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Completing a coding project is hugely rewarding, and then comes the daunting part: sharing your project with other people. Opening up your hard work to other people’s criticism feels both exciting and vulnerable. You might be thinking, what if people aren’t into the idea, find bugs, or can’t get the code to work?! The thing…

Your portfolio is supposed to give hiring managers and potential employers a snapshot of your greatest hits — but that can look very different depending on your career and experience. A seasoned dev’s portfolio might include impressive product launches at well-known brands, while someone who’s new to tech only has practice projects to pull from. …

It’s an exciting time for artificial intelligence (AI). We’re still a long way from the sentient robots you see in movies like Ex Machina and The Terminator, but with the rise of large language models and scarily-impressive programs like ChatGPT and DALL-E, the question on everyone’s mind is: Will AI replace our jobs? Experts say:…

Watching the recent advancements in large learning models like GPT-4 unfold is exhilarating, inspiring, and frankly, a little intimidating. As a developer or code enthusiast, you probably have lots of questions — both practical ones about how to build these large language models, and more existential ones, like what the code-writing chatbots mean for the…

Most of us interact with a variety of data visualizations on a daily basis. For example, you might diligently track your physical activity through bar graphs on your smart watch. Perhaps you check your weather app to see how the temperature will fluctuate throughout the day. Or maybe you’re a stickler about budgeting and keep…

Data visualization can be a powerful tool for uncovering and spotlighting the patterns hidden in a dataset — it’s as much an artform as it is a science. “The right visualization can basically make the relationships in the data just appear on the page, which is pretty cool,” says Eva Sibinga, Codecademy Senior Curriculum Developer.…

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…

You probably know that your online behaviors are being tracked and analyzed constantly. But have you ever wondered how, with the millions — billions — of people using the internet every day, companies can parse you out from the crowd? It all comes down to your IP address, which you can think of almost as your digital mailing…

Think back to the last time your hard drive crashed (we hope it was a long time ago). Chances are that you were acutely stressed and panicked because you couldn’t properly load your operating system, which is stored on your hard drive. But you might have been able to run the basic programs you needed to boot up your…

Have you ever wondered how your computer can handle running a browser full of open tabs, email applications, the IDE with your latest development project, a virtual machine, and your music player — all at the same time? Sure, you have 8GB of RAM (random access memory) installed, but what happens when that runs out?…