I'm a sophomore majoring in Computer Science. Right now I'm taking the semester off, but still want to work on my programming skills and learn how to make something I can put on my resume. Codecademy Pro looks like it has some interesting courses where I can learn how to make something like that. Is it worth the money?

The quizzes seem interesting, and the personalized path is enticing, but has anyone subscribed and agreed that it was worth $60

I just saw code academy had a sale ongoing. It’s like 90 per year. Says I’d have access to all of their resources. I used to program during high school but haven’t for years. Looking to learn new skills, learn about a.i and creating a.i. do you guys think it’s worth the £90?

If it isn’t, what would you recommend? I want to relearn basics and eventually progress to advanced stuff.

They've got a 50% october sale at the moment. The pro package provides access to (and I quote):

Real-world projects

All courses

Skill paths

Career paths

Technical interview prep

Code challenges

Professional certifications

Career services

Assessments

I am a not a beginner but not quite at an intermediate level. I have a decent mathematical background with some previous, limited experience in Python and C++. I'm looking to learn some Python (and C++ eventually) for applications in data analysis, ML and financial tools.

Has anyone genuinely found Codeacadmey to be a strong resource in terms of the courses and projects offered? Have you completed courses and left with a more robust understanding of concepts? Also, do employers rate their proffesional certs?

thanks for reading :)

2023 graduate here! I finally got a SWE position for 2024 September start. Been away from the game since I graduated and went into consulting. Should I fork out the £95 for code academy pro while it's on offer to brush up ?

I wouldn't mind spending the additional $20 to upgrade to pro for the month, just to get some hands on projects that I can make, just want to know what you guys think?

I recently discovered CodeCademy and they have everything from free basic fundamental skills to full fundamentals of a skill like HTML, SQ, Python etc. they also have career paths that teach you everything to do with Front end, computer science/data science, full stack. My question is, is it worth the time to do the course to getting a job as a self taught programmer? Will I be taken seriously as someone without a college degree?

Is there Any where else where i can learn coding and is codecademy really worth it?

I’ve been trying to learn programming for a while. I was finding that most free resources were extremely difficult in getting the bigger pictures across and how things tied together. I finally broke down and bought the pro version of Codecademy. I started the backend engineering track and I feel like I’m actually learning a lot and making progress, understanding concepts. I feel like it gives me direction and ties concepts together on how things function together. The supplemental resources that they point you to help a lot.

I see Codecademy get a lot of hate on here and the majority of the reason is it’s too expensive, but I don’t really hear a lot about the content quality here.

Am I wasting my time with Codecademy, or is the pro version a start?

I just signed up for Codecademy PRO and am following the Full Stack Engineering career path. Does anyone have any previous experience with this program? Is it worth it? Is it as good as what it seems to be on all of the advertisements?

I also saw that they just got bought by another company. Would that be good or bad for a new consumer trying to utilize their services.

Thanks

I've mostly been using free resources (won't be able to go back to college for a while because it's pretty expensive), and I've been thinking about trying paid classes for a better learning experience, but I'm not sure if it's worth it. I really like freeCodeCamp—following along with projects is great, and the certification projects are helpful. But I feel like I need something that explains how everything functions together even more clearly.

With most tutorials, I feel like I'm blindly following along, and I'd love to get to the point where I can create things more independently. I've looked through a few other resources but I'm unsure what would be best for me. I'm considering paying for a course, but I'm not sure if I should. I've googled different options but want feedback from people who have tried different things. What works best for any of you? :)

If it helps I'm currently learning Javascript, CSS, and HTML (I would also like to learn Java at some point)

I've been interested in CS for a long time, and am, in fact, going to school for it. Well, sort of; technically I'm majoring in statistics with a CS minor, the latter being promoted if I do well in a second-semester course this year. However, I know that within this field, there are many roads that lead to Rome.

So, I checked out Codecademy, for the first time since I was in middle school. It seems pretty comprehensive: 14 languages from Python to HTML and Shell to MongoDB, 15 subjects ranging from cybersec to game dev to even interview prep, and a new "Projects" section with 9 independent projects at the time of writing this (all, admittedly, seemingly geared towards website development). Going through the Java course, it seems there are also small-scale projects included in the courses as well. Apparently they even have "career paths," which seem interesting. To top it all off, they have a student discount, which is, frankly, the only reason I'm even considering a subscription; the $30 monthly fee is exorbitant, but $12 I can handle.

