Insights Today’s Tech is Changing the Future of Work Workers in all industries are being asked to do more and learn more. The future of work may mean wearing multiple hats—one of which is coding.
Partnerships Test Conversations: How I Wrote the Latest Alexa Course To write our newest Amazon Alexa course, I hit all kinds of constraints. But constraints breed creativity. Here's how I created a new testing methodology for the course.
Insights Use Tech Skills to Land a Remote Job 25% of users told us they started coding because they want to work remotely. We explained which technical skills you need to make remote work your reality.
Insights What is Computer Programming? What is the difference between coding and programming? And what is programming, really? Learn from a journalist turned coder who breaks it down, step-by-step.
Insights How to Add Codecademy to Your Resume With help from the experts at AngelList and Paysa, we explained how to communicate your technical skills on your resume and online career profiles.
Insights Why Is Coding So Hard? | Part 2 Pat DePuydt is an artist-turned-coding teacher who wants you to know that you're not alone. In Part 2, he offers strategies for overcoming coding difficulties.
Insights Why Is Coding So Hard? | Part 1 Pat DePuydt is an artist-turned-coding teacher who wants you to know that you're not alone. In Part 1, he outlines his students' most common challenges.
Insights How to Hack Hacker News Topping the charts on Hacker News can be a game changer, but it’s not easy. We used SQL to discover what the most successful submissions have in common.
Updates Updates to Learn JavaScript: Requests We’re updating the way we teach HTTP requests. We're deprecating the use of Google’s URL Shortener API and using Rebrandly & Datamuse to teach HTTP requests.
Insights From Excel to SQL: Why You Should Make the Switch Spreadsheet applications like Excel are ubiquitous, but they come with risks. Learn why SQL is a faster, easier, and safer way to manipulate and analyze data.
Insights How to Make the Most of Python’s Communities Learning Python is more fun and more effective when you have a community to support and inspire you along the way. Look for these qualities in your group.
Updates Skip Though Course Content and Jump to Individual Lessons We removed access restrictions on lessons so you can skip to the middle of a course and share links to individual lessons.
Developing Stories_ From Notebook Sketch to the App Store "I was in an industry that was getting wiped out by technology... The motivator that I really saw was, 'If I don't shift my trajectory, I'll be left behind.'"
Partnerships All the (Internet of) Things Ladyada explains what the term “Internet of Things” actually means, the IoT projects she’s most excited about, and the programming language you should learn to get involved.
Insights Follow Along: Modify this Article with Inspect Element Practice using your browser's developer tools to inspect and modify websites by inspecting and modifying this article
Partnerships Community Notes: "Make a Website" We're excited to feature notes on our "Make a Website" course written by one of our learners. We also explain three specific benefits of note-taking.
Partnerships Community Notes: HTML We're excited to feature notes on HTML written by one of our learners. We also explain three specific benefits of note-taking.
Partnerships How to Build Amazon Alexa Skills That Sound Natural We teamed up with the experts at Amazon to help you build Alexa skills that feel conversational. Here's why we did it.
How Cambridge Analytica Used Machine Learning to Mine Facebook Data Get our hot takes on the Cambridge Analytica breach, and learn about the machine learning concepts behind their Facebook data mining campaign.
Updates Updates to the Codecademy Dashboard We updated the design and functionality of our Codecademy dashboard to organize your content more intuitively and help new learners get started.
Developing Stories_ Lessons Learned on the Road to Y Combinator "For the longest time I didn't consider myself a programmer. And I always put it on a pedestal."
Updates Updates & Improvements to Projects & Quizzes We're excited to announce updates and improvements to the most popular projects and quizzes on Codecademy.
Developing Stories_ Why a Linguist Learned the Language of Programming "To better understand things, especially when it comes down to languages, it's best to teach them yourself."
Partnerships What Non-Engineers Need to Know About APIs Ask most developers what an API is and you’ll probably get lost in a sea of acronyms. Before thinking it’s all over your head, read this explainer.
Updates Updates to Codecademy's Python Course We're overhauling the first unit in Learn Python that covers syntax. We’re rearranging concepts and correlating copy to teach these new updates in a clearer more concise way
