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masksandtruths · 7 years ago

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Like The Rain

So I did this one on mobile and haven’t really proof read it, but @chaos-and-the-calm67 sounded like she needed some sweet and slightly smutty Dean. She posted a pic with her request, and it inspired me. So even though she didn’t ask me directly for this, I hope she loves it and that it makes her week a little brighter. PS: I’ll go back through and format it tomorrow since I can’t get my phone to cooperate.

Warnings: language and smut (18+ only please)…and probably lots of typos.

When you finally made it back to the bunker and threw your Challenger in park, you dropped your head to the steering wheel sighing with the sheer exhaustion of it all. You listened as the rain poured down around you, the rhythm of it calming your frazzled nerves.

Why the hell was dealing with your family a bigger challenge than offing random monsters on a daily basis? You’d made the long drive for the sake of your cousin, who was one of the only ones never to belittle or harass you. You loved her and you wouldn’t have missed her wedding for the world, but it had taken its toll emotionally.

The endless streams of questions, the looks of disappointment, the straight up insults from your mother. Yeah, sure, you’d run off when your engagement to Mike had fallen apart. No you’d never finished college. No you didn’t take over the family business. But so what? She didn’t know your life or even understand anything about you. Never has...never will.

She didn’t know that on one of those long ago, lonely nights, when you were trying to pick up the fragments of your life, you’d been taken by a Djinn. That he’d touched you and for a brief moment, you had glimpsed the version of your existence you’d always wanted and deserved. And then suddenly, a man with the most gorgeous green eyes you’d ever seen was pulling you into his arms and telling you it was over. When you realized he and his younger brother had saved you from one of the thousands of things that go bump in the night, you decided you wanted that to be your path in life too. You wanted to help others when they weren’t capable of helping themselves.Of course, you couldn’t tell your mother all of that, so none of it even mattered. You also couldn’t tell her that come to find out, that green eyed, self sacrificing, extremely kind, infuriatingly hard headed man ended up being the love of your life.

One more deep breath. You pulled your hood over your head, yanked your overnight bag from the seat, and hauled ass through the rain towards the bunker door. When you stepped through the doorway, you could hear country music drifting from the kitchen. Well that was different, you thought. It was normally all Zepplin and Styx and the like in this joint.

You kicked off your rain soaked boots and peeled off your wet socks before quietly dropping your bag and tip toeing to the door way of the kitchen. When you peeked around the corner you couldn’t help but smile. There he was at the stove with his back to you…hair a mess, flannel covering his broad shoulders, jeans hugging him from his ass down to his perfectly bowed legs. When he paused his cooking to take a swig of his beer, he turned slightly, giving you a glimpse of his perfect scruff and that jawline that could cut ice. God, you were a lucky woman.

You sat there content to stare for another hour or two as he fumbled with his phone and continued to cook his meal. Then he started singing. Most people didn’t even know that he could. He’d rather joke around and sing bad karaoke than show he actually could carry a tune.

“I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you.

Every thunder cloud that came was one more I might not get through.

On the darkest day there’s always light and now I see it too.

But I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you,” Dean sang without a care in the world.

He would make Clint Black proud with that rendition, you thought. There was nothing this man couldn’t do. You closed your eyes, leaned your head back against the door frame and just listened.

Suddenly the music stopped, and when you opened your eyes, he was looking right at you.

“I was singing that for you you know.”

“What?” You asked, shocked. “You didn’t even know I was here.”

“Darling, you might have thought you snuck up on me, but I’ve been a hunter a lot longer than you.” He crossed his arms and leaned backwards against the counter.

“Well I mean of course you have been…seeing as how you are a decade older than me, grandpa,” you retorted with a smirk as you took a few steps toward him.

He threw his head back and laughed. “I missed you too, sweetheart.” He pushed up off the counter and crossed the kitchen to take you in his arms. He put his full lips to your forehead and kissed it, and then your temple, then your cheek, and finally your mouth.

When he ended the sweet kiss, you asked, “No really. I used all my best stalking skills, how’d you know I was spying on you? You couldn’t have heard me come in. It’s raining cats and dogs outside.”

“Well I knew you’d be home at some point today.” He looked down at you and couldn’t resist kissing you again before continuing. “And I could smell that perfume of yours that I like so much.” He kissed your jaw then, and you tilted her head back to allow him access to keep going if he wanted to.

“And I can just tell whenever the woman I’m madly in love with enters the same room as me. Call it instinct or whatever you want.”

