“Catching up” is irrelevant. Getting started, however, is hard. By Katie Siegel (Director, HackMIT) This post originally appeared on Medium. The summer before my freshman year of high school, I realized that I loved to swim. And so, much to the confusion of my...
Between my current full-time government position, volunteer work, and trying to live life, I decided to learn how to code. By Nabihah Azim (Intake Specialist, City of Oakland Department of Housing and Community Development) Government girl goes geek.. well kind of....
I started with Codecademy’s Code Year track and have been learning programming progressively ever since. It took me months to start and almost one year to get into the habit of coding frequently. By Dilys Sun (Student, Codecademy) Congratulations on learning how...
The barrier to learning how to program has been reduced to a computer and an Internet connection. By Martha Kelly Girdler (Software Engineer, Etsy) Initially, I didn’t think of programming as a way of expressing myself. The best analogy I can think of is learning to...
“We’re hoping to make everyone literate about the basics of programming while creating a generation of new and talented programmers” Zach Sims, co-Founder of Codecademy told me in an email. By Blake Landau (Blogger, Artemis) Codecademy’s mission is to democratize...