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A collection of 45 posts

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7 Tips for Learning from Home While Social Distancing

We know that learning from home can be challenging. That's why we've put together a list of tips to help you stay focused and motivated.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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Learn From Home: A Guide for Teachers, Students, and Parents During Covid-19

Have you signed up for Codecademy Pro through our scholarship program but don't know how to get started? This guide will help you get the ball rolling, whether you're a student, teacher, or parent.

Codecademy Team Codecademy Team
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Sonny Li Sonny Li
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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.

Parth Shah Parth Shah
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Using Machine Learning to Analyze Taylor Swift's Lyrics

I used natural language processing and other machine learning techniques to analyze the discography of an artist with an intriguing history: Taylor Swift.

Ian Freed Ian Freed
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Identifying Storylines in Survivor with Machine Learning

I made a machine learning model that gave me some insights into my favorite reality TV show, Survivor. Now, I'm explaining how I did it, step-by-step.

Alex Kuntz Alex Kuntz
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What are Neural Networks?

Artificial neural networks are interconnected groups of nodes, akin to the vast network of neurons in a brain. Let’s explore how they came into existence.

Ashim Sitoula Ashim Sitoula
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Visual Studio vs. Sublime Text: Which Editor Should You Choose?

We're providing an in-depth comparison of two of the most popular code editors: Visual Studio and Sublime Text.

Karen McCandless Karen McCandless
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What Are Data Structures?

Learn what data structures are, why they are useful, and how you can use them effectively.

Mariel Frank Mariel Frank
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JavaScript: How Did It Get So Popular?

How the first browser war— and an especially productive 10 days—led to the creation of JavaScript, the most important language in modern web development.

Kyla Brown Kyla Brown
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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.

Parth Shah Parth Shah
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