You watched him flush a little bit at that last bit, vulnerability and love swimming in those green eyes you swear could look right into your heart.

“Dean Winchester, I believe you are a romantic.”

“Only for you…always only for you.” He spun and walked back to the stove and picked up his beer. “I knew being around your family would stress you out, so I grabbed a bottle of that wine you love at the store, and I’m making your favorite pasta.”

You looked over at the table then where your favorite bottle of cabernet and a single wine glass sat waiting for you. Your heart swelled with adoration and appreciation for the man in front of you.

Dean’s deep voice pulled you from your thoughts. “And I even made a playlist of that old 90s country you like. Some of it isn’t bad actually. Way better than that new bullshit they play nowadays.”

You walked up behind him and wrapped your arms around his waist, burying your head between his shoulder blades, breathing him in. “Where’s Sammy tonight?”

“On a case. He met up with Jodi and they are going to track a few vampires. He knew I wanted to be here when you got home.” He shrugged like it was no big deal, but you knew how much he worried about his little brother. No matter how old they got, that instinct just wouldn’t go away, and you loved him all the more for it.

“Hey will you start that song over? The one you were singing earlier. Seems appropriate considering what the weather is like outside.”

“Sure thing, darling.” He patted one of your arms, which were still locked around his waist, “You are going to have to loosen that grip a tad first though.”

You let your arms fall from their spot and stepped back watching as he reached to hit the back button on the little portable speaker sitting on the countertop. You smiled thinking about how much he’d protested when you first bought the thing. He had looked so pitiful as he whined about how “first Sammy tried to corrupt his car and now you were trying to corrupt his home with all this new freaking technology.”

“I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you…”

The song started, and Dean turned to look at you as you closed your eyes again. You had always loved this one. So much of your life had been extremely difficult, and you had always known it would take someone special to deal with your “rain”. Sometimes you wondered if it was fair to put all that baggage on the insanely gorgeous hunter standing in front of you...even if he seemed damn near unbreakable.

When you opened your eyes a second later, Dean was studying you closely, trying to gauge what to say. He finally took a couple steps towards you and reached one of his calloused hands for yours.

“Would you dance with me?”

You lifted your eyebrows in surprise. He wasn’t exactly the dancing type. But you took his hand and stepped into his arms anyway, laughing as he spun you around and started a slow two step.

He looked down at you with such love and concern that you felt your eyes brim with tears. “Thank you for all this. It’s exactly what I needed,” you said softly as you reached up and placed a hand on the side of his face.

He turned into the touch and gently kissed the palm of your hand. “I understand rainy days, Y/N. Maybe more than you know. And it’s my honor to do anything I can to help you get through them because I know you’d do the same for me. You are never a burden. You are not weak. You are not wrong for doing what is best for you. And I love you, not just on the bright days, but on the stormy ones too.” He touched his forehead to yours as you continued to sway to the music.

You closed the distance between you two and molded your lips to his. How could you not when he said wonderfully romantic things like that to you. You slipped your tongue in his mouth needing to get as close as possible. Needing to taste him. Needing to make sure this man was real. He groaned as his tongue brushed against your own and his large hands gripped your hips a little tighter.

He bent a little, grabbed the back of your legs and lifted...effortlessly you might add, kissing you again as he carried you over to the kitchen table and sat you down gently. Dean pushed a strand of hair behind your ear and then slowly reached to unzip the hoodie you were still wearing.

When the next verse of the song started, he paused long enough to look you straight in the eyes and simply say, “Listen.”

He pushed your hoodie from your shoulders, brushing his hands down your arms as he did so, leaving a trail of chill bumps everywhere his fingers touched. Then he leaned forward to kiss you on your cheek before starting on your neck. How in the hell were you supposed to listen to a song when he was touching you like this?

As if he knew you’d need a little extra help focusing on the words, Dean started to sing them in between the burning kisses he planted on your neck, down your collarbone and lower to your chest.

“That it’s always good and when the flood is gone we still remain

Guess I’ve known all along

I just belong here with you falling

Like the rain, I have fallen for you and I know just why you

Like the rain, always calling for you, I’m falling for you now

Just like the rain.”

You gasped when he pulled your bra down and rubbed his thumbs over your nipples. You couldn’t focus any more on how much those lyrics applied to your life or how he’d known they would be the exact ones you needed to hear. Now, the only thoughts you could begin to comprehend were of him and all the sinful things he was about to do to you.

