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Codecademy Pro Welcomes Our 100,000th Learner

Today, we are thrilled to announce that more than 100,000 people all around the world have joined the Codecademy Pro community in order to transform themselves through learning. It’s a long way from where we started with an idea in a dorm room in college a little over 8 years ago.

Zach Sims Zach Sims
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MySpace and the Coding Legacy it Left Behind

For an entire generation, Myspace was a gateway to writing code. We looked back on the site’s code editor and explained how it led to the site’s downfall.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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Protect Your Personal Data By Thinking Like a Data Scientist

Data is a currency we spend more often than we realize. Understanding how our data is collected and used can help us evaluate the decisions we make with it.

Karl Lykken Karl Lykken
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Talking C++: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. We got a chance to chat with him about the “golden years” of Bell Labs and the top C++ questions on Stack Overflow.

Sonny Li Sonny Li
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Updates to the Data Science Path

We're adding lessons and several in-depth projects to the Data Science Path. You'll learn how to analyze real data across a variety of industries.

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When One Teaches, Two Learn: Meet Codecademy’s Community

We believe “when one teaches, two learn.” To make that belief a reality for learners, we host an online community with tens of thousands of members.

Alyssa Vigil Alyssa Vigil
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Updates to the Web Development Path

We're adding new lessons and quizzes to the Web Development Path. We've also added new Challenge Projects, which allow you to develop applications locally.

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How to Start a Group Project

As you develop your coding skills, you may want to use them to build a complex project. We'll walk you through how to assemble and manage a project team.

Kerry Driscoll Kerry Driscoll
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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.

Mariel Frank Mariel Frank
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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.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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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.

Kerry Driscoll Kerry Driscoll
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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.

Aubrey Wullschleger Aubrey Wullschleger
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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.

Navie Narula Navie Narula
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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.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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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.

Gabriel Guzman Gabriel Guzman
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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.

Navie Narula Navie Narula
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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.

Gabriel Guzman Gabriel Guzman
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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.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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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.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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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.

Albert Lee Albert Lee
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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.

Karl Lykken Karl Lykken
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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.

Albert Lee Albert Lee
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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.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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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.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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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

Zach Sims Zach Sims
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