I can only speak for Codecademy. And my experience was pretty in the middle. The good things about it is how very well structured it is. Every course is neatly packed and organized for you. Very nice. It's also very interactive, you read and you do. Which is great! There are a ton of learning resources. Cheatsheets, forums, docs and more. The community is nice, I've interacted with them and they're pretty friendly and ready to help. Now one of the bad things about it that I noticed was just how much it holds your hand, and while that can be good for beginners, at some point you have to be able to think for yourself. I mean, programming is all about using your brain and you're not using your brain if all you do is read and do based on what you read. I especially noticed this in the first JS course. For example, I know what iterate means, I know what 'search for' means, I know I need a loop, so why is it telling me? Some times it even got mad at me because i used a certain method that they didn't want me to use which defeats the whole purpose of thinking for yourself and building based on what you know, both my method and the method they wanted works fine, so why are you giving my solution a wrong answer? Also, the career paths, SOME of them are just glorified roadmaps. The backend engineer one for example, it's basically just a roadmap. They don't teach you anything massively different that you wouldn't get with free courses. In the backend engineer one they have the intro to JS course, intermediate JS, node.js and express.js and more. ALL of those courses I just mentioned are free on their website, you just get them organized together as a roadmap and called a career path, which I think isn't worth the 16 dollars a month, especially with tools like roadmap.sh which already tell you everything you have to know about backend engineer and what to learn and even where to learn it. And while they do go into fundamentals of backend engineering that isn't free on their website, again, I don't think its worth the 16 dollars a month just to get taught information that you can easily find on YouTube. So, I think codecademy is great for beginners and for learning the basics, but ME PERSONALLY I wouldn't go any further than just free courses or the basics. In my experience, I couldn't even start Intermediate JS because I was so sick of the hand holding. When I finished the first course I just left, I went to TOP which is not backend focused so it was a bit difficult incorporating TOP to my path but I really enjoy how it helped me learn more through research and practice. That said, I still enjoyed my time with Codecademy, maybe not much at the end but I really appreciate how it provided me with a clear direction and it teaches you all the fundamentals. I think a lot of beginners need structure like that and Codecademy definitely provides it. TL;DR. Codecademy is great for the basics and fundamentals but in my experience it holds your hand too much, and some of the career paths aren't worth the 16 dollars a month. Some of what is taught in career paths is already free on their website and you can learn the rest through practice and youtube. Roadmap.sh will literally tell you everything you have to learn for whatever you want to learn for completely free. Answer from W_lFF on reddit.com