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I recall the HackDesign website/course being great a few years ago! Not sure about now, but used to be free...! https://hackdesign.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
For short-form lessons, applied knowledge, and tooling intros https://hackdesign.org also has a decent set of resources. Source: about 2 years ago
What specifically do you want to get better at? Visual design or interaction design? Try these: https://hackdesign.org/ https://www.interaction-design.org/courses/ui-design-patterns-for-successful-software https://www.manning.com/books/usability-matters https://pragprog.com/titles/lmuse2/designed-for-use-second-edition/ https://designcode.io/ui-design-for-developers https://www.learnui.design/newsletter.html... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
There is also a cool free resource online for learning design - https://hackdesign.org/. Source: over 2 years ago
Hack Design is a design course as well as a curated list of resources and tools: https://hackdesign.org/ It's not limited to web design (though resources relevant to web design make up a large part of the course) but addresses design fundamentals such as colour theory and typography, too. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago
Anita: I have lifetime access to the subscription-based code-learning website, CodeCombat, where I enjoy learning Python and taking all the Game Development courses offered there. Those games I made were a part of the Game Development 1 and 2 courses (there is also a 3rd course) on CodeCombat. You code the games entirely on your own from scratch by the use of the knowledge you have gathered from the lessons in the... - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
And https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now. I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
So now, while you have time (yes you have no time now but when you are out of school working with a child and or no summer vacation you will have less time) you can try MIT Scratch or CodeCombat and learn to code. For you it's a long the goal is to make 1 app or a handful of apps in 4 years until you graduate. That's absolutely doable even for someone who knows 0 about coding. Then when you graduate, if you are... Source: over 1 year ago
You can also have a look on Erase All Kittens (quite interesting) and also Code Combat. Source: almost 2 years ago
Https://codecombat.com/ is REALLY good, the free levels have enough content for ~10 weeks for an intro to programming term. Source: about 2 years ago
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