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If you could start Sololearn over, would you, and what would you do differently?

30th Apr 2017, 7:52 AM
David Hutto
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Personally, I don't think I would start over again. Although I don't think I took Sololearn seriously until points, badges, and code went up. I like knowing that I started with a certain level of experience, and have stats that represent me as an individual.
30th Apr 2017, 7:52 AM
David Hutto
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I would have been more aggressive in challenges before they modified the XP gain system by adjusting minimal XP gain from 5 to 1. Also, I actually had SL installed on my phone far earlier than when I started taking it seriously. I would have began diving into the comm earlier.
30th Apr 2017, 7:56 AM
Hatsy Rei
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nope. other than my text to symbols code, which came out before the one someone else made one and got theirs popular. I could have been first. I'm still jealous about it. he even got it featured, meanwhile none of my codes were.
30th Apr 2017, 9:37 AM
Ahri Fox
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@Ahri It's never too late. Gimmie a link. *winks*
30th Apr 2017, 9:44 AM
Hatsy Rei
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@Hatsy Rei nah, his code is better. the time for it to be featured has passed. I'd rather some other code to be featured. My story generator seems like a good candidate.
30th Apr 2017, 9:59 AM
Ahri Fox
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Learn from mozilla developer network instead :/
30th Apr 2017, 8:21 AM
Frank Gunsch
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ANSI C, ANSI C, ANSI C unbelievable they missed it. Second: detailed explanation of structural and object-oriented programming principles, and maybe one or two more other approaches (eg. relational databases)
30th Apr 2017, 2:31 PM
Skipper
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I would include more chat options and details of users so that if I find someone knowledgeable i could contact him/her easily 😄
30th Apr 2017, 7:54 AM
Mayank Srivastava
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I'd build it as an open source project, and encourage people who get good to contribute to coding new features. I'd also make it as easy as possible for anyone to give their suggestions for improvement. I'd include an overall tutorial that lets you have a general view of how development works, and what each language is used/good for, with basics of everything. This way anyone completely new to software development has a good starting point and they can understand why they learn everything they learn later, and decide which languages to learn.
2nd May 2017, 4:11 PM
Phil
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oh woops, did op mean if we started the courses again??? - I wouldn't restart, although I regularly look back to lessons I've done before to remind myself of stuff.
2nd May 2017, 4:15 PM
Phil
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I would not start over again.. if that would happen, I will prefer to start a free code school like freecodecamp. haha..
2nd May 2017, 9:03 PM
Rommel Philip Afurong
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pretend I never saw the hint and unlock buttons☺
1st May 2017, 3:29 PM
prince chris
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This is hardly knowledge to help you build a website or get you job ready
2nd May 2017, 2:59 PM
Nick Leeds
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