He pushed you backwards so that you were laying on the table with your legs dangling off the end. He gripped you behind the knees and pulled you towards him, grinding his hardness into you. You moaned his name as he bent to place wet kisses down your stomach to the top of your jeans.

You could feel the wetness pool between your thighs as he undid the button on your jeans and pulled them off along with your panties. Heat flared in your core and spread throughout your body when he loosened his belt and pushed his boxers down enough to free himself from the confines of that thin fabric.

You tried to sit up. You wanted your hands on him. Wanted to touch him and show him how amazing he really was, but he put his palm on your chest and forced you to stay put.

"No ma'am, not tonight. Tonight is about you and taking away any of those dark thoughts I know are swirling in that gorgeous head of yours.”

You were practically panting, legs spread, bared to him, and he was looking at you like he was going to devour you. He absentmindedly stroked himself as his eyes raked up and down your body deciding what he thought you needed first. Good Lord, he hadn’t even really touched you yet, and you were about to come unglued.

"Dean,” you begged, “please. I need you to….mmmmm.” The plea falling from your mouth turned to a loud moan when he dropped his head and licked the length of your slit. The growl that rumbled from his throat as his tongue touched your wetness sent another shockwave of lust straight down to your lower half. And just like that, as magical as it was, his tongue wasn’t enough. You pulled at his hair, causing him to groan your name through gritted teeth.

"Y/N, you keep doing that and we aren’t even going to get to fun part.” He smiled wickedly as he looked up at you from his position between your legs. “You are so wet for me, sweetheart.” He dove back down for a second taste.

Your back arched off the table, momentarily forgetting what you had been trying to tell him. When you were able to form a coherent thought again, you panted, “Dean…no…I…oh godddd…Dean....shit....stop.”

He stopped, looking up at you again, pupils blown and hair all a mess. “Go ahead and tell me, baby. What do you need?”

"What do you think I’ve been trying to do, you idiot? Kinda hard to do when you are going down on me like that.”

“Well maybe if you didn’t taste so fucking delicious, I might be able to control myself better.”

Dean didn’t miss the way your breath hitched at his words or the small whimper that escaped your throat. That cocky smile of his lit up his handsome face as he slowly drug a long finger up and down your folds and straightened. You gasped in pleasure at the touch, but your hand shot out and grabbed his wrist before he could get you worked up behind words again. “No...tonight, I don’t need this.”

You sat up as he removed his hand, confusion evident in his eyes. “Tonight, I need this.”

You bent forward and placed a kiss on the head of his erection before sucking the tip of it into your mouth and swirling your tongue.

You heard him suck in a breath as you moaned at the taste of him. He tangled his fingers into your hair, his large hand resting on the back of your head as you took him as far as you could into your mouth before slowly making your way back up. Before you could sink your mouth down the length of him again, he tugged on your hair making you sit up. He was looking down at you, those green eyes burning through all of your darkness. He still had one hand wrapped in the hair at the nape of your neck and he stepped forward and guided himself into your wet warmth with his other. His eyes never moved from yours as he buried himself completely in you.

"I know that we’ll find better ways to look into the eye

Of the storms that will be calling

Forever we’ll be falling…

Like the rain, I have fallen for you, and I know just why you

Like the rain, always calling for you, I’m falling for you now just

Like the rain… Like the rain… Like the rain…”

As the song neared its end, he started to move...rolling his hips, thrusting into you. Pleasure coursed through your veins, and you gripped him a little tighter. Tonight, you liked the rain too.

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michaeljtraylor · 6 years ago

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As some pricey coding camps fade away, Codecademy barrels ahead with affordable paid offerings and a new mobile app

Between 2013 and last year, the number of boot camp schools tripled to more than 90 in the U.S. alone, according to Course Report, an outfit that tracks the industry. Some — including The Iron Yard and Dev Bootcamp — have since folded, unable to find enough eager recruits willing to pay top dollar to learn coding skills. (The average cost of a 14-week program last year was $11,400.)

At the same time, it has become apparent that when it comes to massive open online courses, a very high percentage of students don’t stay the course.

New York-based Codecademy, which began offering free coding courses at its outset, has managed to keep plugging away — and grow — despite these headwinds. In fact, the company today employs 85 people, up from 45 when we last sat down with co-founder and CEO Zach Sims in 2016. Its revenue is also up 65 percent year over year.

