Cataloguers at the ALA Midwinter (Twitter code #alamw12 )conference have started a support group for those participating in the free Code Academy Their group has a pbworks wiki
and a twitter #libcatcode and #libcodeyear code and a connect group.
Not everybody agrees that CodeAcademy is entirely a good thing: some argue that it does not put the code in context so those who follow the course never actually learn to do anything. Each Codeacademy session takes 90 minutes to work through online and the good thing is that you work in a virtual environment in the cloud so you don't have to worry about installing any programs. You can log in using Facebook too which makes it easy to remember who you are. Incidentally I see that Jo Alcock skipped across the pond for the conference and wrote a reflective piece on how important it is to do this sort of thing. Jo, we are all dead jealous, well done!
Not everybody agrees that CodeAcademy is entirely a good thing: some argue that it does not put the code in context so those who follow the course never actually learn to do anything. Each Codeacademy session takes 90 minutes to work through online and the good thing is that you work in a virtual environment in the cloud so you don't have to worry about installing any programs. You can log in using Facebook too which makes it easy to remember who you are. Incidentally I see that Jo Alcock skipped across the pond for the conference and wrote a reflective piece on how important it is to do this sort of thing. Jo, we are all dead jealous, well done!
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