That's too bad; I was interested in moving beyond the first page. This is about as far from a social site as you can get. You don't have any need for my social graph. Please stop doing this.
If you're too lazy to write your own auth system, at least support OpenID or Persona or some other open standard rather than forcing people to use one of your blessed providers.
I did login using one of the options, they provided to check out the content some time ago, but I definitely would have preferred a more neutral auth system like OpenID, etc., as you've rightly pointed!
Pretty sure sites like these are aimed more at complete beginners.
One of the cool things is that after you solve a problem you can review how others attacked the problem (people use almost any language you can think of), and seek continual improvements for greater efficiency. Python is a popular choice there.
I'm learning python but find most tutorials boring. Your method sounds interesting.
About two weeks ago, I wrote a somewhat complex application to "scratch an itch" at work and have since started in with Django.
I'd recommend the Google class (it's on Youtube).
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I'd much rather work harder to learn something real than learn a simplified style that is utterly useless outside your website.