New Partnership: Learn to Dwolla with Codecademy

Developers are the 21st-century carpenters…or so they say. It’s been argued many times before that the best thing a person can do right now is learn how to code. Coding can be applied to almost any field and industry, any job and any position.

Well, good news. The folks over at Codecademy took it upon themselves to make sure learning how to code is easier than ever. What’s even more cool? Alongside other great API providers, like Twilio, Sendgrid, and Stripe, we’ve teamed up with Codecademy and designed a new simple way to teach you how to use Dwolla’s API. If you’re just getting started, you might be wondering what an API is. Well, in short: an API is a way for you to interact with our products and services programmatically (read: using code). The possibilities are endless. For example, Dylan Staley used our API to create an app that automatically puts a chunk of money away every-so-often, until you can buy that cool new gadget you’ve been wanting.

In honor of this announcement, we’d like to issue a challenge: build a Dwolla hack that impresses us, and we’ll reward you with some Dwolla bills and feature it in DwollaLabs. Here are some ideas to get you started:

So lets recap: Learn to code. Learn to use Dwolla’s API. Build a Dwolla hack, move money, make money, be happy. We’re only 2 months into the new year. If you too made a new-years resolution to learn how to code – now would be a great time to start. Checkout our API course on Codecademy.com.