Codecademy completes PHP course, ‘ready for prime time’

The free learn-programming-online site now has 11 modules and 86 lessons in all things PHP from the basics to standard if/else logic flow to arrays, functions, and advanced object-oriented programming.

Meet Dilys Sun, the ‘Codecademy girl’ from the Crunchies

In her charming acceptance speech, Codecademy user Dilys Sun showed the world why Codecademy works. Here's what she's doing now & how coding changed her life.

Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products

Today Codecademy is launching a new partnership with nine companies to help budding developers learn APIs and create actual functioning sites, projects, and even products.

How to keep your resolutions: 25 apps for a happier, healthier, better 2013

For all your goal-fulfillment needs and wants, here's a great list of apps, websites, and cool services to help you become healthier, wealthier, and wiser in the new year.

Why every single one of you should learn a little code

As technology becomes more and more ingrained in our everyday lives, you have to make a choice: Are you a consumer of tech, or are you someone who understands it?

Spam and eggs! Codecademy goes full-on Python

Codecademy has announced a new lineup of courses to its learn-to-code-online curriculum. This time, the site is letting learners dive into Python — a feat that took a ground-up rebuild of Codecademy’s tech on the server side.

Python has been …

Funding daily: Print out a wacky design in 3-D

Check out today’s funding news; there’s a lot of it. A high-brow Airbnb clone snagged $12 million, and 3-D printing received a $6.2 million boost. Take a look at the other companies that VCs are throwing money at today:

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Codecademy gets new money from Index, Kleiner Perkins, & Richard Freaking Branson

Sir Richard Branson: When he’s not figuring out commercial space travel, he’s making it rain on the kids from Codecademy. Gotta love the guy.

Branson is just one of a whole school of big fish who’ve chipped in on Codecademy’s …

Learn HTML and CSS free online with Codecademy

Codecademy, the hit website for teaching yourself how to code, just opened up new courses for HTML and CSS.

If you want to learn HTML, you can start with the Codecademy HTML 101 courses right now. The site is interactive …

Want to teach someone to code? Codecademy’s got an app for that

Codecademy, the white-hot startup that teaches even total novices how to code, has launched a new tool: Creators lets anyone create a course on Codecademy and teach technology to over a million budding developers.

“We’re going from being a content …

Resolution: Learn to code in 2012. Here’s how you can start

If you, like many wanna-be nerds, made a new year’s resolution to learn to code (or code better, or learn a new language) in 2012, Codecademy has a lovely new resource for you. And it’s totally free, too.

Codecademy is …

Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad to its online coding school

Codecademy has added jQuery lessons and a scratchpad to its fun and engaging tool that teaches people how to code online, the company is announcing today.

The new jQuery lesson is the first to be contributed by a member of …

Codecademy raises $2.5M to make you a coding master

There’s something about Codecademy that made investors plunk down $2.5 million dollars today to help the Y Combinator startup teach more people to code online. Codecademy uses game mechanics to make JavaScript instruction fun and engaging for people who use …

Codecademy is web development education for the rest of us

Web development and basic coding skills shouldn’t be the mysterious domain of a handful of overpaid engineers, and if the Codecademy founders have anything to say about it, the boundaries of that domain will soon be rapidly expanding.

This small …