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LearnPack
At 4Geeks.com, you will see the word "LearnPack" here and there. You will use LearnPack A LOT to practice coding tutorials and small exercises. This article explains what it is and how to use it so you can run all the tutorials smoothly.
LearnPack is a tool designed by 4Geeks to teach and learn coding-related skills with interactive, as well as auto-graded and AI-enabled tutorials and exercises. It acts as a package manager for educational content, similar to platforms like npm, brew, etc. but exclusively for technical educational packages.
Instead of watching a video or reading an article, LearnPack presents small challenges incrementally; each one is auto-graded for instant feedback and a video tutorial solution (sometimes).
Most LearnPack tutorials will come with a button labeled: "Start new exercise" or "Continue exercise".
After clicking on "Start new exercise", a new coding environment will open, and LearnPack will start running immediately.
All LearnPack tutorials come in steps; you will find the instructions on the right side and a button to continue to the next ->
exercise.
If you cannot find the instructions on the right, you can start the exercises again by typing: learnpack start
on the terminal.
1$ learnpack start
Note: If that does not work, try
ctrl
+shift
+p
to open the VSCode command palette and type/look for "Open Instructions" to reopen the right sidebar.