There are now several discount voucher websites, offering codes for free delivery or money off.
Facebook has been more successful in offering coding assistance to Summit, a chain of charter schools in the Palo Alto area; this year, Summit's free software, called the Personalized Learning Plan, has been introduced in nineteen pilot schools nationwide.
Intel is also trying to dabble in this market and is adapting its Celeron chip in a new offering code-named Timna, which will target mobile PCs and low-cost machines and will be introduced some time in September 2000 with a 667-MHz clock speed.
The idea, says Lo, is to offer customized, modular, practical learning for developers — hence the app also has a course offering coding interview tips.
The courses on offer deliberately eschew teaching coding skills to avoid overlapping with other education initiatives, according to Grech, who pointed out there are already several players offering coding courses.
They've also tried offering promo code incentives --20% off$50 or $24 or $200 off a fare if you book directly using a promo code (used often by Frontier Airlines and Spirit, but even Qatar, Air New Zealand, JetBlue, and others).
The documentary points out that much of the Internet's early growth was aided by programmers offering free code.
After all, Wickr is a business, and it's easy to see how offering up code for free could cut into the company's profit.
For Techcrunch readers interested in trying out the service, the co-founders are offering a code which can be redeemed for a 40percentt discount on all plans for the first 2 months.
The first beta became playable on 23 September 2008, when gaming website Eurogamer began offering beta codes to its members on the same date, with a total of 5,800 codes available; the website quickly buckled under the influx of visitors, with many unable to load the site.
