Code Academy [Sponsor]

May 1st, 2012

Big thanks to Code Academy for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Code Academy is one of those organizations that gets me really excited, because they’re trying to do something truly meaningful—they’re helping make programming accessible to everyone, and, I believe, they’re pioneering the future of education.

I think education in 10 years is going to look a lot more like what they’re doing, rather than the staid high school and university system we have now. It’s a pleasure to have them as a sponsor.

If you’re interested in learning how to program, check out Code Academy. They’re doing great work.

Build your first webapp in 11 weeks with Code Academy.

Code Academy is a 3-month, beginner focused, hands-on course to learn Web Design & Web Development in the heart of Chicago. We offer beginners the chance to learn Ruby on Rails with the goal of building and launching their own apps in 3 months.

Co-founders Mike McGee and Neal Sales-Griffin challenged themselves to learn how to code, and they went through every single tutorial online and offline they could find. After spending about a year teaching themselves to code, they knew there had to be a better way to learn. So they decided to build it themselves.

Today, Code Academy has a total of 90 alumni, and 80 current students from all over the world to join us for 11 weeks. They are passionate beginners who want to solve meaningful problems in their lives.

Together with Chicago, the community of mentors, developers, designers and entrepreneurs, we’re helping empower people to change their lives (and the lives of others) through software development.

Being passionate about something is the key to your success. For us, it’s about enabling the next generation of developers and thinkers to find what they’re passionate about and help them bring it to life.

Applications for Summer 2012 open now: codeacademy.org/apply. Tweet us @codeacademy.