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If You Were a Member of Congress, Would You Vote to Impeach President Trump?

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If You Were a Member of Congress, Would You Vote to Impeach President Trump?

The House of Representatives has already voted to impeach the president, with 222 Democrats and 10 Republicans voting in favor; 197 Republicans voted against the resolution. In “Trump Impeached for Inciting Insurrection” Nicholas Fandos writes:

Donald J. Trump on Wednesday became the first American president to be impeached twice, as 10 members of his party joined with Democrats in the House to charge him with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in egging on a violent mob that stormed the Capitol last week.

Reconvening in a building now heavily militarized against threats from pro-Trump activists and adorned with bunting for the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., lawmakers voted 232 to 197 to approve a single impeachment article. It accused Mr. Trump of “inciting violence against the government of the United States” in his quest to overturn the election results, and called for him to be removed and disqualified from ever holding public office again.

The vote left another indelible stain on Mr. Trump’s presidency just a week before he is slated to leave office and laid bare the cracks running through the Republican Party. More members of his party voted to charge the president than in any other impeachment.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, declaring the past week one of the darkest chapters in American history, implored colleagues to embrace “a constitutional remedy that will ensure that the republic will be safe from this man who is so resolutely determined to tear down the things that we hold dear and that hold us together.”

A little more than a year after she led a painstaking, three-month process to impeach Mr. Trump the first time for a pressure campaign on Ukraine to incriminate Mr. Biden — a case rejected by the president’s unfailingly loyal Republican supporters — Ms. Pelosi had moved this time with little fanfare to do the same job in only seven days.

“He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love,” the speaker said, adding later, “It gives me no pleasure to say this — it breaks my heart.”

The top House Republican, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, conceded in a pained speech on the floor that Mr. Trump had been to blame for the deadly assault at the Capitol. It had forced the vice president and lawmakers who had gathered there to formalize Mr. Biden’s victory to flee for their lives.

“The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,” said Mr. McCarthy, one of the 138 Republicans who returned to the House floor after the mayhem and voted to reject certified electoral votes for Mr. Biden. “He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.”

Outside the House chamber, a surreal tableau offered reminders of the rampage that gave rise to the impeachment, as thousands of armed members of the National Guard in camouflage fatigues surrounded the complex and snaked through its halls, stacking their helmets, backpacks and weapons wherever they went. Their presence gave the proceedings a wartime feel, and evoked images of the 1860s, when the Union Army had quartered in the building.

The article continues:

The House’s action set the stage for the second Senate trial of the president in a year. The precise timing of that proceeding remained in doubt, though, as senators appeared unlikely to convene to sit in judgment before Jan. 20, when Mr. Biden will take the oath of office and Mr. Trump will become a former president.

The last proceeding was a partisan affair. But this time, Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, was said to support the effort as a means of purging his party of Mr. Trump, setting up a political and constitutional showdown that could shape the course of American politics.

Students, read the entire article, then tell us:

  • If you were a member of Congress, would you vote to impeach President Trump? Do you think the president committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”? Why or why not? On what pieces of evidence are you basing your decision?

  • In your view, what are the benefits of impeaching President Trump at this time? Is initiating the impeachment process important to protect democracy, either now or in the future? Is it crucial to signal that inciting a mob to overrun the U.S. Capitol is a violation of the president’s oath of office to defend the Constitution? Is it important for Congress to attempt to prevent Mr. Trump from holding office again? What do you think?

  • On the other hand, what might be reasons not to impeach President Trump? Do you think the president is not guilty of inciting a mob of loyalists to storm the Capitol? Might an impeachment trial “further divide the American people,” as Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma asserted? Might it create a distraction from President Biden’s agenda during his first weeks in office, as some Democrats worry?

  • There is only one article of impeachment, and it’s not that long. You can read the text here. It includes the following charges:

In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims that “we won this election, and we won it by a landslide.” He also willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — lawless action at the Capitol, such as: “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Thus incited by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session’s solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, destructive and seditious acts.

Either based on this excerpt, or the entire resolution, which words or phrases can you cite to support your opinions about the impeachment proceedings? If you disagree with the text in the article of impeachment, why?

