And with a bigger community, there can be more responses and great discussion.

I know there's the Q and A forum on codecademy.com, but that isn't as immediate or general as reddit can be. And stackoverflow.com is way to overwhelming for freshmen coders. I love the open insightfulness of this sub's discussions.

Hi!

I am now on my way through a long process of learning the basics of data science.

I am fully aware that this platform is there to start you off on a tech path and I do not expect to become job ready after this course. It is meant to open my vision towards what it means and gives me the basics. I am already thinking of some lateral moves, but one step at a time...

My question still stands : has anyone here manages to get a job in tech after starting off in Codecademy? I am just super curious. If so, please write down how long it took and what were your general milestones towards getting that job.

This course uses 10 year old data sets, outdate sklearn modules, and now the AI assistant will not produce any code for reference to help with module questions. In many cases, the questions are vague with little guidance offered in the lesson context. This course at times felt like punishment. Learning something new should be exciting and rewarding, and this whole entire course offered little to none of the latter. 90% of the knowledge I retained from this course was taught by myself using outside AI chat and resources. I would not recommend this course to anyone and you all should be ashamed for (excuse my french) f**king with peoples futures so heavily by making them waste hours of their life on outdated material and torturous quiz modules with the promise that they´ll be ready for a modern in demand job for the skill set being taught.

The only thing this course is good for is a basic understanding of python and what you should know to teach and learn on your own to be proficient in Machine Learning / AI engineering. If you´re an absolute beginner wanting to learn python and understanding the scope of how ML models work, then it is ok. If you want something that is actually going to prepare you for the modern world, then this isn´t it, but is ok for a python foundation to get started.

So I'm a substitute teacher for a Spanish class, and all the kids are on their school issued laptops, doing homework, YouTube, and whatever high schoolers do on laptops. Except one student.

I saw one student looking at the HTML source code for a website. Clicking around and studying it. So I told him about Codecademy, he had never heard of it. After I gave him a brief explanation of all the languages you can learn, he immediately added the site to his favorites.

For the rest of class, he had made an account and started coding away like crazy, only stopping when the bell rang. I hope the skills he learns on the newly discovered Codecademy will inspire him down some awesome career path.

I'm learning web development css and html I feel like I don't have much time to learn and all the other stuff I need to learn for a job I fell overwhelmed my memory is bad. And I feel like I'm not retaining much of the information I haven't even learned javascript react or github I tried making a website myself but I'm not sure what goes where, what to make.

It's true, once they get your email they will never leave you alone, ever. They are almost as bad as Linked in with their emails.

I signed up for a 7 day free pro trial on Thursday and yet have checked my account and found that the money was taken out as soon as I set up billing. I'm certain I checked the pay monthly check box when setting up the account yet they billed me for an annual subscription. I'm so angry right now as that was all I had in my account for the rest of the month. Their email support system doesn't seem to be working and I can't see any other way to contact them. Does anyone have any advice as to how I can get my money back?

It's a wonderful site. I idly dreamed about something like it when I became curious about computers as a kid. Now that I'm going into training for a computer-related field, it's helping me quite a lot to learn the basics of various languages.

I've got it open in another tab, it's two hours later than the time I planned to go to bed, and I don't even mind!

While I love codeacademy, I often get extremely aggravated when I cant figure something out on a lesson. So thank you, very much.

My 7 day free trial just ended :( now the all nighter I just pulled is for nought. I’m still proud but damn, I wish I had one more day!!!

Let’s be honest - tangible EXPERIENCE is what recruiters really look for. Yes, Codecademy helps in building out projects and stuff, but it is still a project and not used in production somewhere. Was curious to know if anyone here was able to learn from Codecademy and bag a high paying job like a Data Scientist role - at least that’s what Codecademy advertises. Share your background and story with us!

Hi all. I'll keep this short. I'm Fede with the community team at Codecademy. I recently discovered that we have this subreddit and for the looks of it, we haven't used it in a few years now. No definite plans yet, but at least I want to make sure we clean up old posts. Stay tuned!

I've been trying to teach myself how to code for about a month (nom consistently) and I still feel completely lost. I'm starting to think that I wasn't meant for this kind of work and I should just follow in my family's footsteps and do manual labor.

Hi everyone! Margot here. Folks have been asking for a pinned bug thread, so here it is!

This thread is only for bug reporting—not for new ideas, requests, etc. Those posts will be removed. When posting about a bug that you are SURE is a bug (check your syntax first, then the Q&A forum if it is available), please remember to follow these guidelines:

• at the start, name the course and exercise

• link to the exercise where you are seeing this bug

• if available, link to the forum page for the exercise

• detail how to reproduce this bug - please use gist to format your code.

• if there is a workaround that you have found, detail it

If you see a bug that has happened to you mentioned by another learner, please upvote it so we know that you have seen it. If you've had a different experience, please let us know.

We're working on a lot of cool things here at Codecademy, with not a lot of hands. Bug fixes are definitely super important to us, but please bear with us! Your patience is gold!

Especially as an extension to the php lessons, so people could learn how to use SQL with PHP.

As the title states. Haven't used it in a while. But just checking if it is worth anything now that we can learn coding in much better way using claude and chatGPT. Also funny to see that codecademy was acquired for 0.5 Billion in 2021 just a year before everything changed with AI agents.