Self-confidence

Question

Why does Sololearn highten your self-confidence for learning to code?

Answer 1

because you hear a nice little *ding everytime you get an answer right

Answer 2

@Antonin True, But that's not always fair is it?
One can easily get upvotes and more XP just by writing posts and comments that are attractive and interesting for users but completely out of the context. For example you post and say "don't give up!!" and that'll get you a thousand upvotes as well as badges and XP. Or you just copy and paste from Google play about what is new with the latest version and you'll get a trend.
The next thing you see is someone who has posted some great and funny jokes makes the top ten and better programmers are way bellow. So I don't think we should take this community very seriously. If you really are a pro, join the stackoverflow and try to contribute there. If you made a useful user there, then you should get more confident.

Answer 3

Cause to learn something difficult, you need motivation. An the points of XP and Badges are the motivation that everybody needs. Upvotes too.

Answer 4

My point of view is that the pedagogical approach is the best. The concepts are well seperated and it gives you a simple way to follow. Just very simple filling-blanks overview questions in the lessons make some imprint of the concepts in your brain. The try-yourself utility (code-playground) provides an ultrafast way to check your nerves up. Of course getting points from other stuff just like challenging (and winning) and asking witty questions makes a self impression that you are the professor of the community. But even without the get-point system, it is very encouraging that new concepts are not so hard to learn. They are just there and there are only some differences between what you already know and what they really are. Yes stackoverflow is the best community ever. It is free and very very extensive. But according to me, sololearn is at the learning side but stackoverflow is at the professional side.