CG Cookie Learning Path Finder

An interactive tool that helps learners find a personalized Blender course path based on their experience level, focus area, and learning style.

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What it does

Users answer three quick questions — experience level, focus area (animation, modeling, VFX, etc.), and how they learn best — and receive a curated, ordered list of CG Cookie courses with an explanation of why each course belongs in their path.

Running locally

Requires a local web server (the browser blocks fetch() on file://):

# Python
python3 -m http.server 8080

# PHP / Laravel Herd
php -S localhost:8080

Then open http://localhost:8080.

Adding or updating courses

All course and path data lives in data.json. No code changes required.

To add a course, add an entry to the courses object:

"myCourse": {
  "title": "Course Title",
  "url": "https://cgcookie.com/courses/...",
  "cats": ["Category"],
  "desc": "One sentence description."
}

The version field is optional — only include it for version-specific courses (e.g. "4.5", "2.8").

To add a course to a learning path, reference its key in the relevant path's steps array inside paths:

{ "id": "myCourse", "why": "Why this course belongs at this point in the path." }

Path keys follow the pattern {focus}_{level}_{goal} (e.g. animation_beginner_fast).

Files

| File | Purpose | |------|---------| | index.html | Page structure and markup | | styles.css | All styling | | app.js | UI logic and path building | | data.json | Course catalog and learning paths |