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+title: "Codédex Update - February 2025"
+description: Hope your year is off to a fantastic start! We're stepping into 2025 with serious momentum. Community Revamp, Notifications, Pricing page, and more.
+author: Sonny Li
+seoImageLink: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/codedex-io.appspot.com/o/blogs%2Fcodedex-update-january-2025%2Fbanner.png?alt=media&token=467179ae-0c12-45e0-917f-f66481597633
+dateCreated: 2025-03-16
+published: true
+tags:
+  - Product
+  - Changelog
+---
+
+“If you build it, they will (eventually) come.”
+
+February may have been just 28 days, but it was a record-breaking month on all fronts.
+
+229,000 unique visitors came to our site last month. 🤯 
+
+Between fundraising and keeping the site running (scaling up servers and juggling API limits & AI credits), it’s been a whirlwind. I’ll keep this intro short – read on.
+
+#### Code Evaluation (Beta)
+
+![Community Page](https://i.imgur.com/JQLi0MJ.gif)
+
+Code validation is a core feature that you all have been asking for, and it’s highly requested by users. The traditional approach would take months, possibly a year, to retroactively add regex tests and output functions across the existing catalog.
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/community" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">Visit Community</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### Project Showcase
+
+![Notifications](https://i.imgur.com/5RmurjE.gif)
+
+We redesigned our Project Showcase to feel more like a showcase (switched to a gallery-style presentation that emphasized each project’s cover image while making it clear how to filter by project tags). Added Staff Picks, too!
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/home" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Notifications</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### 🏆 Leaderboards: Weekly vs. All Time
+
+![Pricing page](https://i.imgur.com/Ei9ZG83.png)
+
+Leaderboards is an entirely new addition to our on-platform community! Now, you can see who has earned the most XP (gained by completing exercises and code challenges) to create more friendly competition. We’re in the business of motivation.
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/pricing" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">View Pricing Page</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### Community Redesign
+
+![Top Programming Languages to Learn in 2025](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/codedex-io.appspot.com/o/blogs%2Ftop-programming-languages-to-learn-in-2025%2Fbanner.png?alt=media&token=9ff4a020-aac0-4896-a515-0f966fb4e1c7)
+
+The programming landscape is always evolving. Here are Ellie's top programming languages recs based on your interests and career goals (web dev, mobile dev, AI, machine learning, game dev, data science, etc). If you are not sure where to start, then this is a must-read~
+
+<div style={{ display: "flex", justifyContent: "center", marginBottom: "1.2rem", transform: "scale(.9)" }}>
+  <a href="https://www.codedex.io/blog/top-programming-languages-to-learn-in-2025" style={{ all: "unset" }} target="_blank" and rel="noopener noreferrer"><Button variant="yellow">Read Blog Post</Button></a>
+</div>
+
+#### Changelog - February 2025
+
+**Curriculum**
+
+- 🦠 Released [Node.js](https://www.codedex.io/nodejs) course.
+- ☕️ Published [Java Ch. 6: Methods](https://www.codedex.io/java).
+- ☕️ Published Java Bonus Article: ArrayLists.
+- ☕️ Published Java Checkpoint Projects (3).
+- 🔥 We welcomed [Julien Kris](https://www.codedex.io/@Julien) (Sr. Curriculum Dev) to full-time role. Go follow him!
+- 👋 Onboarded [Alex Kuntz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-kuntz-09) as a freelancer for Data Structures & Algorithms.
+
+**Product**
+
+- ✅ Shipped Code Evaluation for Python Ch 1-4.
+- 🤖 Shipped “Infinite Course” feature for SQL, C++, and Java courses.
+- 🖼️ Shipped new [Project Showcase](https://www.codedex.io/community/project-showcase).
+- 🌐 Shipped Builds Sharing with logo watermark to improve viral coefficient.
+- 🏆 Shipped [Leaderboards](https://www.codedex.io/community/leaderboards): Weekly vs. All Time.
+- 📣 Sent a team announcement via notifications.
+- 🧪 3 Codédex Club experiments.
+- 🧹 Shipped 54 papercuts + fixed 35 bug reports.
+
+**Community**
+
+- 🔥 Completed Roast My Resume February Monthly Challenge. 161 resumes!
+- 🎧 Released Boba Talk podcast ep. #10 with Jovanay (ex-Google recruiter).
+- 📰 Published three blog posts:
+  - Community Redesign by Jackie.
+  - A Day in the Life of a SWE by Asiqur.
+  - Codédex Update - January 2025 by me.
+- 💻 Hosted a Node.js workshop.
+- 👋 Onboarded new Discord mod: Valérie.
+
+View our Weekly Changelogs [here](https://x.com/search?q=codedexchangelog&src=typed_query&f=live).
+
+#### What’s happening in March?
+
+- 📝 Publish Data Structures & Algorithms Ch 1-2.
+- 📝 Publish Node.js Ch 2.
+- 📝 Publish two project tutorials.
+- 🐣 Revamp #30NitesOfCode.
+- 🗓️ Ship /Events page.
+- 📰 Revamp /Blog.
+- 🗳️ Ship Checkpoint/Final Project submission flow.
+- 🏡 Host Guest Speaker: Jenn Schiffer (ex-Glitch).
+- 🎧 Publish Boba Talk podcast ep. #11.
+- 🪴 Drop March Monthly Challenge: Virtual Garden.
+- 🤳 Kick off UGC Creator Program cohort 2.
+- 🤝 Kick off the new partnership with GitHub.
+- 🧪 3 more Club experiments.
+
+#### Final Thoughts
+
+Huge kudos to the Codédex team for an insane February. 🫰 
+
+As always, my email is sonny@codedex.io if you have any feedback on the product.
+
+Sonny