two shell command concepts that professional programmers constantly use. It's easy for beginners to lose track.
What is
$ sort deserts.txt | uniq > uniq-deserts.txt
What is uniq, what is in deserts.txt and uniq-deserts.txt, and what will be returned in the terminal or shell.
During professional front-end interviews, senior JavaScript will often ask tricky questions that can be easily tested in the command prompt, but interviewees will have to come up with the answer in their head, by logic.
As a learn-to-code junkie, I can safely say Codecademy.com made JavaScript learning really easy. It's still the best way to iron the grammar of JavaScript in beginners. Unlike others, Codecademy is a habit-forming interactive coding and learning environment that's strangely addictive as it is black & white. Now with these flashy Rails, AngularJS and Command Line, projects added onto its outdated API pack, Codecademy.com is luring its users back. And we are very happy to be back.