How I Went From Intern to Microsoft Software Engineer in 3 Years
Learning to code so that you can land a job in tech can feel daunting. That’s why we’re sharing inspiring stories from Codecademy’s community — to show how people like you (yes, you!) can embark on a learning journey and end up with a totally new career. We hope these stories serve as a reminder…
ChatGPT vs. Me: Can an AI Chatbot Build a Program From Scratch Better Than...
It took me, an absolute beginner programmer, just under 15 minutes to code my first program in Go completely from scratch, no AI involved. Impressed? I am! While it might not be the most sophisticated program, watching the code I typed into the terminal actually do something was (no exaggeration) extremely rewarding. Some context: As…
How I Went From Lyft Driver to Pentester in 13 Months
Learning to code so that you can land a job in tech can feel daunting. That’s why we’re sharing inspiring stories from Codecademy’s community — to show how people like you (yes, you!) can embark on a learning journey and end up with a totally new career. We hope these stories serve as a reminder…
How Your Coding Skills Can Help Support LGBTQ+ Movements Around the World
When Gary Goldman was working as a consultant for the United Nations, he met activists and grassroots organizations that were working hard to change oppressive policies and create LGBTQ+ communities in countries where homosexuality is outlawed. Gary noticed a pattern: the organizations all needed technical support. “They basically said ‘we know how to do our…
Cool Job: I’m The Senior Manager of UX & Digital Design at Benjamin Moore...
The way Soren Hamby describes their entry into UX: “Some people aspire to break the internet. I decided that I wanted to fix the internet,” they say. As a queer nonbinary person who has been disabled since they were 13, Soren has experienced firsthand how confusing it can be to navigate some websites and apps…
Why AI Needs Queer Technologists & How To Get Involved
A big part of being a responsible developer and machine learning practitioner in the “age of AI” is understanding the dangers of biased datasets and AI systems. From the planning stage to well after deployment, it’s on developers to design equitable algorithms that protect people from discrimination. The LGBTQ+ community, for example, faces unique risks…
8 Python Code Challenges to Try During Pride
Completing code challenges, bite-sized problems that can be solved with code, is an excellent way to sharpen specific coding skills and concepts — not to mention, code challenges are fun. In honor of Pride Month this June, we’re giving you a list of code challenges to try that all relate to uplifting the LGBTQ+ community…
Helpful Tips For Learning To Code If You Are Neurodivergent
Learning to code is a very personal and individual process — there’s certainly no one-size-fits-all strategy, because we all have different thinking styles, abilities, and experiences. You may have heard the term “neurodiversity” used to acknowledge that people’s brains function in a range of different ways. Part of neurodiversity is recognizing that many people are…
We Launched a Code Crew of Super Users — & You Can Apply to...
Jonathan “Minhzy” Truong, Head of Community, here with an exciting announcement about a new resource for our Codecademy community. Today, we achieved a milestone by launching Code Crew — it’s our super user program of learners and professional developers who create welcoming experiences across our diverse community. These programmers know the ins and outs of…
How I Went From Delivering Pizzas to Software Designer in 11 Months
Learning to code so that you can land a job in tech can feel daunting. That’s why we’re sharing inspiring stories from Codecademy’s community — to show how people like you (yes, you!) can embark on a learning journey and end up with a totally new career. We hope these stories serve as a reminder…
