TrustRadius Insights for Codecademy from Skillsoft are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Relevant and Valuable Content: Many users have found the content provided by Codecademy from Skillsoft to be relevant to their projects and add value to their goals. The content is tailored to meet the needs of learners, helping them apply what they learn directly to their work.
Conducive to Adult Learning: Users appreciate that the content is delivered in a way that is conducive to adult learning. The information is chunked into bite-sized amounts, preventing users from feeling overwhelmed and making it easier for them to comprehend the material.
Easy-to-Understand Language: Users praise the use of easy-to-understand language in the content. By avoiding technical jargon that could be confusing, Codecademy from Skillsoft ensures that learners can grasp concepts without unnecessary barriers.
Codecademy from Skillsoft has helped me and our team members in honing our coding skills as part of our regular job work. We, as employees of this organization are able to continuously improve and monitor our coding skills and proficiency with regular challenges being updated on Codecademy from Skillsoft. The platform allows you to remain on top of the work that you are supposed to do and hence take up whatever challenges your job throws at you
Pros
Great simulator
Support for all languages
Monitoring Dashboards
Cons
Recommendations based on the performance
Lessons to be recommended based on historical data and performance
Likelihood to Recommend
Codecademy from Skillsoft has helped test and check for the use cases in the codebase that we are going to implement in real-life; the challenges and problem statements defined on the platform are close to the real-life challenges being solved and hence provides our team the appropriate situations to test and get hold of the real-life problems
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Product Management (Automotive company, 5001-10,000 employees)
We use it to help develop coding skills that we use to improve our efficiency in work tasks. Instead of using in house resources, we use Codecademy as an outsourced way to upskill our employees. It is a great tool.
Pros
Improving coding skills
Easy to onboard
Great value
Cons
Some limits on coding modules
Somewhat weak customer service
More promotions would be nice
Likelihood to Recommend
Codecademy is great for any organization that wants its employees or users to learn applicable coding skills. It is well suited for a variety of uses, including those for large organizations with many users, along with smaller organizations. It may be less appropriate for organizations that want to control the coding education in house.
VU
Verified User
Professional (Higher Education company, 10,001+ employees)
I teach first-year bachelor students Java, and when asked about extra exercises, I redirect them to Codecademy. For students who are highly motivated and want to learn things outside the scope of my class, I redirect them toward the intermediate class Otherwise, I suggest the introduction course.
Pros
Partially free
Lessons
Exercises
Quizz (paid version)
Cons
Price too high, students cannot pay 150 euro per year
There should be a way to pay for a single class, my student only cares about Java
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited:
Students who just started to learn to program and want to do some exercises/have a different perspective on a given topic
Not well suited: An advanced programmer who wants to learn a new language/library. I personally learned Python a while ago using Codecademy, but when I recently tried to use it for Javascript, it was not adapted for someone who knows to program in more than one language already.