MacLearn v.0.5 Anniversary Update

2/11/2024By Tony


Not only is this massive MacLearn update the first prerelease update, it's also MacLearn's birthday. Exactly 365 days ago, on the 11th of February, 2023, MacWeb's first app, MacLearn, was born. Over this year, many, many things happened. But MacLearn's still here. It went from Coding Place to MacCode, and finally to MacLearn, this app went through a lot of changes. In this busy year, MacLearn went from 2 tutorial articles to 26, with tons of other new pages, courses, features, and more planned to be released. To honor this incredible year for MacWeb, here's a massive anniversary update to MacLearn.

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APP REBRANDING

We're expanding MacLearn to become the best and the most resourceful online learning education platform, so we renamed it from MacCode (which only focused on coding) to MacLearn, where you can access tons of valuable resources and support for a wide variety of subjects and knowledge. We're also rolling out massive user interface changes, user experience updates, and a new logo for this anniversary rebranding πŸ“–!

NEW COURSES

We basically recreated the whole app in this massive update, because we're giving out massive changes to existing courses (HTML and Refrences) and releasing tons of new courses, articles, and resources for almost any subject in the future! In the next couple updates, we're gonna be publishing the CSS and JavaScript courses, so stay tuned πŸ†•!

NEW ARTICLES

From the old Coding Place to the new MacLearn, there's a lot of information that needed to be updated and rewritten, plus even more updates for functionality and appearance changes. We rewrote every article and also published some new ones, so you can learn and master a course more easily! On top of that, we're also introducing new quizzes and exercises for you practice in this update ✏️!

NEW NAVIGATION BAR

In order to give you the easiest, quickest, and most effective way to learn different subjects, we're rolling out a brand new powerful navigation bar on top of each pages! It has many dropdown menus for course catagories and a help menu, and when you hover over them, a list of subjects and courses will appear, and you can navigate to any course you want easily just by clicking on it! This makes all the courses organized while being easily accessible at the same time! We also added new styles, effects, and links to align MacLearn to MacWeb Site Material 2 so it feels the same as other MacWeb apps πŸ”₯!

NEW APPEARANCE

To make MacLearn more user friendly, modern, and unified with other MacWeb apps and match with MacWeb Site Material 2, we revamped the whole layout, content, and styling for every single page to enhance your experience on MacLearn! With carefully designed pages, you'll have a better and more comfortable learning experience 🎨!

NEW PAGE: Playground!

What's the point of learning to code if you can't try it out on your own? That's why we're releasing our brand new in-app online code editor Playground in this update, so you can try out your coding skills, practice, and be a master of programming! Currently, you can code in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in Playground, and more languages will be supported in Playground soon πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»!

NEW UPDATE SCHEDULE

Just like all the other MacWeb apps, MacLearn will also receive regular updates monthly, with new contents, resources, articles, pages, features, and more releasing on the first day of each month! Because of regular updates, soon, MacLearn will have tons of new courses, resources, and features πŸ“†!

FUTURE PLANS

From this anniversary update to the version 1.0 release, we'll continue rolling out awesome features, tutorials, and more. The primary focus we'll be working on is the learning path. We'll add more exercises and quizzes for learners to test their skills, and by doing that, they'll remember more and master courses more easily. We'll also make the learning process fun by adding game elements and more to help with your learning journey. Onward ✈️!

Other Improvements, Changes, and Fixes include:

  • Changed HTML and Refrences to Beta Courses.
  • Brand new appearance and functionalities on each tab and page.
  • Brand new pages.
  • Brand new sidebars.
  • Brand new visual effects.
  • Brand new user interface and user experience.
  • Bug fixes and navigational problem fixes.
  • Fixed footer problems and new footer content.
  • New feedback form and support page.
  • New update page.
  • New home page course page and content.
  • New update banner on top of the home page.
  • Removed many pages because of site renovation.