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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

3 days ago

I'm currently learning Python, since I am following the data analyst path and it is really nice. I really like the platform, the quizzes that help you remember what you are learning, everything. Of course it is not enough, you have to practice a lot with other projects, but it is a really good start.

Theory and practice are nicely mixed together.

Date of experience: September 10, 2024

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2 days ago

Thank you for your kind words. We appreciate you taking the time to share your great experience with us and have shared your feedback with our internal team.

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Aug 24, 2024

Fantastic app for learning new coding skills at my own pace.

Date of experience: August 02, 2024

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2 days ago

Thank you for your kind words. We appreciate you taking the time to share your great experience with us and have shared your feedback with our internal team.



Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Jun 30, 2024

These are honestly the worst explanations I've ever seen. the material is actual garbage. you honestly will learn nothing here I've been learning full stack for 4 months and I feel like I've learned nothing but they've made my previous knowledge even worse. They tell you stuff they haven't taught you then give you the worst explanations, what's worse is they'll give you practice questions like on javascript and they honestly go out of their way to make it as confusing as possible till you're sitting there confused and not wondering what you're supposed to do. I actually hate this course don't waste your money if you have this

Date of experience: June 30, 2024

Reply from Codecademy

Jul 24, 2024

We would like to hear more about this and help resolve your issue. Please reach out by submitting a request through our Help Center (https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us). Our support team can help.



Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Apr 24, 2024

I took advantage of the Codeacademy free trial for a week. The course I tried out was the data science one, the content seems great and a nice UI. I didn’t end up continuing the trial, and I forgot to cancel, but Codeacademy generously refunded. After seeing their negative reviews, it seems Codeacademy have made it much easier to pause, or cancel your subscription.

Date of experience: April 22, 2024

Reply from Codecademy

Apr 24, 2024

Thank you for your kind words. We appreciate you taking the time to share your great experience with us and have shared your feedback with our internal team.



Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Aug 12, 2024

signed up for a trial just to find out minutes later that they charged me 62 dollars. FOR A FREE TRIAL. I'm glad my bank rejected it. And guess what, it happened again 2 times more!!. at that point is not a mistake anymore.

Date of experience: August 12, 2024

Reply from Codecademy

Updated Aug 20, 2024

Thank you for providing more information. I see you successfully signed up for a Trial on August 11, 2024 at 11:22 PM EDT, but we made no attempts to bill. A bank may reserve the funds (usually this appears as pending on a card statement ) at the time of Trial signup. A bank may do this to assess if there are funds available to cover the cost of the subscription should you allow the Trial to convert to a subscription. However, we have not billed you for the Trial.

If you are seeing payment attempts from Codecademy or declines, please reach out by submitting a request through our Help Center (https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us). Our team can ensure you have no other subscriptions in your name.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Jun 15, 2024

Garbage, I was forced to use their dubious services back in highschool and the instructions and tutorials there suuuuuck! I was stuck for days trying to figure out how to do a proper infinite loop without crashing my browser and nothing I did worked, all because Codecademy didn't give me clear and concise instructions on how to do a proper infinite loop that wouldn't cause a crash. Screw that website with a pineapple. It killed any and all interest or passion I had for coding.

Date of experience: June 14, 2024

Reply from Codecademy

Jun 24, 2024

We would like to hear more about this and help resolve your issue. Please reach out by submitting a request through our Help Center (https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us). Our support team can help.

AL

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Apr 24, 2023

Been using it for 3y. Started with the very basics by learning Python, then onto Full Stack Web development and currently on ASP.NET.

By far the most beginner friendly platform to learn programming and I settled for it after trying other platforms such as Udacity and Udemy. Also have good customer service e.g. refunded me when i signed up to Pro instead of Plus by mistake.

Date of experience: April 24, 2023

Reply from Codecademy

Apr 26, 2023

Thank you for your kind words. We appreciate you taking the time to share your great experience with us and have shared your feedback with our internal team.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Mar 8, 2024

I am learning a lot on codecademy. The learning experience is fun and reading material is not boring. When you create project has you check off each task with clear instructions. It is a little expensive but if you pay yearly it is great! Highly recommend!

Date of experience: March 07, 2024

Reply from Codecademy

Mar 18, 2024

Thank you for your kind words. We appreciate you taking the time to share your great experience with us and have shared your feedback with our internal team.

JE

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Jul 10, 2022

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Codacademy is quite a useful learning tool, but I wouldn’t recommend using it exclusively. Without buying a membership (Pro) there is no real way to effectively ensure that you won’t forget everything you’ve learned in a few days. I would advise using an instructive book or other learning tool along with Codacademy to make the concept more memorable.

Date of experience: July 10, 2022

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Aug 13, 2022

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I'm a retired embedded SW engineer mostly working in C, but also some experience in Pascal, OCCAM, Modula and Natural. For fun, I just want to learn another language (Javascript) to enhance the web page of our Repair Café. I do not need to learn programming principles, just the new language. For me Codecademy, is not the right place. I switched to w3schools where I can go faster, connection to html is included from the beginning and I can take short cuts when usefull

Date of experience: August 13, 2022



Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Aug 5, 2024

This course has no trial class, so how will you make trust in them? It would become a waste of money if the course is not relevant.

