Culture 5 Cool Coding Facts You Might Not Know Learn interesting facts about coding, including why we use the term “computer bug.” Spoiler: It involves an actual live bug.
Culture 6 Ways To Be A More Environmentally Friendly Programmer (Yes, That's A Thing) We all have a role to play in the fight against climate change. Here are 6 ways programmers and developers can make tech more eco-friendly.
Culture 6 Desk Setups On Instagram That Will Give You Workspace Envy You’ll want to organize your desk after seeing these setups.
Culture 8 Green Apps That Help You Live A More Sustainable Life These green apps make it easy to lead more sustainable, eco-friendly lifestyles.
Culture 7 Organizations Helping Girls & Women Build Careers in Tech There's a gender gap in tech — but it's getting smaller thanks to organizations like these.
Culture 5 Ways Smart Tech Is Improving Cities — & The Skills You Need To Get Involved Learn how cities around the world are using IoT technology to address pressing issues and improve our quality of life.
Culture "Why I Code": The Black Developers Learning How To Build The Future We’re celebrating the Black learners in our Codecademy community who are shaping a more diverse and inclusive tech industry.
Culture How To Be A More Creative Developer Believe it or not, creativity underlies all programming. Use these tips to unleash your inner creative.
Culture How Engineers Prepare Websites for Black Friday & Cyber Monday A lot of work goes into getting websites ready for the biggest sales of the year. Learn 7 ways engineers prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Culture 15 Cybersecurity Experts to Follow to Keep Up With the Industry Check out 15 of the top cybersecurity professionals and influencers in the game. Following these experts can help you stay up-to-date on this fast-growing field.
Culture Meet Ada Lovelace: The World's First Computer Programmer Curious about the first computer programmer? Learn about Ada Lovelace and how she changed the future of computer programming and how we think about computers.
Culture What is competitive programming? Competitive programming can build your programming skills and make you a better developer. Read this to find out how you can become a competitive programmer.
Culture Black programmers and technologists who inspire us This year, in honor of Black History Month, the Codecademy Team is celebrating Black leaders that are working to build a more inclusive, more welcoming, and more diverse tech industry.
Teams How a group of Product Managers at Paradox is connecting through coding Calli is a Product Manager at Paradox, a Codecademy for Teams customer. Towards the beginning of the pandemic, she and a group of PMs at Paradox decided to start learning together on Codecademy.
Interviews An interview with Isabel Abonitalla: Chapter leader, student, and entrepreneur Meet Isabel Abonitalla — a computer science and biology student, programmer, entrepreneur, and one of the leaders of Codecademy’s CUNY Tech chapter.
Culture 6 Reasons Now’s the Perfect Time to Commit to Coding We believe that learning a new skill during this challenging time can provide a sense of empowerment and so much more. Here are six reasons to learn to code while you’re at home.
Insights 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.
Insights 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.
Partnerships Talking C++: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. We got a chance to chat with him about the “golden years” of Bell Labs and the top C++ questions on Stack Overflow.
Insights 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.
Partnerships Talking C++: An Interview with Simon Brand The authors of Codecademy's Learn C++ course sat down for a chat with Simon Brand, a C++ Developer Advocate for Microsoft and frequent conference speaker.
Insights 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.
Insights 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.
Insights 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.
Insights 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.