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freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth beginner’s course that will teach you how to code in the Java programming language. You’ll also learn how to use Spring Boot, an industry-standard Java web development framework. This backend-focused course will walk you through coding your own ecommerce shopping cart. You’ll start from scratch and generate a new project, implement the web server, code your API endpoints, and even add Spring Security to harden your system. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-shopping-cart-backend-with-spring-boot-and-spring-security/
And if you want to learn even more Java, freeCodeCamp also published a comprehensive Selenium course this week. You’ll learn Automated Web Testing so you can ensure your apps do what you want them to do. This way you can catch potential bugs and vulnerabilities before you deploy your code. This course will teach you about the Page Object Model, WebElements, Selenium Interfaces, and how to simulate user interactions like mouse movement and keyboard events. Enjoy. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-java-testing-with-selenium/
This week on the freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview Hiroko Nishimura, who had a brain tumor removed when she was just 22 years old. At the time, the doctors told her she’d never be able to live independently again. But she learned how to walk again and talk again. And eventually she learned a ton about Systems Administration and Cloud Engineering. Today, more than 500,000 students have learned these developer concepts from her. We talk about Hiroko’s entire life – from learning English as an immigrant from Japan, to getting her first job in tech, to becoming a prolific teacher. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-brain-tumor-to-teaching-500000-sysadmin-students-with-hiroko-nishimura-podcast-138/
React Compiler is a new feature in Version 19 of the popular React JavaScript library. The compiler can now handle optimization for you, saving you a ton of development time and sparing you many headaches. This in-depth tutorial will show you how React Compiler works, and give you practical tips for harnessing its full power in your JavaScript apps. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-compiler-complete-guide-react-19/
Microsoft Excel continues to be one of the most widely-used productivity tools – even among developers. This tutorial will teach you how to use Excel for Data Visualization. You’ll learn about Excel’s many chart types and how you can customize them. You’ll even learn how to build your own interactive dashboards. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/excel-for-data-visualization/
Quote of the Week: “When you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It is often extremely powerful to look not at individual pieces of code but at a system as a whole.” — James Gosling, Software Engineer and the Father of Java
freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive guide to the Amazon Web Services Developer Associate certification exam. If you’re interested in learning some DevOps and cloud computing, this course will prepare you to earn this popular cert. Andrew Brown is a CTO who has passed dozens of similar cloud cert exams. He’ll teach you all about AWS EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, and other key cloud computing tools. (81 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ultimate-aws-certified-developer-associate-dva-c02-course-from-andrew-brown/
Most machine learning these days is done with Python, but there are some JavaScript libraries for building AI systems as well. ml5.js is a developer-friendly open source library that’s built on top of Google’s TensorFlow. This crash course will teach you key concepts, and how to use an open dataset from Kaggle to code your first model. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ml5js-for-machine-learning-in-javascript/
This week on the freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview Angie Jones, a test engineer and inventor who holds 27 software patents. She’s worked at companies like IBM and Twitter, doing both test engineering and developer advocacy. We talk about how a bad performance review from a boss early in her career taught her to be less timid and more vocal about her ideas. We also talk about her love of virtual worlds like Second Life, and how she uses AI to debug code. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/developer-and-inventor-with-27-software-patents-angie-jones-interview-134/
Developers often build small chunks of reusable code called Components. And at some point it makes sense to pull these together into a full-blown Component Library. This tutorial will give you a solid understanding of what Component Libraries are, their history, and how they differ from Design Systems. You’ll learn how to wield the power of Component Libraries for yourself, so you can avoid rewriting code that other devs have written so many times before, and instead focus on the novel work to be done. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-component-library-when-to-build-your-own/
Learn Control Theory by building a rocket control system. You’re going to be sending real rockets up into space and making sure they don’t explode. Just kidding – freeCodeCamp doesn’t have the budget for that. So you’ll have to use a bit of imagination here. This tutorial will teach you Control Theory concepts like Signal Input, Signal Processing, and Feedback. You’ll learn about PID controllers, Transfer Functions, Nyquist Plots, and more. Have fun and don’t blow up any expensive satellites in the process. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/basic-control-theory-with-python/
Quote of the Week: “The first step of any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty.” — Nicoll Hunt, programmer and game developer
A vast majority of servers these days run Linux as their operating system. And a lot of developers run Linux on their laptops as well. It’s safe to say that Linux is one of the most useful skills you can learn working in tech. freeCodeCamp just published this comprehensive book that will teach you how to install Linux and work with its file system and many packages. You’ll learn about shell scripting, networking, command line automation, security, and more. You can read this right in your browser and bookmark it for future reference. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-linux-for-beginners-book-basic-to-advanced/
And while you’re learning Linux, why not learn how operating systems work in more detail? This massive course will teach you about Kernels, von Neumann Architecture, Multitasking, API Calls, Interrupts, CPU Scheduling, Disk Structure, and more. (25 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-about-operating-systems-in-depth/
Did you know that Babe Ruth – the most famous home-run-hitting baseball player of all time – was blind in one eye? He made up for this by being extremely good at predictive analytics – honing his instincts for what type of pitch is coming across home plate. I learned this during my insight-filled conversation with Ken Jee. He’s a golfer turned data scientist who works closely with professional athletes. During my podcast interview, Ken shares a ton of tips for folks interested in getting into data science and machine learning, and for athletes who want to gain a quantitative edge on their competitors. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/where-data-science-meets-sports-analytics-with-ken-jee-podcast-interview-135/
One of the most exciting areas of AI at the moment is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This freeCodeCamp Python course will teach you how to combine your own custom data with the power of Large Language Models (LLMs). You’ll code your own AI system that can summarize documents for you and even have conversations with you to answer your questions about those documents. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-rag-fundamentals-and-advanced-techniques/
Learn how to use JavaScript to code a desktop PC game. That’s right – you don’t necessarily need a full-blown GameDev framework like Unity or Unreal to build games. You can code along at home and build your own Flappy Bird-like game, step-by-step. You’ll load sprite assets, implement collision detection, and code the menu and score-keeping logic. Enjoy. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-pc-game-using-javascript/
Quote of the Week: “I often compare open source to science. Science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples’ ideas – making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn’t do.” — Linus Torvalds, programmer, creator of Linux, and open source advocate
I learned to code in my 30s. I read a bunch of computer science books, built some apps, and won a few hackathons. Then I landed my first software engineering role at a small tech company. I wrote this book to summarize the insights I’ve heard from CTOs, professors, and fellow self-taught developers. Transitioning into tech is not easy, and it may take you several years of preparation. This book will give you practical, no-nonsense pointers so you can map out your road ahead. (full-length book and 4-hour audiobook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/
This new freeCodeCamp course will teach you .NET and MongoDB by coding your own restaurant reservation system. You’ll learn how to use Entity Framework Core, a popular Object-Relational Mapper (ORM). ORM tools help your app talk to a wide variety of databases without you needing to learn all the database-specific implementation details. Beau Carnes teaches this course. He’s an experienced developer and classroom teacher, and I think you’ll dig his down-to-earth teaching style. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/using-entity-framework-core-with-mongodb/
On this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, I interview John Washam, a software engineer at Amazon. John’s also the creator of one of the most popular open source projects of all time: Coding Interview University. This is John’s first-ever appearance on a podcast, so we go really in-depth. We talk about his years working as an interpreter in the US military. Then we dive into how he taught himself software engineering, and what he’s learned from climbing the ranks at a big tech company. (3 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-john-washam-crammed-for-8-months-got-a-job-at-amazon-then-taught-1000s-of-other-devs-134/
AI models are more powerful than ever. But most of them are a black box. We don’t know why they create the output that they do. And this can be dangerous. Machine Learning researchers call this the problem of Interpretability. Thankfully, a lot of very smart people are hard at work on what’s called Explainable AI. This primer by Tiago Monteiro will teach you about Glass Box Models, Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks, and other important concepts in the emerging field of Explainable AI. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-an-interpretable-ai-deep-learning-model/
Tell your Spanish-speaking friends: freeCodeCamp just published an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript course for beginners. You’ll practice your skills by building a responsive navigation bar with dropdown menus, and a landing page with a custom modal. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/practice-your-html-css-and-javascript-skills-in-spanish-by-building-3-projects/
Quote of the Week: “The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic – some sensational method or tool whose application promises to render software development trivial. It is the mark of the professional software engineer to know that no such panacea exist.” — Grady Booch, software engineer and creator of Unified Modeling Language
System Design questions come up all the time in developer interviews. Employers ask these because they want to make sure that you know how to turn design requirements into production-grade code. Thankfully, freeCodeCamp has a new crash course will teach you the key concepts. You’ll learn about Scalability, Availability, Data Handling, High-Level Architecture, and more. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-system-design-principles
Learn to code your own sticky note app using React and Appwrite, a Backend-as-a-Service tool. Dennis Ivy is an excellent programming teacher, and he’ll walk you through building this beginner-level app step-by-step. You can code along at home. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-sticky-notes-app-with-react-and-appwrite/
Learn how to do heavy-duty Machine Learning without first needing to get a PhD in mathematics. On this week’s podcast, I interview Daniel Bourke, who has created many popular AI learning resources over the years. We talk about how as a kid he broke into his school’s network and gave himself good grades, just like Matthew Broderick in Wargames. Daniel then spent years fixing people’s computers from around the Brisbane area before learning how to code. He explains how Machine Learning actually works, and what LLMs are doing for you behind the scenes. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-machine-learning-skills-without-doing-a-phd-in-math-podcast-133-with-daniel-bourke/
Learn how to use React’s Context API. This lets you share values between React components a lot more easily than the old-fashioned way of passing props down a component tree. This tutorial will give you lots of practical examples of how to leverage the power of the Context API in your apps. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-context-api-tutorial-examples/
Lazy Loading doesn’t sound like it would be a good thing, but in the case of JavaScript performance, it is. Lazy Loading is a design pattern where you only fetch mission-critical data from the server first, then go back to get other data as needed. This tutorial will teach you how to perform Lazy Loading using React and the popular Next.js framework. You’ll learn about Dynamic Import, Suspense, and React.lazy. You’ll also learn the limits of this design pattern, and why developers don’t just use it for everything under the sun. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/next-js-performance-optimization/
Joke of the Week: “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.” — Leon Bambrick, programmer
Learn CSS by coding a ton of CSS. This freeCodeCamp course will teach you how to style your webpages by building 24 projects step-by-step. You’ll recreate layouts from popular apps like GitHub, CodePen, and Instagram. You’ll build loading animations, progress bars, and flashcards using pure CSS. And you’ll learn key CSS concepts like transitions, pseudo-elements, keyframe animations, and hover effects. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-24-css-projects/
freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive guide to prepare you for GitHub’s Advanced Security Certification. We now have courses for 3 out of 4 of GitHub’s professional certs. You’ll learn how to identify vulnerabilities, secure your workflows, manage dependencies, and take action on alerts. In short, this course will guide you down the path of passing this exam, so you can add another feather to your cap as a capable GitHub operator. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pass-the-github-advanced-security-certification-exam/
On this week’s podcast, I interview Jessica Chan, AKA Coder Coder. She’s a software engineer who has worked in the field for more than a decade. Interestingly, she studied photography in school and never even took a programming class. We talk about how as a kid she and her sister ran a dial-in BBS back before there were websites. We also talk about how she stayed at her first developer job for 7 years, and how she spent the first year of it “in abject fear of losing my job.” (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-doing-data-entry-to-becoming-a-developer-with-jessica-chan-aka-coder-coder-podcast-132/
Learn how Multithreading works. By learning how to code using multiple threads, your programs can take advantage of multi-core processors and powerful GPUs. This course is taught by a senior engineer from a big tech company. Even though it’s taught in Java, you can apply these concepts to your Python code as well. And even to single-threaded languages like JavaScript that achieve massive parallelization through Node.js Worker Threads. In this course, you’ll learn about Deadlocks, Atomic Variables, Semaphores, Mutexes, and more. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/multithreading-for-beginners/
Monte Carlo simulations are one of the most powerful tools data scientists have in their toolbox. Named after a famous casino in Monaco, Monte Carlo methods involve creating detailed models of a situation with many uncertain factors. By running the model many times with different random inputs, you can see a wide range of possible outcomes, and can learn more about how the system behaves. This tutorial will give you more insight into Monte Carlo methods and show you how they’re used for everything from financial modeling to designing circuit boards. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-monte-carlo-methods/
Joke of the Week: “Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.” — ShivamLH on Reddit
Andrew Brown is a CTO who has passed dozens of cloud certification exams over the years. And he’s back with an in-depth guide to the popular AWS SysOps certification exam. This course will not only teach you everything tested on the exam – it will also ground you in cloud engineering concepts. So what is SysOps? Well, it’s like a traditional SysAdmin (System Administrator) role that pretty much every company has – but for cloud servers. This freeCodeCamp course will cover Networking, Logging, Metrics, Events, Security, Load Balancing, Serverless Architecture, and more. If you want to take the plunge and learn all these skills, this course has got you covered. (68 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/prepare-to-pass-the-aws-sysops-administrator-associate-soa-c02-certification/
freeCodeCamp just published a TypeScript for beginners course to help you learn the art of statically-typed JavaScript. Most scripting languages like JavaScript and Python are dynamically-typed. But this causes so many additional coding errors. By sticking with static types – like Java and C++ do – JavaScript developers can save themselves a lot of debugging. Instructor and software engineer Bob Ziroll will teach you TypeScript fundamentals like Literal Types, Unions, Generics, and more. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-typescript-with-interactive-lessons/
“The Swiss Army Knife is kind of bad at everything. But it’s got a real good general sense, and it will help you survive. I want people to become Swiss Army Knife developers.” That’s an excerpt from my conversation with Scott Hanselman, a software engineer at Microsoft. He shares many of the lessons he’s learned from his multi-decade career, and from conducting more than 900 podcast interviews with devs. I talk with him about so many topics, like how it took him 11 years to finish college, and what it’s like to lead a fully remote team of devs from his hometown of Portland. (1 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-scott-hanselman-learned-from-900-podcast-interviews-with-devs-podcast-131/
Optimistic UI is a new User Interface Design approach that gets its name from its blind optimism. Instead of waiting for confirmation from the server, an Optimistic UI front-end assumes everything will turn out OK, and immediately updates itself to reflect user input. This reduces perceived latency and simplifies complex UI interactions like dragging and dropping. This tutorial by developer Jaja David will teach you key concepts like Stale-While-Revalidate and Optimistic CRUD. It will also explore the drawbacks of this happy-go-lucky approach. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/improve-user-experience-with-optimistic-ui-swr/
Learn React Native by coding your own meditation mobile app. React Native is a JavaScript framework that you can use to build native apps that you can then publish in the Apple and Android app stores. This course will teach you how to structure your app and set up your developer environment. Then you’ll learn about React Components, Props, Styles, and more. You’ll also learn how to use React Router and NativeWind, a universal style system based on Tailwind CSS. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-meditation-app-with-react-native-expo-router/
Quote of the Week: “Most people don’t even know what SysAdmins do. But trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time, they wouldn’t make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.” — Peter Welch, SysAdmin
freeCodeCamp just published a game development course that will walk you through coding your own Metroidvania style game. The term “Metroidvania” comes from a genre of platformer adventure games where your character explores a large interconnected game world. Some of my favorite Metroidvania games include Hollow Knight and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. This beginner-level JavaScript course will show you how to implement enemy AI, room-linking logic, boss battles, and more. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-gamedev-with-kaboomjs/
Learn the fundamentals of the Go programming language (Golang) by coding your own payment platform. Georgio Tunson is a software engineer who uses Golang extensively, and he teaches this beginner-friendly course. You’ll learn about Golang’s basic syntax, data structures, concurrency model, and more. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/go-for-absolute-beginners/
On this week’s freeCodeCamp podcast, I interview Alison Yoon. She started her career in Korea’s fashion industry before transitioning into web design. From there, she used freeCodeCamp to further expand her skills. She now works as a front end developer at a tech company in London. We talk about her coding journey, and her leadership of the freeCodeCamp Korean translation effort. (1 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-fashion-to-software-engineer-with-alison-yoon-podcast-130/
Learn about State Management in JavaScript with this new Redux Data Flow Handbook. Joan Ayebola is a Front End Developer who has a knack for explaining technical concepts in a way newbie devs can understand. Her book will teach you how to harness the power of Unidirectional Data Flows in your app. You’ll learn about Reducer Functions, Dispatching Actions, Redux Middleware, and more. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-data-flows-in-redux/
And finally, tell your Spanish-speaking friends: freeCodeCamp just published a new course on React for beginners. Carpi Coder, a Spanish-speaking software engineer, will teach you how to leverage the flexible React front-end JavaScript library. You’ll also learn how to fetch data from a Firebase API and display it in your app. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-in-spanish-beginners-course
Quote of the Week: “When I make characters, I try to design them in a way that teaches players how to play the game. In other words, if an enemy looks too pretty, they won’t seem like an enemy to the player. But if you give them an enemy-like appearance, then the player won’t need to read the manual or anything to know: ‘oh, I’ve got to avoid this guy.’” — Gunpei Yokoi, who helped develop the original 1986 Metroid game that spawned the Metroidvania game genre
freeCodeCamp just published a GameDev course on Godot, an open source game engine similar to Unity 3D and Unreal Engine. You can use Godot to build multi-platform games, then publish them on mobile and desktop platforms through Steam, Epic, Itch, and other game storefronts. This beginner course will teach you Godot fundamentals by walking you through step-by-step as you code your own fully-playable 3D RPG game. You’ll learn how to build your game environment, spawn monsters. You’ll add inventory systems, leveling systems, combat sounds, and even lighting effects. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-create-a-3d-rpg-game-with-godot/