None of it has been a walk in the park, admits Sims, who dropped out of Columbia University in 2011 to start the company. “There’s been a ton of ups and downs,” he says, explaining that the company struggled for years with how to produce meaningful revenue before introducing two premium products in the last couple of years, both of which are affordable by design.

One of these is Codecademy Pro, meant to help users learn the fundamentals of coding, as well as develop a deeper knowledge (and receive certification from Codecademy) in up to 10 areas, including machine learning and data analysis. The cost is $20 per month, money that Pro users often see back in the form of a a $5,000 to $10,000 raise from their employer, insists Sims. He says the course “isn’t so much for those who are transitioning to full-time jobs but people who are learning skills to level up in their existing career.”

A second offering is Codecademy Pro Intensive, which is designed to immerse learners from six to 10 weeks (depending on the coursework) in either website development, programming or data science. Students follow a structured, detailed syllabus that’s divided into focused units to organize the learning experience, which is synchronous but collaborative. To wit, users are placed in a moderated Slack group and can chat with people who are learning the same materials at the same time. They also receive unlimited access to a pool of 200 mentors who work with Codecademy, some of them “graduates” of Codecademy themselves.

Sims declines to talk about what percentage of the 45 million people who’ve taken a Codecademy course has paid the company, but he notes that the “macro trends in the market are going our way. People still need to find jobs, and tech is still an important skill to get them there.” Indeed, according to Code.org, a nonprofit that seeks to expand computer science instruction in schools, there are more than 540,000 open computing jobs. At the same time, fewer than 50,000 computer science majors graduated from school last year.

The idea, says Sims: “Lots of people use mobile phones, and we should be letting them practice whenever and wherever they want. They end doing twice as many exercises if they can learn on the subway, then pick up where they left off on the desktop later.”

How much of an accelerant the app will be remains to be seen, but certainly, Codecademy’s approach — catering to people who can’t take or aren’t interesting in expensive offline programs — seems as relevant as ever as some of its competitors fade into the distance.

“When we first started,” says Sims, “the skills gap was just making itself evident. There were tons of tech reports about tech jobs and not a lot of people to fill them. A lot of boot camps and other options emerged to fill that vacuum because, at the time, colleges weren’t equipped to handle [the knowledge gap]. Plus, student debt continued to be an issue, which made [underprivileged] students particularly ill-prepared for the workforce.”

What has changed since then is, well, not much, argues Sims. He notes that aside from a glut of hyped offerings to come and go, people still need ways to adapt to rapid-fire technological change, and with college costs as high as they’ve ever been — prices have soared upwards of 200 percent over the last 20 years — they need affordable alternatives in particular.

If Codecademy requires more capital to continue providing as much, it isn’t saying. Asked about fundraising — Codecademy has raised $42.5 million to date, including from Union Square Ventures and Naspers — Sims says it isn’t talking currently with VCs. “We’re pretty capital efficient. We still have the majority of our last round (raised in 2016) in the bank. And we’ve been able to grow pretty sustainably.

“If we see opportunities to accelerate growth down the line,” he adds, “we’ll go raise it.”

Asked if it can see a day where it works more closely with enterprise customers that want to help employees burnish their skills, he says that’s a high likelihood, too. But “so far,” he says, “we’ve seen pretty good consumer growth. It kind of comes down to how many things can you focus on.”

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/as-some-pricey-coding-camps-fade-away-codecademy-barrels-ahead-with-affordable-paid-offerings-and-a-new-mobile-app/

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As some pricey coding camps fade away, Codecademy barrels ahead with affordable paid offerings and a new mobile app

At the same time, it has become apparent that when it comes to massive open online courses, a very high percentage of students don’t stay the course.

“If we see opportunities to accelerate growth down the line,” he adds, “we’ll go raise it.”

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/as-some-pricey-coding-camps-fade-away-codecademy-barrels-ahead-with-affordable-paid-offerings-and-a-new-mobile-app/

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As some pricey coding camps fade away, Codecademy barrels ahead with affordable paid offerings and a new mobile app

At the same time, it has become apparent that when it comes to massive open online courses, a very high percentage of students don’t stay the course.

“If we see opportunities to accelerate growth down the line,” he adds, “we’ll go raise it.”

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/as-some-pricey-coding-camps-fade-away-codecademy-barrels-ahead-with-affordable-paid-offerings-and-a-new-mobile-app/

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sheminecrafts · 6 years ago

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As some pricey coding camps fade away, Codecademy barrels ahead with affordable paid offerings and a new mobile app

At the same time, it has become apparent that when it comes to massive open online courses, a very high percentage of students don’t stay the course.

