Videos are boring and why Codecademy Everyone

Heh, thanks for the post which I found entertaining, especially this part: "Videos allow the viewer to sit in a comfy chair and listen to a soft-voiced, nice-sounding instructor (am I the only one that thinks the voice of Salman Khan is incredibly soothing?), which inevitably puts the viewer to sleep." :)

More to the topic I personally feel that more important than the choice of video or interactive exercise as the teaching medium is the individual's motivation to learn. Without that it's easy to fall asleep, metaphorically speaking, and with it, things like pausing, rewinding etc. isn't a problem at all. The training material simply has to open a few conceptual doors, and the rest naturally follows.

Codecademy courses are fairly easy compare to those of Coursera or Udacity. There's a huge difference between giving someone a badge because he has made something trivial and trying to teach this person real CS concepts. For those who really want to learn something Udacity is way better than Codecademy.