Code Foundations

Landing a job in tech can be a thrill — but it can also feel intimidating, like you’re asking to join an exclusive club or sit at the cool kids’ table. If you identify as a woman or a non-binary person, this experience is heightened, because you may not see people like you represented in…

When you set a big goal, how often do you celebrate your progress? Sometimes, we get so caught up in advancing to the next step that we forget to appreciate how far we’ve come. But it’s important to remember that, with each line of code, you’re that much closer to your end goal — whether…

Planning to learn to code in 2023? We know it can feel overwhelming — especially if you’ve never coded before. But you’ve got this! And we’ve put together a list of five tips and resources to help you stay accountable to your coding goals this year. Set bite-sized, achievable goals Setting a big, lofty goal…

Planning to learn to code in 2025? We know it can feel overwhelming — especially if you’ve never coded before. But you’ve got this! And we’ve put together a list of five tips and resources to help you stay accountable to your learning goals this year. Set bite-sized, achievable goals Setting a big, lofty goal…

Here at Codecademy, we believe that learning with and teaching others is the best way to learn. That’s why we pride ourselves on our active community of learners. Even though learning to code can feel like a solitary activity, there’s a whole community of people you can go to for questions, support, to share stories,…

Learning to code can be a frustrating endeavor because you are destined to encounter many red errors along the way. What makes a programmer successful isn’t avoiding errors—no programmer can avoid them. Great programmers understand that errors are part of the process, and they know how to find the solution to each while learning something…

It’s that time of year again — the time for making New Year’s resolutions! It can be tempting to set big, life-changing goals. But the loftiest resolutions are usually the first to be abandoned. This year, let’s resolve to make resolutions we can keep. Every major accomplishment requires a smaller first step. You can’t run…

The days of needing a degree to make a decent salary in tech are coming to an end. Modern employers are often more interested in the skills and experience someone has than the school they graduated from. In other words, you can launch your career in development after taking a couple of online programming courses.…

A common misconception that people have about programmers is that they know everything. In reality, most programmers aren’t human encyclopedias — they search things on Google and Stack Overflow constantly and rely on autocomplete just like the rest of us. What programmers do have is a unique approach to solving problems that comes with knowledge…

Learning to code can be challenging. Not only do you have to learn syntax, but there are so many new concepts to learn as well, and many of them don’t relate to anything else you’ve studied in the past. Struggling to learn code is completely normal and expected. Most beginners go through at least one…