Hot take: Codecademy made me worse at actually coding for a solid 6 months

I wasted 4 months doing those guided Python exercises on Codecademy back in 2022 thinking I was learning. Then I sat down to build a simple calculator app for a friend in Denver and froze completely. The hand-holding gave me this fake confidence where I could follow along but couldn't create anything on my own. Has anyone else felt like those interactive tutorials just teach you to click buttons instead of think?

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xena_anderson2d ago

Try building something on paper before touching any code to break that dependency.

rowank692d ago

Sometimes drawing out the logic actually hides missing steps you'd catch by typing code first.