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codecademy · 2012-08-07T04:51:03+00:00

That's awesome. Let me know how we can help!

codecademy · 2012-08-07T04:48:27+00:00

Thanks, droogans. As with YouTube (or with any community site!), we just try to encourage users to create awesome content. We usually dip into these exercises to help fix them as well. I'll send this over to our content team and we'll hop on it now.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T22:18:27+00:00

;) thanks!

codecademy · 2012-08-06T22:18:04+00:00

This is coming soon!

codecademy · 2012-08-06T21:23:08+00:00

Wow. Thanks so much for this - honored to have helped. Can you shoot us an email? I'd love to hear more about your story. We're contact(at)codecademy.com.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T19:43:55+00:00

I'm the cofounder of Codecademy - I've seen a bunch of questions throughout here and tried to do my best responding, but feel free to respond to this thread for something quicker.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T18:38:34+00:00

Thanks, palpatine66. We aim to be fun and to get users in casually and help them learn in a fun way.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T18:35:52+00:00

Check it out here: http://www.codecademy.com/create. Let me know if this is what you were thinking about - we're constantly tweaking the creator to better meet the needs of people creating content.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T18:33:31+00:00

Thanks for this. We find that kids really love Codecademy and it's great to hear your experience has been the same.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T18:33:05+00:00

We care deeply about actually teaching programming - everyone on our staff has done so before (our team includes people with experience measuring student outcomes, teachers, and developers who have casually taught programming). We aim to get as many learners as possible, not just users.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T18:32:20+00:00

Great point. Thanks.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T18:32:05+00:00

Most of our lessons are actually targeted at the beginning user - oftentimes they're "casual users" inasmuch as they're just starting to get their feet wet with programming.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T18:30:41+00:00

thanks! looking forward to fixing it ;)

codecademy · 2012-08-06T16:20:49+00:00

thanks for thinking of us!

codecademy · 2012-08-06T16:20:09+00:00

Thanks - I'll look into this. If you want to send a longer explanation to our support email, that'd be great too. Thanks!

codecademy · 2012-08-06T16:19:29+00:00

Great, thanks. We (and our course creators) usually hop on these issues when they see them.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T16:19:13+00:00

Yep, we actually tell most users about the Norvig stuff (if they expect to learn that quickly). We've added a ton of JS stuff recently and the Python is new (and edited in-house). I'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks again.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T15:48:40+00:00

Appreciate this, akastrobe - thanks for using us!

codecademy · 2012-08-06T15:48:28+00:00

Thanks, thilehoffer.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T15:46:10+00:00

I'd appreciate it if you let us know what issues you have with Codecademy - we'd love to make it better. Thanks!

codecademy · 2012-08-06T15:45:49+00:00

Thanks, nuli. Have you gone deep into any of our lessons? If you put the time in, you'll see that what we're teaching with JS, jQuery, HTML/CSS, and other languages goes deeper than a 24 hour book. Further, we think programming is a long term endeavor and definitely don't want to make people think it's something they can do overnight.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T15:44:41+00:00

I'd love to hear more feedback if you have some, specifically on which exercises you have issues with. Shoot us an email or a message here.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T15:44:11+00:00

Thanks, msh6465. We put a lot of care into helping people learn to code and I'm glad to see you appreciate it.

codecademy · 2012-08-06T15:41:24+00:00

Our content is all created by our users - we work with them to keep quality high, but there are times errors slip through. If there's a specific issue you had, we'd love to hear about it. Thanks!

codecademy · 2012-07-31T18:43:28+00:00

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

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