Vim is a powerful code editor that comes built-in with most operating systems, including Linux and MacOS. Vim lets you to do almost anything with just a few keystrokes. You’ll never need to take your hand off your keyboard to reach for your mouse again. This course by CTO Andrew Brown will give you a solid foundation in using Vim in just a few hours. Then if you want to become as proficient as he is, you can keep practicing while coding over the coming months, and feel that sheer build-up of speed. Ride like the wind! (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mastering-vim-your-guide-to-efficient-text-editing/
On this week’s podcast, I interview Adrian Twarog. He’s a software engineer who started his career by working as the office IT guy for 10 years. He’s since published YouTube courses that millions of people have watched. We talk about how he learned to code by volunteering to take on web design projects at work. He started making design tutorials on YouTube and published 300 in a single year. And he accomplished all this from Perth, Australia – as far as you can get from Silicon Valley. I think you’ll dig our conversation. (1 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-are-senior-developers-learning-low-code-and-ai-tools-adrian-twarog-interview-129/
React is a truly ubiquitous web development framework. And the React team just released their long-awaited Version 19. Well, freeCodeCamp moved quickly and published a comprehensive guide to all of React’s new features. You’ll learn about the new React Compiler that can find performance optimizations in your code for you. You’ll also learn about improvements like the new Form Actions for managing states and handling user interactions. This course is an excellent starting point for React Newbies and returning React veterans alike. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/whats-new-in-react-19/
There’s a ton of hype around Generative AI. But it’s not all hype – there’s some real utility there, too. This new handbook will lay out some of the ways companies are using GenAI to discover new medicines and coordinate responses to emergencies. It’s a breezy read written with non-developers in mind, summarizing a lot of recent research papers. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/generative-ai-handbook/
Quote of the Week: “Whether it’s a 2D game or a 3D game, I always try to create a believable world for that game. Even the text of a game can contribute to that world feeling alive, I think. Having text prepared for every place you investigate, and having that text change depending on the circumstances, I think really helps create the illusion that you are “in” that world.” — Hideo Kojima, Creator of Metal Gear Solid
freeCodeCamp just published a Linux course that will teach you how to use some of the open source operating system’s most powerful features. It’s designed with both Linux beginners and intermediate users in mind. You’ll learn Linux’s file system with hard links, soft links, permissions, and root accounts. You’ll also learn how to use grep, a command line tool for finding what you need inside large datasets. This course also includes interactive labs, so you can apply the new skills you’re learning. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-linux-crash-course-with-labs/
One of the most exciting areas of AI at the moment is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This freeCodeCamp Python course will teach you how to combine your own custom data with the power of Large Language Models (LLMs). You’ll use LangChain, Mistral AI, Ollama, and more. You’ll learn straight from Per Borgan, a software engineer, teacher, and long-time friend of mine. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-intelligent-apps-with-mistral-ai/
On this week’s freeCodeCamp podcast I interview designer and developer Colby Fayock. We talk about his journey from designing truck wraps to working as a software engineer. He also shares his day-to-day life building APIs and SDKs, and how he uses AI at work. Believe it or not, Colby doubled as a male model at ThinkGeek, which was kind of like The Sharper Image but for Star Wars fans. I think you’ll enjoy our conversation. (1 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/quincy-interviews-colby-fayock-dev-designer-male-model-prolific-fcc-contributor-podcast-128/
freeCodeCamp just published an entire handbook focused on PHP and its powerful array data structure. It’s chock-full of code examples. You can code along at home and build your own soccer player sports card app. This is another excellent PHP reference from prolific author Kolade Chris. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/php-arrays-how-to-rebuild-the-football-team-cards-with-php-and-mongodb/
The Black-Scholes Equation is the most important mathematical formula that most people have never heard of. Black-Scholes completely revolutionized corporate finance when it was discovered in 1973. This tutorial will explain how the formula works, and how you can implement it in Python. Then you’ll use it to predict the price of concert tickets, and learn about its many other real-world applications. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-the-black-scholes-equation-works-python-examples/
Quote of the Week: “Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.” — Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize winning economist and co-creator of the Black-Scholes Equation
freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive course to help you learn the Python skills used in data science. You’ll start by learning the basics of data analytics, such as data wrangling, filtering, and statistical analysis. Then you’ll apply those skills toward the field of A/B Testing, through a series of practical projects. This course is an excellent place to strengthen your Python abilities. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-python-for-data-science-hands-on-projects-with-eda-ab-testing-business-intelligence/
Learn High-level System Design with this new software architecture course. Keerti is a software engineer and teacher, and she’ll introduce you to principles for building sophisticated apps. You can code along at home and build three API services that chunk data, transcode the data with FFmpeg, and stream it using Adaptive Bitrate Streaming. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-high-level-system-design-by-building-a-youtube-clone/
On this week’s freeCodeCamp podcast, I interview Dr. Chuck, creator of the popular Python for Everyone course. He’s a Computer Science professor at University of Michigan, and he’s taught coding to millions of students through his freeCodeCamp courses. We talk about what separates a “Master Programmer” from an average one. We delve into what he sees as the biggest shortcomings of university programs – even elite ones like the one he teaches at. We also discuss his theories on the recent tech layoffs, and his suggestions for how devs can stay ahead of recent breakthroughs in AI. (1 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-outsmart-ai-as-a-developer-dr-chuck-interview-127/
Learn how to build 3D graphics and games that run in a browser. ThreeJS is a powerful JavaScript library that abstracts away the complexities of WebGL. This course will walk you through building five projects, including a 3D model of the Earth, a wireframe wormhole, and a physics demo complete with realistic collisions. Happy rendering. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-threejs-by-building-five-projects/
You may have heard people talk about an emerging technique called Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). This is when an AI looks up information from outside sources to improve its own responses. Well, freeCodeCamp just published a handbook that will help you understand RAG so you can use it in your AI models. Even if you don’t have time to read the whole thing, I still encourage you to bookmark it for future reference. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag-handbook/
Quote of the Week: “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” — John von Neumann, Mathematician and Computer Science Pioneer
freeCodeCamp just published a full book on how to use Python for Applied Data Science. You’ll start by learning core data science principles. Then you’ll learn about data cleaning, data transformation, and Exploratory Data Analysis. You’ll also learn powerful Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib. This is a full-blown reference manual with tons of code examples. You can bookmark it and read it over multiple sessions as you continue to expand your skills. Enjoy. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/applied-data-science-with-python-book/
Learn how to code your own functional clone of YouTube that runs on a phone. This course will teach you how to reverse engineer many of YouTube’s key features using Flutter, Firebase, and Riverpod. You can code along at home and step-by-step implement authentication, state management, video uploading, playback, and even social features. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-youtube-clone-with-flutter-firebase-and-riverpod/
On this week’s podcast, learn why the US National Security Agency mailed developer Suz Hinton a fidget spinner. She’s a long-time software engineer who’s worked at Microsoft, Amazon, and Stripe before completely retraining as a security researcher. I had a blast talking with her and checking out the creative gadgets she builds in her lab. I think you’ll dig our conversation. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-suz-hinton-went-from-dev-to-white-hat-hacker-podcast-126/
Learn low-level programming by coding your own file system using the popular Go programming language. This course is taught by Anthony GG, who has worked as a software engineer for over two decades. He’ll teach you about network protocols, caching, data streaming, high-performance computing, and more. If you’ve coded in Python or JavaScript before, you can probably pick up Golang pretty quickly. And this is an excellent course to help you do so. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-build-a-decentralized-file-storage-system-with-go/
And finally, tell your Spanish-speaking friends: freeCodeCamp just published a new course on the Go Programming Language for beginners. Spanish-speaking software engineer Leonardo Castillo teaches Go’s straight-forward syntax, and how to take advantage of its powerful concurrency and native machine code compilation features. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-go-in-spanish-golang-course-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week: “Technology is not the driver of change. What drives technology is human desire.” — Ellen Ullman, software engineer and author
My hero Dr. Chuck created this comprehensive C programming course and shared it with the global freeCodeCamp community. Dr. Chuck is a University of Michigan computer science professor, and he is a hardcore advocate for everyone learning C. Not only will this course help you understand computer architecture and low-level programming. It will also teach you Object-Oriented Programming concepts. This course even includes an interview with the creator of Python, Guido van Rossum. As you may know, Python – like most modern programming languages – is built on top of C. (18 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/complete-c-programming-course-from-dr-chuck/
Learn Linear Algebra so you can build your own AI systems. Tatev Aslanyan is a data scientist who has taught several freeCodeCamp courses over the past few years, mostly focused on Machine Learning. She’ll teach you the key Linear Algebra concepts that come up over and over in developing modern AI tools. You’ll learn about Vector Spaces, Euclidean Distance, Matrix Operations, Gaussian Elimination, and more. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linear-algebra-crash-course-mathematics-for-machine-learning-and-generative-ai/
On this week’s podcast, I interview software engineer Jerod Santo, who hosts the longest-running podcast on open source, The Changelog. We talk about his life as a remote dev in Omaha, Nebraska, where he’s raising his 6 kids. We also talk about the new Changelog News podcast with its weekly 10-minute updates on the world of open source. He shares his process for researching and surfacing interesting developments. And he also talks about emerging trends in open source, such as the controversial relicensing of Terraform. I had a blast learning from Jerod and I think you will, too. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/open-source-is-changing-the-changelog-host-jerod-santo-on-how-to-keep-up-podcast-125/
Andrew Brown is a CTO who has passed dozens of cloud certification exams over the years. And he’s back with an updated guide to the popular AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam. This course will not only teach you everything tested on the exam – it will also ground you in cloud engineering fundamentals. And no, that’s not a typo. This really is a 50 hour course. But as opera singer Beverly Sills once said, there are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going. (50 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pass-the-aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-certification/
Two of the most important tools in any data scientist’s toolbox are Linear Regression and Logistic Regression. This tutorial by data scientist Olu Samuel Praise will teach you how to apply each of these techniques for analyzing data and making predictions. In short, Logistic Regression will give you a binary classification of data: is this picture of a hot dog – yes or no? And Linear Regression will give you a continuous value like a percentage. For example, predicting exam scores from students based on their attendance and hours studied. Again, both approaches are super useful and I think you’ll learn a lot from this quick read. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linear-regression-vs-logistic-regression/
Quote of the Week: “C retains the basic philosophy that programmers know what they are doing; it only requires that they state their intentions explicitly.” — Brian W. Kernighan, who created the C Programming language alongside Dennis Ritchie back in the 1970s
This university-level precalculus course will help you learn mathematical concepts and apply them using Python. Ed Pratowski has decades of experience teaching both math and computer science. This hands-on course will not only teach you the mathematical concepts and notation – it will also show you how to implement these in Python as runnable code. This freeCodeCamp course will also prepare you for our more advanced engineering mathematics courses that we’ll publish over the coming 36 months. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-college-precalculus-with-python/
On this week’s podcast, I interview ThePrimeagen, a former Netflix engineer who live-streams his coding on Twitch. He shares his thoughts on AI tools and why he ripped GitHub Copilot out from his code editor. He thinks AI will create more software engineer jobs than it destroys. We also explore his love of hard Nintendo games and why he left Silicon Valley to live on a horse ranch in South Dakota. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ai-is-overrated-why-theprimeagen-ripped-out-github-copilot-from-his-code-editor-podcast-124/
freeCodeCamp just published a handbook that can help you prepare for coding interviews during your job search. You’ll learn key JavaScript concepts like hoisting, closures, and currying – all with code examples. You’ll also learn how to use Asynchronous Programming keywords like async and await. This is an excellent reference that you can come back to time and time again, so be sure to bookmark it. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/js-interview-prep-handbook/
We also published a comprehensive handbook on Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript. This will teach you how JS Classes work, and how you can use them to implement design patterns. You’ll learn about Constructors, Class Field Methods, the “super” keyword, and the famously confusing “this” keyword. Learn it, know it, live it. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-class-handbook/
In Machine Learning, Fine-Tuning is the process of taking a model that you’ve already trained (or a foundation model like Llama) and enhancing it with your own datasets. For example, you could take a Large Language Model and make it much better at chess by fine-tuning it by feeding it thousands of famous chess games. This course will first teach you about Quantization, a technique to optimize models for efficiency. Then you’ll learn modern methods of fine-tuning like LORA and QLORA. Next you’ll delve into Gradient-based optimization methods. Finally you’ll learn how to build AI pipelines and how to fine-tune models using your own datasets. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fine-tuning-llm-models-course/
Quote of the Week: “Calculus is fundamentally naive. Almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous, and wrenching. Calculus draws its power by refusing to see that. It insists on a world without accidents, where one thing leads logically to another. Give me the initial conditions and the law of motion, and with calculus I can predict the future – or better yet, reconstruct the past.” — Steven H. Strogatz, Mathematician, Author, and Professor at Cornell
Quantum Computing is real. Engineers are already finding ways to apply it to Cryptography, Drug Discovery, AI, and other fields. You can be the first of your friends to understand and appreciate how Quantum Computing works. The first half of this course focuses on the math behind quantum computing algorithms. You’ll learn about Complex Numbers and Linear Algebra. Then you’ll learn concepts like Qubits – Quantum Bits – along with Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Circuits, and Phase Kickback. Even though this course is designed for newcomers to Quantum Computing, I’m not going to downplay the importance of math skills in understanding this course. Fortunately, if you want to improve your math skills, freeCodeCamp also has a ton of university-level math courses to help get you there. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-algorithms-behind-quantum-computing/
If you’re looking for a more beginner-friendly course, freeCodeCamp just published this JavaScript for Beginners course. This is an excellent way to pick up your first programming language. You’ll learn about JavaScript Data Types, Operators, Control Flow, Functions, and even some Object-Oriented Programming concepts. You can follow the steps to set up your development environment on your computer, then code along step-by-step with this guided tour of JS. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-with-clear-explanations/
On this week’s podcast, I interview designer and developer Gary Simon, who is founder of DesignCourse and has over a million YouTube subscribers. I ask him tons of questions about what it takes to become a professional designer in 2024. And we learn all about his own coding journey. He got his start creating thousands of logos for design clients. And he shares the story of how he got complacent mid-career – right before most of his client work evaporated overnight. He hasn’t taken his eye off the ball ever since. It was a blast learning so much from Gary. I think you’ll enjoy this, too. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-become-a-pro-designer-in-2024-interview-with-gary-simon-podcast-123/
You may have heard the terms “Microservice” and “Monolith” before. These are two common approaches to architecting an application. You can think of a Monolith as a stand-alone restaurant, and a Microservice as a food stall in a larger food court with shared tables and shared bathrooms. This tutorial will show you the common arguments for building your apps using each of these architectures. It will also walk you common configurations using lots of helpful diagrams. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/microservices-vs-monoliths-explained/
WordPress is one of the easier-to-use tools for building websites. freeCodeCamp teacher Beau Carnes just published a crash course on how to get a WordPress site live. The course includes a walkthrough of some new AI tools that can make this process even faster. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-wordpress-with-ai-tools/
Joke of the Week: A cop pulls Werner Heisenberg over and asks him: “Do you have any idea how fast you were driving?”
Heisenberg replies: “No. But I DO know exactly where I am right now.”
The cop, exasperated, says: “You were driving 100 miles per hour!”
And Heisenberg sighs and says: “Welp. Now I’m totally lost.”
That was a joke I heard from a physics teacher. My quick, dirty, non-physics teacher explanation: the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle in Quantum Mechanics essentially states that you can’t – at the same time – accurately know both the momentum of a particle and that particle’s location.
freeCodeCamp just published a practical guide to the math and theory that power modern AI models. This course for beginners is taught by Data Scientist and MLOps Engineer Ayush Singh. He’ll walk you through some basic Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Matrix math so you can better understand what’s happening under the hood. Then he’ll teach you key Machine Learning concepts like Neural Networks, Perceptrons, and Backpropagation. If you want to expand your math skills so you can work with cutting edge tools, this course is for you. (14 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deep-learning-course-math-and-applications/
Jose Nunez is a software engineer and running enthusiast. He recently ran a tower race – up 86 flights of stairs to the top of the Empire State Building. He wanted to analyze his performance data, but found the event’s official website to be lacking. In this tutorial, he’ll show you how he scraped the data, cleaned it, and analyzed it himself using Python. He’ll also show how he created data visualizations and even coded an app so his fellow racers can view their results. If you’re looking for real-life hands-on data science projects, this is an excellent one to learn from and find inspiration in. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/empire-state-building-run-up-analysis-with-python/
On this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, I interview prolific programming teacher John Smilga. He talks about what it was like growing up in Latvia, which was then part of the Soviet Union. He worked construction in the US for 5 years before teaching himself to code and becoming a professional developer. Today he has taught millions of fellow devs through his many courses on freeCodeCamp. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-construction-worker-to-teaching-millions-of-developers-with-john-smilga-podcast-122/
Learn how to wield the most popular Version Control System in history: Git. Hitesh Choudhary is a software engineer who has published many courses on freeCodeCamp over the years. And this is one of his best. You’ll learn how to use Git to make changes to a codebase, track those changes, submit them for review, and even how to revert changes if you break something. You’ll also learn how to use Git to collaborate with developers around the world through the global Open Source community. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-git-in-detail-to-manage-your-code/
And if you want to go even deeper with Git, you can earn a certification in GitHub Actions. These are Serverless DevOps tools that let you automate development workflows like building, testing, and deploying code. Andrew Brown is a CTO who has passed more than 50 DevOps certifications over the years. He teaches this freeCodeCamp course, which covers everything that’s on the certification exam. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pass-the-github-actions-certification-exam/
Quote of the Week: “In mathematics, you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” — John von Neumann, Mathematician, Engineer, and Computer Scientist
Kirby is a classic Nintendo game where you control a squishy pink alien with a massive appetite. And in this freeCodeCamp course, you’ll code your own version of Kirby that runs in a browser. You’ll learn TypeScript – a statically-typed version of JavaScript – and the Kaboom.js library. This course includes all the sprite assets you’ll need to build a playable platformer game that you can share with your friends. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-a-kirby-clone-with-typescript-and-kaboomjs/
