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If you want to work in tech, you’ll need to know your way around a database — especially if you’re considering a career in back-end or full-stack development, data science, machine learning, or database administration.Until now, most of our courses on database engineering centered around relational databases and using SQL. But now, we’ve partnered with…

Good software needs to be more than just functional — it also needs to look good and be easy to use.Think about your favorite apps and websites: Would you still keep coming back to them if they were clunky, counterintuitive, or inefficient? Probably not. That's why UI and UX Designers are in such high demand.UX…

Looking to break into tech? Coding skills are just the beginning — you'll also need to understand how software is created and how development teams work together to ensure a quality end product.That means you'll need to know DevOps — literally the combination of “development” and “operations.” Since it was introduced in 2007, DevOps quickly…

Fantastic news! We’re updating our three web development career paths: Full-Stack Engineer, Front-End Engineer, and Back-End Engineer.Why?The world of web development is constantly changing, and it can often feel daunting to understand what one should learn. In this update, we’re streamlining the content for what to learn to land an entry-level job as a Full-Stack,…

Full-Stack Developers know how to build the front end of a website, the back end, and everything in between. And, if you're looking for a career in web development, you should, too.In our new course, Connecting Front-End to Back-End, we'll introduce you to the technologies that allow the two to communicate. You'll explore the differences…

January is National Creativity Month, and what better way to showcase your creativity than by giving your web apps some style? Want to learn how? We'll show you in our new course: Learn CSS-in-JS.In this course, you'll learn how to add CSS styles to your web app using JavaScript syntax. If you already have a…

If you're pursuing a career as a Back-End or Full-Stack Developer, you'll need to be familiar with APIs. APIs play a huge role in web development, because they allow applications to communicate with each other and exchange data. Thanks to APIs, you can:Expedite developmentReduce costsImprove functionalityCollect dataEnhance user experienceYou might've already built an API in…

While learning how to code, you'll eventually start building bigger and more complex projects — which is exciting, but it can also introduce new challenges.Code can be delicate. You’ve spent months working on your app, adding functions here and there. But the code is getting messy, and it’s getting harder to make changes. Can this…

Earlier this year, we launched Codecademy Teams to help companies provide technical training and education for their employees. Since then, hundreds of companies — including Fortune 500s, media agencies, and educational and financial institutions around the world — have used Teams to take their skills to the next level.And you don’t have to work in…

Looking for a way to improve your web development projects? We'll show you how with our new course: Learn WebSockets.WebSockets is a powerful communication protocol you can use to achieve persistent, bidirectional communications between servers and clients. You can find it in many applications that update in real-time, like live sports trackers, chatrooms, and your…