April 2026 Update

Our goal with Pickcode has always been to provide a reliable and lasting service for teachers. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we reached two important milestones in April: We reached 40,000 registered users, and we’ve signed our first contract with a customer that extends into the 2030s! (2031, to be exact)

In a project’s share menu, you can now select that “Anyone with link” can either “View Code” or “View Output” of your program. When you send them the link, they can run your code without creating an account.

Markdown table support

In your instructions.md file, you can now write code for showing a table and it will display in your students’ instructions view. Learn more about markdown table syntax here.

Embedding lessons (Beta)

We’ve added a feature (currently in beta) for iframing Pickcode lessons in other sites. When you embed a lesson in another site, anyone can start work on the lesson without creating an account. If you’re interested in trying this out, email support@pickcode.io and we can enable this feature for you.

Our Youtube channel has a lot of videos that can help students to prepare for the AP CSA exam, and we plan to upload several more this month.

Other fixes and improvements

Add button for students to mark their work as done from within the editor
Add button on an assignment’s card that copies a link to the assignment that you can put on your LMS for students
Show checkmarks on the student's homescreen for lessons that they’ve marked as done
Sort main files in the code running menu by folder and name
Fix issue where an extra line was added at the bottom of markdown code blocks
Fix issue with running C++ programs in the lesson editor
Fix issue with folder names containing slashes
Fix issue seeing class names for students in many classes
Allow for previewing SVG files in the editor

Upcoming roadmap

Here’s what we’re planning for to work on for the next few months:

Importing CSAwesome exercises (they’ll be free for everyone!)
Improve the login system to reduce errors and allow users to stay logged in for longer
Allow teachers to share the lessons they’ve created with the community

May 2026 Update

It’s almost the end of the school year! AP exams are over, graduation ceremonies are happening, and summer is around the corner. Here's what we've been up to this month: Python 3.14 We’ve upgraded the Python version for our code runners to 3.

March 2026 Update

So far, 2026 has been a great year for Pickcode. We’ve had 9,000 teachers and students sign up for the platform and users have run code over 1.5 million times! As always, our goal is to create a reliable and lasting resource for the CS teaching community.

February 2026 Update

In January, we mentioned we’ve been shoveling snow and watching the Patriots. The Patriots are finished, but the snow isn’t. Regardless, we’ve been hard at work improving Pickcode. In February, we added a few nice features to Pickcode Classroom while we continue working towards bigger goals for

January 2026 Update

Happy new year! Between shoveling snow and watching the Patriots (we’re based in Cambridge, MA), we’ve been hard at work improving Pickcode. This month we were mainly focused on bug fixes and minor improvements, and we’ll be working on bigger initiatives later on in the spring. If

Improved Python/Java sharing