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title: "Interactive Course Platforms for the win"
author: "Lax Mariappan"
date: "2024-02-14"
categories: ["Blogging"]
tags: ["Courses"]
excerpt: "Thanks to interactive course platforms, I can now complete the courses and upgrade my skills easily. One of the challenges of learning or upgrading a new skill is to set up your local dev environment. And the instructor will be sharing some examples with completed code, which makes it hard to follow along. Interactive course […]"
canonical_url: "https://laxmariappan.com/interactive-course-platforms-for-the-win/"
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# Interactive Course Platforms for the win

Thanks to interactive course platforms, I can now complete the courses and upgrade my skills easily.

One of the challenges of learning or upgrading a new skill is to set up your local dev environment.

And the instructor will be sharing some examples with completed code, which makes it hard to follow along.

Interactive course platforms like Scrimba, Stackblitz and others make it easier.

Advantages

Get started in seconds not minutes or hours

Follow along the code easily

It offers a sense of satisfaction and encourages you to practice more.

I don’t have to be stuck setting up my local environment and get frustrated with a npm package or version conflict and so on.

Takes notes directly on the lessons

Ask questions with the community or the instructor on the page itself

Recently I have been enjoying the course “Joy of React” by Joshua W Comeau.

If you are creating courses, consider making them interactive.

Not just having a simple multiple choice quiz.

Let the students write code directly. 

Let’s make learning truly fun!