And if you want to learn what it’s like being a professional GameDev, I interviewed Ben Awad, creator of Voidpet, which I can only describe as a sort of Emotional Support Pokémon-like mobile game. Ben is a prolific coding tutorial creator, and has a weird but popular TikTok channel as well. I had a blast learning more about his adventures over the past few years. Did you know he sleeps 9 hours every single night? He swears by it. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ben-awad-is-a-gamedev-who-sleeps-9-hours-every-night-to-be-productive-podcast-121/
You’ve heard of personal portfolio websites. But what about a portfolio that runs right in a command line terminal? That’s right – this tutorial will teach you how to build an interactive portfolio experience, complete with ASCII art, a résumé menu, and even a joke command. You’ll learn all about Shell Commands, Tab Completion, Syntax Highlighting, and more. And at the end of the day, you’ll have a fun way to share your work with potential clients and employers. (35 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-interactive-terminal-based-portfolio/
The great thing about emerging AI tools is that you don’t need to be a Machine Learning Engineer with a PhD in Applied Mathematics just to be able to get things done with them. The burgeoning field of “AI Engineering” is essentially just web developers using AI APIs and off-the-shelf tools to power up their existing apps. We just published this course, taught by frequent freeCodeCamp contributor Tom Chant. It will introduce you to this new skill set and this new way of leveraging AI. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ai-engineering-with-openai-and-javascript/
What’s the difference between React and Next.js? And while we’re at it, what’s the difference between a library and a framework? In this course, software engineer Ankita Kulkarni will explain these concepts. And she’ll also teach you various data fetching mechanisms and rendering strategies. If you want to expand your understanding of Front End Development, this course is for you. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/whats-the-difference-between-react-and-nextjs/
Quote of the Week: “Game development is very difficult. Nobody sets out to create a game that’s not fun. It’s all of the challenges and difficulties that happen throughout development that determine whether a game is a failure or a success. I think playing those thousands of games is the single best and easiest way to learn from my predecessors.” — Masahiro Sakurai, Software Engineer, Game Developer, and Creator of Kirby
If you’ve used spreadsheets before, you’re all set to learn SQL. This freeCodeCamp course, taught by Senior Data Engineer Vlad Gheorghe, will help you grasp fundamental database concepts. Then you’ll apply what you’ve learned by analyzing data using PostgreSQL and BigQuery. You’ll learn about Nested Queries, Table Joins, Aggregate Functions, and more. Enjoy. (11 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-sql-for-analytics/
On this week’s episode of The freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview my friend Andrew Brown. He’s a CTO who has passed dozens of certification exams from AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and other cloud companies. We talk about Cloud Engineering and he shares his advice for which certs he thinks people should prioritize if they want to get into the field. We also talk about his love of Star Trek and of the classic Super Nintendo game Tetris Attack. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cto-andrew-brown-passed-dozens-of-cloud-certification-exams-freecodecamp-podcast-episode-120/
Learn Next.js by building your own cloud photo album app. Prolific freeCodeCamp instructor Colby Fayock will teach you how to use powerful AI toolkits that let your visitors modify photos right in their browsers. He also teaches key image optimization concepts. This is a great course for anyone interested in sharpening their front end development skills. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-google-photos-clone-with-nextjs-and-cloudinary/
The Rust programming language has become quite popular recently. Even Linux now uses Rust in its kernel. A few years back, freeCodeCamp published a comprehensive interactive Rust course. And today I’m thrilled to share this new Rust Procedural Macros handbook. Procedural Macros let you execute Rust code at compile time, and Rust developers use these all the time. This handbook should serve as a helpful reference for you if you want to level up your Rust skills. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/procedural-macros-in-rust/
And finally, Tell your Spanish-speaking friends: freeCodeCamp just published a new course on Responsive Web Design, taught by Spanish-speaking software engineer David Choi. This course will teach you how to set up your developer environment, structure your web pages using HTML, and define CSS styles for both mobile and desktop viewport sizes. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-responsive-website-with-html-and-css-full-course-in-spanish/
Quote of the Week: “The word SEQUEL turned out to be somebody’s trademark. So I took all the vowels out of it and turned it into SQL. That didn’t do too much damage to the acronym. It could still be the Structured Query Language.” — Donald Chamberlin, Co-Creator of SQL
Learn statistics for Data Science and AI Machine Learning. freeCodeCamp just published this handbook that will help you learn key concepts like Bayes’ Theorem, Confidence Intervals, and the Central Limit Theorem. It covers both the classical math notation and Python implementations of these concepts. This is a broad primer for developers who are getting into stats, and it’s also a helpful reference you can bookmark and pull up as needed. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/statistics-for-data-scientce-machine-learning-and-ai-handbook/
And if you want to dig even further into applied Data Science, freeCodeCamp also published this in-depth Python course on A/B Testing and optimization. It will teach you core concepts like Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Significance Levels, Pooled Estimates, and P-values. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/applied-data-science-a-b-testing/
One of the most exciting areas of AI at the moment is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This freeCodeCamp Python course will teach you how to combine your own custom data with the power of Large Language Models (LLMs). You’ll learn straight from a software engineer who works on the popular LangChain open source project, Dr. Lance Martin. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mastering-rag-from-scratch/
This week I interviewed software engineer and visual artist Kass Moreno about her photo-realistic CSS art. Frankly you have to see her art to believe it. She painstakingly recreates manufactured objects like cameras, gameboys, and synthesizers using nothing but CSS. We talk about her childhood in Mexico and Texas, dropping out of architecture school, her listless years of working in retail, and how she ultimately learned to code using freeCodeCamp and got her first developer role. (1 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-artist-kass-moreno-freecodecamp-podcast-119/
Learn how to build your own movie recommendation engine using Python. You’ll use powerful data libraries like scikit-learn, Pandas, and the Natural Language Toolkit. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a tool that can recommend movies to you based on content and genre. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-movie-recommendation-system-with-python/
Quote of the Week: “Python is everywhere at Industrial Light & Magic. It’s used to extend the capabilities of our applications, as well as providing the glue between them. Every computer-generated image we create has involved Python somewhere in the process.” — Philip Peterson, Principal Engineer at ILM, the special effects company behind Star Wars and so many other Hollywood movies
Learn Backend development by coding 3 full-stack projects with Python. Prolific freeCodeCamp teacher Tomi Tokko will take you step-by-step through building: an AI blog tool, a functional clone of Netflix, and a Spotify-like music platform. You’ll learn how to use the powerful Django webdev framework, along with PostgreSQL databases and Tailwind CSS. This course is a big undertaking. But Tomi makes it enjoyable and accessible for beginners. If you can put in the time to complete this, you’ll gain experience with an entire stack of relevant tools. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/backend-web-development-three-projects
Jabrils is an experienced game developer who makes hilarious videos about his projects. He’s also taught a popular programming course on freeCodeCamp. I interviewed him on this week’s freeCodeCamp podcast about AI, anime, and his new turn-based fighting game. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/indie-game-dev-jabrils-freecodecamp-podcast-118/
Learn how to turn your Figma designs into working code. Ania Kubów is one of freeCodeCamp’s most beloved teachers. And in this course, she showcases the power of generative AI. She’ll walk you through taking a Figma design of an Airbnb-style website and converting it into a fully-functional app. She’ll also show you how to add authentication and deploy it to the cloud. (90-minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ai-web-development-tutorial-figma-designs
GitHub recently launched 4 professional certifications. And this comprehensive guide will help you prepare to pass first of these – the GitHub Foundations exam. Chris Williams has used Git extensively over the decades while working as a software engineer and cloud architect. He breaks down key Git concepts and makes them much easier to learn. (2-hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/github-foundations-certified-exam-prep-guide/
And speaking of Git, if you have Spanish-speaking friends, tell them that freeCodeCamp just published a new Spanish-language Git course. It covers basic version control concepts like repositories, commits, and branches. And it even teaches you more advanced techniques like cherry picking. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-git-in-spanish-git-course-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week: “If you don’t follow your curiosity, you won’t end up where you deserve to be.” — Jabrils on his journey into coding and gamedev, on this week’s freeCodeCamp Podcast
In an era of powerful off-the-shelf AI tools, there’s something to be said for building your own AI from scratch. And that’s what you’ll learn how to do in this beginner course. Dr. Radu teaches computer science at a university in Finland, and is one of freeCodeCamp’s most popular instructors. He’ll show you how to manually tweak neural network parameters so you can teach a car how to drive itself through a Grand Theft Auto-like sandbox playground. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/understand-ai-and-neural-networks-by-manually-adjusting-paramaters/
Learn how to code your own playable Super Nintendo-style developer portfolio website. Instead of just reading your résumé, visitors can walk around a Legend of Zelda-like cabin and explore your work. This tutorial includes all the sprites, tiles, and other pixel art assets you need to build the finished website. Practice your JavaScript skills while building an interactive experience you can share with friends and potential employers. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-developer-portfolio-as-a-2d-game/
Learn Git fundamentals. freeCodeCamp just published this new handbook that will teach you how to get things done with a version control system. You’ll learn how to set up your first code repository, create branches, commit code, and push changes to production. You can code along at home with this book’s many tutorials, and bookmark it for future reference. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-git-basics/
Learn the latest version of the popular React Router JavaScript library. This course will teach you how to build Single Page Apps where your users can navigate from one React view to another without the page refreshing. You’ll also get practice defining routes, passing parameters, and managing state transitions. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-router-v6-course
On this week’s freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview 100Devs founder Leon Noel. Growing up, Leon felt he needed to become a doctor in order to be considered successful. But his interest in coding inspired him to drop out of Yale and build software tools for scientists. He went through a startup accelerator, taught coding in his community, and ultimately built a Discord server with 60,000 people learning to code together. We talk about the science behind learning, and what approaches have helped his students the most. We even talk about Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and Leon’s love of the animated X-Men show. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/100devs-founder-leon-noel-freecodecamp-podcast-interview/
Quote of the Week: “I wrote nearly a thousand computer programs while preparing this material, because I find that I don’t understand things unless I try to program them.” — Donald Knuth on all the code he wrote from scratch in researching his classic book “The Art of Computer Programming”
Learn to build apps with the popular Nest.js full-stack JavaScript framework. In this intermediate course, you’ll code your own back end for a Spotify-like app. You’ll learn how to deploy a Node.js API to the web. And you’ll build out all the necessary database and authentication features along the way. (Note that Nest.js is similar to Next.js, but Nest.js uses TypeScript and is heavily inspired by Angular. freeCodeCamp also has comprehensive Next.js courses if you want to learn that as well.) (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/comprehensive-nestjs-course/
You may have heard the term “no-code” before. Essentially these types of tools are “not only code” because you can still write custom code to run on top of them. This said, these tools do make it dramatically easier for both developers and non-developers to get things done. This new course is taught by one of freeCodeCamp’s most popular instructors, Ania Kubów. She’ll teach you how to automate boring tasks by leveraging AI tools and creating efficient automation pipelines. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/automate-boring-tasks-no-code-automation-course
Kanban task management boards were invented at Toyota way back in the 1940s. I speak Chinese and a little Japanese, and I can tell you that the Chinese characters in the word “Kanban” translate to “look board” – something you can look at to quickly understand what’s going on with a project. You may have used popular Kanban tools like Trello. But have you ever coded your own Kanban? Well, today’s the day. This project-oriented tutorial will teach you how to use React, Next.js, Firebase, Tailwind CSS, and other modern webdev tools. (90 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-full-stack-app-with-typescript-nextjs-redux-toolkit-firebase/
Learn how to do hard-core data analysis and visualization using Google’s stack of freely available tools: Sheets, BigQuery, Colab, and Looker Studio. This beginner-friendly course is taught by a seasoned data analyst. He’ll walk you through each of these tools, and show you how to pipe your data from one place to the other. You’ll walk away with insights you can apply to accomplish your practical day-to-day goals. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-analytics-with-google-stack/
In this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview Jessica Lord – AKA JLord. You may not have heard of her, but you probably use her code every day. She’s worked as a software engineer for more than a decade at companies like GitHub and Glitch. Among her many accomplishments, she created the Electron team at GitHub. Electron is a library for building desktop apps using browser technologies. If you’ve used the desktop version of Slack, Figma, or VS Code, you’ve used Electron. We had such a fun time talking about her journey from architecture student to city hall to working at the highest levels of tech. (2 hour watch or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-jlord-jessica-lord/
Joke of the Week: “Me: I’m afraid of JavaScript keywords. Therapist: tell me about THIS. Me: Aghhh!” — Carla Notarobot, Software Engineer and Bad Joke Sharer
freeCodeCamp just published a massive TypeScript course to help you learn the art of statically-typed JavaScript. Most scripting languages like JavaScript and Python are dynamically-typed. But this causes so many additional coding errors. By sticking with static types – like Java and C++ do – JavaScript developers can save so much headache. This beginner course is taught by legendary coding instructor John Smilga. I love his no-nonsense teaching style and the way he makes even advanced concepts easier to understand. And you can apply what you’re learning by coding along at home and building your own ecommerce platform project in TypeScript. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-typescript-for-practical-projects
On this week’s podcast, I interview Phoebe Voong-Fadel about her childhood as the daughter of refugees, and how she self-studied coding and became a professional developer at the age of 36. Phoebe worked from age 12 at her parent’s Chinese take-out restaurant. After college, the high cost of childcare forced her to leave her career so she could raise her two kids. After two years of teaching herself to code using freeCodeCamp, she got her first job as a developer. (1 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stay-at-home-mom-to-developer-podcast/
How can two people communicate securely through an insecure channel? That is a fundamental challenge in cryptography. One approach is by using the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange algorithm. freeCodeCamp just published a handbook that will teach you how to leverage Diffie-Hellman to protect your data in transit, as it moves from between clients and servers. This handbook dives deep into the math that makes this possible, and uses tons of diagrams to explain the theory. It also explores older solutions, such as Hash-based Message Authentication Code. And you’ll immediately put all this new knowledge to use by building a secure messaging project. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/hmac-diffie-hellman-in-node/
Spring Boot is a popular web development framework for Java, and it’s used by tons of big companies like Walmart, General Motors, and Chase. Dan Vega is a prolific teacher of Java. He developed this new course to help more people learn the latest version of Spring Boot so they can build enterprise-grade apps. His passion for Java really comes through in this course. (3.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-app-development-with-spring-boot-3/
Learn Microsoft’s ASP.NET web development framework by building 3 projects. You’ll start off this course by learning some C# and .NET fundamentals while coding a menu app. Then you’ll dive into some advanced features while building your own clone of Google Docs. Finally, you’ll bring everything together by building a payment app. Along the way, you’ll get familiar with Microsoft’s powerful Visual Studio coding environment. (2.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/master-asp-net-core-by-building-three-projects/
Quote of the Week: “‘TypeScript is silly because it just gets turned back into typeless code when you hit compile.’ Oh man do I have some upsetting news about C++ for you.” — Jules Glegg, Game Developer
freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive roadmap for learning Back-End Development. You’ll start off by learning full-stack JavaScript with Node.js. Then you’ll learn how to use Django to build a Python back end. After building several mini-projects, you’ll dive deep into database administration with SQL. You’ll then build your own APIs, write tests for them, and secure them using OWASP best practices. This roadmap will also teach you Architecture and DevOps concepts, Docker, Redis, and the mighty NGINX. (70 hour roadmap of YouTube courses): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/back-end-developer
Learn the algorithms that come up most frequently in employers’ coding interviews. This new course will teach you how to use JavaScript to solve interview questions like Spiral Matrix, the Pyramid String Pattern, and the infamous Fizz-Buzz. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/top-10-javascript-algorithms-for-coding-challenges/
On this week’s freeCodeCamp Podcast I interview Cassidy Williams about her climb from Microsoft intern to Amazon software engineer to startup CTO. Cassidy’s famous for her many developer memes and funny coding videos. In this blunt, un-edited conversation, she shares a ton of career tips – including some that will be especially helpful for women entering the field. (2 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-cassidy-williams-cassidoo/
Learn how to localize your websites and apps into many world languages. Of course, anyone can just drop in a translation plugin. But if you want your users to have a good experience, you should create bespoke translations that resonate with native speakers of those languages. This course will introduce you to a powerful translation crowdsourcing tool used by many websites and apps – including freeCodeCamp. You’ll learn how to combine machine translation with the intuition of native speakers to quickly craft translations that sound natural. Then you’ll learn how to use the front-end libraries necessary to get those translations in front of the right users. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/localize-websites-with-crowdin/
And speaking of localization, tell your Spanish-speaking friends: freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive Tailwind CSS course taught by David Ruiz, a Front-End Developer and native Spanish speaker. We’ve been publishing tons of Spanish-language courses to help Spanish speakers around the world, and this is just the beginning. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-tailwind-css-in-spanish-full-course/
Quote of the Week: “In the particular is contained the universal.” — James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet
Learn the C# programming language. This course will teach you C# syntax, data structures, Object Oriented Programming concepts, and more. Then you’ll apply this knowledge by coding a variety of mini-projects throughout the course. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-c-sharp-programming/
Prolific freeCodeCamp author Nathan Sebhastian just published his React for Beginners Handbook. You can read the full book and learn how to code React-powered JavaScript apps. Along the way you’ll learn about Components, Props, States, Events, and even Network Requests. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-for-beginners-handbook/
This new Machine Learning course will give you a clear roadmap toward building your own AIs. Data Scientist Tatev Aslanyan teaches this Python course. She covers key statistical concepts like Logistic Regression, Outlier Detection, Correlation Analysis, and the Bias-Variance Trade-Off. She also shares some common career paths for working in the field of Machine Learning. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-machine-learning-in-2024/
But you don’t have to learn a ton of Statistics and Machine Learning to get more out of AI. You can first focus on just getting better at talking to AI. This new Prompt Engineering Handbook will give you practical tips for getting better images, text, and code out of Large Language Models like GPT-4. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/advanced-prompt-engineering-handbook/
In this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, I interview education charity founder Seth Goldin. He’s a computer science student at Yale and has taught several popular freeCodeCamp courses. We talk about the future of education, and the risks and opportunities presented by powerful AI systems like ChatGPT. During this fun, casual conversation, we make sure to explain all the specialized terminology as it comes up. And like most of our episodes, this podcast is 100% OK to listen to around kids. (2 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-ai-and-the-future-of-education-with-seth-goldin/
Joke of the Week: *“Why do Java developers wear glasses? Because they can’t C#.”