  • If you would vote to impeach President Trump, do you believe that he should also be barred from holding office again? Why or why not? How might disqualifying the president, who has hinted that he might run again in 2024, alter the future of American politics?

  • Do you think it is significant that 10 Republican representatives joined Democrats in voting to impeach President Trump? Do you think voters are more likely to reward or penalize Republicans who voted to impeach?

  • After a majority of the House votes to impeach the president, which happened on Jan. 13, two-thirds of the senators seated at any given moment must then agree to convict; otherwise, the president is acquitted. What do you predict will happen: Will the Senate vote to convict — or to acquit?

Lesson of the Day: ‘Decoding the Far-Right Symbols at the Capitol Riot’

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Lesson of the Day: ‘Decoding the Far-Right Symbols at the Capitol Riot’

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.

Featured Article: “Decoding the Far-Right Symbols at the Capitol Riot” by Matthew Rosenberg and Ainara Tiefenthäler

The mob that rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6 displayed militia flags and hand gestures of extremist groups, but there were also comic book logos and shirts with slogans that united far-right and alt-right groups. In this Visual Investigation, two Times reporters decode the symbolism displayed on that day.

In this lesson, students will learn about who participated in the Capitol riots and consider the power of symbolism in movements. Then, they will investigate hate groups across the United States.

In your journal, consider the question: What power do symbols have to create movements as well as divide or unite people? Create a list of powerful symbols in the past and present. Choose two symbols and respond:

  • What does the symbol represent?

  • How do groups use this symbol — and for what purpose?

  • Has the meaning of the symbol changed over time? If yes, how?

Read the article, then answer the following questions:

1. The image at the top of the article captures some of the many symbols that were on display at the Capitol riot. The first two paragraphs of the article list extremist groups and their key symbols and emblems. Do you recognize any of these symbols? What associations do you have with them?

2. The authors write:

The dizzying array of symbols, slogans and images was, to many Americans, a striking aspect of the unrest, revealing an alternate political universe where violent extremists, outright racists and conspiracy theorists march side by side with evangelical Christians, suburban Trump supporters and young men who revel in making memes to “own the libs.”

What details do you notice in this description? What do you wonder? What united the thousands of people who participated in the riot at the Capitol?

3. The rest of the article is divided into six sections describing various groups and their symbols: the militias; Boogaloos and Proud Boys; Pepe and “Kek”; QAnon; Trump supporters; comic books and science fiction. Choose two of these sections to answer the following questions about:

4. What is one additional detail you learned about the people who participated in the riot by reading this article?

5. What is one question you still have?

The article describes banners, emblems and symbols — such the Crusader cross, the “OK” hand gesture and the green-and-white flags of Kekistan — used by hate groups that participated in the Jan. 6 riot. How many hate groups exist in the United States? Where are they located? Who do they target?

Navigate the Hate Map created by the Southern Poverty Law Center. At first, do not search for a specific state or hate ideology, but just move your mouse around the map illuminating the names of the states and total numbers of hate groups. Then, respond to these questions adapted from our What’s Going On In This Graph? feature:

  • What do you notice?

  • What do you wonder?

  • What impact does this have on you and your community?

  • What’s going on in this map? While the S.P.L.C. has already created a headline, write your own headline that both captures the graph’s main idea and your reaction to it.

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Have You Ever Experienced ‘Impostor Syndrome’?

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Have You Ever Experienced ‘Impostor Syndrome’?

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.

Have you ever felt like a fraud? As if you don’t deserve your achievements and accomplishments? Or have you ever belittled your success, experience or expertise?

In what kinds of situations do these feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy tend to come on? School? Sports? Social media? Something else?

If those feelings are familiar to you, you’ve probably experienced what’s called “impostor syndrome.” In “How to Overcome ‘Impostor Syndrome’,” Jessica Bennett explains:

My impostor syndrome has played out during public speeches, job negotiations and when I received my first book deal — prompting me to ask, “But why would anyone pay money to read what I have to say?” My editor, a woman, didn’t miss a beat: “I often wonder the same about my editing!” she said.

