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Newsletter #26
May 17, 2017
Essential news, trends, and stories from Codecademy and the
world of code.
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>From Side Project to 25 Million Downloads
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In 2011, Ryan joined Codecademy and used what he learned to
turn his app idea into reality. Five years later, his side
project has been downloaded 25 million times and Ryan is now the
VP of Product & Engineering with the company that acquired his
app.
See the full story and learn how Ryan's app Sworkit (
https://sworkit.com/?utm_source=codecademy&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=codecademy_story ) was:
* featured in publications like Lifehacker, Mashable, and
Elle
* acquired by another health startup
* pitched on the TV show Shark Tank (
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-sworkit-best-workout-app-that-was-on-shark-tank )
This month, Sworkit hit three straight months of
profitability, a massive milestone in the startup lifecycle.
Congratulations to Ryan and the team at Sworkit!
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https://medium.com/_at_codecademy/from-side-project-to-25-million-downloads-9e43c17cc245?utm_source=customerio&utm_medium=Fortnightly-2017-05-17&utm_campaign=newsletter_a&utm_content=read_full_story )
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In Other News
Code Challenge: Test Your Scripting Skills
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Each week, we feature the sorts of questions full-stack
developers get in job interviews. This week, try a word
transformation question reportedly asked at Snap, Inc.!
Take the challenge (
https://discuss.codecademy.com/t/challenge-word-transformation/84306/1?utm_source=customerio&utm_medium=Fortnightly-2017-05-17&utm_campaign=newsletter_a&utm_content=this_code_challenge ) and see last week's results (
https://discuss.codecademy.com/t/challenge-test-balance-of-a-binary-search-tree/84300/1?utm_source=customerio&utm_medium=Fortnightly-2017-05-17&utm_campaign=newsletter_a&utm_content=last_code_challenge ).
This Month in Tech: Ten Years of Scratch
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Scratch - the free, fun, visual programming language
designed by MIT for children between 6 and 16 years of age -
turns ten years old this month!
Read about Scratch (
https://backchannel.com/the-kids-computer-language-that-became-a-mind-bomb-for-the-hacker-ethic-a0b7e42c229d?utm_source=codecademy_newsletter ) or see it for yourself (
https://scratch.mit.edu/about?utm_source=codecademy_newsletter ).
Project of the Week: Twitter Bot
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Amelie used the Twitter API (
https://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/twitter?utm_source=customerio&utm_medium=Fortnightly-2017-05-17&utm_campaign=newsletter_a&utm_content=project ) and JavaScript (
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-javascript?utm_source=customerio&utm_medium=Fortnightly-2017-05-17&utm_campaign=newsletter_a&utm_content=project ) to make an improved, accessible Twitter Bot engine using a
pseudo-markov algorithm.
See Amelie's project (
https://discuss.codecademy.com/t/my-first-js-project-a-twitter-bot-anyone-can-use-thank-you-codecademy/80279/1?utm_source=customerio&utm_medium=Fortnightly-2017-05-17&utm_campaign=newsletter_a&utm_content=see_project ) or share yours (
http://bit.ly/2pbqoft ).
CODE SOMETHING (
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