After doing that for the umpteenth time, Diane, too, was losing her mind and went back to her JavaScript course for some light relief.
Sixteen hours after I stood onstage talking about how codeX addresses the Pitch brief for a social enterprise that tackles youth unemployment and empowerment, I'm watching Lindani Pani, one of the coders from our codeX pilot, mentor a group of young would-be coders through the Javascript course on Codecademy.
It offers 12 free courses, including JavaScript, Swift, Python, C++, and HTML/CSS.
From there you can take more advanced courses on JavaScript and jQuery, Python, Ruby on Rails, and more.
A course on Javascript functions by USV partner Albert Wenger, which will be available here shortly.
In addition to Javascript, which Codecademy already offers courses in, the interactive coding console allows you to program in both Python and Ruby as a way to practice languages and implement curriculum you may have learned elsewhere.
But it also has a free course on the JavaScript library jQuery that claims to include "just enough" JavaScript to get started working with jQuery right away.
Currently, there are courses for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, C++ and SQL, plus introductory programming courses for those who are new to coding altogether.
Its courses cover things like JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Ruby, iOS and Git, and are combined with screencasts where you learn to put the technologies to work.
The semester-long course covers HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