Generative AI is a type of Artificial Intelligence that creates new content based on its training data, rather than just returning a pre-programmed response. You may have tried creating text or images using models like GPT-4, Gemini, or the open source Llama 2. But how do these models actually work? This in-depth freeCodeCamp course will teach you the underlying Machine Learning concepts that you can use to create your own models. And it’ll show you how to leverage popular tools like Langchain, Vector Databases, Hugging Face, and more. (30 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-generative-ai-in/
One Generative AI model that just came out is Google’s new Gemini model. And freeCodeCamp instructor Ania Kubów just finished her comprehensive course showcasing Gemini’s many features. You’ll learn how Gemini works under the hood, and about its “multimodal” functionalities like image-to-text, sound-to-text, and even text-to-video. The course culminates in grabbing an API key and coding along with Ania to build your own AI Code Buddy chatbot project. (1.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/google-gemini-course-for-beginners/
And if that wasn’t enough AI courses for you, Microsoft recently started offering a professional certification in AI fundamentals. This course – taught by CTO and prolific freeCodeCamp contributor Andrew Brown – will help prepare you for the exam. You’ll learn about classical AI models, Machine Learning pipelines, Azure Cognitive Services, and more. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/azure-data-fundamentals-certification-ai-900-pass-the-exam-with-this-free-4-hour-course/
freeCodeCamp just published another full-length handbook – this time on Regular Expressions. RegEx are one of the most powerful – and most confusing – features of modern programming languages. You can use RegEx to search through data, validate user input, and even find complex patterns within text. This handbook will teach you key concepts like anchors, grouping, metacharacters, and lookahead. And you’ll learn a lot of advanced JavaScript RegEx techniques, too. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/regex-in-javascript/
Serverless Architecture is a popular approach toward building apps in 2024. Despite the name, there are still servers in a data center somewhere. This isn’t magic. But the tools abstract the servers away for you. In this intermediate JavaScript course, Software Engineer Justin Mitchel will teach you how to take a simple Node.js app and run it on AWS Lambda with a serverless Postgres database. He’ll even show you how to automate deployment using GitHub Actions and Vercel. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/serverless-node-js-tutorial/
Also, on this week’s podcast I interviewed an emerging star in the Machine Learning community: Logan Kilpatrick. The day he started working at Open AI, ChatGPT was brand new and hit its first 1 million users. We talk about Logan’s journey from the suburbs of Chicago to the heart of Silicon Valley, his work at NASA, and his many freeCodeCamp tutorials on the Julia programming language. (2 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-chatgpt-open-ai-logan-kilpatrick/
Quote of the Week: “The plural of regex is regrets.” — Steve, a Brooklyn-based Golang developer and reluctant user of Regular Expressions
Data Structures and Algorithms are tools that developers use to solve problems. DS&A are a huge chunk of what you learn in a computer science degree program. And they come up all the time in developer job interviews. This in-depth course is taught by a Google engineer, and will teach you the key concepts of Time Complexity, Space Complexity, and Asymptotic Notation. Then you’ll get tons of practice by coding dozens of the most common DS&A using the popular Java programming language. (48 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-data-structures-and-algorithms-2/
Many of the recent breakthroughs in AI are thanks to advances in Deep Learning. In this intermediate-level handbook, Data Scientist Tatev Aslanyan will teach you the fundamentals of Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks. She’ll give you a solid foundation that you can use as a springboard into the more advanced areas of machine learning. You’ll learn about Optimization Algorithms, Vanishing Gradient Problems, Sequence Modeling, and more. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deep-learning-fundamentals-handbook-start-a-career-in-ai/
The Document Object Model (DOM) is like a big Christmas tree that you hang ornament-like HTML elements on. This front-end development handbook will teach you how the DOM works, and how you can use it to make interactive web pages. You’ll learn about DOM Traversal, Class Manipulation, Event Bubbling, and other key concepts. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-in-the-browser-dom-and-events/
On this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview Jessica Wilkins, an orchestral musician from Los Angeles turned software engineer. We talk about how ridiculously competitive the world of classical music is, and how it gave her the mental toughness that she needed to learn to code. Jessica ultimately turned down contracts from Disney and other music industry titans so that she could focus on transitioning into tech. She was a prolific volunteer contributor to the freeCodeCamp codebase and core curriculum, and now works on our team. I think you’ll dig our conversation – especially if you’re interested in the overlap between music and technology. (2.5 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-jessica-wilkins-classical-music-learning-to-code/
Finally, if you have Spanish-speaking friends, tell them about this new CSS Flexbox course that we just published. freeCodeCamp now has tons of courses in Spanish, along with a weekly Spanish podcast – all available on our freeCodeCamp Español channel. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-css-flexbox-in-spanish-course-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week: “Less than 10% of code has to do with the ostensible purpose of a system. The rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance, and other housekeeping.” — Mary Shaw, Software Engineer and Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor
Learn how to use JavaScript to create art with code. More and more contemporary artists are using math and programming to create digital art and interactive experiences. This course is taught by artist and software engineer Patt Vira. She’ll show you how to use the popular p5.js library. You can code along at home and build 5 beginner art projects. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/art-of-coding-with-p5js/
It’s hard to predict the exact order in which things will happen in life. That’s certainly the case in software. Thankfully, developers have pioneered a more flexible approach called Asynchronous Programming. And JavaScript is especially well-equipped for async programming thanks to its special Promise objects. freeCodeCamp just published this JavaScript Promises handbook to teach you common async patterns. You’ll also learn about error handling, promise chaining, and async anti-patterns to avoid. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-javascript-promises-handbook/
Code your own product landing page using SveltKit. Software Engineer James McArthur will teach you all about Svelt, SveltKit, Tailwind CSS, and the benefits of Server-Side Rendering. He’ll even show you how to deploy your site to the web, and add a modern CI/CD pipeline. This course will give you a good mix of theory and practice. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-sveltekit-full-course/
Learn how to code your own video player that runs right in your browser. This in-depth tutorial will teach you how to use powerful tools like Tailwind CSS and Vite. You’ll also learn some good old-fashioned JavaScript. This is an excellent project-oriented tutorial for intermediate learners. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-custom-video-player-using-javascript-and-tailwind-css/
On this week’s freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview developer and Scrimba CEO Per Borgen. We talk about Europe’s tech startup scene and the emerging field of AI Engineering. Per is a fellow founder whom I’ve known for nearly a decade, and we had a fun time catching up. I hope you’re enjoying the podcast and learning a lot from these thoughtful devs I’m having as guests. (1 hour YouTube video or you can listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-ai-engineering-scrimba-ceo-per-borgan/
Quote of the Week: “I think we’d all feel much better if we instead saw bad code as a form of contemporary art. Unused functions? Surrealism. Mixing tabs and spaces? Postmodern. My code isn’t spaghetti, it’s avant-garde.” — Cain Maddox, Game Developer
This new freeCodeCamp course will walk you step-by-step through coding 25 different front-end React projects. I’ve always said: the best way to improve your coding skills is to code a lot. Well, this course will build up your JavaScript muscle memory, and help you internalize key concepts through repetition. Projects include: the classic Tic Tac Toe game, a recipe app, an image slider, an expense tracker, and even a full-blown blog. Dive in and get some reps. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/master-react-by-building-25-projects/
freeCodeCamp alum Zubin Pratap worked as a corporate lawyer for years. But deep down inside, he knew he wanted to get into software development. After years of starting – and stopping – learning to code, he eventually became a developer. He even worked as a software engineer at Google. Zubin created this career change course to help other folks learn how to transition into tech as well. In this course, he busts common myths around learning to program. He also shares open industry secrets, and gives you a framework for mapping out your path into tech. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/career-change-to-code-guide/
Gavin Lon has been a C# developer for two decades, writing software for companies around London. And now he’s distilled his C# wisdom and his love of the programming language into this comprehensive book. Over the past few years, freeCodeCamp Press has published more than 100 freely available books that you can read and bookmark as a reference. And this is one of our most ambitious books. It explores C# data types, operators, classes, structs, inheritance, abstraction, events, reflection, and even asynchronous programming. In short, if you want to learn C#, read Gavin’s book. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-csharp-book/
Roughly 1 out of every 7 Americans lives with a disability. As developers, we should keep these folks in mind when building our apps. Thankfully, there’s a well-established field called Accessibility (sometimes shortened to “a11y” because there are 11 letters in the word that fall between the A and the Y). This nuts-and-bolts freeCodeCamp course will teach you about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Accessible Rich Internet Applications, Semantic HTML, and other tools for your toolbox. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-your-web-sites-accessible/
On this week’s freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview the creator of one of the most successful open source projects ever. Robby Russell first released the Oh My Zsh command line tool 15 years ago. We talk about his web development consultancy, which has built projects for Nike and other Portland-area companies. We also talk about his career-long obsession with code maintainability, and his post-rock band. (2 hour watch on YouTube, or listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-oh-my-zsh-creator-and-ceo-robby-russell/
Quote of the Week: “I tried to teach myself to code THREE times. In 2014, in 2015, and in 2017. And all three times I quit because I tried to jump too high, set myself up for failure, and then assumed I was not smart enough. But actually, I had just tried to run before I’d learned to walk.” — Zubin Pratap, freeCodeCamp alum who went on to become a software engineer at Google
My friend Andrew Brown is a CTO who has passed practically every cloud certification exam under the sun. Within weeks of GitHub publishing their new official certs, Andrew has already studied, passed the exam, and prepared this course to help you do the same. If you’re considering earning a professional cert to demonstrate your proficiency in Git and GitHub, this course is for you. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pass-the-github-foundations-certification-course/
Among many of my web developer friends, a new set of tools is emerging as a standard: Tailwind CSS, Next.js, React, and TypeScript. And you can learn all of these by coding along at home with this beginner course. You’ll use each of these tools to build your own weather app. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/beginner-web-dev-tutorial-build-a-weather-app-with-next-js-typescript/
And if you want even more JavaScript practice, this tutorial is for you. You’ll code your own browser-playable version of the 1991 classic “Gorillas” game, where two gorillas throw explosive bananas at one another. You’ll use JavaScript for the game logic and core gameplay loop. And you’ll use CSS and HTML Canvas for the graphics and animation. (2 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/gorillas-game-in-javascript/
Deep Learning is a profoundly useful approach to training AI. And if you want to work in the field of Machine Learning, this course will teach you how to answer 50 of the most common Deep Learning developer job interview questions. You’ll learn about Neural Network Architecture, Activation Functions, Backpropogation, Gradient Descent, and more. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ace-your-deep-learning-job-interview/
My friends Jess and Ramón are starting a new cohort of their freely available bootcamp on Friday, February 9. You can join them and work through freeCodeCamp’s new project-oriented JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certification. This is a great way to expand your skills alongside a kind, supportive community. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-webdev-and-js-bootcamps/
Quote of the Week: “Git and I are in a committed relationship but it pushes me sometimes.” — Cassidy Williams, Software Engineer
Learn Python data analysis by working with astronomical data. In this course, you’ll start by learning some basic Python coding skills. Then you’ll use measurements from the stars to learn how to work with tabular data and visual data. You’ll pick up tools like Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Jupyter Notebook. You’ll even apply some advanced image processing techniques. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-data-analysis-and-visualization-with-python-using-astrongomical-data/
And if you want to learn even more Python, freeCodeCamp just published an entire handbook on the art and science of Python debugging. You’ll learn how to interpret common Python error messages. You’ll also learn common debugging techniques like Logging, Assertions, Exception Handling, and Unit Testing. Along the way, you’ll use Code Linters, Analyzers, and other powerful code editor tools. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-debugging-handbook/
OpenAI just released their new Assistants API to help you build your own personal AI assistants. And this project-oriented course will show you how to code up some minions that can do your bidding. You’ll learn how to use Python, Streamlit, and the Assistants API to code your own news summarizer project and your own study buddy app. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-ai-assistants-with-openais-assistants-api/
Learn LangChain by coding and deploying 6 AI projects. You’ll use 3 popular Large Language Models: GPT-4, Google Gemini, and the open source Llama 2. Along the way, you’ll build a blog post generator, a multilingual invoice extractor, and a chatbot that can summarize PDFs for you. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-langchain-and-gen-ai-by-building-6-projects/
This week on the freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview Beau Carnes, who oversees the freeCodeCamp community YouTube channel. Over the past 5 years, Beau has taught dozens of coding tutorials and helped curate more than 1,000 courses. We talk about his transition from high school special education teacher to software engineer. He shares the story of how he earned his second degree in just 6 months while raising 3 kids and running a stilt-walking service. This is my first video podcast, so you can actually watch me and Beau talk while you listen. Or you can just listen the old-fashioned way in your browser or podcast app of choice. (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-biggest-youtube-programming-channel-beau-carnes
Quote of the Week: “Thanks to advances in hardware and software, our computational capability to model and interpret this deluge of [astronomical] data has grown tremendously… The confluence of ideas and instruments is stronger than ever.” — Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale professor, on the growing importance of data analysis in her field of Astronomy
Many people who are learning to code have the goal of eventually working as a developer. But landing that first developer role is not an easy task. Luckily, my friend Lane Wagner created this course to help guide you through the process. It’s jam-packed with tips from me and a lot of other developers. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-a-developer-job
For years, people have asked for an in-depth course on Data Engineering. And I’m thrilled to say freeCodeCamp just published one, and it’s a banger. Data Engineers design systems to collect, store, and analyze data – systems that Data Scientists and Data Analysts rely on. This course will teach you key concepts like Data Pipelines and ETL (Extract-Transform-Load). And you’ll learn how to use tools like Docker, CRON, and Apache Airflow. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-essentials-of-data-engineering/
freeCodeCamp also just published a full-length book on Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Java. It will teach you Java Design Patterns, File Handling, I/O, Concurrent Data Structures, and more. And freeCodeCamp published a more beginner-friendly Java OOP book by the same author a while back, too. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/object-oriented-programming-in-java/
freeCodeCamp uses the open source NGINX web server, and more than one third of all other websites do, too. NGINX uses an asynchronous, event-driven architecture so you can handle a ton of concurrent users with fewer servers. We just published a crash course on using NGINX for back-end development. You’ll learn how to use it for load balancing, reverse proxying, data streaming, and even as a Microservice Architecture. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/nginx/
You may have heard the term “ACID database”. It refers to a database that guarantees transactions with Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability. MySQL and PostgreSQL are fully ACID-compliant. Other databases like MongoDB and Cassandra have partial ACID guarantees. So what are these properties and why are they so important? This article by Daniel Adetunji will explain everything using helpful analogies and some of his own artwork. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/acid-databases-explained/
Quote of the Week: “Data engineers are the plumbers building a data pipeline, while data scientists are the painters and storytellers, giving the data a voice.” — Steven Levy, author of many excellent books about developers and tech companies
This week freeCodeCamp published a massive book on Git. Git was invented by the same programmer who created Linux. It’s a powerful Version Control System that virtually all new software projects use. This said, even experienced developers can struggle to understand Git. So my friend Omer Rosenbaum – the CTO of an AI company – wrote this intermediate book. It will teach you how Git works under the hood, and how you can use it to collaborate with other devs around the world. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/gitting-things-done-book/
Learn Data Analysis with Python. This comprehensive course will teach you how to analyze data using Excel, SQL, and even specialized industry tools like Power BI and Tableau. Along the way, you’ll improve your Python and build several real-world projects you can show off to your friends. The instructor, Alex Freberg, has worked as a data analyst in a variety of industries. He’s adept at explaining advanced topics. I think you’ll enjoy this course and learn a lot. (19 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-data-analysis-with-comprehensive-19-hour-bootcamp/
If you’re new to coding but still want to quickly build prototype apps, AI tools can definitely help. ChatGPT is no substitute for programming skills, but it’s reasonably good at creating code. This course will teach you some prompt engineering techniques. It will also give you a feel for the strengths and weaknesses of AI-assisted coding. Along the way, you’ll build a drum set app and even a Whac-a-Mole game. This course is a great starting point for absolute beginners, and can serve as a gateway into full-blown software development. Be sure to tell your non-programmer friends about it. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-without-being-a-coder/
A String is one of the most primordial of data types. You can find String variables in almost every programming language. Strings are just a sequence of characters, usually between two quote marks, like this: “banana”. And yet there are so many things you can do with Strings: Concatenation, Comparison, Encoding, and even String Searching with Regular Expressions. Joan Ayebola wrote this in-depth handbook that will teach you everything you need to know about JavaScript Strings. (full handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-string-handbook/
Hugging Face is not just what happens in the 1979 movie “Alien”. It’s also a “GitHub of AI” platform where machine learning enthusiasts share models and datasets. This tutorial will show you how to set up the Hugging Face command line tools, browse pretrained models, and run a few AI tasks such as sentiment analysis. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/get-started-with-hugging-face/
Quote of the Week: “Duct tape programmers don’t give a damn what you think about them. They stick to simple, basic, and easy to use tools. Then they use the extra brain power that these tools leave them to write more useful features for their customers.” — Joel Spolsky, developer and founder of Stack Overflow and Trello
Learn modern Front-End Development with the powerful React JavaScript library. This in-depth course is taught by software engineer and prolific freeCodeCamp contributor, Hitesh Choudhary. He’ll teach you the fundamental structure of React apps, including Hooks, Virtual DOM, React Router, Redux Toolkit, the Context API, and more. You’ll also apply these tools by building several projects along the way. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/comprehensive-full-stack-react-with-appwrite-tutorial/
And if you want to go beyond React and learn full-stack JavaScript, freeCodeCamp contributor Chris Blakely has created an entire roadmap for skills you should learn. This roadmap focuses on the MERN Stack: MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js, which many popular web apps use – including freeCodeCamp itself. If you’re new to web dev, this will give you a broad overview of what you’ll want to prioritize learning. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mern-stack-roadmap-what-you-need-to-know-to-build-full-stack-apps/
Software Development as a field is always changing. I like to say that the key skill developers possess is not coding itself, but rather the ability to learn quickly. This book will help you think like a developer, so you can pick up new tools, solve new problems, and keep blazing forward as a dev. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/creators-guide-to-innovation-book/
Developer job interviews are not just about coding. There’s a significant portion dedicated to the “behavioral interview.” This course will show you what to expect and how to prepare for it – through example questions and case studies. It’s a time-efficient way to gear up for a successful run of interviews. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mastering-behavioral-interviews-for-software-developers/
The #100DaysOfCode challenge is an ideal New Year’s Resolution for anyone wanting to expand their developer skills. Each year, thousands of ambitious people commit to this simple challenge: code at least 1 hour each day for 100 days in a row, and support other people who are doing the same. I’ve written this guide to how you can get started and make some serious gains in 2024. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/100daysofcode-challenge-2024-discord/
Finally, my friends Jess and Ramón are starting a new cohort of their freely available bootcamp on Monday, January 8. You can join them and work through both freeCodeCamp’s Responsive Web Design certification and our new project-oriented JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certification. This is a great way to expand your skills alongside a kind, supportive community. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-webdev-and-js-bootcamps/
Quote of the Week: “A year ago I had no idea how to write code, and now I’m building my own stuff and learning how to do things I never thought I’d be capable of. If your new year’s resolution is to become a developer, start now! You will never regret it.” — Jack Forge, software developer
I’m proud to announce that after 2 years of development, freeCodeCamp’s new upgraded JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certification is now live. You can learn JavaScript step-by-step by coding 21 different projects – right in your browser. You’ll build your own fantasy role playing game, mp3 player app, spreadsheet tool, and even a Pokémon Pokédex app. (300-hour interactive curriculum): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-with-new-data-structures-and-algorithms-certification-projects/
And that’s just one of the many upgrades freeCodeCamp rolled out this week. We also published an interactive Python certification. It’s 15 projects that you can complete right in your browser. And that’s not all. We published our English for Developers curriculum to help non-native English speakers improve their English so they can work in tech. Here’s my full year-end breakdown. You can read along and unwrap the many Christmas presents that the freeCodeCamp community has stuffed under your tree. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-very-freecodecamp-christmas/
Learn full-stack web development with this comprehensive project-based course. You’ll build and deploy your own hotel management dashboard. Along the way, you’ll learn advanced tools like Next.js, React, Sanity, and Tailwind CSS. This is an excellent course to solidify your coding fundamentals. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-and-deploy-a-hotel-management-site/
Figma is a popular design and app prototyping tool. And they recently introduced a powerful feature that lets you declare variables, then use them throughout your projects. A lot of designers think this is a big deal. And freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive handbook that will teach you how to leverage these Figma variables, so you can use them in your designs. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/variables-in-figma-handbook/
On this week’s freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview Kylie Ying, a software engineer and AI researcher. We talk about her 5 years at MIT and her time at CERN working on the Large Hadron Collider. We also talk about competitive figure skating, poker-playing AIs, and the many courses she’s published on freeCodeCamp over the years. (2 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-kylie-ying-mit-cern/
Joke of the Week: “Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween? Because Dec 25 = Oct 31.” In programming, Dec stands for Decimal, meaning a base-10 number system. And Oct stands for Octal, meaning a base-8 number system. So Dec 25 really does equal Oct 31. I know – this isn’t the funniest programmer joke ever, but it is fun to think about.
