This is great. I love the idea that people can take the effort they would put into casual gaming and learn coding skills. Also an interesting point that doing some of these courses can get your resume viewed more even when applying for non-coding jobs. It seems like Codecademy has found a niche helping people who are not full-time computer science types get benefits out of coding.
If anyone from Codeacademy is listening, please make more project-tutorials that I can show off on a portfolio! Thanks :)
I love that you lead off with a 55 year-old woman. That's exactly the right message you want to get in front of people.
It is a good one to start with, but I wish there were more details as to how she felt Codecademy helped her get the new position. Because her new position is Sharepoint work that she apparently already had experience in. Looking at the tracks she's completed she definitely has an interest in development, so I'm wondering what tracks helped her obtain the position and how did she explain the apparent knowledge with no practical experience.
"The next project Joah tackled was expanding the calculator project by including square roots and trigonometric ratios."
I really can't believe they ran out of people to feature. There are thousands of other kids who are infinitely better than Josh.