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Four ways to learn to code, and what each one leaves out.

Every route can teach you something. The differences are in who reads your code, whether the course knows what you already know, and whether anything brings a concept back before you forget it.

Criterion	Regradia	Video courses	Bootcamp	Human tutor	Chat with an AI
Price	US$24.99 / month	$20–50 / month	$10,000+	$40–80 / hour	$0–20 / month
Starts where you are	Graded placement task	No	Fixed cohort	Yes	No
Writes the code with you	Yes	Watch, then copy	Yes	Yes	If you ask
Reviews your code line by line	Yes	No	In office hours	Yes	If you paste it
Tracks every concept you learned	Yes	Progress bar	No	In their head	No
Brings concepts back so they stick	Day 3, 7 and 18, with a memory model	Quizzes	No	No	No
Fits around your week	Any time, any length	Yes	Full time	Booked slots	Yes
Knows what you got wrong last time	Yes	No	If they remember	Yes	Within one chat

Prices are typical ranges in 2026 for each route in the United States. Regradia's price is after a 7-day free trial.

Regradia vs video courses

Pick video courses when: You want a broad overview of a tool at your own pace, and you learn well by watching.
What it leaves out: Nobody reads your code, the course does not know what you already know, and most of it fades within weeks because nothing brings it back.
What Regradia does instead: Regradia asks you to write the code, reviews it, and schedules each concept for review on day 3, 7 and 18 so what you learn stays learned.

Regradia vs coding bootcamps

Pick coding bootcamps when: You can stop working for three months, want a cohort around you, and need career services.
What it leaves out: The cost runs to five figures, the schedule is fixed, and the pace is the cohort's pace rather than yours.
What Regradia does instead: Regradia costs less than a bootcamp lunch budget, starts you where the placement task puts you, and runs at the pace you set in minutes a day.

Regradia vs a human tutor

Pick a human tutor when: You want a person who knows you, for a specific goal with a deadline, and the budget for it.
What it leaves out: An hour a week is all most people can afford, the tutor is not there when you get stuck on a Tuesday night, and the notes live in their head.
What Regradia does instead: Regradia is there every time you sit down, keeps every session and concept in your knowledge bank, and costs about a third of one tutoring hour a month.

Regradia vs chatting with an AI

Pick chatting with an AI when: You already know what to learn and just want answers while you work.
What it leaves out: A chat has no curriculum, no memory of last week, and no reason to make you write anything. It answers; it does not teach, and it does not check.
What Regradia does instead: Regradia's tutor follows a pathway, grades what you show, adapts your roadmap, and brings concepts back on a schedule. The AI is the teacher, not the search box.

Try the tutor on a concept you half know.

Seven days free. The placement task starts you past what you already know, and the first review lands three days later.

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