Codecademy has inspired thousands of people just like you – and changed the lives of people who are very different from you. These are real stories. Tell us yours.

Sam Fellig / New York, US

How to Outgrow the Fear of Starting

From a non-technical guy with an idea to building one the Time's Top 50 site of 2013 Sam Fellig's story is nothing less than magical. But the founder of Outgrow.me says anyone can learn, as long as they stay positive.

Michael Perry / San Francisco, CA

Building an app? Start here.

Laura Kelly / Merced, US

Study the human mind - with Python

Liz Beigle-Bryant / Seattle

A new career at 55

Jonathan Suter / Vancouver

Solve problems, learn to code

Jennifer Ch'ng / Boulder, Colorado

Code composer

Sebastian Raschka / Moers, Germany

What Can Scientists Do With Code?

Dilys Sun / San Francisco, CA

Want to change careers? Learn to code.

Tim Saunders / York, United Kingdom

Why follow the norm when you can lead the pack?

David Bauer / Basel, Switzerland

Try, try again: after a six month break, one man takes Code Year by the horns

Flore & Benoît Destrubé / Paris, France

Streak versus Hospital: Motivation to the end

Paul Bauder / Boulder, CO

A developer wanted to find his friends on Codecademy. So he coded up a tool.

Ryan Hanna / Washington D.C

Exercising Mind and Body

Joah Gerstenberg and Haley Higgins / Texas

Teen duo from Texas codes a calculator

Akira O'Connor / Scotland

Codecademic - neuroscientist discovers Javascript

Martha Chumo / Kenya

Code from Kenya