Careers in coding Career change advice from a pianist turned software engineer Regina went from being a classical piano teacher with no coding experience to landing a job as a software engineer in six months. We sat down to talk with Regina over Zoom about her inspiring journey.
Careers in coding What does a data scientist do? Codecademy data scientist Catherine Zhou provides some insight into the world of data science, talks about her day to day, and helps us answer the elusive question, “What does a data scientist do?”
Careers in coding Technical interview preparation: 6 tips from Codecademy developers Technical interviews offer potential employers a way to see how you think on your feet. We've compiled some technical interview preparation tips to help you ace yours.
Careers in coding Watch: How to Find a Job, Interview, and Start a Job From Home This Learn From Home Series event features members of the Codecademy People Team, diving into tips for searching for a job, interviewing for a job, and starting a new job from home.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Insights Learning, Teaching, and Changing Computer Science My experiences as a computer science student, teacher, and curriculum developer have given me a perspective on CS education that I would love to share.
Insights Data Science Jobs: How (and Why) to Land One Data science is one of this century's hottest fields, but breaking in is still a little confusing. This is a step-by-step guide to landing your first gig.
Insights The Future of Work Will Be Changed by Today's Tech 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.
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 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 Ask a Data Scientist: What is Machine Learning? I asked the questions Wikipedia failed to fully answer: what is machine learning, who should be learning it and how soon can I visit Westworld?
Partnerships How to Gain Influence as a Marketer at a Tech Company Claire Suellentrop and Georgiana Laudi share a collection of tactics to help you demonstrate your value, prove you’re thinking strategically, and ultimately, get better results at work.
Insights Why Building a Data Science Team Is Deceptively Hard More and more startups are looking to hire data scientists who can work autonomously to derive valuable insights from data. In principle, this sounds great: engineers and designers build the product, while data
Developing Stories_ Three Ways Coding Kickstarts Your Career Whether it's moving up in your job or getting a new one entirely, there's always a way to put code to work for you. Here are three ways users have applied their new skillset to take them where they want to go.