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Haha, I suppose that's just a matter of chance... When I was originally learning how to code, we still had the dial-up modem, so I suspect that course websites like this one weren't around yet... =P

Frankly, it's a good website for absolute beginners, but that is all these courses can offer. Even if you finish all the courses on this website, you will have learnt the (basic) vocabulary and semantics of the offered languages / frameworks, but you'll have no experience with unsupervised coding. Since unsupervised coding is what you'll be doing later when you try to apply your coding skill, this might pose notable disadvantage when compared to people who were learning from the documentation and stack overflow since the very beginning. By the way, I wholeheartedly recommend Stack Overflow, in case you're not familiar with it... =)

EDIT: By the way, I noticed that both the projects and the quizzes on Codeacademy.com require some pro account, so only the courses themselves are free at this point... Oh well, still a decent way to start. =)