Learn to code your own mini Grand Theft Auto game with self-driving cars. Dr. Radu Mariescu-Istodor teaches this intermediate JavaScript course. He’s already taught several freeCodeCamp courses on No Black Box AI development and self-driving cars. And now he’ll teach you how to build an entire virtual world and populate it with those cars. You’ll learn about spatial graphs, 3D geometry, road marking recognition, and how to incorporate real-world road data from OpenStreetMap. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-virtual-world-with-javascript/
And if you want to learn even more hardcore AI skills, freeCodeCamp teacher Beau Carnes just published an in-depth course on Vector Embeddings, Vector Search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation. You’ll be able to augment off-the-shelf Large Language Models by using Semantic Similarity Search with your own in-house data. At freeCodeCamp we pride ourselves on teaching programming fundamentals. And yet we also teach emerging practices that only a few thousand people on earth know how to leverage. We’ll help you become one of those people. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/vector-search-and-rag-tutorial-using-llms-with-your-data/
If you’re just starting your coding journey, don’t let all these advanced topics intimidate you. freeCodeCamp just published a book that should be right up your alley. My friend Fatos authored “How to Start Learning to Code – a Handbook for Beginners.” It will teach you about developer careers and how you can join the ranks of more than 30 million professional developers on Earth. Learning to code is a marathon – not a sprint. And Fatos will give you lots of practical tips to help you power through the checkpoints. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-coding-for-everyone-handbook/
And another friend, Andrew Brown, just published a complete refresh of his Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification course. It will help you learn cloud engineering fundamentals and prepare for Microsoft’s AZ-900 exam. Andrew is a former CTO who has passed every cloud certification under the sun. He is the most qualified person imaginable to help you earn these résumé-reinforcing cloud certs. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/azure-fundamentals-certification-az-900-exam-course/
Finally, I had the privilege of touring the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. And while I was there I interviewed my long-time friend and fellow founder Dhawal Shah. He has run the popular Class Central website for more than a decade, and is a historian of Massive Open Online Courses. We talk about his childhood in India, how he won his first computer from a Cartoon Network sweepstakes, and how he moved to the US as an engineer and ultimately became a US citizen. (2 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-history-of-online-courses-dhawal-shah/
Quote of the Week: “Open world games are fun not because NPCs (non-player characters) have their own stories, but because the player can affect those stories in significant ways.” — Tony Li, Unity forum user back in 2015
Machine Learning Operations – or MLOps – is an emerging field where developers use DevOps principles to build AI. You can learn all about it by coding along with this intermediate course. You’ll use Python, Pandas, and several Machine Learning libraries such as ZenML. By the time you finish, you will have built and deployed your own production-grade AI project. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mlops-course-learn-to-build-machine-learning-production-grade-projects/
And if you’re looking for a more beginner-friendly path into DevOps, earning an AWS certification may be the way to go. freeCodeCamp just published a course to help you prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. This course is newly updated for 2024. You’ll learn cloud computing concepts, architecture, deployment models, and more. (14 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-study-course-pass-the-exam-with-this-free-13-hour-course/
There’s a way to represent images with code, and I use it all the time. SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics, and it’s one of the most efficient ways to store images for icons or other simple patterns. It’s so efficient because it stores the literal coordinates of all the lines and colors of your image. In this tutorial, freeCodeCamp contributor Hunor Márton Borbély will teach you how to work with SVG files by coding your own Christmas tree, gingerbread man, and snowflake art. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/svg-tutorial-learn-to-code-images/
Remember that game Snake that came preloaded on all those indestructible Nokia phones? You’re going to learn how to code that classic game where the snake keeps eating and getting longer until it collides with itself. Along the way, you’ll get hands-on practice with JavaScript. You’ll also learn how to give your game a retro design using HTML and CSS. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-beginners-project-snake-game
Developers sometimes encode data as raw text using Base64, even though it takes up 33% more storage than binary. Why do they do this? Well, Base64 is just a combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and two symbols: + and /. Just to check my math, that’s 26 + 26 + 10 + 2 = 64 characters, right? This tutorial will teach you all the things you never knew you wanted to know about Base64. And it will solve the mystery of why developers continue to use this even today. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-base64-encoding/
Poem of the Week:
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, The Base64 of I love you, Is SSBsb3ZlIHlvdQ==”
— Netsecfocus on Twitter
The subject line wasn’t a typo. freeCodeCamp really did just publish a 4-day-long course. This is a full cloud engineering bootcamp developed by my friend Andrew Brown. He’s a former CTO who has passed every single cloud certification exam under the sun. This hands-on project-oriented course will teach you all about serverless architecture, containerization, databases, pipelines, and enterprise cloud strategies. Clear your calendar. 😉 (107 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-107-hour-aws-cloud-project-bootcamp/
Learn how to code your own Instagram clone. You’re going to reverse engineer the entire app, using contemporary tools like React and Firebase. You’ll learn about authentication, post creation, real-time interaction, and more. By the end of this course, you’ll have built a sophisticated social media app from scratch. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-and-deploy-an-instagram-clone-with-react-and-firebase/
And if you want to focus on your fundamental programming skills, this tutorial is for you. Joan Ayebola explains JavaScript’s famously tricky logic operators. She’ll teach you about conditional statements that form the core of day-to-day programming. You’ll also learn about Switch Statements, Short-Circuit Evaluation, the Ternary Operator, and how to apply these to real world projects. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/logic-in-javascript/
I hung out with hardware engineer Bruno Haid at his studio in NYC. We talked about his childhood in the European countryside, designing custom printed circuit boards, Retrocomputing, and founding companies in the US. It’s a fun, breezy conversation. And we do philosophize a bit about Star Trek. (2 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-hardware-engineering-bruno-haid/
Tell your Spanish speaking friends that freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive web development course, taught by software engineer and native speaker Manuel Basanta. You’ll learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by coding along at home and building 7 projects. Over the years, freeCodeCamp has published many courses on these topics in English. And now we’re proud to teach them in Spanish as well. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/practice-html-css-and-javascript-by-building-7-projects/
Quote of the Week: “The cloud is just someone else’s computer.” — Graham Cluley, Developer and Security Expert back in 2013
Learn how to build AIs with Machine Learning. This new intermediate course assumes you have some basic knowledge of statistics and Python. You’ll learn how to use the powerful scikit-learn library to implement Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Gradient-Boosting Machines, and other building blocks of AI. This is a serious course, with all the rigor you’ve come to expect from the freeCodeCamp engineering community. I don’t blame anyone for wanting to just chill this Thanksgiving weekend. But if you want to build some hard skills, freeCodeCamp’s gobble gobble got you. (18 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/machine-learning-with-python-and-scikit-learn/
And if you want even more AI insight, learn how to use the popular LangChain framework to link your Large Language Models to your own external data. You’ll learn about Vectorizing, Embedding, Piping, and other important concepts for building a chatbot that can talk about your specific data. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-langchain-to-link-llms-with-external-data/
Speaking of data, I met up in New York City with one of the foremost experts in the field of Data Visualization: Dr. Curran Kelleher. I interviewed him about Computer Science, how humans process visual information, and even the 5 years he spent in India after grad school. Curran is a prolific contributor to the freeCodeCamp community, having taught several Data Visualization courses. So it’s an honor to have him on the freeCodeCamp Podcast. (1 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-data-visualization-curran-kelleher/
My friend Tapas has spent much of this past year thinking about developer career progressions. We just published his collection of common mistakes he sees developers make, and how to best avoid them. You can lean back with a hot beverage and learn what not to do. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/career-mistakes-to-avoid-as-a-dev/
A lot of my friends are using the holidays to prepare for the coding interview process as they apply for new roles. Don’t let this process intimidate you. In this tutorial, freeCodeCamp developer Jessica Wilkins will walk you through solving a popular Leetcode problem called Two Sum. You’ll learn how she thinks and solves the challenge step-by-step. You’ll also get to check out her resulting data visualizations. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-visualization-for-leetcode-two-sum-problem/
Quote of the Week: “The best software developers I know spend the holidays the way they are meant to be spent: doing basic tech support for blood relatives.” — Maciej Cegłowski, Developer and founder of Pinboard
This Java book will help you build a solid foundation in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). You can read this full book right in your browser, and bookmark it to serve as a reference down the road. It covers Java fundamentals like Data Types, Operators, and Control Flow. Then it dives into OOP concepts like Constructors, Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Encapsulation. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-java-object-oriented-programming/
My friend Andrew is a former CTO. Over the past 5 years, he’s earned every single AWS and Azure cloud certification under the sun. Now he’s back with a comprehensive course to prepare you for the Azure Solutions Architect exam. If you want to work in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering, then this is an excellent certification to earn. And Andrew will show you the way. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/become-an-azure-solutions-architect-expert-pass-the-az-305-exam/
Learn how to ace developer job interviews. This course will break down common coding interview topics like data structures and algorithms. Parth is an experienced software engineer who’s worked at a number of tech companies including Microsoft. Along the way, he’s learned several interviewing strategies that work, and he’ll teach you all of them. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/master-technical-interviews/
PaLM 2 is a powerful new Large Language Model from Google. And we’re bringing you an in-depth course on how to harness its power. In this course, popular freeCodeCamp instructor Ania Kúbow will walk you through building your own AI chatbot using the PaLM 2 API. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-the-palm-2-api/
I met up with MIT-trained engineer Arian Agrawal in New York City to interview her about her journey into tech. She was working on Wall Street when she had an idea to rent out her friends’ Indian dresses for weddings. What followed was a crazy journey into entrepreneurship. I had a blast recording this podcast interview, and I hope you enjoy listening to it. (2 hour listen in your browser or favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-arian-agrawal-from-mit-to-startup-land/
Quote of the Week: “After I drink my coffee, I show my empty mug to the IT guy and tell him that I’ve successfully installed Java. He hates me.” — A joke first told in an elevator at the Goldman Sachs building in 2013
Learn the basics of hardware coding with the popular Arduino microcontroller. You’ll learn how to control LEDs, motors, and even household objects like window blinds. You’ll also learn how to hook up sensors for light, sound, and temperature. This is the ultimate DIY electronics tool, and this project-oriented course will teach you all about it. You can enjoy this course and learn these concepts even if you don’t own an Arduino. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/arduino-for-everybody/
I hung out in New York City with legendary programmer Joel Spolsky, who co-founded Stack Overflow and Trello. I got to interview him about his thoughts on software engineering, building companies, and how new AI tools represent a “third age of programming”. (2 hour listen in your favorite podcast app): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/trello-stack-overflow-founder-joel-spolsky-podcast-interview/
Learn Python and the powerful Tkinter library by coding your own desktop app. In this quick tutorial, you’ll learn Tkinter basics by building a whiteboard app with a Graphical User Interface. You’ll code the window’s navigation, buttons, and even a color picker. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-whiteboard-app/
Learn how to build your own e-commerce sticker shop with AI-generated stickers. In this WordPress crash course, freeCodeCamp teacher Beau Carnes will walk you through coding and deploying your own site. He’ll show you how to use AI tools to procedurally generate merchandise to stock your virtual shelves. This is a fun, breezy watch. (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-wordpress-store-that-sells-real-ai-generated-products/
Next.js is a popular JavaScript web development framework. And one of the trickiest parts of building an app is Authentication. This course will teach you how to use the latest version of Next.js together with several OAuth providers to sign your users in. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/secure-next-js-applications-with-role-based-authentication-using-nextauth/
Quote of the Week: “We’re programmers. Programmers are, in their hearts, architects, and the first thing they want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We’re not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds.” — Joel Spolsky
As you may know, each week I host The freeCodeCamp Podcast where I interview software developers. Well, I decided to do something special for our 100th episode. I recorded a full-length audiobook version of my 2023 book “How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job.” If you’ve been meaning to read my book, you can now listen to it on the go – in its entirety. I consider podcasts to be my own personal “University of the Commute.” I listen to them every day while I’m getting around town. And I encourage you to do the same. Just search for The freeCodeCamp Podcast in whichever podcast app you use, or listen right in your browser. (full audiobook – 4 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/
This in-depth course will teach you Web Development for beginners. You’ll learn key tools like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You’ll even learn how to commit your code with Git and deploy it to the cloud. My friend Akash teaches this course. He’s not only a developer – he’s also the CEO of a machine learning startup. This man knows webdev like the back of his hand, and he’s stellar at teaching it. (20 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-web-development-with-this-free-20-hour-course
If you’re already comfortable with web development, and want to learn mobile app development, this course will teach you how to code your own Android quiz app – and from scratch. You’ll build on top of your webdev knowledge by learning Android Components and the Kotlin programming language. Then you’ll get some practice applying design principles and app logic concepts. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/kotlin-and-android-development-build-a-chat-app/
If you’re building a large website or app, you’re going to want a Design System. This is a set of reusable components that helps get everyone on the same page. Developers can then use these components to build User Interfaces that are more consistent and harmonious. In this case study, Faith will show you how one startup uses a Design System to simplify collaboration. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-a-design-system/
Manually deploying your codebase to the cloud several times a day can get tedious. If you learn how to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC), you can automate this process. And with improvements in AI, you can simplify this even further. Beau Carnes teaches this course, and he’ll show you IaC concepts in action. You’ll learn how to use natural language – plain English – to describe what you want your infrastructure to look like. Through a combination of tools like GPT-4 and Pulumi, you’ll build out your architecture. You’ll even learn about Serverless Function Chaining. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-and-deploy-iac-by-chatting-with-ai/
Quote of the Week: “The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.” — Alan Kay, programmer, Turing Award winner, and pioneer of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
Harvard’s CS50 course is the most popular course at Harvard and the most-watched Computer Science course in history. Through freeCodeCamp’s partnership with Harvard, I present to you the brand new 2023 edition of this course. You’ll learn CS fundamentals like Data Structures and Algorithms. You’ll also learn C programming, Python, SQL, and other key tools of the trade. I know learning to code is a big undertaking. Ease into it with this fun, beginner-friendly course. (26 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/harvard-university-cs50-computer-science-course-2023/
If you have some Python experience and want to get into Machine Learning, start with this freely available book we just published through freeCodeCamp Press. You’ll learn how to harness the power of ML algorithms including Least Squares, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, and Random Forest. You’ll also learn a variety of optimization techniques like Gradient Descent. You can read the book, tinker with the code examples, and bookmark it for future reference. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/machine-learning-handbook/
freeCodeCamp also published a MySQL for Beginners course this week. You’ll learn Relational Database concepts and SQL basics. This is a practical, jargon-free, no-nonsense course. I think you’ll enjoy Josh’s straightforward teaching style. It’s clear to me that he’s spent a large portion of his waking life using MySQL. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-mysql-beginners-course/
Learn how to write tests for your Python code. This comprehensive Pytest course will introduce you to testing concepts like Mocking, Fixtures, and Parameterization. You’ll even learn some prompt engineering tips for using GPT-4 to help create Python tests for your code. This is a handy way to speed up your test creation workflow. (90-minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/testing-in-python-with-pytest/
Finally, if you’re interested in finance, freeCodeCamp just published a course on Algorithmic Trading with Python. You’ll learn how to design an Unsupervised Machine Learning Trading Strategy. You’ll also learn how to leverage Sentiment Analysis and intraday trading strategies using the GARCH Model. Proof that freeCodeCamp is truly a multi-disciplinary learning resource. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-algorithmic-trading-using-python
Quote of the Week: “What ultimately matters is not so much where you end up relative to your classmates, but where you end up relative to yourself when you began.” — Harvard CS50 Professor David J. Malan
freeCodeCamp just published this comprehensive Front End Developer Roadmap. If you’re new to coding, Front End Development is a great skillset to build up first. freeCodeCamp teacher Beau Carnes will explain the core Front End concepts and tools you should prioritize learning first. You’ll learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Next.js, VS Code, and even some AI Prompt Engineering. This roadmap is a big time commitment, but you can hop on and hop off as you see fit. Either way, you’ll learn a ton of relevant skills and theory. (85 hour coding roadmap of YouTube courses): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/front-end-developer-roadmap
One powerful Front End Development technology that comes built-in to CSS is Flexbox. And freeCodeCamp just published an entire book on the subject. This Flexbox Handbook will teach you how to build responsive designs that look good on any sized device – from a smart watch to a jumbotron. You’ll learn the key Flex and Align properties through a series of practical examples. If you’re new to CSS, bookmark this and use it as a reference when you’re coding. It will serve you well. (full length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-css-flexbox-handbook/
Learn to code your own AI chatbot using the popular MERN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js. You’ll build a full-stack web app that uses these contemporary tools. Then you’ll integrate it with OpenAI’s GPT-4 API for world-class AI chat responses. By the end of this course, you’ll have built your own ChatGPT clone that you can show off to your friends. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-an-ai-chatbot-with-the-mern-stack/
PostgreSQL is the most popular SQL database for building new projects. It’s open source, and extremely battle-tested, being used at companies like Apple, Instagram, and Spotify. NASA even uses it on some of their projects. This course will show you how to run Postgres on your local computer and run several types of SQL queries. You’ll even learn some Relational Database concepts, and advanced features like Aggregate Functions. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/posgresql-course-for-beginners/
If you’re anything like me, your browser probably has way too many tabs open right now. Not only are these eating up your computer’s memory – they are also opening you up to a type of malicious attack called “Tabnabbing”. This may just sound like something PacMan does, but it can lead to some serious consequences. This quick tutorial by Juanita Washington will explain how Tabnabbing techniques work, so that you can defend yourself against bad actors who would use Tabnabbing to trick you. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-tabnabbing/
Quote of the Week: “Every time I think I’m doing some horrible front end code that ‘works’ I think back to when Fallout 3 wanted to animate a train, but objects can’t move in their engine. So they gave an invisible guy a train-shaped-sized hat instead, and made him run the tracks. That’s the spirit.” — Front End Developer freezydorito on Twitter (And yes, that is really how Fallout 3’s trains work)
Bun is hot out of the oven. The Node.js alternative JavaScript Runtime just released their version 1.0 last month, and already freeCodeCamp has this crash course for you. You’ll learn how to set up a Bun web server, create routes, handle errors, add plugins, and wire everything to your front end. A lot of devs seem to dig Bun’s superior performance and its built-in support for TypeScript and JSX. If you already know some Node.js, Bun shouldn’t be too time-consuming to learn. This crash course is a good place to jump in. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-bun-a-faster-node-js-alternative
If you’re building an AI system, please consider learning about AI ethics. freeCodeCamp just published our second primer on this important and potentially extinction-preventing topic. You don’t need to know a lot about programming or about philosophy to enjoy this course. You’ll learn about the current Black Box AI approach that many Large Language Models use, and its limitations. You’ll also learn about some scenarios that were previously considered to be science fiction, such as The Singularity. freeCodeCamp is proud to help inform the discourse on developing AI tools responsibly. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-ethics-of-ai-and-ml/
If you’ve experimented with Large Language Models like GPT-4, you may be somewhat disappointed by their capabilities. Well, getting good responses out of LLMs is a skill in itself. This course will teach you the art and the science of Prompt Engineering, and even introduce some AI-assisted coding concepts. Then you’ll be able to write clearer prompts and get more helpful responses from AI. I spent some time learning these techniques myself, and was blown away by how much more useful they made ChatGPT for me. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/prompt-engineering-for-web-developers/
You may have used Notion before to organize your thoughts or plan a project. What if I told you that you could code your own Notion clone using open source tools? This course will walk you through doing just that. You’ll learn to use the popular Next.js web development framework, the DALL-E AI image creator, Tailwind CSS, and even some Object Relational Mappers to communicate with your databases. You’ll code the User Interface, code the back end, then deploy your finished app to the cloud. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-and-deploy-a-full-stack-notion-clone-with-next-js-dall-e-vercel/
Put on your learning cap, because we’re going to learn the many ways that computers talk to one another. This tutorial will whisk you through 6 key API integration patterns: REST APIs, Remote Procedure Calls, GraphQL, Polling, WebSockets, and WebHooks. By the end of this quick tutorial, you’ll have a much better understanding of how the internet really works. This will make you a more well-rounded developer. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/api-integration-patterns/
Quote of the Week: “Perhaps we should all stop for a moment and focus not only on making our AI better and more successful, but also on the benefit of humanity.” — Stephen Hawking, Astrophysicist and Science Author
VS Code is a powerful code editor used by pretty much every developer on freeCodeCamp’s team, and most of the other developers I know, too. But much of its power is non-obvious. So freeCodeCamp published this comprehensive beginner-to-advanced VS Code course. It will help you navigate VS Code’s Command Palette, customized themes, keyboard shortcuts, and its library of extensions for React, GitHub, and more. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/increase-your-vs-code-productivity/
Arduino is a popular open source hardware project. You can use Arduino microcontrollers to build musical instruments, automate your home, prototype your electronics, or even gather climate data for a farm. This week freeCodeCamp published our Arduino Handbook to help you learn the Arduino programming language and how to leverage its powerful ecosystem of tools. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-arduino-handbook