The term “impostor syndrome” wasn’t coined until 1978 (by two American psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes), but it’s safe to assume that women have always felt it. It’s that nagging feeling that you’re not good enough, that you don’t belong, that you don’t deserve the job, the promotion, the book deal, the seat at the table. According to Valerie Young, an educator and the author of “The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women,” it is common among high achievers, creative people and students. It persists through college and graduate school and into the working world, where women tend to judge their performance as worse than they objectively are while men judge their own as better. It tends to affect minority groups disproportionately, Ms. Young said — anyone who has the pressure of accomplishing “firsts.”

She goes on to point out the hallmarks of impostor syndrome:

You feel like a fraud. Even when you’ve arguably “made it” — you got the job, you earned the recognition, you won the award — you can’t seem to shake the feeling that it’s all smoke and mirrors, that you must have tricked everyone, and that at any moment you’ll be discovered.

You devalue your worth. I recently tried to talk somebody out of giving me money for work. “Why don’t I just do it for free?” I offered. A male friend who was in the room while I was having this phone conversation practically shook me. “Jessica! Just take the money!” he said. (At which point I said yes.)

You undermine your experience or expertise. I was talking about impostor syndrome with a friend, a teacher who was being recruited for a new job. “But I’m totally not qualified,” she said. (They had recruited her!) I interviewed a postdoctoral engineering student named Celeste, who told me that while she was working as a mechanical engineer, a supervisor noted in her review that she wouldn’t call herself an engineer. “I didn’t realize I told my co-workers I wasn’t an engineer when I was,” she said. “And I think, for me, it was an excuse just in case I made mistakes.”

And, finally, she suggests some strategies for dealing with feelings of self-doubt. Here are a few:

Say your name aloud. Research has found that the simple act of taking a positive affirmation (such as “I’m awesome”) and adding your name to it (“Jessica is awesome”) can have a powerful effect on how you perceive yourself. And before you get bashful, LeBron James does it. “I wanted to do what was best for LeBron James,” he said when explaining his decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat in 2010. The Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has done it, too. “I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do, Malala?’” she told Jon Stewart, describing how she wrestled with her decision to speak out against the Taliban. “Then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’” If it’s good enough for a Nobel Peace Prize winner, I’m pretty sure it’s good enough for the rest of us.

Own your accomplishments. Women tend to explain their successes away by ascribing them to things like “luck,” “hard work” or “help from others” rather than the innate ability or intelligence than men often cite. Try to own the role you played in your success by forbidding yourself from falling back on excuses. Practice saying these words out loud: “I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished.”

Decide to be confident. Literally make the choice to be confident. Raise your hand. Volunteer your expertise. When you start spiraling into self-doubt, force yourself to write down three things you’ve done well. (If three isn’t enough to ease your doubts, write three more.)

Students, read the entire article, then tell us:

  • Have you ever experienced “impostor syndrome”? Tell us about a time when you had that nagging feeling that you didn’t belong or that you weren’t good enough. What was the situation? What feelings came up for you? How did you handle them?

  • In general, how do you cope with feelings of self-doubt or inadequacy? Which advice from the article did you find most helpful? Are there any suggestions you would add or change?

  • Ms. Bennett writes that impostor syndrome tends to affect women and minority groups disproportionately. Does this research reflect your personal experience? How so?

  • Have you ever seen a friend or family member minimize their worth or value? How did you respond in those moments? What advice might you give them now?

  • Do you think there are any benefits to impostor syndrome? In a 2019 Forbes article, Caroline Castrillon argues there might be an positive side to self-doubt:

Feeling like an impostor can be a good thing because it won’t allow your ego to become overinflated. When your ego takes over, you tend to get comfortable and avoid potential unknowns. This way, you won’t take opportunities for granted and will be open to learning new things so you can continue to sharpen your skills and experience.

What is your reaction to Ms. Castrillon’s perspective? Do you think self-doubt is ever a good thing? Or is it always destructive? Why?

