Learn to code with a creature who learns with you.
GotchiCode turns backend & DevOps into a game. Play real challenges, earn XP, and raise your Gotchi, the companion you name on day one, from a curious blob to a mythic Archmage.
Why GotchiCode
Learn by playing
Write real, tested code in the browser from lesson one. You'll be playing before you could have finished installing an IDE.
Your Gotchi companion
A code-creature you name and raise. It asks the right questions while you work, and it never spoils the answer.
Earn XP & evolve
Every challenge feeds your XP. Climb the ranks and watch your companion evolve through the tiers.
Real, tested code
Submissions run against a real test suite in a sandbox. If it passes here, you actually get it.
Which egg is yours?
Your Gotchi hatches when you start and evolves as your XP grows, through ten ranks of companion.
Mossling
No. 01A plush forest critter with a living sprout. Light, bouncy and all ears.
Emberling
No. 02A chunky hatchling dragon. Heavy landings, flappy wings, a tail with opinions.
Glimmer
No. 03A soft-body axolotl spirit. Wobbly, glowing, and made of jelly.
A little toy that lives between lessons.
Your Gotchi also rides along on a keychain handheld. Feed it, play, turn the lights out at bedtime and check on its stats, the way a pocket pet should.
- A picks an icon
- B does it
- C backs out
go on, the buttons work.
Choose your path
Pick backend, DevOps, Windows admin, or game building. Each path lines up its courses in the order you’ll actually need them on the job.
Backend Engineer
Go from your first line of Python to designing the data structures behind real services, with guided projects to cement each stage. The foundation for every server-side role.
DevOps Engineer
Automate everything. Start with Python fundamentals, master the text-processing skills that power the command line and CI pipelines, then keep every change safe in version control.
Arcade Game Builder
Learn JavaScript, then build four real arcade cabinets: gravity and hitboxes, 2D vectors, a marching alien army, and a merge puzzle. Each one is playable on the arcade floor the moment you finish its course.
Windows Administrator
The command line that runs the world's offices. Learn PowerShell from your first command to real scripting and automation, keep your work safe in version control, then learn how Windows itself works: users, services, the registry, event logs, networking and updates.
Systems Architect
The ground beneath the cloud. Amazon's own free training teaches AWS itself best, so it is part of this path: two milestone courses send you to aws.amazon.com/training at exactly the right moments, while GotchiCode teaches everything Amazon assumes you already know: networking, Linux administration, architecture principles, Terraform, containers and Kubernetes, and security. Finish ready for the Solutions Architect certification.- Month 1
Foundations
Syntax, variables, and control flow: your first working programs.
- Month 5
Data & logic
Lists, dicts, and the patterns every service is built on.
- Month 9
Build real things
Guided projects you can actually run and show off.
- Month 12
Get hired
Portfolio polish and the path to your first backend role.
There’s an egg in here with your name on it.
Start the demo free: the first four chapters of Python and JavaScript are fully playable.