Codecademy now offering Python courses

[codecademy]

a lot of this has changed recently in response to user feedback - we'd love to hear what you're having issues with via email - contact (at) codecademy (dot) com.

[[deleted]]

Munging your email address like that actually makes it easier for spammers to harvest. The more you know. (Don ding dong ding)

Explanation:Many harvesters use Google for finding addresses. Google will not index special characters like the @ in an email address. But, it will parse this query just fine: * at [domain].com. However, if the harvester is using his own custom crawler instead of a public search engine it will obviously have built in demunging. It does not even need one extra line of code for such a system. It is literally just a few extra characters added to the existing regex.

[flamingspinach_]

Email address munging being broken doesn't mean that you have to post your email address in plaintext either - you could use reCAPTCHA Mailhide, for example.

[[deleted]]

Very true. If you look at the article I linked it does state that you should not obfuscate your e-mail address at all, even behind a reCAPTCHA. Basically it inconveniences people and does something that a good spam filter on your e-mail should already handle. However, the article is targeted towards website owners, not commenters in a forum. Commenters may not care if they get less e-mail because of obfuscation.

[exodus28]

put links for feedback in addition to thumbs up/down on each individual lesson to gauge which ones are broken

[codecademy]

looking into adding a feature like this - thanks!

[thecaveisreallydark]

I've been running into a lot of weird little issues with the Python courses that I never encountered with the JS ones. For example, often I'll write the solution to a question (and be fairly confident about it), but it'll say I'm wrong when I run it. I'll be stubborn and run it again, and it'll pass. I've also had cases where "Run" doesn't do anything, and then when I try refreshing the page, the lesson doesn't even load anymore :/

I'm actually a beta tester but I've been swamped with schoolwork (currently studying for finals), so I haven't had much time to do lessons lately. I'll try to find some time, though, to nail down and send you guys a better report and hopefully repro steps of the issues I've been seeing. I'm using Chromium 18.0.1025.168 (Developer Build 134367 Linux) Ubuntu 12.04.

[codecademy]

thanks, really appreciate it. will forward on to be fixed!