Learn how to build and deploy your own Ecommerce app using the latest version of the popular Next.js framework. You’ll build a fully-functional shop complete with authentication and shopping cart functionality. You can code along at home and use the latest tools for everything: Tailwind CSS, the daisyUI component library, Prisma and MongoDB for data storage, and Vercel for deploying your shop to the cloud. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ecommerce-site-with-next-js-tailwind-daisyui-course
freeCodeCamp also published a course on coding your own developer portfolio page using the SvelteKit web development framework and Tailwind CSS. This course will teach you how to build user interfaces quickly without having to micro-manage your CSS. You’ll even implement particle effects. Spend an hour of your week getting some exposure to these powerful tools. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-sveltekit-and-tailwind-css-by-building-a-web-portfolio/
With all these recent breaches, API security has become a hot topic among developers. So, of course, freeCodeCamp is coming in clutch with this API security course. 20-year industry veteran Dan Barahona dives deep into PCI-DSS (the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). This set of rules governs online transactions. If your app or website does anything related to commerce, these best practices will help keep you and your customers secure. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/api-security-for-pci-compliance/
Quote of the Week: “Just like with everything else, tools won’t give you good results unless you know how, when, and why to apply them. If you go out and you buy the most expensive frying pan on the market, it’s still not going to make you a good chef.” — Dr. Christin Wiedemann, Software Engineer and Physicist
Mojo is a programming language that combines the usability of Python with the performance of C. It just came out this month, and already the freeCodeCamp community has developed a course for it. You’ll learn how to leverage Mojo’s strengths for developing AI systems. This beginner’s course will walk you through how Mojo works, and teach you its Data Types, Control Flow, Libraries, and more. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/new-mojo-programming-language-for-ai-developers/
Another emerging AI development tool is LangChain. It’s a framework for Python and JavaScript that makes it easier to build apps around Large Language Models like GPT4. LangChain can help you connect various data sources to your model – including your own databases. This project-based beginner’s course will teach you how to get started with LangChain by coding your own pet name generator. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-langchain-for-llm-development/
But don’t think that freeCodeCamp is just focused on cutting edge AI tools. This week we also published a comprehensive crash course on Java. Learn why Java is celebrated as a “write once, run anywhere” programming language. You’ll get practice with Java fundamentals, and get exposure to the powerful Java Virtual Machine. The JVM handles memory management, garbage collection, multithreading, and even some of your application security. This course is a great place to get started with Java. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-basics-of-java-programming/
The 0/1 Knapsack Problem is an iconic optimization problem in computer science. Let’s say you’re in a hurry, and you need to pack your belongings into a knapsack that you can take with you. How do you maximize the value of your belongings given that you can only carry a certain amount of weight? To solve this problem, we’re going to use C# and a coding approach called Dynamic Programming. freeCodeCamp instructor Gavin Lon teaches this course, and he even plays some electric guitar in the video. I think you’ll dig it and learn a lot. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-dynamic-programming-to-solve-the-0-1-knapsack-problem/
September 30th is World Translation Day. And the freeCodeCamp community is celebrating by publishing this full-length Localization Handbook that will show you how to translate your website or app into many world languages. Over the years, freeCodeCamp has published more than 11,000 coding tutorials. And we’re working to localize these into many languages, so everyone can benefit from them. If you or your friends grew up speaking a language other than English, I encourage you to get involved. We have powerful software to help you make the most of any time you’re able to volunteer. (full book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/localization-book-how-to-translate-your-website
Quote of the Week: “Too many apparently “simple” technologies merely shift the complexity to other places: higher level tools, frameworks, package managers, wrappers, syntax extensions, etc. But well designed systems are simple to learn and use end-to-end, while permitting experts to build amazing things.” — Chris Lattner, software engineer and designer of both the Mojo and Swift programming languages
freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive Python for Beginners course, taught by software engineer Dave Gray. You’ll learn key Python concepts by building a series of mini projects. By the end of this course, you’ll be familiar with Python Data Types, Loops, Modules, and even some Object-Oriented Programming. If you want to learn programming, or brush up on your fundamental skills, this course is an excellent place to start. (9 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ultimate-beginners-python-course/
Learn to build your own AI Software-as-a-Service platform. In this intermediate course, you’ll code an app where your users can drag in a PDF and immediately start chatting with an AI about the document. Along the way, you’ll learn how to use Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and OpenAI’s API, and Stripe’s API. And you’ll even learn how to deploy your app using Vercel. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-and-deploy-an-ai-saas-with-paid-subscriptions/
And if you want to further improve your Front End Development skills, this course should do the trick. You’ll code your own Search Engine-optimized blog, complete with custom fonts, light & dark themes, responsive design, and Markdown-based rendering. You’ll learn modern tools like Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Supabase. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-an-seo-optimized-blog-with-next-js
One of the most important design decisions you can make is picking the right font. This involves so many style and legibility considerations. But you also want to keep performance in mind. This guide will help you choose the right fonts for your next project, and ensure that they load as quickly as possible for your users. (16 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/things-to-consider-when-picking-fonts/
People often ask me: what’s the best way to get practical experience as a developer? And I answer: contribute to open source projects. But that’s easier said than done. Not only do you need to understand a project’s codebase, but you also need to familiarize yourself with open source culture. This guide will help you learn how to communicate with project maintainers. That way you can succeed in getting your contributions merged, so you can get your code running in production. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-contribute-to-open-source/
Quote of the Week: “Good design’s not about what medium you’re working in. It’s about thinking hard about what you want to do. And what you have to work with before you start.” — Susan Kare, Designer of the fonts and icons for the first Apple Macintosh, and pixel art pioneer
freeCodeCamp just published a beginner AI course where you can code your own assistant. You’ll learn about vector embeddings and how you can use them on top of GPT-4 and other Large Language Models. This way you can code your own AI assistant with output customized by you. For example, you can throw all 11,000 tutorials freeCodeCamp has published into a database, embed them, and then your AI assistant can retrieve relevant tutorials when you ask it a question. This may sound pretty advanced, but modern tools make this a lot easier. You’ll learn how to use OpenAI’s GPT-4 API, LangChain, data from Hugging Face, and age-old Natural Language Processing techniques. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/vector-embeddings-course/
Dynamic Programming (DP) is a method for solving complicated problems by breaking them down into smaller bits. You then store the solutions to these sub-problems in a table, where they can be more efficiently accessed, so the computer doesn’t need to recalculate them each time. This efficient DP approach comes up all the time in Algorithms & Data Structure coding interview questions. And this freeCodeCamp course will teach you how to ace those questions. We teach DP using Java. But if you know Python, C++, or JavaScript, you may be able to follow along as well. (3 hour YouTube Course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-dynamic-programming-in-java/
Terraform is a powerful Infrastructure-as-Code DevOps tool. You can write Terraform code that provisions infrastructure from multiple cloud service providers at the same time. For example Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. freeCodeCamp uses Terraform extensively to wrangle our 100+ servers around the world. Now you can learn to leverage this power, too. And earn a professional certification while you’re at it. This Terraform Certified Associate guide will help you grok the advanced concepts, modules, and workflows necessary to pass the exam. It also includes a full-length Terraform course freeCodeCamp published a few weeks ago. (45 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/terraform-certified-associate-003-study-notes/
CSS transitions are a high-performance way to animate a webpage directly – using its HTML elements. And this handbook will teach you how to harness their power. You’ll learn about animation keyframes, timing, looping, and more. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-transition-vs-css-animation-handbook/
Finally, freeCodeCamp published a Fundamentals of Finance and Economics course. It covers a lot of key concepts you learn in business school, such as Time-Value of Money, Capital Budgeting, Financial Statements, and how Macroeconomic Forces shape industries. We plan to publish a lot more courses like this one in the future, to complement our already massive selection of math and computer science courses. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fundamentals-of-finance-economics-for-businesses/
Quote of the Week: “If “Dynamic Programming” didn’t have such a cool name, it would be known as “populating a table.”” — Mark Dominus, Software Engineer and Author of the book High Order Perl
The first time I used ChatGPT, I was impressed. But I didn’t yet realize how useful it would become in my day-to-day work as a developer. Only after I learned some Prompt Engineering techniques did I get good at communicating with the AI. Now I’m much more effective at getting Large Language Models to do tasks for me. That’s why I’m excited to share this new freeCodeCamp course on Prompt Engineering. Ania Kubów will teach you techniques like Few-Shot Prompting, Vectors, Embeddings, and how to reduce AI hallucinations. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-prompt-engineering-full-course/
If you’re brand new to HTML and CSS, this is the book for you. You’ll learn about HTML, the skeleton of a webpage. You’ll learn about CSS, the skin of a webpage. You’ll even learn a little about JavaScript, the muscles of a webpage. Sprinkle in some DevTools and HTTP requests. Now you’ve got a proper web dev primer. Enjoy the book, and bookmark it for future reference as well. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/html-css-handbook-for-beginners/
Code your own cloud storage app using contemporary web development tools. This course will teach you how to use TypeScript – a version of JavaScript where all your variables are statically typed. This reduces bugs. You’ll also use Next.js, a powerful front end framework. Then you’ll layer on Tailwind CSS, a popular library for styling your user interface components. Finally, you’ll learn how to use Firebase 9 to store your data. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-stack-web-development-by-building-a-google-drive-clone-nextjs-firebase/
New developers often ask me how they can get some practical experience writing software. My answer: contribute to open source projects. There are thousands of software engineers out there who will review your work and give you feedback. Some of your code may even make it into production, where many people will benefit from it. Each open source contribution you make to a project like freeCodeCamp is a feather in your cap. And this book will show you how to get started with open source. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-handbook/
How do you filter the signal from the noise? Why, through Signal Processing. This is the set of techniques that engineers have used for decades to make clearer television signals, phone calls, and even medical diagnostic images. This tutorial will bring you up to speed on Signal Processing and Fast Fourier Transforms, which underpin many file compression algorithms. You’ll also learn about Causality, Linearity, and Time-invariance. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/signal-processing-and-systems-in-programming/
Also be sure to tell your Spanish-speaking friends that freeCodeCamp has a ton of courses in Spanish, including this new web dev course for beginners where you code your own Pokémon pokédex: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/html-css-and-javascript-project-in-spanish-create-a-pokedex/
Quote of the Week: “Being good at prompt engineering in 2023 is like being good at Googling in 2003.” — Matt Turck, Venture Capitalist
I’m excited to announce that freeCodeCamp has teamed up with Microsoft to bring you a freely available professional certification: the Foundational C# Certification. If you’re interested in learning some C# and having a credential to put on your LinkedIn or CV, this program is for you. You’ll complete 35 hours of training, then take an 80-question exam. We provide all the preparation materials, including a 90-minute video walk-through of the cert program. (free verified professional certification from Microsoft): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-microsoft-c-sharp-certification/
There are so many powerful AI tools out there, such as GPT-4. But what if you don’t use tools. What if you build your own AI from scratch, using a “no black box” method? This course from Dr. Radu Mariescu-Istodor, who teaches computer science in Finland, will show you how to design such a system. You’ll code an AI that can recognize and classify drawings. If you draw a fish, your AI will learn to recognize it as a fish. This is an excellent Machine Learning fundamentals course for any dev with some JavaScript knowledge and a bit of curiosity. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-machine-learning-and-neural-networks-without-frameworks/
This week, freeCodeCamp published The C Programming Handbook. It will teach you the basics of coding in C, one of the oldest and most important languages. You can read the entire book in your browser, and bookmark it for future reference. The book covers Data Types, Operators, Conditional Logic, Loops, and more fundamental coding concepts. Time spent improving your C is never wasted. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-c-programming-handbook-for-beginners/
And we also published a handbook on Agile Software Development methodologies. You’ll learn about the Agile Manifesto and how it spawned a smörgåsbord of approaches to building projects. You’ll read about Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and how to ship features at scale. If you want your team to benefit from some of these concepts, this book is an excellent place to get started. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/agile-software-development-handbook/
20 years ago, a few developers sat down to catalog the most common security issues they were discovering on the web. And from that, the OWASP Top 10 emerged as a popular reference for devs. You can use OWASP as a checklist to ensure a baseline level of security in your apps. This course will teach you how to spot these common pitfalls and avoid them in your projects. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/owasp-api-security-top-10-secure-your-apis/
Finally, I’m thrilled to introduce you to freeCodeCamp Press. These past few months, we’ve worked with developers from around the world to publish dozens of full length books and handbooks. Our goal is to share these tomes of wisdom with devs everywhere. You can bookmark these books to serve as a reference as you continue to expand your programming skills: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-press-books-handbooks/
Quote of the Week: “A lot of people don’t realize how much work goes into making some thing look like it was no work at all.” — Scott Hanselman, developer, teacher, and podcast host
freeCodeCamp just published a new book to help you learn Python programming. This book explains core Python concepts through more than 100 code examples. It also shows you how to install the latest version of Python and use it in both VS Code and PyCharm. You’ll learn about loops, data types, conditional logic, modules, and more. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-python-code-example-handbook/
For more Python practice, you can develop your own game with Pygame. You’ll code your own playable version of the 1970s arcade classic Pong. This is a great first project for a beginner Python developer. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/beginners-python-tutorial-pong/
And if you’re ready for some more advanced Python, how about building an app on top of GPT-4, the powerful Large Language Model that powers ChatGPT? This course will show you how to use Python libraries, Vector Databases, and LLM APIs to create your own AI agents that can browse the web and carry out tasks for you. This is no longer science fiction – it’s something anyone can sit down and learn how to do with some patience and good instruction. And freeCodeCamp has got good instruction in spades. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/development-with-large-language-models/
Steganography. It’s not a dinosaur – it’s a method of hiding information in plain sight. This tutorial will teach you how Steganography works. Then it will show you how to code your own algorithm that can encrypt data right into the pixels of an image. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-photo-encryption-app/
If you’re feeling really ambitious, why not code your own Dropbox-like cloud storage app? This new freeCodeCamp course will teach you how to use the popular PHP Laravel web development framework. You can code along at home and build your own cloud locker app with a user-friendly web interface. This app will back up your files to Amazon’s cloud, so you can conveniently share them with friends. (14 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-google-drive-clone-with-laravel-php-vuejs/
Quote of the Week: “Only ugly languages become popular. Python is the one exception.” — Donald Knuth, prolific computer science author and Turing Award recipient
The freeCodeCamp community loves JavaScript almost as much as we love Python. And we published several JavaScript tutorials for you this week. First and foremost, this tutorial by Kolade Chris will teach you some advanced JS concepts like Template Interpolation, Unary Plus, the Spread Operator, Destructuring, and Math Object methods. With tons of code examples, this tutorial should help you take your JS to the next level. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-tips-for-better-web-dev-projects/
Next you’ll want to brush up on your JavaScript Operators. These are the valves that control how data flows through your app. This tutorial by freeCodeCamp contributor Nathan Sebhastian will walk you through Logical Operators, Comparison Operators, and even Bitwise Operators for extremely granular control. You’ll even learn the ultra-concise Ternary Operator. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-operators/
And if you want to turn your JS skills all the way up to 11, you can learn JavaScript Promises. Unlike Python, JavaScript is famously an asynchronous programming language. If you’re a beginner, this asynchronicity can really melt your brain. That’s where Promises come in. They help you rein in your parallel-running code so you can harness its true high-performance power. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-promises-async-await-and-promise-methods/
freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive website optimization course, taught by prolific teacher Beau Carnes. You’ll learn about caching techniques, server configuration, monitoring, Domain Name Systems, Content Delivery Networks, and more. This course is focused on WordPress, but you can apply most of these concepts to your website regardless of which tools you’re using. Beau also included a book-length optimization guide. You should be able to read it and find a few low-hanging fruit ways to speed up your site. (full book + 2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-ultimate-guide-to-high-performance-wordpress/
Terraform is a powerful Infrastructure-as-Code DevOps tool. You can write Terraform code that provisions infrastructure from multiple cloud service providers at the same time. For example Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. freeCodeCamp uses Terraform extensively to wrangle our 100+ servers around the world. And now you can learn to use it, too, and earn a professional certification as well. This Terraform cert prep course will help you grok the advanced concepts, modules, and workflows necessary to pass the exam. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/hashicorp-terraform-associate-certification-study-course-pass-the-exam-with-this-free-12-hour-course
Finally, I created a video of my own. Over the years, one of the most common questions people ask me is: “With freeCodeCamp and other self-teaching tools, do I still need to go to university?” I answer this question and many more about technology, higher education, and the labor market. If you’re considering going to university or have college-age kids, I encourage you to watch this and share it with your friends. I’d welcome any feedback you have. (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/is-college-worth-it
Quote of the Week: “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” — Atwood’s Law, coined by Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood. I interviewed Jeff Atwood at his home in California. And I’m publishing my interview this week on The freeCodeCamp Podcast. Search for it in your podcast player of choice. And tell your friends.
freeCodeCamp has partnered with Harvard to bring you another mind-expanding CS50 course: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python. You’ll get broad exposure to Machine Learning theory: Optimization, Classification, Graph Search Algorithms, Reinforcement Learning, and more. You can code along at home and implement your own basic AIs using Python. This is a full university course that’s completely self-paced and freely available. Enjoy. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/harvard-cs50s-ai-python-course
freeCodeCamp also published an end-to-end testing course. You’ll learn QA Engineering with the powerful Cypress JavaScript library. Some of the concepts you’ll pick up include Assertions, Command Chaining, Intercepts, and Multi-Page Testing. Every developer should be able to double as their own QA engineer, and to write their own tests. This course will show you how. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mastering-end-to-end-testing-with-cypress-for-javascript-applications/
Like any good board game, JavaScript is easy to learn and hard to master. And in this advanced JS course, freeCodeCamp instructor Tapas Adhikary will teach you a wide range of function concepts. You’ll learn about the Call Stack, Nested Functions, Callback Functions, Higher-Order Functions, Closures, and everyone’s favorite: Immediately-Invoked Function Expressions – also known as IIFE’s (pronounced “iffy”). Put on your learning cap. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mastering-javascript-functions-for-beginners/
Learn JavaScript by reverse-engineering your own JS utility library – like the ever-popular Lodash library. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to hand-implement more than a dozen array methods, object methods, and math methods. This is excellent practice for brushing up on your JavaScript knowledge. And a lot of the code you write may make it into your other codebases. (45 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-a-javascript-utility-library-like-lodash/
When it comes to deploying your apps to production, there are a ton of options – many of which don’t cost a thing. freeCodeCamp contributor Ijeoma Igboagu compares several hosting platforms including Vercel and Netlify, and shares the strengths and weaknesses of each. She also shows you how to deploy to these services using Git. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-deploy-websites-and-applications/
Quote of the Week: “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — widely attributed to Albert Einstein, as many profound quotes are
For decades, Hollywood has created nightmare scenarios around AI destroying humanity. The Terminator, The Matrix, and most recently Ex Machina. Of course, we’ve already been using primative forms of AI for decades. It already powers many of the systems we rely on as a society. So how can we make new AI systems as safe as possible? Well, this freeCodeCamp course taught by the founder of Safe.AI will walk you through key concepts like Anomaly Detection, Interpretable Uncertainty, Black Swan Robustness, and Detecting Emergent Behavior. If you’re serious about working on AI as a developer, this course should be required viewing. Take lots of notes and share it with your friends. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-safe-ai-reducing-existential-risks-in-machine-learning/
One unambiguously good way to use AI is to help doctors detect diseases like cancer. This course is taught by New York City physician and programmer Dr. Jason Adleberg. In it, he’ll share how he uses Machine Learning to help identify diseases. He’ll show you how to use Python TensorFlow to prepare data, train your model, and evaluate its performance. If you’re interested in the overlap between AI and medicine, this course is for you. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/medical-ai-models-with-tensorflow-tutorial/
Computers have been able to add numbers for more than 100 years. But today we’re going to add numbers the hard way: by training a neural network to do it. This tutorial will teach you some Python Machine Learning concepts in the context of a very simple problem: adding 1 plus 1. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-add-two-numbers-using-machine-learning/
Higher-Order Components are a powerful feature of the React JavaScript Library. You can use HOCs to take one React component and wrap it in another, returning a new component. These make your React code more flexible, more reusable, and easier to maintain. This tutorial will show you how to build your first HOC, and explain what’s happening under the hood. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/higher-order-components-in-react/
I just published my sixth episode of The freeCodeCamp Podcast. This week I talked with Sasha Sheng about how she got laid off from a Big Tech company, then dusted herself off and won a bunch of AI hackathons around San Francisco. And last week I met with one-and-only Shawn “Swyx” Wang to talk about his new AI Engineering projects, and where he thinks all this is heading. Search freeCodeCamp in your podcast player of choice, download some of the episodes, and tell your friends. I’ll keep these interviews coming every Friday.
