Lots of websites make funny 500 or 404 error pages with jokes or unicorns or fail whales. At CodeHS, we decided that if a 500 error happens, it’s our job to teach you about what that actually means and what is happening now. Especially as a computer science education company, some of what we teach …
A Complete History of How I Learned to Code
While I don’t feel like I really learned “real programming” until my first quarter of college, I had been trying to learn to code for a long time before that. Here, I’ll lay out everything I tried, what worked, what didn’t, and how it affected me when I started doing “real programming.” When I say …
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My Personal PD — Writing
One of our core values at CodeHS is “Encourage Teaching and Learning.” We are a company whose product is for teachers and students, but even beyond that, we believe that everyone who works at CodeHS should be learning and always improving themselves. This Spring, after holding a career checkin with everyone on the team to …
