{"id":1023,"date":"2013-05-16T06:57:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T10:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2013-10-16T04:21:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T08:21:41","slug":"nifty-site-of-the-week-codecademy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/nifty-site-of-the-week-codecademy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nifty Site of the Week: Codecademy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may be a tech wanting to learn a new programming skillset, or a relative Web newbie trying to understand your resident Web geek&#8217;s mentions of HTML, CSS, and other cryptic acronyms. Either way, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codecademy.com\">Codecademy.com<\/a> could be a great match for you. Codecademy is a free service that makes learning to code into a game, teaching each technique step by step and rewarding the user in a point system. Check out the home page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codecademy.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1024\" alt=\"Codecademy\" src=\"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/codecademy.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/codecademy.png 600w, http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/codecademy-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You jump in right off the bat following simple prompts to get your feet wet. Within minutes, you&#8217;re learning actual JavaScript code, earning badges, and on your way to gaining a better understanding of the technology that powers the Web. Here are the current learning tracks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web Fundamentals (HTML, CSS)<\/li>\n<li>jQuery<\/li>\n<li>JavaScript<\/li>\n<li>Projects (apply your knowledge of all the above)<\/li>\n<li>Python<\/li>\n<li>Ruby<\/li>\n<li>PHP<\/li>\n<li>APIs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any interest whatsoever in learning to program, check it out. Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m off to Codecademy to try to beat my high score. Happy coding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be a tech wanting to learn a new programming skillset, or a relative Web newbie trying to understand your resident Web geek&#8217;s mentions of HTML, CSS, and other cryptic acronyms. Either way, Codecademy.com could be a great match for you. Codecademy is a free service that makes learning to code into a game,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geek","category-programming-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}