Hi,
this is less of a bug report than a general ventilation of frustration. (I have posted this in the ‘bug report’ section as well, so feel free to delete one or the other if the category isn’t fitting)
So I have been doing the Back-End Engineer Career Path for a couple of weeks and now that I am about 25% into it, I think that I can confidently say that this is by far the worst course I have taken on Codecademy.
It seems incredibly unstructured as I have come across multiple lessons that I have already seen in that same path (keyword ‘REST APIs’) and it’s very confusing. Just now I have finished Module 10’s ‘REST Resource naming guide’ and clicked on ‘NEXT’ just to be directed to module 8’s ‘Introduction: JavaScript syntax part III’ - seems like even the developers who wrote this path were confused as to where they are and what they have already put in there…
The next thing that bothers me is that the path, so far, consists of one ‘external article’ after another for many, many lessons. I have had days where I have not read anything on Codecademy other than the short introduction to the ‘external article’ I am about to read. I did not sign up and pay for your content just to be redirected to stuff other people wrote! Especially when those ‘external articles’ are, more often than not, incredibly poorly written. Many have plain spelling and syntax errors, some are very long and talk about stuff that has nothing to do with the original syllabus, some don’t explain very well and with most of them, I just ask myself ‘Why am I reading this?’ Didn’t I pay Codecademy to break these concepts down for me, to tailor them to the syllabus so that I learn about the things that actually matter and not the trillions of other little things that surround the stuff that matters? If I wanted to read poorly written article after poorly written article, I wouls simply have done a quick google search instead…
I have been on Codecademy for almost two years now and I must say that the quality has seemd to decrease as much as the quantity increased. The thing is, quantity I can stumble upon for free in every corner of the internet, but quality is hard to find and until now I was happy to pay for the kind of quality content that Codecademy has provided. More and more, however, I get the feeling that these days are over.