Date of experience: August 05, 2024

Reply from Codecademy

Aug 19, 2024

We would like to hear more about this and help resolve your issue. Please reach out by submitting a request through our Help Center (https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us). Our support team can help.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Jun 19, 2022

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Very informative and easy to understand lessons. Love that I can learn at my own pace, on my own schedule. Love that I have an opportunity to review every lesson by putting it in context with test code. Could not recommend code academy more, I’m truly enjoying myself.

Date of experience: June 19, 2022

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Jul 1, 2022

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Codecademy is a good place to begin with if you are just starting your coding journey. It's accessible and user friendly. The courses are mostly basic but well-paced; Help options are there if you get stuck. All in all, you will not make a mistake joining Codecademy.

The reason why I gave only 3 stars is that platform itself still has some issues that need to be addressed. For instance, during learning I lost progress on several occasions, which is not great.

Date of experience: July 01, 2022

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Nov 25, 2022

The website and layout look very nice, but often the examples are very, very easy,

It's a lot of, "monkey see, monkey do" learning, given the exact code what you need to type, which is not a way to learn, especially with coding. It should be encouraged that you try and fiddle around and figure stuff out yourself first a lot, which is imo the best way to learn code, of course keeping an option to give the answer if you can't figure it out.

Also the examples given could be more oriented to what you'll actually use the code for later on.

Date of experience: November 13, 2022

Reply from Codecademy

Nov 30, 2022

Hi there,

We would like to hear more about your experience on Codecademy and gather specific examples to pass along as feedback for our Curriculum Development team. Please reach out by submitting a request through our Help Center ([https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us](https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us)). Our support team would be happy to pass along any direct examples to our larger team.

TA

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Sep 12, 2022

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Been wanting to change careers for a few years now, but with the amount of time I work I didn't think I'd have time to take college classes and get job ready skills. With Codecademy I feel like I'm learning job relevant skills in the time I have. Plus the training is done in a hands on way that works well with the way I remember things. So far my experience has been great and I'm looking forward to being able to put my life on a new path.

Date of experience: September 11, 2022



Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Updated Jun 13, 2024

Everything went wrong: Im doing Full Stack Engineer Path, and is poor of explications, they ask to you things never showed to you, for example BackEnd chapter it's hell. Go away! Don't learn here, have no sense.

Date of experience: June 06, 2024

Reply from Codecademy

Jun 24, 2024

We would like to hear more about this and help resolve your issue. Please reach out by submitting a request through our Help Center (https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us). Our support team can help.

JR

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Dec 6, 2022

I'm currently doing the full stack path. It has been a smooth learning process. From basic to more complex concepts, the curriculum is laid out very well.

Also, along the course, you start setting up your environment to do the challenges of Codecademy.

The platform is way better than just a "code-along" video tutorial on youtube when trying to learn any programming language. The hands-on approach Codecademy have is delightful.

Although some exercises may lack context, some are too hard or too easy. Still, overall, the curriculum is very well balanced, and challenges are very accurate for gathering momentum.

The only platform that can compare is Datacamp(I tried it also, and it's maybe better for data science), but for the web stack, Codecademy is the best I've found so far.

I'm very grateful for Codecademy. Kudos! Very nice job!

Date of experience: November 28, 2022

Reply from Codecademy

Dec 7, 2022

Thank you for your kind words. We appreciate you taking the time to share your great experience with us and have shared your feedback with our internal team.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Dec 9, 2023

Their python console is terrible! The button that will automatically test if a solution is correct will flag by default, even in the easiest exercises, a wrong answer, and then, with absolute no changes, will accept the solution.

I cannot even imagine what will be the effects on a user's confidence in more difficult exercises because of their bug.

A huge minus? No way to address the bug to a human agent. Their chatbot is extremely rudimentary for a company that is supposedly teaching some AI courses.

I have a video which demonstrates how buggy is their platform for python. In bash exercises I didn't have problems.

Date of experience: December 09, 2023

Reply from Codecademy

Dec 20, 2023

We would like to hear more about this and help resolve your issue. Please reach out by submitting a request through our Help Center (https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us). Our support team can help.

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AL

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Jun 19, 2022

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I enjoy what I am learning. I have completed HTML with cocademy and now I am learning CSS. Can you include some video tutorials? also learners need to practice what they are learning, can you create specific ways that allow learners to practice what they are learning? for example, create free code editor template easy to use, like now I want to start designing my first website. I need an HTML editor where I can start writing my website with possibility of deploying it online once I finish. I think all learners need this!

Thank you very much for the great opportunity you give to millions of learners,

Allan

Date of experience: June 19, 2022

JO

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Jan 8, 2024

I contacted Codecademy asking to fix my course progress and to change my email address. As I wasn't getting any reply from them for 5 weeks I kept writing them and asking for assistance.

Codecademy agent was above incompetent. Even a child from the 5th grade would be able to copy the email address and would write it incorrect 4 times.

I am still trying to communicate with them, but I am really loosing my hope as they don't read what I write and ignore whatever I am saying.

If I would have known that such people will be dealing with my queries, I wouldn't have paid 3000£ for the course.

Date of experience: January 08, 2024

Reply from Codecademy

Jan 17, 2024

We would like to hear more about this and help resolve your issue. Please reach out by submitting a request through our Help Center (https://help.codecademy.com/hc/en-us). Our support team can help.

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