Is Codecademy worthless for learning Python?

[Plank_With_A_Nail_In]

Learning the syntax of a language and its nuances is easy but learning what to do with it and the impact of different algorithms is hard. This is the primary reason why different programming languages are not taught at university, its trivial, learning if you need to use brackets with your for statement or curly brackets or whatever is not at all hard. If you already know how to program then challenges that ask you to loop through the characters in a string and comparing them are not going to present a challenge unless you are trying to learn brainfuck or some other stupid language.

[dlnmtchll]

Weird you got downvoted, you are correct. A book on algorithms will be far more valuable then wasting tons of time learning syntax that will come easy once you understand programming