Ask HN: On learning to code: Are you left or right brained?

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14 years ago

Interactive jump into code immediately tutorials seem to be all the rage now. I'm talking about approaches like codecademy.com and learn.knockoutjs.com

This strikes me as very left-brain centric learning - very pragmatic.

However being left-handed I learn best via high-level conceptual introductions to concepts. This is how and why backbone.js works the way it does... . From there going through all the examples is a beautiful journey filled with "ahah" moments.

I plan to dedicate a lot of my time to writing conceptual tutorials of how things work.

Thoughts?

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