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zds

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About zds

co-founder @ codecademy, the easiest way to learn to code

email: zach@[company name].com twitter: @zsims

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    Comment #29658093

    this is why we show up to work in the morning! thank you so much. if you have more you want to share, shoot me an email!

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    Comment #29658085

    this is why we started the company! it killed me in college, but it didn't have to be that hard. so glad we could play a small part in your career!

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    Comment #29658084

    thank you!

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    Comment #29658081

    thank you so much! glad to hear the java and python paid off ;)

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    Comment #29658077

    congratulations to you on your new career! i almost became a lawyer too ;)

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    Comment #29658072

    this (and every other story in this thread!) really makes everything worth it. would love to hear as much as you're comfortable sharing over email!

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    Comment #29658070

    awesome! would love to hear more (and to tell our team!). shoot me an email!

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    Comment #29658067

    this is amazing to read. thank you so much! would love to hear your story -- I'm zach@ if you want to shoot a note over.

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    Comment #29658065

    that first one brings back memories! thanks for resurfacing these, @dang!

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    Comment #29658056

    thank you! i'm glad you trusted us as a place to start. i hope it's helped you level up your career!

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    Comment #29652090

    Co-Founder and CEO here. We started Codecademy and launched on HN 10 years ago. I'm so thankful to this community for helping us to get started and to see up the momentum! We're co…

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    Codecademy | ONSITE | Senior Full Stack Engineer | New York, NY We’re looking for a versatile full-stack senior software engineer who bring new ideas and experience from new areas,…

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    Comment #7635333

    we've fixed a lot of the issues - would love for you to give it a shot again and let me know if there's anything i can do to make your experience better!

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    Comment #7635209

    on monday, we've got a new learning experience coming that you'll see has an increased emphasis on learning concepts in addition to syntax. more on that then!

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    Comment #7635200

    feel free to email me personally - zach@

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    Comment #7634952

    apigee and webshell courses are created and maintained by those companies (our platform lets anyone create courses), so it's unfortunately up to them to edit -- we'll ping them reg…

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    Comment #7634920

    i'm the cofounder and ceo of codecademy -- would love to hear what everyone thinks!

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    it's going live on monday

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    Comment #7634905

    which are you finding errors in? we keep a pretty vigilant watch on broken exercises (there's a dashboard in our office and we respond to bug reports as well) -- would love to fix …

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    Comment #7634902

    thanks for all of this feedback. we're launching some stuff next week that will help you get even closer to realizing all of this -- it gets you out of the terminal (the main UX no…