FEATURES

Why Taking Notes During Tutorials Isn't Helping You Learn

Active Learning, Not Passive Note-Taking

Taking notes might seem productive, but it only offers a false sense of progress. Our platform pushes you to engage with the material actively—transforming knowledge into actual coding ability.

Instant Feedback

Forget static notes—get immediate insights into your code. Our real-time feedback ensures you quickly learn from mistakes and understand what truly works.

Hands-On Practice

Experience the proven benefits of learning by doing. Our guided coding challenges build muscle memory—delivering the skills that mere note-taking can’t achieve.

Practical Problem-Solving

Active problem solving trumps rote note-taking every time. Tackle real-world challenges that enhance your critical thinking and prepare you for any coding task.

Learn in Your Preferred Language

Whether you're coding in JavaScript, Python, Java, or C++, our interactive exercises let you practice in the language you love – ensuring you truly grasp the concepts beyond just written notes.

Proven Results

Our interactive approach delivers measurable improvements. Stop accumulating notes that gather dust and start seeing tangible progress in your coding journey.

OUR MISSION

Stop Passive Note-Taking, Start Active Learning

We've discovered that traditional note-taking during tutorials often leaves you unprepared for real coding challenges. At AlgoCademy, we’ve revolutionized learning by demanding active participation—ensuring you build genuine coding skills through hands-on practice.

Is AlgoCademy right for you? Simply put, we’re for you if...

You've taken extensive notes during tutorials, yet struggle to write code independently.

Your notebooks overflow with theories that never translate into real-world coding confidence.

Passive note-taking leaves you unprepared for the challenges of actual programming.

You're ready to replace the illusion of progress with a proven, active approach to learning.

You want a learning method that turns theory into real practice and measurable coding skills.

“After going through all the lessons, I gained the necessary skills to perform well at my on-sites. I crushed even the DP problems, which were my biggest fear. And thanks to that I landed offers from Microsoft and Uber. Thank you AlgoCademy!”

Cristina Radulescu

Senior Software Engineer at Uber

“AlgoCademy really helped me improve my problem solving skills and write incredibly clean code. I was worried it wouldn’t be done in time for my coding interviews, but the way the curriculum is structured made me progress very quickly. Thanks for your work!”

Connor Holland

Software Engineer at Vanguard

“Wow. I’ve been using AlgoCademy for a while and now I can finally solve coding questions on my own. This gave me the confidence I needed for my interviews, and guess what? I landed the offer at Samsung! You guys truly kick ass. High fives!”

Ankit Kumar

Software Engineer at Samsung

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of the surveyed Graduates have added between $10,000 and $50,000 to their salary

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of our Students say they’d recommend AlgoCademy to their friends

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of our Students are confident that AlgoCademy will help them advance in their careers

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of our Graduates enjoy their work more after joining AlgoCademy

THE TEAM

Meet Your Instructors

You’ll learn how to code from instructors with over 20 years of combined experience in professional, competitive, and educational settings. They’ll teach you the algorithms to know for coding interviews and help you establish a clear approach to problem-solving.

Andrei Chiriac

Software Engineer & Instructor

Andrei has represented Romania in many international competitive programming contests. His highest achievement to date is winning the bronze medal at the Central European Olympiad in Informatics.

Andrei has also worked for Amazon and Keystone. Since 2015, he’s been training students for the International Olympiad and preparing aspiring engineers to crush their coding interviews.

Fun fact: Andrei has a YouTube Channel and had the highest-rated course on Udemy before AlgoCademy was born.

Mircea Dima

Founder & CEO/CTO

Mircea has worked as a Software Engineer at companies including Facebook, Adobe, Ubisoft, and two NYC startups.

He has built many innovative products using algorithms and data structures, such as Autocorrect and Swipe Typing for the iOS keyboard, Music Recommendation Engine, and Real-Time Optimal Exchange Algorithm. Mircea has been a coding interview and competitive programming coach for over a decade.

Fun fact: Mircea has written a peer reviewed Scientific Paper on Algorithms.

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DIFFERENTIATORS

What sets AlgoCademy apart?

Unlike our competitors, AlgoCademy offers the most comprehensive, high-quality interactive coding platform, allowing students to see, step-by-step, what’s going right (and wrong) in their code, focused on the questions we know you’ll get asked in technical interviews. We’ll teach you how to write clean code using video instructions and interactive validators that check for quality.

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COMMUNITY

A Thriving, Supportive Community of Peers

Our community is the heart of AlgoCademy. Here, you can get answers to all of your questions, ask for feedback, gain support from your peers, and get to know other like-minded programmers. It’s a great way to build your own community and learn from each other in the process.

We may be biased, but we happen to think our members are amazing. They boast a wide range of skills and expertise, and they make the AlgoCademy the amazing, 24/7 resource it is.

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SUPPORT

Frequently Asked Questions

So, you have questions? Let us try to answer those for you...

Why aren’t my notes helping me learn?

Passive note-taking often creates an illusion of understanding while failing to build the real problem-solving skills needed for coding. Our interactive lessons actively engage you so that you learn by doing.

I've never studied Computer Science. Is AlgoCademy beginner friendly?

Beginners welcome! While we do assume a very basic general understanding of how computers store variables and loops, you don’t have to worry about anything else. You’ll learn the rest here. It’s also going to be easier than you think!

The original inspiration for AlgoCademy came from helping a friend who quit his job as a singer to follow his dream. We’ve always had beginners and self-taught programmers in mind (as well as CS majors) while building our content. We can meet you on your level and take you from there!

Is all of the content available straight away or is it time-released (drip fed)?

No drip-feeding here! You get access to everything inside AlgoCademy right away. Jump in and start making use of the training without having to wait for something to be released to you. We also regularly update and add new material, so your content library will continue to grow alongside your knowledge.

What languages do I need to know?

You do not need to know any specific language to benefit from our lessons. Our explanations focus mostly on core intuition and pseudocode so that every coder out there, no matter the language, will understand everything.

Why should I switch from passive note-taking to interactive learning today?

Every day spent on passive note-taking is a missed opportunity to build genuine coding skills. Our approach turns theory into practice, giving you immediate feedback and real-world experience that accelerates your learning.

Is it really worth the money?

The average base salary of a software engineer is $110,464, according to Indeed, and the average total compensation for FAANG companies is over $250k, according to levels.fyi.

The better you perform in your interview, the more desirable you become, therefore giving you the power to negotiate compensation. You’ll also get to work at your dream job every day alongside top-tier software engineers. It’s hard to put a number on all of that, but we think it’s worth it.

Do you offer refunds?

We don't offer refunds under any circumstance. You can try out our free coding tutorials before deciding to subscribe.

What happens if I decide to cancel my membership?

Obviously, we’d love it if all of our members stuck around forever. We’ve worked with students for long enough to know that it’s never going to happen. If we’ve done our job right, we should be saying goodbye to our students as they go off to start their new careers.

If you decide to cancel, we’ll miss you, but we make the process easy. You can cancel with 2 clicks of a mouse.

If there's anything at all that you're not certain about, anything we haven't made clear, or you have any concerns or questions, please contact us at email address.We’re happy to help you out!