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Three days ago I wrote about Codecademy, slick, fun way to teach yourself how to program. The application did an excellent job of minimizing frustration, often associated with writing your first line of code, and it sports a beautiful and intuitive interface. Another plus: the original registration flow does not appear til you have completed your first few lessons, so that you are writing code within a few seconds before landing at the Codecademy.com.
I'm not the only one who liked it: co-founder of Sims, Zach tells us that during the three days since the start of the application, it takes 200 000 unique users. This is the users who actually interacted with the application, not those people who have Web pages and bounced off a second later. Perhaps even more impressive: users have completed the total number of exercises 2.1 mln.
Sims also said that the company is actually part of the latest batch of Y Combinator (not disclosed). Given that the team just started work on a project about two weeks ago, it sounds like they changed their ideas at the end of the program (they are not the first to see success with last-minute switch was the founder of Greplin Daniel Gross made the company the day before demo day and later landed $ 4 million from Sequoia).
Sims said that the pace of growth remained strong, largely attributable not to the press, but personal users share on Twitter and Facebook (you are the icons as you complete the lessons).
For more information about this site see our initial launch coverage right here.
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