Just what I was looking for... – Encode: Learn to Code Review

This app was one I stumbled on by chance. I had gone to the App Store to update my apps and when opening the store I happened to glimpse this app as I was switching the screen over to download the updates. I’ve been trying to learn programming for about a month now. So I went back and took a look at the app. I’ve bought 4 books over the last month hoping each one would give me what I was looking for - the syntax of programming. They were all tedious and wordy and hard to pull out the nuggets. This app does just what I want it to do. I was happy to pay the $6 for the full app after paying more than $50 per book, this felt like a steal. And if you already get the logic but just don’t have definitions of the words, then this app is the place to go. The logic of programming has always been natural for me, but I didn’t understand what the words meant. Or why they were put in certain places...the if/else statements and the Boolean statements...these were all terms I’d heard, but no one had cared to define or could clearly define without fire hosing me. This app takes it in small, easy steps. I’m almost through all of it and I’ve had it for less than 24 hours. I’ve learned more from this app in the 4.5 hours I’ve spent on it than I did from days and days spent in the books I bought. This app is great for someone who has zero programming background and needs to understand what the words mean while learning the order of symbols and what goes where, when. It’s great for getting your feet wet.
Review by Tedobean on Encode: Learn to Code.