Code Year by Codecademy was one big phenomenal attempt to teach people like me to code, when it started early this year.
I was one of the few who signed up on the very first day.
Eventually, the first lesson rolled out and I completed that also, and then it all fizzed out.
After that I just could not keep the pace with the new lessons being rolled out every week and I fell farther and farther short.
One of the reason was that off-late I had been already tinkering with PHP, Python and sometimes with Ruby and the language chosen by Codecademy was Javascript.
Now, it was like one more new language to me, when I was already burdened with a lot of material to work with in the other three languages.
So somewhere, I kept myself to PHP and to some lesser extent to Python.
All this while the Codecademy guys kept me pushing with the weekly email and it finally worked today, when I gave in.
So again today, I went to Code YEar module of Codecademy and started all the lessons right from the beginn…