How Codecademy (YC S11) Snagged 200,000 Users in Seven Days

Re:How Codecademy (YC S11) Snagged 200,000 Users in Seven Days by dsawler on Thursday March 22, 2012 @01:38PM (#3740940)

I'm a web designer who really wants to learn JS to be able to fully implement my designs on the front end (I know HTML/CSS and can edit a jQuery script to fit my needs). I feel I am in their target market, or close to it, but they failed at keeping me a student. I stopped going to Codecademy because I could no longer understand the instructions, and because it was buggy. I often had to ask my boyfriend, who is an engineer, to explain the instructions to me because they were so hard to understand for someone with a very limited programming background.

I've started with Udacity CS101 and it's much better. I still think the instruction from the professor isn't the greatest, but it's good enough for me to be able to keep progressing, even if it means I have to repeat a unit to understand the concepts.

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Re:How Codecademy (YC S11) Snagged 200,000 Users in Seven Days by zds on Thursday March 22, 2012 @01:48PM (#3741013)

Thanks for the feedback. I'd love to chat with you in a bit more depth about your experience if you have a chance - can you email contact(at)codecademy(dot)com if you have a minute? We're doing everything we can to improve quality of content as well.

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Re:How Codecademy (YC S11) Snagged 200,000 Users in Seven Days by dsawler on Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:10PM (#3741127)

Absolutely.

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