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…
Under the Desk
Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this illustration — or, tell us about a memory from your own life that this image makes you think of.Post it in the comments, then read the related article to learn more.Want more Picture Prompts? Find them all in this…
Word + Quiz: harlequin
harlequin ˈhär-li-k(w)ən noun and verbnoun: a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell’arte)verb: variegate with spots or marks to create a pattern of contrasting colors_________The word harlequin has appeared in 25 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 27 in “The Many Moods and Pleasures of…
A Weekly Lesson Plan to Get Students Exploring Real-World Science
In Science Practice, students analyze recent research studies across disciplines and come up with their own scientific questions.
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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Choosing to become a project manager is a demanding yet satisfying career choice. The project manager is the glue that holds a team together and needs to be in possession of a wide range of skills. They steer the ship in the right direction, motivate their team and help them achieve greater results. Project managers…
Book Lovers
Despite the popularity of digital media, bookstores and libraries are still valued places in a community. Are you a book lover? Do you enjoy going to bookstores? How often do you visit your local bookstore or library — and how much time do you spend there? Do you prefer to read “real,” tangible books or…
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Welcome to our centralized hub for all new course launches and updates at Codecademy. Here, you’ll find an up-to-date record of what’s new so you can easily discover fresh learning opportunities, figure out who a course is best suited for, or just jump right in and start. We’re always launching new courses and fine-tuning our…
Word of the Day: eponym
The word eponym has appeared in two articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 15 in “Before Lincoln Center, San Juan Hill Was a Vibrant Black Community” by James Barron:As an executive vice president of Lincoln Center, Leah Johnson was involved in a project to tell what she called “the origin story…
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…
Learning From Negative Reviews: ‘Aquaman’ and Mumble Rap
Consider this edition of Mentor Texts a companion to our piece on learning the basics of review writing, except in this one we take on a thorny question: What if you think the thing you’re reviewing is terrible? (Or, at least, not very good?) Well, as you’ll see when you read the two mentor texts…
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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…
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In national parks and at historic sites, the Trump administration has removed educational materials about slavery and other topics it deems inappropriate.
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…
Winning Hacks for Learning a New Language
Many of us grew up wishing we could speak a second or third language. Then we could work for a big multinational in bustling cities or better yet, travel the world and not struggle to ask for directions to the train. Unfortunately, this is a dream that often seemed impossible to master and so we…
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…