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+post_title: 'Programmers Passport: The First Look'
+author: dreat
+layout: post
+published: true
+post_date: 2020-04-29 22:xx:xx
+tags: [first_look, learning, groxio]
+categories: [new_blog, first_looks, learning]
+---
+Hello!
+
+Some time ago I signed up for Programmer's Passport at [Grox.io](groxio.io) and just recently finished first language, so I though I will write a small review.
+
+## What is Programmer's Passport?
+Following theory that every good programmer should be polyglot (not master in every language, but know a few) Programmer's Passport is a online place to give you a knowledge about interesting languages, so you can grow.
+As for the time of writing there're 4 languages: Crystal, Pony, Prolog, Elixir.
+You can see that the selection is.. unorthodox - and I like it! Possibly that will interest you, dear reader, as well!
+
+I just finished Crystal, so my review is based only on that.
+
+## The bad
+As there are way less bad things (spoilers!) I will start with them.
+1. With the books and projects I didn't get to experience low level stuff that Crystal is capable of
+2. The projects seemed a bit too tiny
+3. There's one error in instructions I found - when cloning repo to CrystalLife there's wrong repo `crystal-life` and not `crystal-life-board`. This wasn't a big issue, bit broke the flow
+
+## The neutral
+I don't know if that's me using Safari, but website on projects view was a bit wonky. Projects kept hiding, but I don't know if that's me - I still keep accidentaly using touchbar as I'm not used to it.
+
+## The good
+1. It was a good overview of language. The book was really well written, with good examples. I may be really biased, because I like to read about programming.
+2. Projects may were bit short, but they were really fun!
+3. Exercism exercises were well chosen - with some warnings what not to take to be disencouraged. It made introduction to language smoother.
+4. A LOT of materials. And really good ones.
+5. Seeing happy Bruce doing something wonderful - sharing knowledge.
+6. Reminders that new chapters are ready, but sitll being able to progress at your own pace.
+7. Projects themselves. I wrote about them being fun, but they required to use knowledge gotten during the course of whole course.
+8. Focus on tests, even testing your web part of an app. Nice!
+
+## First look conclusion.
+Did I have fun? Yes! Do I regret spending money? Absolutely no! Will I continue learning with Programmer's Passport? Hell yeah!
+There were some little things, but for first course/language this was a really solid run. I can surely recommend it. I will now jump to Prolog or Elixir to see how they progressed and return to Pony later.
+
+Adn thank you Bruce for this, you rock!