Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours

Re:Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons C... by richardw on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @04:29AM (#2915840)

Hah. I won't downvote you...but you're wrong. I remember when people were telling me that web designers wouldn't have a job because everyone could just use Microsoft Frontpage.

Coding takes effort. Really good coding takes smarts + effort. An awesome application takes effort, smarts, a great idea, luck, good design, lots of time, etc. Codecademy should be encouraged because it gets people an entry point to developing, but I suspect you're underestimating the effort required to produce Call of Duty or Google Docs.

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Re:Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons C... by nhangen on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @08:02AM (#2916221)

Ain't that the truth.

As I've learned to program, I found that the language was the easy part. The hard part was learning to think like a programmer, which requires a complete mental shift, for most of us anyway. That's the hard part.

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Re:Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons C... by Goladus on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @09:14AM (#2916395)

> effort, smarts, a great idea, luck, good design,

Also End-to-end, top-to-bottom knowledge of the technology and knowledge of the problems you're trying to solve with the technology (aka 'Domain Expertise').

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