Partnerships Talking C++: An Interview with Simon Brand The authors of Codecademy's Learn C++ course sat down for a chat with Simon Brand, a C++ Developer Advocate for Microsoft and frequent conference speaker.
Insights Announcing the Winners of the C++ Community Challenge Sharing the results of our month-long C++ Community Challenge—an opportunity for C++ Pro learners to team up and build something amazing together.
Insights Web Scraping MLB Stats with Python and Beautiful Soup Python web scraping libraries like Beautiful Soup can automate the collection of website data. Let's try it out by scraping MLB batting stats from ESPN.
Insights Why I Love Teaching at Codecademy Learning web development skills empowered me to help others learn the same. In this article, I describe my career switch and my role as a Codecademy Coach.
Insights What is a Product Manager? What does a product manager do? And why have they become such an important part of the tech world? Allow us to explain.
Partnerships Ask Developers: Why Should You Learn C#? To celebrate our new Learn C# course we interviewed 8 different software engineers on their experience with the language and what you should know before diving in.
Insights How to Tackle a Data Science Project In hopes of pursuing a career in Public Policy, I’ve spent the past year reorienting my programming towards Data Science. Naturally, doing so required significant practice finding, reading, visualizing and analyzing data.
Insights Engaging with Communities as a Female Technologist As a woman in a male-dominated field, I started to feel more confident when I joined communities that connect women in computer science to each other.
Insights Climbing the Ladder: Investigating the "American Dream" with Python We used Python to analyze how wealth, location and collegiate selectivity affect student outcomes and economic mobility.
Updates Updates to our Java Content Good news! We're updating several lessons in our Java curriculum to pave the way for more Java content in the future. Read on to learn more about these changes.
Updates Updates to the Code Foundations Path We're adding new content to our Code Foundations Path! Learn what programming is and what it's like without having to commit to one language or technology.
Insights How to Build a Data Science Portfolio A data science portfolio is a great way to showcase your skill set in lieu of work experience. This article will provide some tips to help jumpstart yours.
Insights 5 Skills Developers Need Beyond Writing Code Learning to program tends to center around, well, programming. But developers spend most of their time on tasks that require a different set of skills.
Insights Aggregating Pokémon Data with Python and Pandas Python is a more flexible and scalable tool for data analysis than spreadsheets. To prove it, we're analyzing the same Pokémon data with both and comparing.
Updates Livestream: Getting Started with C++ Whether you're new to coding or trying to pick up a new language, our C++ livestream is one that you won't want to miss.
Updates Livestream: Create a Color Generator During our next YouTube live stream, we will make a Random Color Generator web page with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Updates An Update to Codecademy Pro Over the past year, we have added a ton of new value to Codecademy Pro. Today, we’re announcing that we’re changing our prices so that we can keep delivering great new
Updates We're launching a course using Python 3! The Python language community experienced a fracturing in 2008 when it released Python 3.0. Python 3.0 was a new major version of Python, which means that code written in earlier versions
Updates Song Lyric Topic Analysis Livestream Join us as we perform a natural language processing topic analysis on the song lyrics of one of the world's most popular artists: Taylor Swift.
Partnerships Ask a Data Engineer: Warby Parker Edition 👓 Ryan Tuck, a Data Engineer at Warby Parker, dropped by our office to work on a Learn SQL from Scratch project. I broke out my notebook to ask some questions.
Updates Build an Alien Chatbot Livestream The 1950s ushered in excitement about outer space and, incidentally, UFO sightings and conspiracies about alien life. The decade also brought about a new theory of artificial intelligence—computer scientist Alan Turing proposed
Updates Facebook Messenger Analysis Learn how to analyze your Facebook messenger chat data to discover insights about your relationships with your friends.
Insights Go Behind-the-Scenes of Our Curriculum Hackathon (and Pick the Winner) Codecademy recently held our bi-annual internal hackathon. Now, we’re explaining what a hackathon actually is, and why you might want to take part in one.
Developing Stories_ Ask a Software Engineer: Airbnb Edition 🏡 We sat down with Luba Yudasina, a YouTuber, opera singer, and software engineer at Airbnb, to discuss her journey from Codecademy to Airbnb.
Insights How Learning Data Structures and Algorithms Helped Me Ace My Coding Interviews When I walked into my first coding interview, I assumed I didn't have to understand data structures and algorithms. Oh, how I was wrong.