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Film Club: Three Short Films Celebrating the Lives of People We Lost to the Pandemic

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Film Club: Three Short Films Celebrating the Lives of People We Lost to the Pandemic

It’s so hard, because as a nurse, people think I’m her. And I said, you know what. I think you think I’m my twin sister. I said, no, my name’s Rosalie, and my twin sister is Rosary. And she died of the virus. Oh. Oh, my goodness. And let me just dust it off. My sister was born Oct. 7, 1956, in Los Angeles, Calif. Back in 1956, they didn’t have the ultrasound. So I guess in 30 minutes later, the doctor told my mom, you’re having another baby, identical twins. My first name was oh, [BLEEP]. [LAUGHS] I guess when I was born, she said, oh, [BLEEP]. [UPBEAT MUSIC] Filipino by blood, but Mexican by birthplace because it’s East L.A. Ever since we were born, people would get confused with us. We dressed up the same clothes, same hairdo. We were actually very good in school. And we both loved to dance. We got our dancing from my mother because my mother was into jitterbug. [DANCE MUSIC] And then Rosary and I, we would watch American Bandstand. “American Bandstand!” — and “Soul Train.” Watch the moves, that’s how we knew how to salsa, tango and swing, dipping with your leg up here, and also, ballroom dance, Hawaiian hip-hop. Just moving like this, just dancing. Getting nasty. No, me and my sister, we were not scared to dance. My mom was 3 when she left the Philippines. It was hard for her as a single parent. But the Filipino community, they’re very kind, very strong family ties. They take of each other. That was my sister. So we ended up going to nursing school together, always together. We had our fights. She liked this one guy in college. And then he came to go visit her. And then he started talking to me. I think of all the guys I loved, I loved him the most. I thought we were going to get married. And then he went to the Philippines. I saw him off at the airport. I never heard from him. He had a wife in the Philippines. How did I find out? I didn’t find out through my sister. She knew he was married, but she didn’t tell me. I felt embarrassed. It separated my sister and I at that point. It was one of the lowest parts of my life — studying on my own, depressed. She graduated from school, and I got kicked out and joined the Army as a nurse. I’m thinking that to tell me the truth, she thought it would hurt my feelings. Well, I think not telling me the truth hurt me the most. But I didn’t tell her that. I just kept it in. So that was what separated us. [GENTLE MUSIC] She got married, had two kids. Her family was her No. 1. Worked at Cedars-Sinai for 38 years. She retired as a nurse. But she cared about her patients more than she cared about herself. So, during this pandemic, she came back to nursing. “Positive for corona. You want to intubate me?” And then I put, “Praying for you.” And then she said, “You should take the test.” And she asked me if I’m not short of breath. And then that was the last text from her. Having a friend from birth to death, that’s how twins are. We fight. Fight, and then they make up. And so we got back together. My sister Rosary, she loved the color purple. She loved the Lakers. She loved Kobe, yeah. She loved the Dodgers. She loved to travel. She loved her family, her patients. She loved to dance. There’s a video of my sister and I dancing the 60th birthday party. We were getting down, getting nasty. People were like, woo, woo, woo! [LAUGHS] She was happy. My sister was happy and smiling. Yeah, that was my sister. My blood runs in her blood. Twin sister — together since birth.

What’s Going On in This Graph? | Jan. 20, 2021

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What’s Going On in This Graph? | Jan. 20, 2021

3. Below the response box, there is an option for students to click on “Email me when my comment is published.” This sends the link to their response which they can share with their teacher.

4. After you have posted, read what others have said, then respond to someone else by posting a comment. Use the “Reply” button to address that student directly.

On Wednesday, Jan. 20, teachers from our collaborator, the American Statistical Association, will facilitate this discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time.

5. By Friday morning, Jan. 22, we will reveal more information about the graph, including a free link to the article that included this graph, at the bottom of this post. We encourage you to post additional comments based on the article, possibly using statistical terms defined in the Stat Nuggets.

We’ll post more information here on Thursday afternoon. Stay tuned!

More?

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Community Clean Up

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Community Clean Up

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.

A recent Times article profiled Taylor Mali, a Brooklyn man, and his quest to remove every plastic bag from every tree in the city. Two years ago, he began yanking down derelict plastic bags with the aid of a yellow metal painter’s pole.

The article describes Mr. Mali’s ongoing duty:

In his spare time, he continues his mission: ridding urban trees of garbage. Though New York City has outlawed some plastic shopping bags, he still has plenty of work to do; he noted that some types are still exempt, and “there’s no ban on Mylar balloons.”

