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How is zuzu.codes different from freeCodeCamp or Codecademy?

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Day 2 · ~11 min●

This week you'll write five tiny functions that each talk to Gmail — one new verb every day. By Friday, your code counts, fetches, searches, drafts, and sends real messages inside your own inbox.

Five functions in one week sounds like a lot. Does each lesson stand on its own, or do I have to remember every prior one to make the next work?

Each lesson covers one verb in isolation. Day 3 counts, Day 4 fetches by id, Day 5 searches, Day 6 drafts, Day 7 sends. You'll see the same three-line skeleton every time — call the action, pull the field you want, return it — so the pattern is already in your hands before you start composing.

And everything runs against my actual Gmail account? The numbers I see in the console are my inbox, not a fake mock?

Live inbox, real numbers, every run. That is the reason Week 1 is Gmail — watching your live inbox answer a Python function is the best way to start this track.

This Week

Day 3 — count emails in your inbox
Day 4 — fetch a message snippet by id
Day 5 — search for subjects by keyword
Day 6 — create a draft reply in your drafts folder
Day 7 — send an email to yourself

Goal: By Friday you can name every Gmail verb you need for the rest of the track.

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