New York-based Codecademy, which began offering free coding courses at its outset, has managed to keep plugging away — and grow — despite these headwinds. In fact, the company today employs 85 people, up from 45 when we last sat down with cofounder and CEO Zach Sims in 2016. Its revenue is also up 65 percent year over year.

One of these is Codecademy Pro, meant to help users learn the fundamentals of coding, as well as develop a deeper knowledge (and receive certification from Codecademy) in up to 10 areas, including machine learning and data analysis. The cost is $20 per month, money that Pro users often see back in the form of a a $5,000 to $10,000 raise from their employer, insists Sims. He says the course “isn’t so much for those who are transition to full-time jobs but people who are learning skills to level up in their existing career.”

A second offering is Codecademy Pro Intensive, which is designed to immerse learners from six to 10 weeks (depending on the coursework), in either website development, programming, or data science. Students follow a structured, detailed syllabus that’s broken into focused units to organize the learning experience, which is synchronous but collaborative. To wit, users are placed in a moderated Slack group and can chat with people who are learning the same materials at the same time. They also receive unlimited access to a pool of 200 mentors who work with Codecademy, some of them “graduates” of Codecademy themselves.

Sims declines to talk about what percentage of the 45 million people who’ve taken a Codecademy course has paid the company, but he notes that the “macro trends in the market are going our way. People still need to find jobs, and tech is still an important skill to get them there.” Indeed, according to Code.org, a nonprofit that seeks to expand computer-science instruction in schools, there are more than 540,000 open computing jobs. At the same time, fewer than 50,000 computer-science majors graduated from school last year.

The idea, says Sims: “Lots of people use mobile phones, and we should be letting them practice whenever and whereve they want. They end doing twice as many exercises if they can learn on the subway, then pick up where they left off on the desktop later.”

If Codecademy requires more capital to continue providing as much, it isn’t saying. Asked about fundraising — Codecademy has raised $42.5 million to date, including Union Square Ventures and Naspers — Sims says it isn’t talking currently with VCs. “We’re pretty capital efficient. We still have the majority of our last round (raised in 2016) in the bank. And we’ve been able to grow pretty sustainably.

“If we see opportunities to accelerate growth down the line,” he adds, “we’ll go raise it.”

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At the same time, it has become apparent that when it comes to massive open online courses, a very high percentage of students don’t stay the course.

New York-based Codeacademy, which began offering free coding courses at its outset, has managed to keep plugging away — and grow — despite these headwinds. In fact, the company today employs 85 people, up from 45 when we last sat down with cofounder and CEO Zach Sims in 2016. Its revenue is also up 65 percent year over year.

One of these is Codecademy Pro, meant to help users learn the fundamentals of coding, as well as develop a deeper knowledge (and receive certification from Codecademy) in up to 10 areas, including machine learning and data analysis. The cost is $20 per month, money that Pro users often see back in the form of a a $5,000 to $10,000 raise from their employer, insists Sims. He says the course “isn’t so much for those who are transition to full-time jobs but people who are learning skills to level up in their existing career.”

Sims declines to talk about what percentage of the 45 million people who’ve taken a Codecademy course has paid the company, but he notes that the “macro trends in the market are going our way. People still need to find jobs, and tech is still an important skill to get them there.” Indeed, according to Code.org, a nonprofit that seeks to expand computer-science instruction in schools, there are more than 540,000 open computing jobs. At the same time, fewer than 50,000 computer-science majors graduated from school last year.

Sims also stresses the importance to Codecademy of ensuring its offerings remain “free and low cost everywhere in the world.” Toward that end, the company is today rolling out its newest product, a mobile app that enables users to learn on the go, though it is accessible to paying customers only after a seven-day trial for everyone. (No credit card is required.) The idea, says Sims: “Lots of people use mobile phones, and we should be letting them practice whenever and whereve they want. They end doing twice as many exercises if they can learn on the subway, then pick up where they left off on the desktop later.”

How much of an accelerant the app will be remains to be seen, but certainly, Codeacademy’s approach — catering to people who can’t take or aren’t interesting in expensive offline programs — seems as relevant if not more as some of its competitors fade into the distance.

“When we first started,” says Sims, “the skills gap was just making itself evident. There were tons of tech reports about tech jobs and not a lot of people to fill them. A lot of boot camps and other options emerged in that vacuum because, at the time, colleges weren’t equipped to handle [the knowledge gap]. Plus, student debt continued to be an issue, which made [underprivileged] students particularly ill-prepared for the workforce.”

