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Content is good and basic, but not much information to guide you through

Very engaging, well roundeed lesson

This is by far the best programming learning website, with interactive practicals, games in depth explaining and professional guidance/support. COULD NOT BE BETTER!!!!

It’s not very engaging material. I signed up two of my children. They have been getting charge for the last year but haven’t been using it. I thought I had downgraded their accounts. There’s no warning when they will charge you again. I just received an alert from my credit card company. Please be aware that their refund policy is illegal. They will charge you and not prorate your subscription. I think this is all shady practice. I have sent request for them to contact me but I have not received any contact yet. I was charged today and I’m asking for a refund now. I doubt they will give it to me.

It's really not a bad place to get *started* learning some programming skills. The formula is good. They teach you a few concepts per section with hands-on exercises, you get to see with your own two eyes what each piece of code does, and you build up to a small project per section where you apply the skills you learn. They have strong tendencies to throw in tangential topics that don't fit, and teach you outdated inefficient methods. But altogether it's a very very good way to get started. Once you get going though you can see where they started to lose interest. I was working my way through their Python curriculum and was feeling good about it until I got to the object oriented programming lessons. They clearly started phoning it in once the material got harder. The lessons were confusing. They abandoned the whole exercise and working up to a project approach. They used pointless circular explanations of terms and concepts. So I did what you're intended to do, I reached out to their support community of staff experts to try and voice some feedback and get some clarity. These people were wildly uninterested in helping anyone or facing the facts that their material was weak, confusing, and that they had several years worth of evidence in the form of people voicing exactly what I was saying in their forums to prove that it was inadequate. They're very committed to the cardinal sin of teaching anything tech and that's assuming that if it's clear to someone with 10 years experience then it must be clear to everyone. I got occasional bits of help mixed in with snarky dismissive comments from their staff and mostly just got told to go look it up over and over. Things got contentious enough that I got the ear of one of their moderators and spent a pretty significant amount of time detailing example after example of where the OOP course was failing, and how the forum staff were exacerbating the problem. I must have made at least a little bit of sense because they completely redesigned that whole portion of the program and made it significantly better following the feedback I had given them. I never especially received a thank you or any real acknowledgement that they had conceded that what I was telling them was accurate. I honestly did appreciate that they eventually listened to me, but the way they handled it seemed like theyt genuinely begrudged having to be shown the receipts by a user. The whole thing took a ton of time and really killed my momentum, so I wanted to put my membership on pause for a bit. I tried cancelling my membership and found out that they had just been auto-renewing and billing without any notice. I tried opening ticket after ticket to get someone to actually cancel my membership and to my astonishment they just ignored it for weeks. I did the only thing I could do and started posting about it on their forums and Discord asking why they were ghosting me and stealing my money. That was the one and only thing that moved the needle. I got a forum moderator... not anyone remotely related to billing to relay a message to me that my membership would be cancelled and my most recent charges would be refunded. Altogether it's an ok start for a total beginner, but if you want to get anything out of it you're going to have to constantly be holding their feet to the fire to get honest or productive answers. And I absolutely can't deal with any company that plays "nobody's home" when you ask about a billing problem or try to cancel.