Codecademy

I purchased a Pro subscription for 1 year. I cancelled the subscription before the end of the year but was charged for a 2nd year. I attempted both by phone calls & emails to get a refund, but first, it is impossible to talk to a customer service representative... Read More & the only feedback I received was that the subscription was not cancelled. I absolutely cancelled this but could not get the refund of $261.47 I am owed. Do not used this product!

Codecademy is in average good! Maybe they should have a option to have code support instead of sending us to the discord group. The Project Walkthrought where should be a place where a student could clear any doubt, they speak soooooooooooooo fast than... Read More for a newbie is completely impossible to keep up. Clearly these videos are not made by developers who wants to teach but for those who need to catch a flight and cannot miss it. Such a shame!

When I asked to cancel my pro-subscription last year, there was no one to reply my question but an automatic messenger saying that my subscription would end tacitly after the one-year cycle that I paid for. Suprise this year, I am being charged another... Read More 215€!!!! So this message obviously a lie or, the policy changed, and no warning was sent to the customers. I am now begging for a refund and for help in order to cancel my account - because of course, this process is also very misleading. Some functionalities are missing from my screen, so I can't do the account deleting myself.

Pros: The teaching methodology is excellent. it is practical, deep on fundamentals, difficult to forget. Real-world application oriented. The pricing is very affordable. Learning pace is flexible. Free trial is available Curriculum is rich and up to date... Read More Cons: I did not find any.

The pros are that everything is on your time. The cons include weak customer service, even to paid clients, generic content that can be found for free anywhere else and courses that are focused more on teaching you syntax over the course of several hours... Read More than valuable principles of computer science

Codecademy is a great platform, and it has an even better online community. They have several career paths, such as Web Development, Full-Stack Engineer, Front-End Engineer, as well as career paths for Data Scientists. In regards to their facebook group,... Read More I find that's very easy to find a group of like-minded individuals who are also trying to reinvent themselves.

I'll start by saying I love the idea of Codecademy and the curriculum list is very extensive! However the long laundry list bugs (including the code editor not even running in Firefox or Chrome) coupled with the high price have definitely soured me on... Read More the product. The lack of support really just drives home the point that they don't care about their paying users. There's so much potential here but the lack of product QA coupled with the high price make it so that I really can't recommend this product. Try any one of the multitudes of other learn to code programs on the web, you'll probably have a much better experience than if you stuck with Codecademy.

I am so glad I found Codecademy trough a friend who recommended it. I have troubles learning but since Codecademy does everything step by step with great (and fun) explanation I can figure my way out and learn to code. Thank you so much for offering this... Read More great, informative platform!

Caveat #1: Codecademy's very clear they don't offer job support, so I just gave it three stars in lieu of N/A. At the end of the Codecademy Data Science path you're about 2% of the way to being employable, so it's not even really relevant.

Caveat #2: I'm... Read More totally on board with the basic idea of Codecademy. Getting Python set up natively is an enormous pain and really confusing — I'm decent at Python now and the Python environment is still one of the most confusing things for me. So have a place to code in a browser to get familiar before trying to jump through that hurdle is totally cool. *That said* at a certain point Codecademy gives you the option to work on some challenge projects natively, and gives you a little guidance on how to do it. The guidance they give is nowhere near sufficient—I tried for hours to get things set up in SQL and Python based on their advice but ran into so many issues that there was no support for I just decided to do it later when I had moved on from Codecademy. This means that their capstone projects simply aren't doable.

Caveat #3: In spite of not loving the Codecademy program, I like to finish things I start, so you're reading a review from someone who did the Data Science Path from start to finish, finishing about 85-90% of the material.

There are some things Codecademy does well in terms of curriculum. I thought the SQL and Python 2 lists, loops, and functions lessons were written pretty well. Beyond that, other than the occassional good module, the lessons were (#1) incredibly tedious, repeditive, and time-wasting (#2) failed to build on skills over time, opting to leave concepts behind after they'd been explained once. Once you got to a project down the line, you'd return to concepts you hadn't used for days or weeks as if you'd just learned them. This means that when you (#3) get to the challenge projects, they're simply out of reach, even with a lot of google searching and time on stack overflow. This would be the case even if the curriculum was better written, because there's sometimes a really significant gap in terms of skill level between the most challenging lessons and the easiest projects.

This leads me to the single most frustrating aspect of Codecademy, which is that they constantly point back to the forums in case users have more questions. Usually the FAQs they point to (and the forums in general when searched for a particular lesson) are 100% empty. This makes sense — why would people who have finished the path stick around to help other people muddle through basics? I can imagine an alternative world where people are somehow incentivised to do that, but it's certainly not the case currently. The CodeCademy forums were, from my experience, useless, and that fact was really incriminating given how front in center Codecademy put them in terms of posting projects and getting extra help.

I don't think the lessons that are well written are alone worth even a month's subscription to Pro — I think they might even be available for free. I've been dabbling in Dataquest a little bit for the past week, and I can absolutely recommend it over Codecademy, no hesitations, just in terms of quality of the content.

The prices are a lot less when bought from the vendor directly.

The Learning People use old content which looks worse than a stolen YouTube copy.

The sales people will tell you anything, salary expectations, completion times are all false. These courses... Read More take years and if you do them around a job they will take longer than the company gives you.

The support and CV team are staff and not professionals.

The company will take your money and after the 14 days guarantee is over they will forget you.

I have also seen this company has legal proceedings on them so may close and take your money.