Yes it is Angular 1.x and as we all know the world is not static. It's fair to say that learning Angular 1.x is still probably a valuable skill. I do think that abstracting away nuances of JS is actually important in facilitating learning, but I could see how that might hamper your ability to apply this learning to the real world.
Do you think that the concealing of complexity is harmful in the long run? I certainly don't. I think there will be some shock when you try to go straight from codeacademy to the real world, but it's probably less of a shock than going from 0 to real world coding.
In the long run, I can easily see codeacademy building a suite of courses that get progressively less and less "magical" until there are no longer any training wheels. That's going to be quite compelling if they can make it work.
Full disclosure: Terminal powers codeacademy's production and staging workloads.
Do you think that the concealing of complexity is harmful in the long run? I certainly don't. I think there will be some shock when you try to go straight from codeacademy to the real world, but it's probably less of a shock than going from 0 to real world coding.
In the long run, I can easily see codeacademy building a suite of courses that get progressively less and less "magical" until there are no longer any training wheels. That's going to be quite compelling if they can make it work.
Full disclosure: Terminal powers codeacademy's production and staging workloads.