On a recent Sunday afternoon, as he prepared to do combat with a foe fluttering high in a London plane tree on Hicks Street, he offered a quote from the philosopher Edmund Burke: “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”

What do you think of the Edmund Burke quote? Have you taken part in any neighborhood cleanups, either organized by a large group or on your own? How important is an individual’s role in keeping their town clean from garbage? Do you volunteer in another way to help improve your community?

Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to learn more about Mr. Mali’s quixotic task.

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Word + Quiz: biddable

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Word + Quiz: biddable

: willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest

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The word biddable has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.com in the past 10 years, including on Nov. 28, 2013, in “Flexing Autonomy, Pakistani Premier Picks Outsider to Lead Army” by Salman Masood and Declan Walsh:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In the most crucial appointment of his new term, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday chose a relative outsider, Lt. Gen. Raheel Sharif, to lead Pakistan’s powerful army.

With the choice, the prime minister seemed to be skirting the line of confrontation with a military establishment that ousted him in 1999 but did not overtly cross it.

… Accordingly, some Pakistani analysts saw the choice as evidence that Mr. Sharif was looking for someone slightly more biddable. But that kind of gamesmanship has come back to bite him before. During Mr. Sharif’s previous stint in power in the late 1990s, he passed over more senior generals to choose Gen. Pervez Musharraf as army chief — the man who would later depose and replace him in the 1999 coup.

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Lesson of the Day: ‘Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?’

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Lesson of the Day: ‘Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?’

6. What is your reaction to the article? How does it change or reinforce your views from the warm-up activity on how one’s neighborhood and environment affect and shape your life?

7. Media Literacy. How would the article be different if it were a traditional, text-only piece on air pollution? What do the dynamic maps, graphics and visuals add to the story?

Option 1: Create a one-pager.

Reflect on what you read, how it made you feel and what you are left thinking about by creating a one-pager. A one-pager is a way to visually share key ideas about a text using both words and images. At a minimum, your one-pager should include:

  • Three key takeaways from the article.

  • Two important quotations or statistics from the piece.

  • One word to capture the feeling or emotions that you are left with after reading the article.

  • One question you still have about air pollution or socioeconomic inequalities.

  • Visual elements that illustrate the essential points.

You can also include any other information you think is important to share.

Your one-pager can be arranged however you think makes the most sense. But, if you need inspiration, you can see examples of other students’ work here or find a template to print or copy here.

Afterward, you can go on an in-person or virtual gallery walk, spending about one minute with each one-pager in your class and writing down what you notice and wonder about each creation.

Option 2: Find Out About the Air Quality Where You Live.

The article describes the pollution in Delhi as “an almost physical presence”:

You can see it, a haze just up the street. You can smell it, like an acrid campfire, and you can taste it on your tongue. It can make your eyes burn, your throat itch and your head pound.

How would you describe the air quality where you live? How much pollution do you think you are exposed to each day?

Learn about the health of your air by looking up your town, city or ZIP code in this New York Times interactive or, if you can’t find it there, on the official website of AirNow, a partnership between the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and several other tribal, state and local air quality agencies.

Amgad Mohammed: “Alison courses have changed how I think about management.”

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“My name is Amgad Mohammed. I am forty years old and I am a chemist. Last summer, I found Alison by searching the internet for platforms I could use to improve my skills.”

What was your first course on Alison, and why did you choose it?

I don’t remember because I’ve studied a lot of Alison courses! Really, I found all of them to be interesting, especially the Diploma in Warehouse Management.

How have Alison courses affected your career?

Strategic Management, Warehouse Management, and similar courses have changed how I think about management.

What’s your favourite way to relax from studying?

Studying and motivating my mind is how I relax!

Where are you working and what are you studying now?

Right now I’m the Warehouse Head of a pharmaceutical company, and I’m also currently studying soft skills.

What would you say to someone if they asked you about Alison? Would you recommend it and why?

As long as you’re willing to try, Alison gives you the chance to succeed, for free!

