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News, trends, and stories from the world of code -- -- Start Coding Today Insights Updates Partnerships Developing Stories_ -- Insights Protect Your Personal Data By Thinking Like a Data Scientist Data is a currency we spend more often than we realize. Understanding how our data is collected and used can help us evaluate the decisions we make with it. Karl Lykken Partnerships Talking C++: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. We got a chance to chat with him about the “golden years” of Bell Labs and the top C++ questions on Stack Overflow. Sonny Li Updates Updates to the Data Science Path We're adding lessons and several in-depth projects to the Data Science Path. You'll learn how to analyze real data across a variety of industries. Codecademy Team Insights When One Teaches, Two Learn: Meet Codecademy’s Community We believe “when one teaches, two learn.” To make that belief a reality for learners, we host an online community with tens of thousands of members. Alyssa Vigil Updates Updates to the Web Development Path We're adding new lessons and quizzes to the Web Development Path. We've also added new Challenge Projects, which allow you to develop applications locally. Codecademy Team Insights How to Start a Group Project As you develop your coding skills, you may want to use them to build a complex project. We'll walk you through how to assemble and manage a project team. Kerry Driscoll Partnerships Talking C++: An Interview with Simon Brand The authors of Codecademy's Learn C++ course sat down for a chat with Simon Brand, a C++ Developer Advocate for Microsoft and frequent conference speaker. Mariel Frank Insights Announcing the Winners of the C++ Community Challenge Sharing the results of our month-long C++ Community Challenge—an opportunity for C++ Pro learners to team up and build something amazing together. Codecademy Team Insights Web Scraping MLB Stats with Python and Beautiful Soup Python web scraping libraries like Beautiful Soup can automate the collection of website data. Let's try it out by scraping MLB batting stats from ESPN. Kerry Driscoll Insights Why I Love Teaching at Codecademy Learning web development skills empowered me to help others learn the same. In this article, I describe my career switch and my role as a Codecademy Coach. Aubrey Wullschleger Insights What is a Product Manager? What does a product manager do? And why have they become such an important part of the tech world? Allow us to explain. Navie Narula Partnerships Ask Developers: Why Should You Learn C#? To celebrate our new Learn C# course we interviewed 8 different software engineers on their experience with the language and what you should know before diving in. Codecademy Team Insights How to Tackle a Data Science Project In hopes of pursuing a career in Public Policy, I’ve spent the past year reorienting my programming towards Data Science. Naturally, doing so required significant practice finding, reading, visualizing and analyzing data. Gabriel Guzman Insights Engaging with Communities as a Female Technologist As a woman in a male-dominated field, I started to feel more confident when I joined communities that connect women in computer science to each other. Navie Narula Insights Climbing the Ladder: Investigating the "American Dream" with Python We used Python to analyze how wealth, location and collegiate selectivity affect student outcomes and economic mobility. Gabriel Guzman Updates Updates to our Java Content Good news! We're updating several lessons in our Java curriculum to pave the way for more Java content in the future. Read on to learn more about these changes. Codecademy Team Updates Updates to the Code Foundations Path We're adding new content to our Code Foundations Path! Learn what programming is and what it's like without having to commit to one language or technology. Codecademy Team Insights How to Build a Data Science Portfolio A data science portfolio is a great way to showcase your skill set in lieu of work experience. This article will provide some tips to help jumpstart yours. Albert Lee Insights 5 Skills Developers Need Beyond Writing Code Learning to program tends to center around, well, programming. But developers spend most of their time on tasks that require a different set of skills. Karl Lykken Insights Aggregating Pokémon Data with Python and Pandas Python is a more flexible and scalable tool for data analysis than spreadsheets. To prove it, we're analyzing the same Pokémon data with both and comparing. Albert Lee Updates Livestream: Getting Started with C++ Whether you're new to coding or trying to pick up a new language, our C++ livestream is one that you won't want to miss. Codecademy Team Updates Livestream: Create a Color Generator During our next YouTube live stream, we will make a Random Color Generator web page with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Codecademy Team Updates An Update to Codecademy Pro Over the past year, we have added a ton of new value to Codecademy Pro. Today, we’re announcing that we’re changing our prices so that we can keep delivering great new Zach Sims Updates We're launching a course using Python 3! The Python language community experienced a fracturing in 2008 when it released Python 3.0. Python 3.0 was a new major version of Python, which means that code written in earlier versions Codecademy Team Updates Song Lyric Topic Analysis Livestream Join us as we perform a natural language processing topic analysis on the song lyrics of one of the world's most popular artists: Taylor Swift. Codecademy Team © 2020 Latest Posts Facebook Twitter...