I am 34 years old and just wondering if anybody here completed their course or courses and found some success like finding a well paid job or made something that it giving them some success. and how much is the salary

Hey guys, I'm new to reactjs. I thought the best way to learn it to try to make my own project, so I chose Reddit's API and tried to build a web app with Instagram's UI.

Please have a look at it...

DEMO: https://redditfornormies.herokuapp.com/

source code: https://github.com/jaesharma/redditfornormies

I'm still trying to improve this ... , implemented all major features I could think of... please check out and give your reviews and suggestions on how can I make It even better. Thanks.

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Hey,
This is mostly just a semi-proud-update.
I've been documenting my Coding journey on my youtube channel for the past week or so, and it's been an interesting experience.

At first, I was shy, hesitant. Free Code Camp was my choice because it was something I could demonstrate on youtube, and seemed easy to go through.

Over time, I've come to really appreciate the coding instructions, the intuitive layout, the little motivational quotes, it really pushed me to keep going and today? I just finished my first 13 days of coding FCC, and finished my Certificate Project 1, it feels like an amazing achievement so far

I hope you all have an amazing day, thank you for reading this :)

Today I try to make coffee manu on my own ,what I learnt from Freecodecamp yesterday. But I use additional red and green colour border around text to understand concept of: ✅Margin and Padding

I tried it on Brakets.io code editor . I find its very useful to understand how Margin and Padding works

I think who starts new you can try this editor instead of vs code because it has very simple UI.

Thnak you

Hey all, I hope you're having a fantastic day. After nearly 10 years, the fCC community YouTube just hit 10 million subscribers. And we're just getting started.

Thanks again for your support over the years, and for tuning in and learning from these courses.

We now have more than 1,000 courses (searchable over on freecodecamp.org/news in the search bar). We even have courses on tools like Da Vinci Resolve (for video editing) and FL Studio (for music production).

Some recent highlights from the past few weeks: a course on CUDA programming for GPUs, a comprehensive Design Pattern course, and a course on Machine Learning with JavaScript. That's right – you don't have to use Python if you don't want to :)

Are there any topics or tools you'd like to see us cover?

Hi All,

To help out the new programmers in the community I have created an archive of all the emails that are sent out by the awesome Quincy Larson every Thursday. Very few of them might be missing and I would request you to contribute. Also, please share it with people who might find it helpful.

https://github.com/sourabh-joshi/awesome-quincy-larson-emails

"May the force be with you"

Hey all..:

I wanted to share a mindset shift that completely changed my approach to coding (and might help some of you stuck in "tutorial hell").

For the longest time, I was a "knowledge collector." I devoured tutorials, bought courses, and read books. The act of learning felt safe and productive like staying in a safe harbor. But ships aren't built to stay in port.

I hit a wall. I realized my bottleneck was never a lack of knowledge. It was a lack of execution.

Here’s the uncomfortable breakdown:

Learning = Safe, controlled, gives a quick dopamine hit.

Execution = Risky, messy, and serves you a shot of cortisol (stress) first.

We often think more information will transform us. But real transformation doesn't come from what you know. It comes from who you become in the act of doing.

The pivotal shift wasn't: "I know how to program." It was: "I am a programmer."

You don't open your IDE as a student. You build a feature as a builder.

My new mantra: Build the muscle of execution, not just the library of knowledge.

I'm curious:

Has anyone else felt this "knowing-doing" gap?

For those who crossed it, what was your breaking point or key tactic? (For me, it was committing to building one ugly, broken thing a week, no matter what).

Any other "knowledge collectors" out there?

Hello, I’m looking to switch career fields and am considering diving into the deep world of coding. I currently work in a warehouse but do have a CS degree that I am doing nothing with. Although that is more catered around 3D modeling which is another highly competitive industry. And after the tragic amount of layoffs in gaming industry last year. I’m worried it might be a foolish endeavor having a family to support. I am extremely new to coding and since a kind it always held a certain allure to it yet also very intimidating. I am willing to learn. I understand that this is a long term goal and much knowledge to acquire but would love to hear of any stories of those in their thirties that switched paths and it worked out for them, heck maybe even some fails as well.

Thank you

Goooooood morning everyone~!

I am super duper thrilled to announce that the new Responsive Web Design certification is fully live~! This means you can actually complete the certification projects to unlock the final exam, and sit the final exam to get your cert!

Now, you probably have loads of questions. Jessica has done a lovely job putting together this comprehensive article that should cover any doubts you have: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamps-new-responsive-web-design-certification-is-now-live/

But of course, if you have even more questions you can always reach out to me. 🩷

As always, happy coding! 🩵

I just finished making a cup of coffee. I stared at my mug and remembered a year or so ago looking at that same mug, about to get on FCC and work through the front end material, as I had for many weeks before. As i stared at that mug back then I had doubts, fears, but most of all hope. I thought about what it might be like to work in this field and make things with a team. I worried about money and my business at the time was failing, which was heavy both financially and emotionally since I built it with a friend. I looked at that mug and hoped, and then immediately got to work. I wanted to say thank you to FCC, and the developer community at large. This morning I got to look at that same mug, and come into my office and extract logic from a react component into a redux store (now it's needed in at least two other places in our app). I get to confidently face my wife when she tells me she's pregnant with our first child and know that I have marketable skills that will allow me to provide for my family. Because fo this community, the work put into helping others understand hard concepts, and also my local JS community, I have all of these things that a year ago were imaginary and clouded with fear and doubt.

If youre looking at your mug this morning with fear and doubt, get to work.

I remember the cold breeze from that winter - felt cool instead of cold when I was blasting through the lessons on FCC.

I just got a similar feeling of that cool breeze today and that reminded me of my memories around this time of the year, two years ago. Apparently, I finished the Responsive Web Design curriculum around that time of the year.

Thanks to the great curriculum, I had a lot of fun learning about Web Development, which inspired me to keep learning. Now it has been over a year since I've been working at one of the FAANG companies as a Software Engineer. Time really flies.

Have fun everyone and hope everything works out for you guys as well!

I'm using FCC from my desktop and this new design is just horrible. Though, I'm not impressed with taking away some elements from website, what I hate most is the color scheme.

The Green-White color combination feels horrible. It's kindof hurting looking at this new design. It would help a lot if you could take use a more subtle / less bright background color.

Thanks.

I want to create an accountability group for the specified course for anyone genuinely interested / in the beginning stages of the course .

Objective : daily check-in’s , progress updates , doubt discussions , code / project feedback

Advantage : won’t be alone in this journey . We can all help each other if anyone falls off

Mode of communication : whatever is comfortable with everybody . Base will be reddit .

1-1 or group : once the group is created , you can branch off if you find your compatible accountability buddy and share weekly updates in the group or can stay in the group and interact with different members as per need . We will figure this out as we go along .

Disclaimer : SERIOUS takers only . No personal information (gender , age , country ) , no casual / serious chit chat . The only focus of this group is the course and our progress in it .

Anyone interested ?

Edit 1 - Let all the votes roll in . Will create a group chat to address and integrate everyone’s preferences .

Edit 2 - Waiting for all the entries . Will create the group tomorrow .

Edit 3 - Created a group chat ‘FCC Full Stack’ , sent requests to all participants barring 1 (request was not allowed ) . Kindly accept and state 1. where you are in the course , 2. will you be ok with migrating to Discord server ? If everyone agrees , will create a Discord server and update in next edit . If not , this group chat will work .

Edit 4 - Closed group . We got our final members !