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Literacy 2.0: Thousands Resolve to Learn Code in 2012


If 2012 is the year you have resolved to lose weight, learn French and become a computer programmer there is a startup company offering to help you with the last of those resolutions.

Today, Codeacademy released the first of its weekly coding lessons to the 272,341 people who have signed up for its Code Year program. Users who sign up on the site will receive weekly programming lessons that will help them learn the popular coding language JavaScript. The curriculum approach is new for Codeacademy, which started with a simple set of lessons last summer and has since developed a buzz and attracted venture capital.

According to Mashable.com, Code Year signed up 97,000 students in less than 48 hours–more than twice as many students as were enrolled in the 150 U.S. computer science undergraduate programs that the Computer Research Association surveyed last year.

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