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I'm very excited by this, but also VERY skeptical. I was using Codecademy for months to learn Javascript, HTML and CSS but recently stopped because the course quality was getting very poor. It seems like they spent a lot of time developing the first 1-2 months of lessons, and then started winging it from there.

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I have to agree there. I got to a certain point and quit because I had to go to the help forums for each question. There are certain problems that only accept one solution even though there are multiple paths. For example, the isOdd and !isEven problem. I wrote down isEven and !isOdd, but it would only accept the opposite of that. Same result, but only one gets you a passing grade.

I thought I left the guessing what the teacher was looking for behind when I finished college philosophy.

we hope you'll give the python courses a shot - they're edited and should be great to learn from.

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