Codecademy. Online course to learn computer code

Last updated on 12 May 2026

Codecademy is a site that allows to Learn computer code with many online lessons within everyone's reach.

This site, which impresses with its ease of use, pedagogy and impeccable ergonomics, is not new. Launched in the United States some time ago, it has more than one million users. Just a few days ago, the website opened a French version. Good news. That's great news.

Codecademy learns to code in a progressive and interactive way. The courses offered are models of the genre. After a quick registration you can start discovering and learning the HTML/CC, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP as well as APIs.

The idea is not to make you or your students computer and programming cracks, but to provide everyone with the basics of grammar  This helps to understand what is happening under the hood of the Internet, websites and other mobile applications. And why not, by the way, arouse vocations.

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Use is a model of its kind. You follow an interactive and incentive step-by-step that allows everyone to progress at their own pace. Learning takes place through particularly well-designed exercises. You will earn badges to congratulate you on your progress or assiduity. Codecademy allows you to leave a lesson at any time and then pick it up where you left off.

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And if you are a programming crack or computer languages you can also offer educational sequences to the user community.

There has been a lot of talk lately about including coding awareness sessions in school curricula. A kind of digital literacy essential in a world where the net is taking up a little more space every day.
Codecademy shows in any case with these first online courses in French that it can be made less difficult than one might imagine. A real success. Codecademy is free and without any advertising.

2 Responses

  1. Christophe says:

    Thank you for this discovery which is indeed a successful and didactic site.

  2. Maixent says:

    I hope this experience will be interesting!