Skillsoft To Acquire Codecademy For $525 Million 6
theodp writes: Online coding lesson purveyor Codecademy, the 2011 YCombinator graduate which arguably kicked off the "Everyone Should Learn to Code" movement with a New Year's 2012 endorsement from then NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg that went viral, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Skillsoft for approximately $525 million in cash and stock (SEC 8-K filing). "Like Codecademy," explained Codecademy CEO Zach Sims, "Skillsoft believes in a world where every person and every team has the opportunity to realize their full potential through learning, and together we will continue building that world." According to Crunchbase, Codecademy had raised a total of $87.5 million in funding.
Codeacademy CEO, yesterday just after the meeting (Score:2)
"Bingo! suckers..."
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Just expect the AI code assistant features deployment to be accelerated everywhere....
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More like everyone in the management team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
"Everyone should learn to code" says it all (Score:3)
This is why 97% of all software is shit. People are coding who have no business doing it. Programming is in large part a set of innate talents, organizational skills, the ability to think like the machine. Not everyone has these talents, and most who learn them turn out like most who pick up a foreign language as an adult: good enough to travel or do business, but not like a native. Curriculum should be available to everyone, but shouldn't be pushed on anyone for whom it's not a good fit.
Of course these days most "coding" is just pulling in a bunch of Python libraries and slapping a GUI on them, so...
everybody should be a cardiologist (Score:1)