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Python Part B, jQuery Mobile and iOS Programming are now Instant Enrollment Courses

The relentless march of instant enrollment continues apace at CodeLesson. We’ve recently added three more instant enrollment courses to our schedule: Introduction to Programming in Python Part B (we converted Python Part A to instant enrollment last month) Developing Mobile Web Sites with jQuery Mobile Introduction to iOS Programming (our iPhone/iPad app development course) Instant [...]

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Instant Enrollment Python; Featured Deal on Python A/B

We just relaunched Introduction to Python Part A as an instant enrollment course, hooray! This means you can sign up for the course and start learning right away — no more waiting for a new session of this course to start. Python Part A joins our growing list of instant enrollment courses. We also added [...]

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Intro to JavaScript, Intro to MySQL and HTML5/CSS Are Now Instant Enrollment Courses

We’re continuing to convert our courses to our new instant enrollment format so you can get in and start learning whenever you’re ready — without having to wait for courses to start. (You can get more info on the transition here.) If you live in Madagascar and want to start learning at 4 in the morning [...]

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New: Instant Enrollment Courses on CodeLesson

One of the most common bits of feedback we’ve received since starting CodeLesson is that students don’t want to wait for weeks or months for a course to begin. While some students say they like having the structure of definite start and end dates for courses, the majority tell us that they want to start [...]

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Create Your First Web Page: A New Free CodeLesson Course

This week we officially released our newest free course, Create Your First Web Page. This course is intended for anyone who’s never coded before. In the course you’ll learn the basics of creating an HTML web page: editing markup, structuring text, creating links and adding images. That’s it. It’s a very short course intended to [...]

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How to Add a CodeLesson Course to your LinkedIn Profile

If you’ve completed a CodeLesson course, you’ll probably want the world to know that you’ve successfully accomplished the work. You can do this by listing your CodeLesson course on your LinkedIn page. Here’s how to do this. First, on LinkedIn, go to your “Edit Education” page. You’ll see a form that looks like this: In [...]

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Discounted Holiday Bundles

Occasionally we pick out two or more CodeLesson courses that seem to go together and extend discounts on those courses; we call this a bundle. (Our students call them a darn good deal.) So to commemorate whichever end o’ the year festivities you’re partial to, we’ve added a few new bundles to our list. Most [...]

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Clojure Madness!

It’s great to see strong interest in our Introduction to Clojure course, the first session of which launched this week in conjunction with the publication of Clojure in Action. Amit Rathore, the author of the book, is the instructor for this course. Amit has agreed to do another session of the course next month. The [...]

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Year-End Discounts on CodeLesson Courses

We just posted some tasty year-end discounts on some of our online, instructor-led courses. Some of these discounts will go away after the US holiday weekend (that’s November 28 for those of you who don’t celebrate Thanksgiving Classic). Here are the deets: Web Programming with PHP Parts B and C Bundle: $690. Go beyond the [...]

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Call for Volunteers: CodeLesson Computer Science Education Week

As we did last year, we will provide a free week of web-based CodeLesson learning to high school students as part of Computer Science Education Week. This session will take place on CodeLesson for five days next month (December 4-10, 2011). At this point, we’re looking for volunteers to help out with this session. We [...]

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