Why You Don’t Have to Major in CS to Be a...
You don’t have to major in computer science to be a developer. Plenty of people teach themselves technical skills and bring their unique life experiences into their tech roles. In fact, many engineers on our team at Codecademy studied other disciplines in school — from theater to biology and everything in between. “We have senior…
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Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.This image was created to illustrate an article in The Times this week. What do you think that article was about? What clues in this image tell you that? What parts of the image are especially interesting to…
6 Programming Languages & Tools for Cloud Engineers
Thanks to an increasingly data-filled world, many companies are relying on cloud computing to store and analyze data instead of buying their own servers or hard drives. And by extension, that means they need Cloud Engineers. Ahead, we’ll break down what a Cloud Engineer does, the top programming languages they use, and the skills they…
How Much Do You Know About Seychelles?
Can you find Seychelles on a map? What else do you know about this island nation with about 95,000 people?
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
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Ask a Software Engineer: Airbnb Edition 🏡
A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer (via Life of Luba) With Airbnb came a revolution of sorts in the world of vacation travel and culture. We sat down with Luba Yudasina, a YouTuber, an opera singer, and a Software Engineer on the Airbnb’s Homes Platform team, to discuss software engineering and her…
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Though the gap still exists, the likes of Axis Bank, HDFC Bank or RBL Bank are developing their own ecosystem to reach out directly to the poor for higher returns. There are pockets of oversupply squeezing growth potential for the pure-play micro lenders. India has some 223 MFIs, including societies and NGO-run entities, and 168…
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FutureLearn Updates: Bookmarking comments and improved navigation
Bookmark interesting comments to come back to later If you see a comment you’d like to find again later, click the bookmark icon. You’ll then be able to find it again by selecting ‘Show: bookmarked’ in the comment filters, or in the bookmarked section of your activity feed. Don’t worry, bookmarks are secret – nobody…
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Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Everything You Need To Know About Web Hosting
Until you started exploring web development, you may have never heard of the term "web hosting." Or, if you did, you probably had no clue what's involved in hosting a website or app. It's an underappreciated part of how the internet works.Everything you access on the internet, including podcasts, memes, blog posts, tweets, videos, images,…
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If writing hundreds of lines of complicated code sounds more appealing than writing a short paragraph about yourself, join the club. Writing a succinct bio that encapsulates who you are and what you’ve accomplished is tricky. But with a few strategies, even the most writing-averse programmers can pull it off. Working in tech, there are…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…