Why don't they just call it Code Academy. why does it have to be some weird little made up word that doesn't even make any sense
So they can copyright their name.
Names are not copyrightable; do you mean trademark?
I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
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#22Way to be! It's silly how often employers overlook the "I just really want to be part of/build this" factor. People with that make for excellent teammates.
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#26Love them! Reminds me of Larry David opening a Coffee Shop in Curb your Enthusiasm.
I call them spite-sites.
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#27Why don't they just call it Code Academy. why does it have to be some weird little made up word that doesn't even make any sense
Codecademy was filed as a trademark on September 6, 2012. When they did that there were some pre-existing similar names around (eg CA Code Academy filed on September 7, 2011). It's probably the case that they couldn't get a "Code Academy" based .com domain or something too. Plus portmanteau names for startups were trendy back then.
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#28Why don't they just call it Code Academy. why does it have to be some weird little made up word that doesn't even make any sense
If it was 15 years ago it probably would have been named "Codr.io", so there is progress
Codebedandbreakfast with the YC founders saying “no that’s not quite right, how about…”
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#29>My favorite part of the photographic process was watching prints come to life. I loved starting with a blank sheet of paper and applying various photographic methods to bring the image to life. >I found that building websites was similarly satisfying. For example, click the "Reveal Image" button to watch an image fade in to the blank canvas! I think a lot about why I went into computer science and this is the same c…
That's kinda what did AND didn't work for me when it came to programming.
In college my first class was a class about C, the instructor read from the book (that appeared to be written about C for people who already knew C...) and then you worked on the assignment.
I didn't have the patience at that age to work that way and dropped the class / decided programming wasn't for me.
I did some other tech things and decades later ended up working with a bunch of engineers at a company and realized that we understood each other / how we worked really well. Company was bought out and I had time to think about what to do next.
By this time the world of web development and web apps had taken off and there was so much information available / folks sharing the land of programming seemed entirely different to me. Attended a boot camp and everything just clicked, the immediacy of producing something in a web app (even if it broke) really drove home what I was doing and so on. I've been happily coding since then.
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#30>My favorite part of the photographic process was watching prints come to life. I loved starting with a blank sheet of paper and applying various photographic methods to bring the image to life. >I found that building websites was similarly satisfying. For example, click the "Reveal Image" button to watch an image fade in to the blank canvas! I think a lot about why I went into computer science and this is the same c…
For me, programming was like being a little god in my own little world. For an introvert especially, it was exhilarating. You write a command, and it obeys. When you see something on screen is even more satisfying.
In fact, the all-night coding binges happen because in an intense period of learning, you are producing a ton of adrenaline, and that annihilates sleep. (Sorry, working, don't care to look for the study right now). But it checks out.