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Codecademy Closes $10 Million Round - Tech Europe - WSJ

Some have criticized the whole learn-to-code meme, most notably Jeff Atwood in his blog Coding Horror. “Software developers tend to be software addicts who think their job is to write code,” he wrote. “But it’s not. Their job is to solve problems. Don’t celebrate the creation of code, celebrate the creation of solutions.”

Mr. Simms is unapologetic. “Think about it less as coding and more as algorithms,” he said. “Traditionally there are the 3 Rs—reading, writing and arithmetic. We think algorithms should be the fourth. Not everyone has to learn to code, but needs to learn the notions of algorithms, realizing what you can use code for.”

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Zach is a good guy.

12:43 PM Jun 19 2012

Playing a JavaScript videogame in a Web browser sounds a lot more fun than Ruby Bootcamp: http://pandawhale.com/convo/2468/become-a-web-developer-in-just-10-weeks-order-now

12:47 PM Jun 19 2012

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That is a funny thread.

12:49 PM Jun 19 2012

It is.

It's odd that the Ruby community is willing to tolerate a $12k Ruby class.

Makes them look bad, especially compared with Codecademy.

12:54 PM Jun 19 2012

10:34 PM Jun 19 2012

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