National Coding Week shows how easy it is to start coding
“Coding is overwhelming at first, but once you start, it’s like a chain reaction. You want to learn more and more. It makes you question what you can actually do.” – Nicky, coding beginner Nicky was one of 16 programming novices who dropped by FutureLearn HQ in London this week, for a beginners’ coding class…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | March 5, 2025
The graph above, about kindergarten measles vaccination rates, was published in The New York Times on Jan. 13, 2025. Measles has been in the news lately because of outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. Dani Blum, a health reporter for The New York Times, writes about how people can try to stay safe: Measles outbreaks…
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…
Word of the Day: anomaly
anomaly ə-ˈnä-mə-lē noun1. deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule2. a person who is unusual3. (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)_________The word anomaly has appeared in 135 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on…
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…
Trade Troubles: Learning About the Global Supply Chain and Why It’s...
Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “‘It’s Not Sustainable’: What America’s Port Crisis Looks Like Up Close”Featured Podcast: “The Great Supply Chain Disruption” (32 minutes)Throughout the pandemic, businesses of all sizes have faced delays, product shortages and rising costs linked to disruptions in the global supply chain. Consumers have been confronted with an experience rare in modern times:…
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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…
Tapon Mahamud Jony: “Alison has helped me significantly, especially since I...
“My name is Tapon Mahamud Jony. I have completed a Diploma, a Bachelor of Engineering and pursued a Masters’s degree in Business Administration. I’ve completed two diploma courses with Alison to enrich my knowledge of project management and customer service. Both courses’ curriculums were well-organized and the topics were industry standard. Professionally, I am a…
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…
Lesson of the Day: ‘As New Police Reform Laws Sweep Across...
In “What Is to Be Done About American Policing?,” published last July, Spencer Bokat-Lindell presented three paths to policing being debated in the streets, in the press, in academe and in Congress at the time. Here are some excerpts:Abolish the policeThe idea of eliminating policing as we know it is foreign to most Americans, but…
Lesson of the Day: ‘As Families Grieve, Grandparents Step Up’
Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “As Families Grieve, Grandparents Step Up,” by Paula Span with photographs by Todd HeislerIn the United States, as many as 200,000 children have had a parent die from Covid-19. In the wake of those losses, other family members — often grandparents — frequently step up to support the grieving children.In this lesson,…
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William-Oliver Blay: “I have a plan to one day run my...
“My name is William-Oliver Blay. I’m a Liberian hailing from the county of Maryland. I currently live in Montserrado. I was schooled at the Don Bosco Technical High School. I’m passionate about helping others.” How did you learn about Alison? Through countless searches on the web for free online courses. What was your first course…
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…
Justice For HTML/CSS: How These Languages Built The 2000s Internet &...
In honor of Codecademy's 11th anniversary, we're looking back at the 2000s websites and software that influenced our founders to build Codecademy — and inspired a generation to learn to code. Explore other fun deep dives into early aughts internet topics here.It’s a tired argument that practically everyone who codes has heard before: Knowing HTML…
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…
Let’s Discuss: What’s It Like to Be a Professional Opinion Writer?
Welcome to Conversations With Journalists! In this new series, we invite students every two weeks to join a discussion about a New York Times article with a Times journalist and other teenagers from around the world. Learn more about the feature and find a schedule of the pieces we’ll be reading together in the future…