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+From 2010-2014, I fell in love with interactive coding tutorial. At the time, there were a number of tutorials all built upon the [ACE Editor](https://ace.c9.io/) which allowed for a coding editor experience in the browser. I credit CodeStreet, CodeSchool & Codecademy with providing me the confidence and knowledge to continue with coding.
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+As a teacher, I hoped to generate my own interactive lesson content to give back to the community that had helped teach me; sadly, I found there were no such tools for creators. Without community based tools to generate content, in my opinion, interactive coding content had stagnated.
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+In 2016, I developed an earlier version of [CodeRoad using the Atom editor](https://github.com/coderoad/atom-coderoad-deprecated). Atom docs and design towards hackability made it easy to create an interactive tutorial experience. After 6 months I dropped the project, as I found it very difficult to generate and maintain tutorials using the format I had created. I loved the idea, but not the experience I had created.
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+Years later it hit me that using Git as a tutorial format in CodeRoad would have been a simpler solution for both tutorial creation and consumption. Back in 2015, I had worked on a tutorial series for [Angular-Meteor](https://angular-meteor.com/tutorials/socially/angular2/bootstrap) using [Meteor Tutorial Tools](https://github.com/meteor/tutorial-tools). Meteor tutorial tools showed me that a tutorial can be versioned in Git, and that it can help ensure each step in the tutorial in cohesive and consistent.
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+The idea of CodeRoad sat with me for years to the point where the product started to feel obvious in my mind. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to build a platform, but it was a tool I wanted to use, and nobody else seemed to be working on it. In mid-2019, I had spent enough time thinking about how it would work that I decided to use my spare time to design and build it out.