That was betabeat, not the people behind the course.
I think it's a bit silly to gripe about a course being available. Just don't take the course! I understand proposing better alternatives on the list but I don't understand saying that the course shouldn't exist. Maybe the alternatives are better for most people, but for a few people the course is better!
Seconded. Ruby has tons of syntax and is a much more complicated language to learn than Javascript.
Also Rails is non-trivial these days. I picked up rails back in pre-1.0, and followed it closely until around 2.3. It's way more nuanced than it used to be, and I'd imagine someone could find it very difficult to "pick up."
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I take mild offence to "...learning lightweight languages like Ruby and Javascript"
That was betabeat, not the people behind the course.
I think it's a bit silly to gripe about a course being available. Just don't take the course! I understand proposing better alternatives on the list but I don't understand saying that the course shouldn't exist. Maybe the alternatives are better for most people, but for a few people the course is better!
I was specifically referring to the use of the word "lightweight". I have no strong feelings either way about the course, expensive or not..
Seconded. Ruby has tons of syntax and is a much more complicated language to learn than Javascript.
Also Rails is non-trivial these days. I picked up rails back in pre-1.0, and followed it closely until around 2.3. It's way more nuanced than it used to be, and I'd imagine someone could find it very difficult to "pick up."