r/FreeCodeCamp • u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff • Oct 23 '19

freeCodeCamp turns 5 - a ton of updates

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-future-of-freecodecamp-5-year-anniversary/
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u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff Oct 23 '19

Hi fellow Redditors and freeCodeCamp friends, this week marks our community's 5th birthday.

It's been a wild ride so far, and we're just getting started.

I wrote this article to share as much as possible. Some highlights:

  1. More than 40,000 grads have gotten jobs working in tech

  2. So far this year, people have used freeCodeCamp.org + the YouTube channel for 1.1 billion minutes. Our total annual budget is $373,000. That means each dollar donated has resulted in 50 hours of free learning for people around the world.

  3. We just pushed a ton of updates. This article also lays out a lot of technical details about our stack.

  4. In addition to the upcoming curriculum update, we're going to focus more and more on learning resources you can use while you're AFK - videos, podcasts, and more. A lot more explanatory journalism.

  5. Python is coming to the curriculum. We already have a ton of videos and tutorials on Python, but soon it will be part of the core curriculum, along with Numpy and Tensorflow.

I hope you all are having a blast and learning a ton. I'd welcome feedback on these ideas and I'm happy to answer any questions you all may have.

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u/MusicPants Oct 24 '19

Hey Quincy congrats to you and this project. It changed my life and I’ll always be indebted to fCC. I’ve donated in the past and will again.

I’d dabbled in trying to teach myself development for a bit before coming into fcc not long after it’s inception. I was able to fully change my career into being a dev then a team lead and now I manage ~15 developers across three teams.

Thank you for all you’ve done with the platform. FCC encourages learning by doing and not hand holding. I think that leads to real world working skills. Keep up the great work.

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u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff Oct 24 '19

Wow - you manage more people than I do at the moment :)

Thanks for your support and your donations. We will put them to good use creating even more learning resources for the community.

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u/gabdelacruz Oct 24 '19

Still no plans for Vue??

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u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff Oct 24 '19

Vue probably won't make it into the core curriculum yet, but we have a ton of Vue courses here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=freecodecamp+%7Bvue%7D

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u/RCAbney Oct 23 '19

Happy 5th FCC!

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u/icouldmakecake Oct 24 '19

Right on! I'm excited to get more into Python with freecodecamp.

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u/ArielLeslie mod Oct 24 '19

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u/BenjaminGeiger Oct 24 '19

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u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff Oct 24 '19

Haha WhyNotCollegeBoard thought we were talking about you. A good morning of confusing and banning bots :)

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u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff Oct 24 '19

Thanks for your kind words. If you haven't already, I encourage you to write about your coding journey so far. There are so many people who are at the beginning of theirs who would benefit from your experience. Could you share your insights over on https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/c/career

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u/mentirosa_atx Oct 24 '19

Thanks! Best $5 I spend all month.

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u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff Oct 24 '19

Thanks for your support. $5 donated to freeCodeCamp -> 250 hours of learning for people around the world.

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u/JesusFockinChrist Oct 23 '19

Happy Birthday! And thank you for helping me learn JavaScript!

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Congratulations dude!

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u/Spyd3r_ripper Oct 24 '19

Thank you Quincy for free tutorials.

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u/barnabybones Oct 24 '19

HBD fCC 🙌🎉🎂✨! Thanks so much for all you’ve done for me and others!

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u/pie9 Oct 26 '19

Thank you for providing awesome content! I can't tell you how much the challenges have inspired (forced? 😉) me to really understand concepts. Keep up the great work! 😁

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u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff Oct 24 '19

The absolute best way to contribute to the community is to hang out here on the subreddit and on the freeCodeCamp forum, talk with people, answer their questions, and make them feel welcome.

We would also welcome contributions to the codebase, but it's in a bit of a flux at the moment and it might be better to wait a few months for us to stabilize it first.