--- title: "Per Borgen (@perborgen) | Hashnode" description: "Co-founder of Scrimba. Read the latest articles by Per Borgen on Hashnode." url: "https://hashnode.com/@perborgen" --- @perborgen # Per Borgen @perborgen · Oslo, Norway · Joined March 2017 Co-founder of Scrimba [Website](http://scrimba.com/) ## Comments [We've created a bunch of free CSS courses at Scrimba (interactive tutorial site): Start here: Intro to CSS - https://scrimba.com/g/gintrotocss Then learn Flexbox: https://scrimba.com/g/gflexbox And then CSS Grid if you're interested: https://scrimba.com/g/gR8PTE Then you'll have a solid foundation in CSS :)](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/where-are-good-places-to-start-diving-into-css/comment/5d0157f2d970d4757460c3bd) Comment · Thread · Jun 12, 2019 · [Where are good places to start diving into CSS?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/where-are-good-places-to-start-diving-into-css) [Hey everybody! I'm name is Per, I'm the co-founder of Scrimba, a tool and platform for sharing interactive coding screencasts. Our goal is to create the best coding course platform in the world. I love to discuss coding and learning. Ideally both at the same time. Needless to say, HashNode is perfect for this :) I've also written quite a lot on Medium about learning how to code. Feel free to check that out.](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/introduce-yourself-to-the-hashnode-community/comment/5a14563e36cf38014823947d) Comment · Thread · Nov 21, 2017 · 3 · [Introduce yourself to the Hashnode community! 👋](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/introduce-yourself-to-the-hashnode-community) [Thanks a lot for the feedback!](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/how-well-does-this-screencast-motivate-you-to-learn-about-css-grid-layout/comment/5a0109d7b630cc8123ebac3f#reply-5a017743f434dee32cf331f1) Reply · Thread · Nov 7, 2017 · [How well does this screencast motivate you to learn about CSS Grid Layout?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/how-well-does-this-screencast-motivate-you-to-learn-about-css-grid-layout) [Thanks for the answer! Is browser support something you think I should address in the first screencast?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/how-well-does-this-screencast-motivate-you-to-learn-about-css-grid-layout/comment/5a007789e37721c17603d343#reply-5a00782ab630cc8123eb9952) Reply · Thread · Nov 6, 2017 · 1 · [How well does this screencast motivate you to learn about CSS Grid Layout?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/how-well-does-this-screencast-motivate-you-to-learn-about-css-grid-layout) [The better coder you are, the more you'll be able to do as an ML engineer ;)](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/which-is-the-better-option-today-machine-learning-or-coding/comment/59bfce9bb59f30f71a5eea63) Comment · Thread · Sep 18, 2017 · 2 · [Which is the better option today, Machine Learning or coding?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/which-is-the-better-option-today-machine-learning-or-coding) [Hey, and thanks for asking! It was my co-founder Sindre who got the idea for Scrimba. It grew out of his frustration of how cumbersome the process of creating high quality coding screencasts is. He needed to create coding screencasts because he had just open sourced the Imba progamming language (imba.io), which he's the creator of. Imba lacked tutorials to get people started. Sindre tried doing a few video tutorials, but became increasingly frustrated by the awful creation process (recording, editing, exporting, uploading, re-encoring). Concepts he could explain in 3 minutes face to face would take him an hour to explain online. So instead of creating video tutorials he started building on tool for creating Imba screencasts. This tool would solve the frustrating creation process and also be interactive for the end user. The first version of Scrimba was actually a community site for the Imba programming language. However, it quickly became clear that this way of doing tutorials had potential for all other languages as well. By the end of 2016 Sindre, Magnus and I had formed a company around Scrimba. As for future plans, I'd recommend people to follow our GitHub community repo. We use issues from that repo in our product development process. But in short, we're going to make it a lot easier for people to teach code online. This involves i.e. both supporting more languages and improving the teacher-student communication (for example make it a easier to give feedback on code). At its core we're trying to make the online learning experience better than the in-person learning experience. It's an ambitious goal, but we actually think we can accomplish it :) Per](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/hi-per-what-motivated-you-to-build-scrimba-and-what-are-the-future-plans/comment/59ba3ad7f90038c0672b9319) Comment · Thread · Sep 14, 2017 · 6 · [Hi Per! What motivated you to build Scrimba and what are the future plans?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/hi-per-what-motivated-you-to-build-scrimba-and-what-are-the-future-plans) [Thanks a lot! I'm glad you like the full screen as well. I personally weren't really sure about that one, but it seems to be the right choice :)](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/5-array-methods-all-javascript-beginners-should-know/comment/593c3c6954005ad453cdbb52#reply-593ecc0b164a4daecd8527fa) Reply · Thread · Jun 12, 2017 · 1 · [5 array methods all JavaScript beginners should know](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/5-array-methods-all-javascript-beginners-should-know) [Lol!](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/covfefe-package/comment/592fed068515388d7dfc26c1) Comment · Thread · Jun 1, 2017 · [covfefe Package](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/covfefe-package) [I really like how it's super light weight but still has a bunch of features. Keep up the great work! I'm sure it's gonna keep on growing :)](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/feedback-how-do-you-feel-about-minicss/comment/592fec228515388d7dfc26b6) Comment · Thread · Jun 1, 2017 · 1 · [\[Feedback\] How do you feel about mini.css?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/feedback-how-do-you-feel-about-minicss) [JavaScript in 2012. I had to create simple animations for our kids book apps (e.g. tap the pig and it farts). It was a great way to get into coding.](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/what-was-the-first-programming-language-you-learned-and-how-did-you-learn-it/comment/59269b97b01ff1a56f2e9e6f) Comment · Thread · May 25, 2017 · 2 · [What was the first programming language you learned and how did you learn it?](https://hashnode.com/forums/thread/what-was-the-first-programming-language-you-learned-and-how-did-you-learn-it)