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I'm don't think I agree with this, I've been giving Codecademy a try recently to learn Python. I don't feel like I am any closer to actually building anything useful because all it has taught me is some syntax. I think the issue is because I already know just enough (from taking a course on C) to know how to solve the problems they give, but don't really know how to extend it to actually make something useful.

If I knew nothing about programming then I would find the basics of coding that Codecademy teaches to be useful as it is a different way of problem solving that needs to be learned.