Computer Science Path and Learn Python 3 Revamp

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Computer Science Path and Learn Python 3 Revamp

Good news! The Codecademy Curriculum team will be spending the next few months updating the Computer Science Path (and in the process, our Learn Python 3 course). 🏗

Computer Science has the fastest-growing interest among STEM majors.

A recent study shows that there has been a 9% increase in software engineering degrees and a 7.5% increase in computer science degrees in 2018-2019. This year alone the U.S. produced about 65,000 CS students. And there were even more CS grads in China (185,000 students) and India (215,000 students). That’s almost half a million new CS grads from these three countries in one year! 🤯

CS Lecture at UC Berkeley

But alarmingly, according to another study, 83% of Americans say they can’t afford college. Amid an ongoing pandemic and economic downturn, this number is simply not acceptable. Recently, the Curriculum team at Codecademy came together and brainstormed a few ways to tackle this problem.

“A modern CS program that’s credible and affordable.”

We took a hard look at our current Computer Science Path as well as the core courses offered at MIT and Stanford and identified numerous ways where we could transform the CS Path into an immersive classroom experience that teaches learners both theory of computation and practice of problem-solving.

Our 2021 north star is to bring a world-class CS curriculum that competes with the top CS departments in the world, right on the Codecademy platform and at a fraction of the cost for the learners.

Curriculum Updates

Our Computer Science Path and Python 3 content are some of the most popular content in our catalog. But we think we can do better.

Over the next six months, we’ll be adding several new courses, lessons, quizzes, projects, videos, articles, and curated resources — including textbooks and new open-sourced GitHub repos — to introduce and build upon foundational topics in Computer Science. We’re releasing a brand-new content type: the Portfolio Project, which can help you move off the Codecademy platform and develop a professional portfolio similar to college-level capstone projects. Additionally, we are rearranging some of the content so that it better reflects a traditional Computer Science program. We want to recreate a college lab experience right in your browser. Finally, we’ve integrated connective tissue to clarify what you’re covering in each course and how it relates to your overall Computer Science Path journey.

When?

New content will be added to the catalog starting Tuesday, January 12, 2021.

Take a look below to get an overview of the syllabus updates.

Computer Science Path Syllabus:

Current Changes:

  • CS101: Introduction to Programming (Part 1) – Today

Upcoming Changes:

  • CS101: Introduction to Programming (Part 2) – March 2021
  • CS102: Data Structures – Q2 2021
  • CS103: Algorithms – Q2 2021
  • CS104: Discrete Mathematics – Q3 2021
  • CS105: Databases – Q3 2021

The Team

To make sure we build top-notch content that marries modern classroom pedagogy and industry knowledge, we created a brand new Computer Science Domain team and assembled a group of educators that have taught Computer Science and programming at world-renowned CS departments, high schools, bootcamps, and fellow EdTech companies:

  • Sonny Li ………………………….. Senior Curriculum Developer
  • Alex Kuntz ….…………….…….. Senior Curriculum Developer
  • Sarai Gould ….…………………. Senior Curriculum Developer
  • David Patlut …….…….……….. Senior Curriculum Developer
  • Carolyn Yao ……………………….……….. Curriculum Developer
  • Alex DiStasi ……………… Associate Curriculum Developer
  • Alisha Grama ……………. Associate Curriculum Developer
  • Adam Herman ………………….…………….…… Project Manager
  • Tim Liedtke ……………………………….……………………… Designer

Note: This is not the sole project that the Curriculum team is taking on in 2021. There will be adjacent Curriculum teams working on a wide spectrum of content in our pipeline, including Web Development, Mobile Development, Data Science, and more. So stay tuned for those!

How does this impact you?

If you’ve already started or completed the Computer Science Path and/or Learn Python 3, you will see some new content added to the Path and course and changes to the syllabus.

You won’t lose progress on the coursework that you’ve already completed; however, you may notice that your overall progress percentage has decreased, as there is a greater amount of content included in the improved Path.

Recap

We will be continuously updating our Computer Science Path in 2021 Path to bring a modern university equivalent CS program that’s affordable and credible right on Codecademy. Our north star is to build a world-class curriculum that competes with the top CS departments around the world, right on Codecademy.

Happy 2021 and wish us luck! 🙌

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