I believe in the BRICS proposal. For any of you who don't, if you lived in a third world country you would understand what the missed potential is all about. Latin America is somewhat integrated, but people from Brazil could do scientific exchange with Uzbekistan, or an Algerian could be a professor in Senegal. The human potential is so great, because there are a lot of people who are left out from the current state of things.
Everyone wants to go study or be a professional in Europe, but what about all the other countries? Doing the hard thing (working together to reach new heights) is difficult, but it is the only way forward. And that's what the BRICS propose.
Maybe being prey to the bald eagle of Big Tech is pushing people away from the original Internet "fever dream" (everyone will have a place and a say in the world).
I'll buy one of those Banana/Orange Pis to check RISC-V out. It seems like it could be really good, but I think the industry would have to change a lot.
I've paid for codecademy before. The tasks are too simple and too non-practical. It's common that you'll make "mad libs" and "shopping lists" that you would never use in real applications. I recommend you try other methods. Maybe trying to make a GUI or 3D application.
Springer, Nature and Elsevier seem to be on a pretty long run to me (19th century).