Quote of the Week: “The genie is out of the bottle. We need to move forward on artificial intelligence development, but we also need to be mindful of its very real dangers.” — Stephen Hawking, Theoretical Physicist, way back in 2017
freeCodeCamp just published a full-length book on RegEx. Regular Expressions are one of the most powerful – and most confusing – features of programming languages. You’ll learn concepts like flags, metacharacters, grouping, lookaround, and other advanced techniques. If you know even a little JavaScript, this book is for you. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/regular-expressions-for-javascript-developers/
We also published an API development handbook. This book will walk you through setting up your own backend architecture using the powerful FastAPI Python framework. You’ll learn how to structure your API, add a database, test it, and deploy it. Along the way, you’ll code your own IMDB-like review aggregator site. Be sure to bookmark this and share it with your developer friends. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fastapi-quickstart/
And if you want to go even deeper into full-stack web development, this next course is for you. You’ll code your own Next.js front end, API backend, and secure JSON Web Token user authentication system. You’ll also learn about Middleware Route Protection, Appwrite, and MongoDB databases. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-stack-with-nextjs-and-appwrite-course/
I’m going to attempt to explain 3 types of cloud storage in this single paragraph. Block Storage is like a book shelf that can hold a set number of pages – say 100. A 200 page book would take up 2 shelves. File Storage then adds abstractions on top of that, such as directories and hierarchy. Finally, Object Storage is the newest, most durable approach. It just uses flat files. And I’m just scratching the surface here. You should totally read more in Daniel’s thoughtful tutorial. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cloud-storage-options/
Learn to build “markerless” Augmented Reality objects that effortlessly float in space without the need for QR codes or other markers. This freeCodeCamp course will show you how to render a solar system around you. You’ll render jet turbine simulations, virtual gardens, and even figure out how much furniture you can fit in your room. This is some cool emerging tech and I think you’ll enjoy playing with it. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/take-your-first-steps-into-the-world-of-augmented-reality/
Quote of the Week: “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.” — Jamie Zawinski, Netscape Navigator Developer and reluctant RegEx user
Learn to code your own Threads clone. Oops. I mean Twitter clone. Mastodon, Blue Sky, everyone’s building their own Twitter. And now you can, too. Of course, the real goal is to learn new tools. And learn you shall. You’ll get hands-on practice with powerful new tools like Next.js, Supabase, and Tailwind.css. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-full-stack-development-with-next-js-and-supabase-by-building-a-twitter-clone/
Websites are fun. But sometimes you want a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that runs right on your user’s operating system. That’s where Python and the TKinter GUI library come in. This course is taught by software engineer and prolific freeCodeCamp contributor John Elder. You’ll learn how to build ttkbootstrap widgets so your users can easily navigate and interact with your app. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/modern-python-app-design-with-ttkbootstrap/
If you’ve got an old computer lying around, why not breathe new life into it by loading up a high-performance Linux operating system. I’ve found that even decade-old laptops can run like new with a light-weight Linux distribution. This tutorial will guide you through several options you can use to learn Linux through tinkering, while also resurrecting an old PC. (16 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lightweight-linux-distributions-for-your-pc/
You may have heard the term “Information Architecture”. Designers think in terms of how to structure information so it can be as digestible as possible for users. This tutorial will explain key IA and User-Centric Design concepts. Then it will walk you through the process of planning the Userflow for a website or app. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/information-architecture-userflow-sitemap/
I’m thrilled to announce that my friends Jess and Ramón are hosting another freely available coding bootcamp that uses freeCodeCamp’s curriculum. This is the latest in their “Bad Website Club” series where people set their pride aside and just start coding for fun and practice. They’ll host live streams throughout the month of August, and answer questions on the freeCodeCamp forum. If you have time, this is a fun way to make friends and learn about web development. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-webdev-bootcamp/
Quote of the Week: “There’s a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That’s possibly true but also possibly a world without joy.” — Amanda Cox, Developer and Data Journalist
TypeScript is a popular version of JavaScript that uses static types. This means that for each variable in your code, you specify whether it’s a string, array, integer, or other data type. Why bother with this? Because it will dramatically reduce the number of bugs in your codebase. freeCodeCamp moved to TypeScript a few years ago, and we haven’t looked back. If you know some basic JavaScript, you can quickly learn TypeScript and start reaping the benefits. This full-length handbook will teach you how to use React with TypeScript. You can code along at home and build your own type-safe To Do List app. (full-length handbook – 2 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/typescript-tutorial-for-react-developers/
We also published a full-length book on Astro. It’s a popular new User Interface framework that a lot of my friends are adopting. Astro is written in TypeScript, and built for speed. This book is structured as a series of projects. You can code along at home and build your own Component Island, then build React apps on top of it. Along the way, you’ll get a feel for Server-Side Rendering. (full-length book - 8 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-the-astro-ui-framework/
Steganography is the art of hiding things in plain sight. It translates to “the study of hidden things” in Greek. You can hide data inside of other data. Then – if you did it right – people will be none the wiser. This tutorial will show you how to use Steganography to hide information in text, images, video, and even network traffic itself. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-steganography-hide-data-inside-data/
Deploying an app to the cloud can be a daunting task. Thankfully, we have Infrastructure-as-Code tools that make this process a lot simpler. This DevOps course will teach you how to use Terraform to configure your servers and domains. If you learn how to automate app deployment, you’ll save a lot of time and headache down the line. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-terraform-to-deploy-a-site-on-google-cloud-platform
Postman is a powerful tool for testing your APIs, and making sure that new feature code doesn’t break your existing codebase. This in-depth course will show you how to use Postman to debug your API endpoints, and ultimately automate deployment using Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools. You can code along at home, and do some CI/CD while listening to some AC/DC. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/master-api-testing-with-postman/
Finally, I’m excited to share that after a 4 year break, I’ve relaunched the freeCodeCamp Podcast. I spent several weeks in San Francisco interviewing developers in-person at public libraries across the city. And this week I’m heading to New York City to interview even more devs. I’ll publish a new interview each week. The first 3 interviews are already live. (3 new 2-hour episodes + 85 older episodes): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-podcast-season-2-developer-interviews/
Quote of the Week: “I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that’s relevant. That’s my adrenaline shot.” — Anders Hejlsberg, Co-creator of TypeScript
Is that a hot dog or not a hot dog? This Python AI course will teach you how to build a Convolutional Neural Network that can classify images. You’ll use a database of food photos to train your AI to spot the hot dogs. You can also use CNNs for natural language processing – think ChatGPT – and time series forecasting. This is an excellent beginner AI course taught by freeCodeCamp instructor and Google engineer Kylie Ying. (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/convolutional-neural-networks-course-for-beginners/
Learn to create your own programming language. If you know some basic Python, you’re all set to dive in. This freeCodeCamp course will teach you language design concepts and data structures. You’ll learn about Object Oriented Programming, Binary Trees, Linear Programming, Tokenization, Lexing, Parsing, and more. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-your-own-programming-language-using-python/
freeCodeCamp just published this full-length handbook on JavaScript. It will teach you how to set up your computer for JavaScript development with tools like VS Code. Then it will walk you through many features of the programming language, including Variables, Data Types, Operators, and Control Flow. You can read this and bookmark it for future reference as you continue to expand your JS skills. (full handbook – 3 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-for-beginners/
Most developers learn how to use Git’s merge feature to add new code to an existing codebase. Git Merge preserves the exact history of code contributions. But sometimes you need a more surgical tool. That’s where Git Rebase comes in. This handbook by software engineer and CTO Omer Rosenbaum will teach you how to use Git Merge, Git Rebase, Cherry Picking, and more. (full handbook – 3 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-rebase-handbook/
What’s the difference between Supervised Learning and Unsupervised Learning? This quick article will explain these two approaches to Machine Learning, and how each works. You’ll also learn some AI techniques that each approach applies. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/supervised-vs-unsupervised-learning/
Joke of the Week: “It’s only called a Neural Network if it comes from the Neuralè region of France. Otherwise you have to call it a logistic regression.” — Vicki Boykis, Machine Learning Engineer
In this beginner course, you’ll learn how to code your own 3D role-playing game. You’ll use the open source Godot Game Engine to learn character creation, animation trees, inventory systems, and monster AI. This course includes all the 3D models and game environment assets you’ll need to build the game. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-3d-rpg-game-with-godot/
And freeCodeCamp also published this advanced C# course. If you’re already somewhat experienced with programming, and want to go deep on C#, this is the course for you. You’ll learn about C# Delegates, Events, Generics, Asynchronous Programming, and Reflection. You’ll also learn advanced LINQ and .NET concepts. (15 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-advanced-c-concepts/
Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are yet another tool developers can use to get things done. But one big limitation is that LLMs are pre-trained, and lack access to current information. That’s where the new GPT Plugin ecosystem comes in. This tutorial will show you how plugins work so you can build one and fetch real-time data using APIs. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-chatgpt-plugin-case-study/
And if you’re interested in LLMs, I encourage you to learn how to use LangChain. It’s an open source Python library that breaks documents down into chunks and makes them easier for LLMs to search, analyze, and summarize. This tutorial will walk you through using LangChain and other libraries to create a Twitter bot that can generate text and reference up-to-date information, such as Wikipedia articles. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-an-ai-tweet-generator-openai-langchain/
Even if you don’t have a computer science degree, you can still learn computer science. This article will give you a broad overview of the field, and share some books and courses you may find helpful. They cover algorithms, architecture, operating systems, databases, networks, and more. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-every-software-engineer-should-know/
Quote of the Week: “I try to make a game that has beautiful open spaces, gaps, room for players to enjoy it in ways that were not authored. I never want it to be where you have to follow the rules completely, where you have to do things exactly as the designers intended.” — Hidetaka Miyazaki, developer, game designer, and creator of Dark Souls and Elden Ring
Pandas is a powerful data analysis library for Python. And in this course, freeCodeCamp instructor Santiago Basulto will teach you how to harness this power. You’ll learn data analysis by categorizing Pokémon. You’ll learn data cleaning with a Premier League Match soccer dataset. And you’ll learn data wrangling with an NBA season dataset. I encourage you to code along at home and build some Pandas muscle memory as you progress through these projects. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-pandas-for-data-science/
Supabase is an open source alternative to Firebase. It’s built on top of PostgreSQL, which makes it easier to learn if you’re already familiar with SQL databases. This course will teach you how to use Supabase to streamline your back-end development. freeCodeCamp instructor Guillaume Duhan will teach you about real time databases and instant APIs. You’ll learn about schemas, triggers, logs, webhooks, and tons of security features as well. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-supabase-open-source-firebase-alternative/
One of the key features of CSS is its Transform property. You can take any HTML element – such as an image – and stretch it, skew it, or flip it. Oluwatobi Sofela wrote this CSS Transform Handbook, which you can bookmark for the next time you want to alter an image right in your CSS. (full handbook – 1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/complete-guide-to-css-transform-functions-and-properties/
Learn how to incorporate AI tools into your web apps. Software engineer Tom Chant will walk you through coding your own “know it all” chatbot. If you already know some basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you’re all set to follow along with this intermediate tutorial. And if you enjoy it, Tom also created a full 5-hour course that expands upon it – also available on freeCodeCamp. (40 minute read + 5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-gpt-4-api-chatbot-turorial/
As you may know, the freeCodeCamp community has invested a ton of time and energy into making our courses available in other languages. Estefania has been creating Spanish-language programming courses, and she just released her newest one on JavaScript DOM Manipulation. Be sure to tell your Spanish-speaking friends. And Estefania has written this article in English if you’re curious to learn more about our localization efforts. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-for-dom-manipulation-in-spanish-course-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week: “Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a voice.” — Stephen Few, Author and Data Analyst
C is the most widely-used programming language in the world. Even when you’re coding in Python or JavaScript, you’re still using C under the hood. One key reason why C is still so popular 50 years after its creation is its high performance. C directly interacts with computer hardware. One way it does this is through Pointers, which point to the location of data in the computer’s physical memory. In this beginner’s freeCodeCamp course on C programming, you’ll learn about Pointers and key concepts like Passing By Reference, Passing By Value, Void Pointers, Arrays, and more. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/finally-understand-pointers-in-c/
If you’re wanting to earn professional certifications for your résumé or LinkedIn, this new freeCodeCamp course will help you pass the Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals Certification (PL-900) exam. You’ll learn about Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, Power Automate, and other tools. freeCodeCamp now also has full-length courses on dozens of certifications from Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, and more. We’ve got you covered. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/microsoft-power-platform-fundamentals-certification-pl-900/
Did you know that – unlike other popular scripting languages – JavaScript is asynchronous? Thanks to non-blocking input/output, JavaScript engines can continue to receive instructions even when they’re busy. But this is a double-edged sword. This in-depth tutorial will teach you how to use Promises and Async/Await techniques to harness the full power of JavaScript without creating a gigantic mess. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/guide-to-javascript-promises/
Not even spreadsheets are safe from Generative AI. You can now include prompts in Google Sheets and get GPT-4 responses right in the cells. This tutorial will show you how to generate boilerplate text, translations, and even code snippets. This is still the same old GPT-4, but you may find it convenient to access it right in your spreadsheets. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ai-in-google-sheets/
A wise developer once said that there are only 3 hard problems in programming: Cache Invalidation, naming things, and centering elements with CSS. Well, I can’t help you with those first two, but this guide will teach you everything you need to know about CSS spacing. You’ll learn about Margins, Padding, Borders, Flexbox, Gaps, and the CSS Box Model. With some practice, you’ll develop a keen instinct for how to create CSS layouts, so you can design elegant websites and apps. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-spacing-guide-for-web-devs/
Quote of the Week: “Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.” — Tony Buzan, who wrote books about Mind Mapping, Mnemonics, and other learning methods
freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive Computer Vision course. In this course, you’ll use Python and the powerful TensorFlow library to diagnose Malaria, generate original images, and even predict human emotions from facial expressions. You’ll learn about Vision Transformers, Generative Adversarial Networks, Variational Autoencoders, and a ton of other cutting edge computer science concepts. The only prerequisite for this course is some beginner Python programming skills, which you can also learn from one of freeCodeCamp’s many open courses. Don’t let yourself be daunted by all of this. You can do it. (37 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-implement-computer-vision-with-deep-learning-and-tensorflow/
Rust is still one of the newer programming languages, but many codebases are already adopting it. Even the Linux Kernel now uses Rust. And Stack Overflow users have voted it the “most loved” programming language 7 years in a row. You can learn how to harness the raw performance power of Rust through this new freeCodeCamp Rust course. You’ll learn about variables, functions, control flow, modules, and even closures. Enjoy. (14 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/rust-programming-course-for-beginners/
Learn the key Design Patterns that power massive distributed systems. This new book by an experienced back-end developer will teach you the fundamental challenges of distributing work across many data centers around the world. In this intermediate software engineering book, you’ll learn more than a dozen Design Patterns including the Saga Pattern, the Split Brain Pattern, and my personal favorite, the Sidecar Pattern. Who doesn’t love sidecars? (full book - 2 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/design-patterns-for-distributed-systems/
This new book from the freeCodeCamp community will guide you through three popular JavaScript front-end development tools: Angular, Vue.js, and React. Each of these tools can be used to accomplish similar goals, but you only need one of them. So which one should you use for a given project? This book will help you decide. It will walk you through code examples for each of these tools, so you can understand their relative strengths and weaknesses. (full book - 2 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/front-end-javascript-development-react-angular-vue-compared/
When you’re doing front-end development, there are so many ways you can style your React components. You could use CSS preprocessors, component libraries, or just plain-vanilla CSS. This quick tutorial will give you some code examples of the most common approaches, and share the pros and cons of each. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-style-a-react-app/
Quote of the Week: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie, Physicist, Chemist, and 2-time Nobel Prize winner
The freeCodeCamp community just published an in-depth course on how to incorporate AI tools into your web apps. Software engineer Tom Chant will walk you through coding your own Movie Pitch generator app – complete with movie summaries from GPT-4 and poster art from DALL-E. He’ll also show you how to code your own drone delivery chatbot. If you already know some basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you’re all set to take this intermediate course. If not, don’t worry – you can use freeCodeCamp’s core curriculum to learn these web development fundamentals. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-ai-apps-with-chatgpt-dall-e-and-gpt-4/
Graph databases are a powerful category of NoSQL databases. By representing data through a system of nodes and edges, graph databases can store and quickly process the relationships between different data points. This makes graph databases a popular choice for building social networks, recommendation engines, and scientific research datasets. This freeCodeCamp course will teach how to use the popular Neo4j graph database to build a sophisticated Java Spring Boot app. Instructors Gavin and Farhan will guide you through using these tools step-by-step. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-neo4j-database-course/
Did you know that you can train an AI using the same graphics cards people use to play video games? Graphics cards have hundreds of inexpensive processors on them, making them ideal for machine learning. This tutorial by software engineer Fahim Bin Amin will show you how to set up an NVIDIA GPU so you can do parallel programming in a framework called CUDA. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-setup-windows-machine-for-ml-dl-using-nvidia-graphics-card-cuda/
How does JavaScript work behind the scenes, really? In this quick tutorial, Esther will explain how Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine works. You’ll learn about runtimes, interpretation, just-in-time compilation, and more. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-javascript-works-behind-the-scenes/
Learn to code your own full-stack web app using Next.js. In this tutorial, you can follow along and build a trivia app based off of the popular comedy TV show Family Guy. You’ll learn about Shared Layouts, Dynamic API routes, static page generation, and more. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have built your own quiz site that you can share with your friends. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-full-stack-application-with-nextjs/
Quote of the Week: “Falling in love with code means falling in love with problem solving, and being a part of a forever ongoing conversation.” — Kathryn Barrett, a software engineer who volunteers to teach kids how to code
6 years ago, Brian Hough started using freeCodeCamp to learn coding. Today he is a professional software developer, and he just published his first freeCodeCamp course. This course will help you learn full-stack web development using the popular Next.js React framework, TypeScript, and AWS. You can code along at home and build your own full-stack quote app, which will share wise quotes from historical figures. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-stack-development-with-next-js-typescript-and-aws/
Django is a powerful Python web development framework. And in this course by freeCodeCamp instructor Tomi Tokko, you’ll learn how to use Django along with the OpenAI API to code your own ChatGPT-like chatbot interface. If you’re new to Python, and you’re excited about recent breakthroughs in AI, this course is for you. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-django-to-code-a-chatgpt-clone/
You may have heard of LeetCode, a site a lot of developers use to practice common coding interview questions. Well, you’re about to code your own LeetCode-like website using cutting edge tools: TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Firebase. Software Engineer Burak Orkmez will walk you through building the website step-by-step, teaching you how to implement lots of features like authentication, saving code submissions in local storage, and even challenge completion modals. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-and-deploy-a-leetcode-clone-with-react-next-js-typescript-tailwind-css-firebase
I don’t know many developers who’d recommend using AI to write production code. But I know plenty of developers who use AI to help improve the quality of their code. This tutorial will give you some ideas for how AI can help you with bug detection, documenting parts of your code, and finding little tweaks to increase its performance. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-ai-to-improve-code-quality/
My friend Manoel compiled a list of the 120 freely available university math courses. He also did research to determine the top 3 universities in the world for mathematics, which by his metrics are MIT, Princeton, and Cambridge. His list includes lots of courses from these schools and many others. If you want to learn some Algebra, Statistics, or Calculus, this will help you choose the right course. (fully browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/math-online-courses-from-worlds-top-universities/
Quote of the Week: “What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.” — Shakuntala Devi, who was hailed as a “Human Computer” for her ability to solve mathematical equations in her head
Learn how to speed up your software development by making use of ChatGPT. In this freeCodeCamp course, you’ll watch an experienced software developer as she builds a full-stack app in just 2 hours, with the help of ChatGPT. Along the way, she’ll explain a bit about how Large Language Models like GPT-4 work, so you can better judge the quality of their output. These AI tools are improving quickly. And to harness their full power, you’ll want to put in the time to really learn your math, programming, and computer science concepts. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-full-stack-application-using-chatgpt/
Learn to code an iPhone app, Android app, and native desktop app – all with the same codebase. This course will teach you cross-platform development using the powerful Ionic and Capacitor JavaScript libraries. You’ll learn about Responsive UI, the Gesture API, Data storage, and more. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-native-apps-with-ionic-and-capacitor/
You may have heard of “Clean Code” before. It’s a collection of coding best practices. You can read this handbook, then bookmark it so you can refer to it when you need to understand key Clean Code concepts. You’ll learn about Modularization, The Single Responsibility Principle, Naming Conventions, and more. (Full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-write-clean-code/
Can you spot the bug? This JavaScript course will teach you about common JavaScript security vulnerabilities and how to fix them. You’ll look at code samples from JS, MongoDB, and Docker. Be sure to write me back and let me know how many of these you managed to get right. (30 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/can-you-find-the-bug-javascript-security-vulnerabilities-course/
Learn GameDev with… Google Sheets? This tutorial will walk you through coding your own Tic Tac Toe game using Apps Script – right in a spreadsheet. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-google-apps-script-basics-by-building-tic-tac-toe/
Quote of the Week: “Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.” — Filipe Fortes, Software Engineer
Learn the basics of Relational Databases. This SQL course for beginners will give you a strong conceptual foundation. You’ll learn how to create Tables and how to drop them. You’ll learn about Aggregation, Grouping, and Pagination. We’ve even included several SQL technical interview questions and answers that you may encounter during the developer job search. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-sql-full-course/
Go is a fast, statically-typed programming language. Over the past decade, it’s gained somewhat of a cult following among developers. And we’re proud to bring you this in-depth Go course. You’ll code real-world projects like an RSS aggregator and an API key authenticator. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/go-programming-video-course/
If you’re interested in Back-End Development, you should familiarize yourself with these powerful software Design Patterns. This primer will introduce you to the Observer Pattern, the Decorator Pattern, Model-View-Controller, and more. You’ll then learn how to use each of these approaches by examining real-world examples. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/design-pattern-for-modern-backend-development-and-use-cases/
This tutorial will walk you through how to build your own chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT API. You’ll start by coding a simple command-line chat app using Node.js. Then you’ll use React to build a web interface for your chatbot. Finally, you’ll combine the two together. After a few hours of coding, you’ll have your own custom chat interface. You can then expand upon it or incorporate it into other apps. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-chatbot-with-openai-chatgpt-nodejs-and-react/
Many of the recent breakthroughs in AI are powered by Artificial Neural Networks. These work in surprisingly similar ways to how we think the human brain works. This article will explore the brain-inspired approach to building AI systems. You’ll learn about Distributed Representations, Recurrent Feedback, Parallel Processing, and more. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-brain-inspired-approach-to-ai/
Quote of the Week: “Don’t ask SQL developers to help you move furniture. They drop tables.” — Carla Notarobot, Software Engineer and Bad Joke Sharer
Learn to code in Python from one of the greatest living Computer Science professors, Harvard’s David J. Malan. This is the newest course in freeCodeCamp’s partnership with Harvard. It will teach you Python programming fundamentals like functions, conditionals, loops, libraries, file I/O, and more. If you are new to Python, or to coding in general, this is an excellent place to start. (16 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-python-from-harvard-university/
And if you want to use your Python for data science, this course on Regression Analysis will help you understand relationships in your data. You’ll learn concepts that underpin many machine learning algorithms, such as Linear Regression, Polynomial Regression, Feature Engineering, and more. And you’ll reinforce your understanding along the way by coding several Python projects. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/master-regression-analysis-for-machine-learning/
There’s not a public API for everything. Sometimes developers have to resort to scraping. Scraping is a technique where you extract data directly from a webpage. And Python makes scraping so much easier. This course will teach you how to code your own Scrapy spider to crawl websites. Then you’ll learn how to clean your data, build pipelines, and ultimately automate the entire process in the cloud. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-scrapy-for-web-scraping-in-python/
But if you have a website of your own and you don’t want people to scrape it, you can provide an API for them instead. This freely available REST API Handbook will teach you how to code your own API using Node.js and Express. You’ll also learn how to write tests for your API to ensure it works reliably. This is very important if you don’t like waking up late at night to fix outages. You’ll even learn how to document your API using a tool called Swagger. (full book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-consume-and-document-a-rest-api
You may have run Git’s Merge command before. You may even have messed up a Git Merge before, resulting in a lot of extra work for yourself. To many, Git Merge is a mystery. But to you, no more. This definitive guide to Git’s Merge feature will finally put those ambiguities to rest. And for the rest of your life, when you do a Git Merge, you’ll do so with confidence that you actually understand what the heck is going on. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-definitive-guide-to-git-merge/
It’s been an amazing week for open learning resources. And these are just some of the books and courses the freeCodeCamp community published this week.
