General Assembly Launches Dash, A Tool For Coding Newbies

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/15/general-assembly-launches-dash-a-tool-for-coding-newbies/

by rrhoover • 13 years ago

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yeukhon2• 13 years ago

1. STOP INVENTING A NEW AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH.

Damn it. I am serious: use Persona. I know at this point people'd say, well, most people are still going to use providers like gmail. Well, it's better to have a single identity than multiple one.

2. Don't ask people to sign up until you have shown them your features. A demo what it is like to use your service. Like seriously... I consider this whole giant signup button as a crime. You are asking me to provide you my identity and my password and my name before I even had a chance to evaluate your product. If I don't like it that record will sit in your database.

I'd like to see a 2 minute Youtube commerical and/or a bunch of screenshot.

No. This is not how you do business.

nbashaw• 13 years ago

Here's a youtube demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2tcMPCcnt8

yeukhon2• 13 years ago

then have them put it in the website. Customers shouldn't have to google that at all. But thanks.

chaselee• 13 years ago

This looks like a really great tool.

smithd98• 13 years ago

I know HTML and CSS and tried out the product. I found it so fun I wanted to go through all the lessons, plus I learned some new HTML 5 tricks I had glossed over.

alexhawdon• 13 years ago

Possibly easy to confuse with http://kapeli.com/dash. I understand this is completely different, but both fall within the category 'programming'. I'm not a Mac user but I'm aware of the older 'Dash'. (Incidentally, is there a similar offering for Linux? Other than installing the offline documentation for each lib, obviously!)

jws25• 13 years ago

this is surprisingly addictive...wish there was more already!

molliemccormick• 13 years ago

best online programming tool i've seen.

danieljeff• 13 years ago

Learning to code gets more fun, relaxed and personal. I like it.

SHD• 13 years ago

Nathan made a great product and worked really hard over the last few months to make it perfect!

General Assembly Launches Dash, A Tool For Coding Newbies

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