If Codecademy needs more capital to provide them, it isn’t saying. Asked about fundraising — Codecademy has raised $42.5 million to date, including Union Square Ventures and Naspers — Sims says it isn’t talking currently with VCs. “We’re pretty capital efficient. We still have the majority of our last round (raised in 2016) in the bank. And we’ve been able to grow pretty sustainably. If we see opportunities to accelerate growth down the line,” he adds, “we’ll go raise it.”

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thegloober · 6 years ago

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As some pricey coding camps fade away, Codecademy barrels ahead with affordable paid offerings and a new mobile app

At the same time, it has become apparent that when it comes to massive open online courses, a very high percentage of students don’t stay the course.

New York-based Codecademy, which began offering free coding courses at its outset, has managed to keep plugging away — and grow — despite these headwinds. In fact, the company today employs 85 people, up from 45 when we last sat down with cofounder and CEO Zach Sims in 2016. Its revenue is also up 65 percent year over year.

One of these is Codecademy Pro, meant to help users learn the fundamentals of coding, as well as develop a deeper knowledge (and receive certification from Codecademy) in up to 10 areas, including machine learning and data analysis. The cost is $20 per month, money that Pro users often see back in the form of a a $5,000 to $10,000 raise from their employer, insists Sims. He says the course “isn’t so much for those who are transition to full-time jobs but people who are learning skills to level up in their existing career.”

Sims declines to talk about what percentage of the 45 million people who’ve taken a Codecademy course has paid the company, but he notes that the “macro trends in the market are going our way. People still need to find jobs, and tech is still an important skill to get them there.” Indeed, according to Code.org, a nonprofit that seeks to expand computer-science instruction in schools, there are more than 540,000 open computing jobs. At the same time, fewer than 50,000 computer-science majors graduated from school last year.

“If we see opportunities to accelerate growth down the line,” he adds, “we’ll go raise it.”

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As some pricey coding camps fade away, Codecademy barrels ahead with affordable paid offerings and a new mobile app

At the same time, it has become apparent that when it comes to massive open online courses, a very high percentage of students don’t stay the course.

One of these is Codecademy Pro, meant to help users learn the fundamentals of coding, as well as develop a deeper knowledge (and receive certification from Codecademy) in up to 10 areas, including machine learning and data analysis. The cost is $20 per month, money that Pro users often see back in the form of a a $5,000 to $10,000 raise from their employer, insists Sims. He says the course “isn’t so much for those who are transition to full-time jobs but people who are learning skills to level up in their existing career.”

A second offering is Codecademy Pro Intensive, which is designed to immerse learners from six to 10 weeks (depending on the coursework), in either website development, programming, or data science. Students follow a structured, detailed syllabus that’s broken into focused units to organize the learning experience, which is synchronous but collaborative. To wit, users are placed in a moderated Slack group and can chat with people who are learning the same materials at the same time. They also receive unlimited access to a pool of 200 mentors that work with Codecademy, some of them ‘graduates” of Codecademy themselves.

Sims declines to talk about what percentage of the 45 million people who’ve taken a Codecademy course has paid the company, but he notes that the “macro trends in the market are going our way. People still need to find jobs, and tech is still an important skill to get them there.” Indeed, according to Code.org, a nonprofit that seeks to expand computer-science instruction in schools, there are more than 540,000 open computing jobs. At the same time, fewer than 50,000 computer-science majors graduated from school last year.

Sims also stresses the importance to Codecademy of ensuring its offerings remain “free and low cost everywhere in the world.” Toward that end, the company is today rolling out its newest product, a mobile app that enables users to learn on the go, though it is accessible to paying customers only after a seven-day trial for everyone. (No credit card is required.) The big idea, says Sims: “Lots of people use mobile phones, and we should be letting them practice whenever and whereve they want. They end doing twice as many exercises if they can learn on the subway, then pick up where they left off on the desktop later.”

“When we first started,” says Sims, “the skills gap was just making itself evident. There were tons of tech reports about tech jobs and not a lot of people to fill them. A lot of boot camps and other options emerged in that vacuum because, at the time, colleges weren’t equipped to handle [the knowledge gap]. Plus, student debt continued to be an issue, which made [underprivileged] students particularly ill-prepared for the workforce.”

Via Connie Loizos https://techcrunch.com

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