Khan Academy:
After my tutorial with Khan Academy I can say I have learned a lot. I enjoyed there walk through tutorial in which I was able to pause the video and experiment with the coding on my own. However, it was a bit frustrating to have constantly pause the video and sometimes rewind it. They were extremely descriptive and clear so that the viewer could understand the confusing "almost looks like English" program typing. I believe someone who may not know anything about computer programming language may come away after using this program with a vast understanding. Khan academy was the more complicated out of the three programs I used. This is for reasons they used terminology that may not be familiar to inexperienced programmers. Also, there was not way of knowing if my programming was input correctly because they did not have a option that reviewed my work. Also, many times I only got to alter simple things in the existing program language they had provided.
Learn Street:
Learn Street I found very effective as a tutorial. It is very simple step by step approach. This is not ongoing video that instructs you, instead it is a descriptive instructional tutorial that allows you to only continue to the next step if you complete the step your on correctly. If it is incorrect, the tutorial will show you where you made your programming mistake. Learn Street also provides a chat with is menu if you are having difficulties. Very easy, very simple, and learned a lot.
Code Academy:
Code Academy is a close second to Learn Street. It does give you your own pace to work at within the tutorial. Yet it does expect a little more from you to know as you approach each new step. With that it is still a relatively simple learning tutorial. It covers all the basics and really gives a good understanding on JavaScript programming language for beginners.
Conclusion: Code Academy and Khan Academy both provide the best description for the purpose of programming which is to command and make the computer do things. However with already having that knowledge I would say Learn Street is the best device to get your hands dirty and understand JavaScript computer programming on a simplistic level while simultaneously providing much knowledge to the tutorial viewer. With that said all three are good tools. They all provided basic outlines on learning JavaScript computer programming and I was able to create accounts and start learning in seconds.
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