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NY Experiments With Codecademy's Online Hacker Lessons
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New York University is teaming up with the computer programming tutorial site Codecademy to offer a free, non-credit programming class for NYU students. The pilot program will run from Sept. 28 through Dec. 7, 2012.
Codecademy seeks to democratize computer programming by offering lessons via the web, and this NYU partnership puts a new spin on that mission — and may lend it some added legitimacy. According to Codecademy CEO Zach Sims, NYU has basically built a course around the existing Codecademy curriculum. "We've helped by recommending pieces of the curriculum and giving suggestions on how to run the program," Sims says. In addition to Codecademy's interactive lessons, the course will include monthly guest speakers.
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