When comparing Stack Overflow vs Codecademy, the Slant community recommends Stack Overflow for most people. In the question“What are the best resources to learn git?” Stack Overflow is ranked 4th while Codecademy is ranked 12th.
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Pros
Pro Real-life examples
Pro Learning on Git can build industry reputation
Many employers consider Stack Overflow reputation to be an authoritative or semi-authoritative source about the quality of a person's coding. Learning Git with Stack Overflow can help with learning Stack Overflow processes and best practices which could help land a programming job once you're ready to start answering question and really begin racking up enough points to get the prizes...
Pro Interactivity
Right from the start, users write code. They start small in an environment that has constant feedback and gradually progress to more complex concepts. Users can see code results instantly, giving great feedback.
Pro Excellent progression
Codeacademy doesn't overwhelm beginners with information. It gives bite-sized information, the bare minimum needed to finish a task and get to the next one. As the course progresses, it slowly fills in background information.
Pro Good editor
Codeacademy has a powerful, beginner-friendly integrated development environment (IDE) that can also be used outside of curriculum.
Pro Bite-sized lessons
Each lesson in code-academy focuses on a single concept, and repetition is provided to drill the concept.
Pro Mostly free content & best progression series for beginners
Pro Community forums
It has forums which can be used to discuss with other learners
Cons
Con Not always beginner friendly
As a resource for learning Git, Stack Overflow can sometimes have a habit of presenting complex answers to simple questions and vice verse, and is no substitute for properly curated and differentiated tutorial content.
Con Not the best structure for quick refreshers
The content of the lessons is aimed very much at people just starting to learn how to code. This is perfect for beginners but if you want to use Codecademy to refresh your knowledge the lessons are not designed to be quickly done.
Con Lack of context
Codecademy is great for providing a hands-on approach, but there is a lack of context regarding how to start a project in real life. While users may learn how to code using Codecademy's interface, they may not have any idea how to code independently.
Con Sticks to pretty basic
Con Deleted a lot of content
A lot of free content has been taken away, for example the PHP course was removed from the site.
Con Buggy
Codecademy is known to have many bugs which interfere with the editor, resulting in error messages despite having the correct answer.
Con Allows infinite loops to run
If you run an infinite loop, the browser freezes. Many other similar websites will give you an error, preventing the loop from running. Though not a bug, the lack of feature to stop infinite loops from running can be quite frustrating to beginners.