I recently quit my job as a marketing manager for a startup and have a decent runway before i have to start looking for another job. I'm interested in learning how to code (been waiting since i was 13) and was wondering if anyone has found an awesome online course.
Planning on learning Rails as it seems to have a huge amount of resources available.
If you want to take a full time course there are of course the coding schools like devbootcamp, appacademy etc. Or the online equivalent at bloc.io
Hope this gives you some ideas, and good luck.
CodeLearn just gives you a bunch of commands to type on a remote server to give you the illusion that you made an app, moreover it doesn't explain anything other than just giving you the commands/instructions on how to get a scaffold running.
I'd also say that Rails is terrible to learn for new comers to programming since it abstracts so much out. CodeSchool, Codecademy and Zed Shaw's awesome LPTHW makes more sense than the aforementioned site.
Start with Python and once you're familiar/comfortable with it look at microframeworks such as Flask and later on move to Django and stuff.
Get the fundamentals right, that's all you need to understand all the programming languages under the sun.
lynda.com codeschool.com courseera udx udacity
Good luck