By Meghan Murphy, 2013-01-09, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn` Codecademy has expanded its curriculums to include new lessons on APIs such as Twilio SMS and Twilio Voice, empowering developers with skills like user login, text messaging, YouTube video embedding, and more. The platform now offers over 450,000 users a chance to learn programming basics, including those who joined the "Code Year" challenge in 2012. New API partners include Bit.ly, NPR, Parse, Placekitten, SendGrid, SoundCloud, Stripe, Sunlight Labs, and YouTube, allowing developers to build various applications with these tools.