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Free Code Camp's New Challenges: Short, Interactive, Browser-based
During our first two months, we learned a lot about our community by talking with them and observing their behavior. Based on these insights, we've completely overhauled our challenges to be:Short -...
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Hello world! Now what?
Almost every programmer I know started out coding by building a simple Hello, World! app. I did the same, but wasn't really sure where to go from there. Not that I didn't hear plenty of suggestions....
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Transparency in Action: Free Code Camp is now Open Source
We're thrilled to announce that Free Code Camp is now fully open-source. Now you can fork our code base and use it to set up an educational community of your own. If you notice a bug or think up a way...
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2014 in Numbers - My Life Behind the Command Line
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Everyone at Free Code Camp now has a Portfolio
We're happy to announce that everyone at Free Code Camp now has a free public code portfolio!You've been working hard to complete our coding challenges and build JavaScript apps. Now it's time to show...
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100 Days of Free Code Camp
The earth has rotated 100 times since we started work on the humble Node.js app that would become Free Code Camp.In that time, our community of coders has exploded, thanks mostly to word of mouth. We...
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A Vision of Coding, Without Opening your Eyes
I'm a coder. I'm also blind. Blind as a bat, you might say. And I was born this way.When I mention this to my fellow human beings - the ones who've never suffered any form of visual impairment - they...
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Closer to Code, Closer to Dad
I never actually thought I could understand code. To me, code was some complicated language that people learned through years of trial and error.Even though it turns out that's largely true, I have no...
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An Overview of Modern Discussion Tools, and Why We Decided to Build Our Own
Our chat rooms are a fun place to hang out, make friends, and get fast help. But knew early on that our campers wanted a less synchronous place to discuss articles and share their projects.We needed a...
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Kopernik Retrospective: My First Nonprofit Project at Free Code Camp
A few days ago, we marked our first nonprofit project at Free Code Camp as shipped. It was a big milestone (both for us and Free Code Camp as its first delivered project). I feel very happy for being...
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Free Code Camp Now Has an Official Theme Song
Our Twitch.tv channel has a virtual jukebox. People gathered there to watch us code can request literally any song available on Youtube, and it will be played as background music on our stream.And...
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Our 1,600 Hour JavaScript Coding Curriculum
How do you prepare someone for their first coding job while they're still working full-time or raising kids? And do it completely in a browser? For free? Well, here's how we're doing it:Free Code...
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Free Code Camp now has Local Groups
Our open source community was born online. And our campers are adept at using the internet to communicate. Most of this communication is just short text messages back and forth. But there's a lot of...
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Why I dropped out of Free Code Camp
I worked through Free Code Camp's curriculum, contributed to its open-source codebase, then got a coding job much faster than I expected. These days I'm busy juggling being a dad, husband, and full...
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Acknowledging the Tower of Babel
This article isn't about Babel, the ECMAscript 6 transpiler (we're excited about that, too).It's about this Babel, and it's impact on global communities:Marten van Valckenborch's Tower of BabelWhen we...
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10 Steps to Plan Better so you can Write Less Code
An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of cure. That's true in medicine, and that's definitely true in software development.Here's a structured 10-step workflow that will guide you through the app...
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25 Coders Worth Following on Twitter in 2015
Our community chose these 25 coders as "Coders Worth Following in 2015":Brendan Eich (@BrendanEich)Invented JavaScript. Co-founded Mozilla and has served as its CTO and CEO.Sara Chipps...
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25 Free Resources for New JavaScript Developers
We asked our campers to share their favorite free resources for new JavaScript developers on Camper News. The list includes some time-tested books as well as podcasts and videos you may not have heard...
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So Yeah We Tried Slack... and We Deeply Regretted It
Back in April, all was well with our community of busy adults learning to code. We were communicating using Gitter.im, a GitHub based chatroom system. And yet every day, someone would ask me "Why...
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Watch us Code Games Live All Weekend
We're streaming a nonstop game development marathon this weekend on our Twitch.tv channel.JavaScript is a powerful and versatile technology. It's popular for web development, mobile development,...
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Powering up with GitHub
As we integrate more tightly with Gitter, it makes sense for us to also make better use of GitHub.We've ditched our old Field Guide articles in favor of our new GitHub-based Wiki, which allows for much...
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Rebuilding the 747 at 35,000 Feet
Berkeley Martinez was wearing suspenders and a bowtie. He looked up from his paperback copy of Dune. I was sweating from my morning run across San Francisco. "Quincy!" he exclaimed, and we initiated an...
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5 Ways We're Improving Thanks to Your Feedback
Last week we sent out a short, 3-question survey to all of you who've listed Free Code Camp under your education background on LinkedIn. A big thanks to the 400 campers who've already responded with...
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Jump Start Your Local Campsite with Coffee-and-Code
Our Facebook Campsites are a great way to meet people in your city and practice coding. Anyone can help make their campsite more active by participating in or hosting Coffee-and-Code sessions.Free Code...
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Commit to Yourself. Commit to a Nonprofit.
In case you missed it, our October Summit was jam-packed with several big announcements about our open source community.My personal favorite announcement was Commit - our new program designed to give...
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