That's so funny - just like @joshdance said, I always read it as "Codeacademy". At least you have both URLs. I'd love to see a blog post one day that explains why you've chosen this name vs. that name. Co-decademy is a meaningless word to me (that's how I read it - "co" as in "codependence") whereas Code Academy makes 100% sense to developers.
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I'm the cofounder of Codecademy, so I'm obviously a little biased. One of Codecademy's biggest strengths is definitely teaching the basic principles and beginning concepts in programming but many of our users have gone on both with Codecademy and with other resources to find jobs, create companies, or build their own side projects. A small sampling of people like that is here: codecademy.com/stories. Let us know if we can help with anything!
Thanks so much for responding, I certainly must say that with the beta track running right now you guys did an awesome job. I think that when you guys follow this path, the coding education competition will be won by codecademy. I certainly have read the stories and some of them are quite impressive. Moreover, the question is wheter or not these people would have gone the same path without codecademy. By supporting more creativity to build things like they would build them for themselfs. For instance: make people write js whitin a html sheet and link a db to it, so it becomes more clear what to use certain things for and stimulates creativity. At least that is what I reconized from our in school coding classes, and that is what I missed at the codecademy courses. But by all means: I've got a great deal of respect for what you've built so far and with the people behind you I'm sure you are taking this to the next level. Ps: good to know: I'm a 16 year old high-schooler from Amsterdam.
I feel like if you provide extra courses that are more 'real-world' like (like creating a simple web application) even more people will start to use Codeacademy. Doing so, it becomes more evident of how coding is used in real life and I think it encourages people more to start making their own stuff, because they know how to combine several languages and principles to create something more concrete.
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I'm the cofounder of Codecademy - we've done a lot of work on our platform for a while and our lessons are community generated (but occasionally edited in-house). The lessons by Twitter, Evernote, etc. have been created by those companies and QA'd both by our community (in beta) and in-house. Let us know if you see anything amiss!
Since you're here, I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents on the API lessons:
There seems to be a pretty big knowledge gap from the HTML/CSS/JS tracks to the API tracks. It's nice that you give some basic info on HTTP requests and responses, but after that we're sort of left hanging without really knowing what to do with the material we've been presented. The Youtube lesson, for example, shows you how to retrieve JSON with the top videos for a given query and insert it into an HTML file, but what good does that do?
Honestly, most of them seem more like advertising space for the company making the lesson than anything else.
I wish that error handling would be a front-and-center part of any API instruction. There are a few obvious spots in the Evernote lesson I looked at where a sentence or two and a link to more info about how a remote network call might fail or a call could kick out errors due to input validations would really help someone who really wants to learn.
First of all we here at Mashape love what Codecademy offers. As one of the APIs on the list, we would like to encourage everyone to try out our tutorial if everything's in order. We welcome comments and suggestions to further improve our API mashup tutorial. Having said that, what language would you like to see next? (we started with Ruby)
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