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Howdy, I'm MG Siegler. I’m a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch. This is where I collect things.

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Code Year

Back in October, I wrote about Codecademy, a CrunchFund investment. Love the concept, yadda yadda. Now they have a new initiative called Code Year which is pushing for people to learn to code for their New Years resolution.

When I tweeted about it yesterday, I think it got more retweets than any tweet I’ve ever tweeted before. So there’s clearly some interest.

As such, find the link above as well just in case you don’t follow me on Twitter. Almost 65,000 people have signed up already for the weekly lesson sent via email. 

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This Startup Costs Me Thousands Of Dollars…

…simply because they didn’t exist yet.

Codecademy.

About 6 years ago, I decided I was going to go back to school to learn how to code. I had very casually dabbled with some simple stuff ranging from HTML to C++, but decided I needed a more formal setting to truly learn. I was wrong.

It’s not that I didn’t learn anything going back to school — I did. But I was wrong that I needed to learn in a formal school setting. As any programmer will tell you, you’ll learn a lot more by doing things on the fly. 

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