Computer science student at university here.

I was looking for some additional resources to learn more about data science/machine learning and other fields in comp science, as well as some real-life style code projects to do. I heard of codeacademy many, maannyy times in the past, so I bought a free trial and decided to try it.

I did not have pleasant experience to be fair - the code practice sections are basically hand-holding fest with making you type code exactly as they tell you. For me this is not a good learning method as I feel like I am learning nothing.


Codeacademy offers portfolio project which don’t have hand-holding but there’s very few of them.


I am not sure, probably this style of teaching is good for other people but I’d rather to move to textbooks and other learning resources and cannot recommend Codeacademy.