With all of this said, I'm still not totally sure this is worth it. I remember back when Codecademy was completely free as a kid, and it felt really basic. From what I can tell from the courses, it seems their teaching philosophy has remained relatively the same, but with a little more interactivity, which is a plus. In its current state, is it worth the subscription? Will it give me a leg up in getting a CS-related job, be it with skills on my resume, certifications that may be regarded well, or otherwise? Any and all advice and views would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. I'm aware this thread has been made in the past, but from the descriptions therein, it seems Codecademy has evolved enough for me to consider making a new one.

Hey everybody. Facing recently the world of programming and really want to go in deep into it.

First things first, I'm a biologist, so I would apply those knowledge in the bioinformatic field, so no deep scripting, machine learning and so on.

I'm wondering if the pro account of CodeAcademy is really worth its money to acquire a basic knowledge of the most important languages (i.e. python, R, bash, etc.) That would allow me to start a possible career in bioinfo.

I know that the website release also some certificates of completion that, for what I know, are accepted as CV in the field. Any experience with that?

Thanks to all that will answer :)

I tried the Odin project and did not like it at all. I may try it again down the road but I felt I was all over the place. Today I started codeacademy python course and finished the first python module is it worth it to get the paid version ?

Hey,

I just wanted to let everyone considering buying CodeAcademy Pro that it's terrible. I'm currently learning Swift and their compiler is just awful. When I click on "Run" nothing happens or sometimes it gives me an error, because I don't have spaces exactly at where they demand the spaces to be. I code in Xcode and my code works and it gives me no error, when I copy the same code onto CodeAcademy it gives me bunch of errors.

The certificate might be the only "useful" thing I might get out of it, but that's about it and I'm not sure if any of the employers care about CodeAcademy's certificate at all. Maybe only very few of them.

Also, once I googled for a solution, because I didn't know what to do and I found the exact same tutorial on Apple Developer page for free. I'm just pretty disappointed with CodeAcademy. It seemed to work fine when I tried it for free.

Currently I'm getting it for $95/year, which I think is a very decent deal. I'm trying to upskill in various areas like cloud, python programming, a few things related to full stack, and maybe get some new data science skills too. Did any one of you here use Codecademy for their career growth/transition? Or did anyone find Codecademy to be helpful/not helpful in any way?

~ thanks

International freshman without a summer internship here. I'm looking for tools to learn new skills and reinforce my knowledge from the intro classes I've taken (Python3, Java, C, C++). I've checked Coursera and Codecademy, and the Pro version of Codecademy seems interesting but it's pricy.

I'm looking to learn a bit of everything backend to see what I like best. Interested in ML and cybersecurity too.

I've started doing some leetcode but I feel like I need to learn more material to approach the leetcode problems in a more efficient way.

I could afford it with my savings, but is it worth it to pay the pro version? Is there other resources I should check? Thanks.

So i want to go to a local school but they require me to finish a python course on codecademy with the 7 day trial and i'm very sceptical about entering any of my bank details online if i don't know the place. They say that it can be done within the 7 day trial period. So is it safe to take the trial?

I couldn't resist their half price offer, which brought it into my "give it a go what do I have to lose!" budget. I don't have any great plans, at 51 I just want to see what I can learn. So far so good, I followed the first few exercises and although at first I didn't have a clue what was going on, after an hour I had managed to do a few things and was even playing around trying to mix up what I'd learned a bit. I did write programs in Basic on a Z X Spectrum when I was at school, I wrote a program that tested my French vocabulary and also have done websites and fiddled with Javascript and HTML so I guess I'm not starting totally from scratch - though of course the difference between a Z X Spectrum and today's computing power is orders of magnitude different!

I've no idea how this goes from these very simple things to making something like an app/program that actually does something useful, but it looks like it will be interesting to learn, I'm sure I'll be seeing code as I go to sleep over the holidays, event though I should be taking a break (mind you it's so different from my day job that it feels like it could actually be very relaxing and distracting!)

There have been a few people encouraging me on here over the last few months so I thought I'd stop by to say I've finally taken the plunge and got started with my first steps 😀