Codecademy, a website that teaches users how to code through free, interactive tutorials, is launching its first Python courses Monday.
Codecademy’s website already offers a few hundred exercises in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, Zach Sims, Codecademy’s 22-year-old co-founder, tells me. Together, 100 million tutorials have been completed by millions of users.
Six track courses are being launched for Python on Monday. Why Python? Sims says more users of the site requested Python than Ruby. “It goes nicely as a server-side backend to what many users have learned with JavaScript,” he wrote in a post on Codecademy’s blog.
Codeacademy is asking users to submit additional Python exercises for other users to learn from. All of the tutorials on the site have been created by its users.
