samayshamdasani

It originally took me a weekend to get the basic site done. Then, after I saw it's potential, I've been working on it more extensively.

I built a site to teach people to code by building projects: https://enlight.ml

Awesome!

I run the Enlight (https://enlight.ml) newsletter. Right now, it just delivers new project tutorials to 1k+ subscribers, but I plan on expanding that to other articles and interesting thoughts related to development.

Hey Kabir! Congrats on making the frontpage :) I loved reading this post a couple days back.

Good idea! Will implement this soon.

Thanks!

https://daringfireball.net is a classic, but good one.

Also, I have been reading a lot of https://hackernoon.com lately.

Is this open source? looks sick!

Kids want to have fun while they learn. As a fifteen year old, I'm sure this can be by building interesting projects that has to do with characters they identify it - maybe like a website with pictures of them and describing who they are. (HTML, CSS)

After some of that, you can move on to JS where they'll actually understand programming logic. I built a site to teach people to code the web. Maybe it'll help you a bit: https://enlight.ml

it relies on Wikipedia's API - and I am still working on the styling..Thanks for the input!

Thank you!

Done. Thanks

Thanks. This project was just for fun. I am still working on the design.

make your own and customize just the way you like it! https://enlight.ml/projects/weather/weather.html

I used to have the exact same mentality. However, I had to make myself interested in building random projects because of the feeling I had at the end of completing one. When I complete a project, I feel so good that I actually made something. Try to build a project that you would be interested in and start small, then improve it.

To teach people to code in this way, I started https://enlight.ml that hosts a bunch of "random" projects. As I type this, I'm also working on my next project (https://shamdasani.org/playground) which is my version of codepen/jsfiddle.

I am by no means a professional programmer, but I am gradually learning through building. Hopefully, you'll learn to do the same.

https://enlight.ml is a site I made to teach people to code by building projects. Let me know what you think of it!

Sorry you thought this way. Will try and better rephrase next time.

Good point - will test out on the next email

Thank you! I will def take a look on implementing these things :)

Ah, I am using mailchimp but I wasn't aware that this number was pretty impressive compared to others...

I prefer books - or really, just plain old tutorials on the web. I created https://enlight.ml to do just that. Check it out! :)

I completely understand where you are coming from. Often, I do the same. However, I feel like copying the code by typing it after understanding what every single line means is when you're actually learning. I built a site to teach people to code this way (https://enlight.ml). If you want to learn by doing (it is one of the best ways to learn), you must understand and be able to reproduce it before copying it down.

Made https://enlight.ml -- a site to teach people to code

an ad on each page. I expect it to generate about $50-100/month

I made to site to teach people how to built the projects that I've built (was on HN two days ago) https://enlight.ml

I plan to add more projects to teach people to code in this type of way. I think the best way to learn is to actually build small apps and then altering them to make them better.

Agreed. This was on HN two days ago, but I created https://enlight.ml (a place to learn to code through projects) Let me know your thoughts!

Hey, I'm the author. The mailchimp list was associated with a website I built for one of my clients - I'm going to switch it back to https://enlight.ml soon (I'm just at school rn lol)

You are right. That's an error on my part. I just wanted to emphasize that the clock was designed in CSS, and that it's not some image off the internet or something.

Hey, it's hosted on GitHub pages. The code can be found here: https://github.com/samayshamdasani/enlight

If you take a look at the html files, along with the CSS - you may get an idea. I plan to make a tutorial on making a personal website from scratch like how I did (no frameworks, etc.) and then making a tutorial on technologies like Jekyll, etc.

Creator here! Thank you :) The list you suggested on reddit looks awesome - I'm gonna use some of those ideas. Working on a basic to-do application right now.

I think I made a mistake (I should have just linked it to the URL)Here's the site: https://enlight.ml