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TheCodePlayer (Alpha) - HTML5, CSS3, Javascript tutorials

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"... walkthroughs... will be put up on the home page of TCP only if we think the walkthrough is good in terms of the design, layout, cross browser compatibility (IE not needed, but FF and Chrome are a must)."

I love that you are not requiring IE compatibility for walkthroughs.

haha, yeh

TheCodePlayer is a new concept to make learning front end technologies easier. Code is played back like a video with output rendering making conceptual and process based learning butter-easy. Feedbacks would be highly appreciated.

Very interesting concept, but I am worried that this encourages a copy/paste style of coding, rather than actually learning why you would do this or that.

We are in the process of making a strong guidelines for authors to maintain quality of the learning material. Users will be free to make anything but only the ones which are in compliance with our guidelines will make it to the top.

Guidelines that we have prepared till now is here - http://thecodeplayer.com/guidelines

This is great. I'm just starting to learn this stuff and I've enjoyed the user experience so far. couple thoughts:

1. Would love to be able to type my code as the walk through is played so I compare my code and see if I can replicate.

2. It be nice if I can ask questions or make comments tied to specific lines in the code.

these are on our todo list, thanks!

For anyone wondering whether we are using any library for play/pause or not, no we are not. It's all custom code based off the code from http://cssdeck.com/t

I love the replayer and seeing someone type/create code. Really Awesome.

thanks a lot, still a long way to go as there needs to be more and more upgrades and fixes. :)

Etherpad meets codecademy? Interesting.

this, shit, AMAZING. need more tutorials, more authors and that's about all. What are the technologies behind?

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