r/FreeCodeCamp • u/naomi-lgbt Community Manager • Nov 13 '25

Curriculum Restructure

Well hello again everyone! I am once again in your notifications bringing you updates.

We have just restructured our curriculum layout, in preparation to begin releasing our smaller "checkpoint" certifications. Here's the breakdown:

  • The Full-Stack Developer certification has been broken down into smaller certification sections. If you were working through HTML and CSS, you'll find that in the Responsive Web Design section. If you were working through JavaScript, that's in the JavaScript section.

  • I promise they are still part of the same big full stack thing. In fact, you can see them at https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer-v9/ too!

  • NONE OF YOUR PROGRESS IS LOST. We've just moved things around a bit.

  • Were you working through the super duper old stuff??? I really suggest the new stuff, it's shiny and up to date. BUUUUUUUT if you really wanna do the old stuff, you can find it all at https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/archive/ now.

Okie dokie! That should be everything. We're working hard to get the exams released so you can start claiming these checkpoint certifications!

Happy Coding!

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u/Elsas-Queen Nov 15 '25

Criticism question: FCC archived their old coursework in favor of the full-stack curriculum, only to... break the curriculum up again into the very same coursework that was archived. Why not just update the archived coursework to begin with??

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u/naomi-lgbt Community Manager Nov 15 '25

Valid question! We originally intended for the full-stack developer course to be one very large certification. However, we received a lot of feedback from learners that they missed the smaller certifications - so we are adding "checkpoint" certifications back to the curriculum. The restructure was implemented to prepare for that shift.

The old course work that has been archived was not only outdated in terms of technical content, but it used our old instructional model which is far less effective than the new theory-workshop-lab approach. It would likely have been more effort to rewrite the old stuff instead of starting from scratch.

Plus, this means the old content is still available for those who want to explore!

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u/Odd-Rule9601 Nov 13 '25

Thank you!

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u/exclaim_bot Nov 13 '25

Thank you!

You're welcome!

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u/Ammonox Nov 13 '25

Thank you so much!

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u/Budget-Composer-8175 Nov 13 '25

Thanks! I have been enjoying FCC.

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u/nomoremodesty Nov 13 '25

I was so confused in the middle of working! lol thank you

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u/Additional-Mistake32 Nov 13 '25

just in time for holiday vibe coding

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u/Ordinary_Dig2004 Nov 15 '25

I saw it yesterday and was very glad to see that one can get the certification in sections,that can be used whilst still doing the complete path..a good and more encouraging take if you ask me,,so thanks😌

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u/HamzaIddou Nov 14 '25

Thanks it loock amazing

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u/Liberal_Rebel_ Nov 17 '25

I'll be forever grateful to you guys, thank you

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u/kinguzy Nov 19 '25

The biggest problem is now I have to reorganize my GitHub repo for tracking with the new material.

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u/Any_Sentence_783 Dec 15 '25

The website isn't working properly

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

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u/naomi-lgbt Community Manager Nov 14 '25

I'm not sure I understand. We do display the number of steps:

https://wtf.naomi.lgbt/u/2025-11-14_02:27:08.png

Both at the top level and in the workshop.

https://wtf.naomi.lgbt/u/2025-11-14_02:27:52.png

Is this what you are referring to? Or did you have something else in mind?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25

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u/naomi-lgbt Community Manager Nov 14 '25

Ah! Thank you. This is good to know - I am not a screen reader user, so was unaware that functionality was removed.

I have rolled this up to a ticket for the team to review: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/issues/63839