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by wahnfrieden 5260 days ago
tryruby.org is totally unrelated. It's not directed learning - it just drops you into an REPL, what good does that do people who have never coded before (the primary audience of codecademy)? It has a help feature, but it's clearly not the main point or call to action.
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Seems to me that they have a similar learning curve and call to action.
Codecademy instructs you immediately. Tryruby has a tutorial hidden as a "help" link among other identical-looking links. It is not a clear call to action.
yep, not to mention tryruby is currently a codeschool activity.