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   by zds 15y ago

   I'm Codecademy's cofounder - we work hard to make our product and we have a lot of satisfied users. As a lot of other people have alluded to, there's no "secret." We work all the time to build awesome stuff and we're lucky that people not
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   by zds 15y ago

   Thanks for the comments. I'm the cofounder of Codecademy - we're working to alleviate all of these issues. We do lots of user testing and have surfaced many of these problems on our own. Additionally, we make an effort to simplify a lot
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   by zds 15y ago

   Good idea - this is similar to Daily Lit. I'd recommend what someone earlier said - Kindle support would be awesome!
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   by zds 15y ago

   Thanks!
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   Could Coding Become the Next Mass Profession?(also.roybahat.com)

   79 points by zds 15y ago|101 comments
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   Developer or Designer? Work with Codecademy to Make 2012 Code Year

   1 points by zds 15y ago
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   by zds 15y ago

   We prefer to think we're celebrating the fact that so many people finally realize the importance of coding.
8. 98.▲
   by zds 15y ago

   Thanks! We think it's self-paced learning's moment too. And on the second one - let us worry about that ;)
9. 99.▲
   by zds 15y ago

   We didn't email our users to get to that number ;)
10. 100.▲
    by zds 15y ago

    If you want to work with Codecademy too, we're hiring ;) http://codecademy.com/jobs or jobs(at)codecademy(dot)com thanks!
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    How I Designed Code Year in 1 Hour(sachagreif.com)

    183 points by zds 15y ago|22 comments
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    by zds 15y ago

    Codecademy is hiring developers, designers, and developer evangelists to create the future of education. More information: http://codecademy.com/jobs
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    by zds 15y ago

    thanks for the post, ryan! we think it's pretty exciting too ;)
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    by zds 15y ago

    hi thisduck - fred, pg, and douglas rushkoff are all direct supporters of what we're doing. their quotes are used with their permission and they're all partners for code year.
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    by zds 15y ago

    thanks for the question. we're running everything client side, so it's only your browser that's getting stuck. we're working on a fix for this too!
16. 106.▲
    by zds 15y ago

    we'll be changing it up to make people learn the basics (and more advanced parts) of a few different languages.
17. 107.▲
    by zds 15y ago

    can you shoot us an email at contact(at)codecademy(dot)com? would love to figure out what went wrong. thanks!
18. 108.▲
    by zds 15y ago

    Glad to hear it. The one thing you can do with your friend overseas is share sessions (check out the share button in the upper right hand corner). Let us know if you have any other suggestions!
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    by zds 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! It's for newbie programmers for now, but check back soon for some more updates ;)
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    by zds 15y ago

    Thanks - we're working on integrating everything a bit more tightly!
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    Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online(labs.codecademy.com)

    83 points by zds 15y ago|22 comments
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    Codecademy (YC S11) is Hiring Engineers to Change Education

    1 points by zds 15y ago
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    by zds 15y ago

    Codecademy ( http://www.codecademy.com ) FULLTIME - NYC OR SF Frontend and Backend Developers and Designers Codecademy is the easiest way to learn to code. In a few short months, we have hundreds of thousands of users. Come change the fut
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    Work with Codecademy (YC S11) to Teach the World to Code(codecademy.com)

    1 points by zds 15y ago
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    by zds 15y ago

    We're editing the content in house at the moment. We react to feedback in real time so any bugs you saw last night have likely been fixed (we saw a few on the courses that were fixed around 20 minutes after the course was released). We'll
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    by zds 15y ago

    thanks!
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    by zds 15y ago

    Hi daeken - you're right. We're going to be a lot more than a content company. I'd love to share what we're working on with you - feel free to send me an email at contact(at)codecademy(dot)com and I'll fill you in.
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    by zds 15y ago

    Hi vaksel, thanks for the comments. This lesson is our "alpha" release of jQuery...we're working on more improvements (and supplementary exercises) based on your feedback. Would love to hear more - we're contact(at)codecademy(dot)com.
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    by zds 15y ago

    we're not related to codeacademy.org.
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    by zds 15y ago

    I'm the co-founder of Codecademy - we'll definitely be rolling out meatier content soon. This is just a peek at what some of our beta users have created. If you'd like to create a course, sign up - we're rolling out access to the course c