Computer science student at university…
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.
April 10, 2025
Unprompted review