I am backpacking for seven months (no laptop), but got curious into coding (suddenly have time for interests).

I didn't know where to start so I went for a flashy app, and to be fair I enjoyed it. I was enjoying learning about how everything works, but I have to be critical.

I was using the information and writing it down on the side and stuff, since I think this is the problem with apps like Duolingo. You get dopamine instead of actual learning.

Yet I paid for a pro subscription, since suddenly it started giving you guided projects where you actually had to think. This was more like it for me. I think there are way better ways to learn coding, but it kept me interested and for now that's fine since I didn't have a computer with me.

Later in the course the bs started happening. In the app you scroll through the course and all of the projects are possible, but you have to unlock them of course. By the time I got there, I already paid an annual subscription and I click on the next project very excited. "Open on desktop", the app said to me.

So I take an iPad to check it out on my browser and what does it say. Upgrade to the max subscription to use the web browser. So they carefully engineered a nice loophole where it looks like you can do projects in the app at first, but by the time you reach your third project suddenly you cannot do it in the app anymore and need to open on browser. And what do you know Mimo on web browser is only for MAX subscribers.

Fool me once shame on you, I will just use it to learn some syntax. But I am switching to boot.dev.

Conclusion: it could have been a nice way for me to learn, but I really feel like I got screwed over too much to keep paying for such an app. If you want to learn coding try another alternative and I would only advice using an app like this if you only have your phone to learn (this is why I used it in the first place). Hopefully this helps someone in the future.