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Break out the skeletons ☠️

We know learning to code can be frighteningly intimidating. But if you want to learn quickly and easily, a skeleton—a template program capturing and organizing the essential components that are difficult to setup—just might be your new best friend. The two new courses we're releasing today give you just that.     If you can't see this email - View it in your browser.        

Go behind-the-scenes of our hackathon

Vote on the future of our course catalog; from learning with Codecademy to coding at Airbnb. Newsletter #57 October 25, 2018 Essential news, trends, and stories from Codecademy and the world of code. What comes to mind when you hear the word "hackathon"? People in hoodies typing very intensely? Somebody muttering "I'm in" as music swells? In actuality, hackathons are way less intimidating—and way more worthwhile—than the name suggests. That's why students and companies around the world are turning to them to get things done, including the Codecademy team.

What's the secret to overcoming a fear of learning to code? Hint: start with Python

Learning to code is more crucial now than it's ever been. But it can also be overwhelming. Because with hundreds of programming languages to choose, where do you start? Turns out we have a strong opinion on that. Start with Python. Learning to code is more crucial now than it's ever been. But it can also be overwhelming. Because with hundreds of programming languages to choose, where do you start?   Turns out we have a strong opinion on that. Start with Python.   Here's why. Python is one of the top workhorse programming languages used to solve problems in a wide range of organizations—including Facebook, Google, Spotify, and even NASA. But you don't need to be a rocket scientist to accomplish amazing things with it.   In fact, part of Python's appeal to programmers working in a variety of fields is that, as flexible as it is, Python is also very easy to learn. And in our new Pro Intensive, Programming with Python , you'll master the fu

No tricks, just treats

We know it's corny, but this week the Fall season (plus some pun-kin pie) is leafing smiles on our faces at our New York headquarters. If you've wondered how computers autumnatically make predictions or quickly find data, our two new courses released today will be a treat:     If you can't see this email - View it in your browser.        

The Monday Course Drop Continues

Good news! We're turning our course release cadence up a notch. The spectacular enthusiasm from learners like you during our recent September sweepstakes has prompted us to deliver even more new courses faster than ever before. Now, we have plans to release a new course every week through the end of the year.     If you can't see this email - View it in your browser.        

10 million+ companies have a problem Machine Learning can solve

That's a quote in The Economist by Jeff Dean, the director of Google Brain—Google's AI department. He's talking about a broad spectrum of organizations across a wide range of industries facing a similar problem: they have collected a quintillion bytes of critical data, but have no idea how to leverage it. They just don't have the experts on staff. That subject line? That's a quote in The Economist by Jeff Dean, the director of Google Brain—Google's AI department. He's talking about a broad spectrum of organizations across a wide range of industries facing a similar problem: they have collected a quintillion bytes of critical data, but have no idea how to leverage it. They just don't have the experts on staff. That's where you come in.   Our new Pro Intensive, Machine Learning Fundamentals , will teach you the skills that can solve problems for millions of companies. We'll take you from zero experience to being able to build co