If you haven’t read my book yet, you should. It’s called “How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job” and it’s fully available on freeCodeCamp. It’s really long, so you can bookmark it and read it at your own pace: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/
Quote of the Week: “Python is a truly wonderful language. When somebody comes up with a good idea, it takes about 1 minute and five lines to program something that almost does what you want. Then it takes only an hour to extend the script to 300 lines, after which it still does almost what you want.” — Jack Jansen, Scientific Programmer and Software Engineer
If you’re new to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, this freeCodeCamp course is for you. Jess, AKA CoderCoder, will walk you through building your own social media dashboard app step-by-step. You’ll build a simple website, then optimize it for different device sizes. You’ll learn how to use hover states for your interactive elements, and even add a day-night mode toggle. This course touches on so many key skills, including how to create a GitHub repository for your code, how to approach basic web design, and how to keep accessibility top of mind. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-simple-website-with-html-css-javascript/
React is a powerful front end development JavaScript library. And one of its key components is React Router. This tool helps you pipe all your different React elements together into a sophisticated app. In this course, you’ll learn on React Router 6 from renowned JavaScript instructor Bob Ziroll. He’ll guide you through coding your own production-grade dynamic web app. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-router-6-full-course/
We’ve been talking a lot about the impact of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4. These are impacting software development in a lot of profound ways. And they’re also making a splash in the field of cybersecurity. It turns out you can use LLMs to analyze threat patterns, write incident reports, and even debug your code. But this comes with its own set of risks, writes Daniel Iwugo. His primer will give you a higher fidelity lens through which you can look at AI and its implications for security. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/large-language-models-and-cybersecurity/
Even with all the recent AI breakthroughs, code still doesn’t deploy itself. DevOps engineers and even regular devs need to know how to push their code to the internet. This beginner tutorial will explain common strategies you can use to deploy your code to production. You’ll learn about Rolling Deployment, Blue/Green Deployment, and my personal favorite, Canary Deployment. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/application-deployment-strategies/
I’m obsessed with learning. I’m constantly looking for ways to learn more efficiently so I can cram more into the 30-watt computer that is my brain. Which is why I was jazzed to read this guide by Otavio Ehrenberger. He shows you how to use tools like Python, Anki, and ChatGPT to automate your flashcard workflows and turbo-charge your learning. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/supercharged-studying-with-python-anki-chatgpt/
Quote of the Week: “In a relatively short time we’ve taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters.” — Jeff Jarmoc, cybersecurity researcher, speaking of the World Wide Web and the Internet of Things
The freeCodeCamp community just published a comprehensive project-based course on ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. This cutting-edge course will help you harness the power of Generative AI and Large Language Models. You’ll learn from legendary programming teacher Ania Kubów. She’ll walk you through building 5 projects that leverage OpenAI’s APIs: a SQL query generator, a custom ChatGPT React app, a DALL-E image creator, and more. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/chatgpt-course-use-the-openai-api-to-create-five-projects/
And if you want to better understand the machine learning that powers AI tools like ChatGPT, this JavaScript Machine Learning course will most definitely be your jam. This “No Black Box” ML course is taught by Dr. Radu Mariescu-Istodor, one of the most popular computer science professors in the freeCodeCamp community. He’ll show you how to build AI applications, implement classifiers, and explore data visualization – all without relying on libraries. This is a great way to grok what’s really running under the hood of AI systems. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-machine-leaning-without-libraries-or-frameworks/
Functional Programming is hard. But it comes up all the time in developer coding interviews. This advanced JavaScript course will teach you key FP concepts like lexical scope, time optimization, hoisting, callbacks, and closures. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of currying and its practical applications in JavaScript. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/prepare-for-your-javascript-interview/
And if you really want to nail your coding interviews, take the advice of competitive programming world finalist Alberto Gonzalez. Instead of just memorizing the solutions to common interview questions, he recommends collaborating with your interviewer to talk through your coding assignment. He walks you through 3 mock interview questions, and gives you strategies for looking really smart while showcasing your problem-solving skills. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/collaborative-problem-solving-with-python/
Unleash your inner game developer with this new Godot Game Engine course. This beginner-friendly tutorial will guide you through coding your own platformer game. You’ll design your game’s User Interface, enemies, and 2D background scenes. Along the way, you’ll also learn skills like event scripting, animation, and camera movement. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-godot-for-game-development/
Quote of the Week: “Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence. We cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone’s list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.” — Stephen Hawking, Cosmologist, Theoretical Physicist, and my childhood hero
freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth course on React Native. You can use this framework to code your own native mobile apps using JavaScript. You’ll learn how to structure your app and set up your developer environment. Then you’ll learn about React Components, Props, Styles, and more. By the end of the course, you’ll have your own weather app you can run right on your phone. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-native-full-course-android-ios-development/
Learn to automate tasks and get Linux servers to do your bidding. This Bash course will teach you powerful command line skills you can use on Mac, Linux, and even Windows (using Subsystem for Linux). You’ll learn about input redirection, logic operators, control flow, exit codes, and even text manipulation with AWK and SED. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-bash-scripting-tutorial/
Firebase is a powerful database that runs in the cloud. This course will teach you how to use Firebase along with HTML, CSS, and React to develop your own simple shopping cart app. You can code along at home in your browser, and even deploy your finished app to the cloud. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/firebase-course-html-css-javascript/
Linting is not just when you clean out your pockets. It’s also a term for tools that can spot errors in your source code before you even run it. This tutorial will walk you through the history of linting tools stretching all the way back to the 1970s. It will also teach you about Code Formatters like Prettier, Beautify, and ESLint. This is an excellent primer for JavaScript devs. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/using-prettier-and-jslint/
Keeping up with all this year’s AI breakthroughs can feel overwhelming. Which is why I’m thrilled to share Edem Gold’s History of AI, which stretches all the way back to the 1950s. You’ll learn about Perceptrons, Hidden Markov Models, Deep learning, and more. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-history-of-ai/
Quote of the Week: “Early AI was mainly based on logic. You’re trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You’re trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals.” — Geoffrey Hinton, Computer Scientist, Cognitive Psychologist, and the “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence”, talking about the increasingly successful neural network approach to Machine Learning
freeCodeCamp just published a new Front End Development course. You can code along at home and build your own game in raw HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Then you’ll learn how to refactor your game to make use of the Model-View-Controller design pattern. You’ll then add TypeScript to improve the reliability of your code, and React to make your game more dynamic. This is an excellent project-oriented course for beginners. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/frontend-web-development-in-depth-project-tutorial/
And if you want even more web development practice, here’s another beginner’s course. It will teach you how to build a personal website using a lot of contemporary tools, including Next.js, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, and Sanity. Kapehe has taught a lot of courses with freeCodeCamp, and I think you’ll dig her friendly teaching style. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-personal-website-with-next-js-13-sanity-io-tailwindcss-and-typescript/
You may have heard the terms “Symmetric Encryption” and “Asymmetric Encryption”. But what do they mean? This primer will teach you about these concepts, and how they power both the SSL protocol and its successor, TLS. Encryption makes the World Wide Web go ‘round. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/encryption-explained-in-plain-english/
And on the topic of encryption, it turns out that even something as basic as storing something safely on your computer requires quite a bit of applied mathematics. This tutorial on “encryption at rest” will walk you through some of the cryptography techniques developers use – including hashing and salting. Just thinking about those makes me hungry for some hash browns. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/encryption-at-rest/
My friend Dhawal created this comprehensive list of 850 university courses that are freely available, which you can convert into college credit. There are a ton of different subjects to choose from, including Computer Science, Data Science, Math, and Information Security. (fully browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/370-online-courses-with-real-college-credit-that-you-can-access-for-free-4fec5a28646/
A quick note on GPT-4 and other Large Language Model (LLM) tools: I’m spending several hours each week practicing with these tools, and learning how to use them more effectively.
I still do all my writing the old fashion way. But I’m finding LLMs to be helpful in a lot of other ways, including simplifying my code.
Quote of the Week: “The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius to be.” — Ada Lovelace, mathematician and the world’s first computer programmer
Well, freeCodeCamp has hundreds of hours of practice challenges to help prepare you for this. And even better – we just published a course taught by my friends Kylie and Keith, who are both experienced software engineers.
This “Mock Interview” will give you a much better idea of what a typical coding interview process is like. Kylie takes on the role of coding interview candidate, and answers Keith’s questions about Object-Oriented Programming, Dynamic Programming, and more. (75-minute hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/real-world-coding-interview-for-software-engineering/
Learn how to build a 3D animation that runs right inside a browser. You’ll use React, WebGi, Three.js, and GSAP. You’ll learn how to display 3D models on a website, animate them, and even optimize those 3D animations for mobile devices. Even though this may sound advanced, we made this course as beginner-accessible as possible. By the end of the course, you’ll deploy your own 3D-animated website to the web. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/3d-react-webgi-threejs-course/
Regular Expressions are a powerful – but notoriously tricky – programming tool. Luckily, ChatGPT is surprisingly good at creating these “RegEx” for you. In this course, freeCodeCamp instructor Ania Kubow will teach you how to build your very own RegEx-generating dashboard using the OpenAI API and Retool. (30-minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-chatgpt-to-build-a-regex-generator/
When I first learned Git, I struggled a bit with the concepts of local repository, remote repository, and how to sync code changes between the two. But you don’t have to struggle. Deborah Kurata has created this detailed Git tutorial that walks you through Git’s key syncing features. She also included lots of short video demonstrations. If you’re new to Git, this is a good place to start. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-and-sync-git-and-github-repositories/
freeCodeCamp just rolled out a major update to our Android app. You can now complete coding challenges right on your phone, with our smooth mobile coding user experience. And yes – we are working on an iOS version of the mobile app for iPhone, too. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-mobile-app-curriculum-update/
Quote of the Week: “A lot of developers don’t realize that the interviewer is there to help you. It’s their job to bring out the best in you. You should always be working with your interviewer to show them your skills, and make sure you’re going down the right path. When they ask you a coding question, here’s what you should do: clarify the problem with them, articulate your plan, and then talk them through your code as you’re writing it.” — Alex Chiou, Software Engineer and founder of Taro
Legendary programming teacher and frequent freeCodeCamp contributor Tim Ruscica will teach you how to code your own Mario-style platformer game in Python. You can code along at home and learn how to implement pixel-perfect collision detection, fully-animated character sprites, jump physics, and even double jump physics. (Don’t try this last one in real life.) This course will also teach you some PyGame basics, and how to incorporate adorable pixel art assets. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-platformer-game-with-python/
Django is a popular web development framework for Python. And in this course, you’ll learn how to use Django by coding your own Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Software Engineer John Elder will walk you through building this web app step-by-step. You’ll also learn some Git, MySQL, and the Bootstrap CSS library. CRM tools can help with your client work, job searches, and everyday tasks like keeping track of friends’ birthdays. By the end of this course, you’ll have built your own tool that you can use long-term. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/crm-app-development-with-django-python-and-mysql/
Linux is an incredibly powerful automation tool. And this tutorial will show you how to harness that power through the magical art of shell scripting. Zaira Hira is a developer at freeCodeCamp and a Linux superfan. She’ll teach you Bash commands, data types, conditional logic, loops, cron jobs, and more. And yes, you can try all this without installing Linux on your computer. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/bash-scripting-tutorial-linux-shell-script-and-command-line-for-beginners/
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. That’s the sentence kids memorize in the US, so that they can remember the mathematical Order of Operations: Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. And JavaScript has something similar: Operator Precedence. This in-depth tutorial by Franklin Okolie will teach you about these JavaScript operators and more. Enjoy greatest hits like Modulus, Increment, and Decrement. If you take the time to learn these, you’ll save yourself a ton of headache down the road when you’re debugging your code. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-operators-and-operator-precedence/
If you want to get into Data Analytics, I have good news. Jeremiah Oluseye is a data scientist, and he created this roadmap to guide you in your journey. You’ll learn which tools to focus your time on, which math you should brush up on, and how to build your network in the data community. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-analytics-roadmap/
A big thanks to all 8,289 of you all who are now supporting freeCodeCamp. If you aren’t yet donating to our charity, I encourage you to get involved. You can join us in our mission to create open learning resources for everyone, everywhere on Earth: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Quote of the Week: *“I think that in life, as in game design, you have to find the fun. There is joy out there waiting to be discovered, but it might not be where you expected.
You can’t decide what something’s going to be before you embark on it, and you shouldn’t stick with a bad idea just because you’re fond of it. Take action as quickly and repeatedly as possible. Take advantage of what you already know. And take liberties with tradition.
But most importantly, take the time to appreciate the possibilities, and make sure all of your decisions are interesting ones.”* — Sid Meier, game developer and creator of the Civilization game series
React is a powerful JavaScript library for coding web apps and mobile apps. This course will teach you the newest version of React – React 18 – along with the popular Redux Toolkit. This freeCodeCamp course is taught by legendary programming teacher John Smilga. You can code along at home as he teaches you all about Events, Props, Hooks, Data Flow, and more. (13 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-18-with-redux-toolkit/
And if you just can’t get enough React, my fellow black-framed glasses enthusiast Germán Cocca has got you covered. The Argentinian software engineer wrote a detailed tutorial that shows you several ways of building the same React app, using a rainbow of React tools including Gatsby, Astro, Vite, Next, and Remix. Prepare to expand your mind. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-react-app-different-ways/
Ever wonder what it takes to land a Data Scientist role? No, you don’t necessarily need a Ph.D. But you do need to be able to ace the technical interview. That’s where my friends Kylie and Keith come in. They are both accomplished Data Scientists and prolific programming teachers. And they’ve designed this Data Science “Mock Interview” to give you a better idea of what this process will be like for you. (90-minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mock-data-science-job-interview/
Flutter is a much-loved mobile app development framework. freeCodeCamp uses Flutter for our own Android app, and we swear by it. If you want to get into mobile development, Flutter is a great place to start, and this is a good first tutorial. You’ll build your own mobile user experience using Flutter, Dart, and VS Code. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-simple-login-app-with-flutter/
My friend Dhawal uncovered more than 1,700 Coursera courses that are still freely available. If you just want to learn, and don’t care about claiming the certificates at the end, this is for you. There are a ton of math, software engineering, and design courses – many taught by prominent university professors. This should be plenty to keep you learning new concepts and expanding your skills. (fully browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-courses-6d84cdb30da/
Quote of the Week: “The reason an experienced engineer moves so much faster than a beginner is because they’ve opened most of the “doors” they encounter in code thousands of times before. They stop to think, but so much is done purely by recall. This is why you need to practice, practice, practice.” — Dan Abramov, JavaScript Developer and Creator of Redux
The freeCodeCamp community is proud to bring you this latest computer science course in our partnership with Harvard. You’ll learn Web Development with Python and the popular Django framework. You’ll start by learning some HTML, CSS, and Git. Then you’ll learn about user interface design, testing, scalability, and security. I hope you are able to code along at home, expand your skills, and enjoy some top-notch teaching. (14 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-web-development-from-harvard-university-cs50/
One of our most requested courses over the past few years: LaTeX – the powerful typesetting system used to design academic papers, scientific publications, and books. You’ll learn these tools and concepts from Michelle Krummel. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience. You’ll learn about mathematical notation, TexMaker, Overleaf, and the many packages available in the LaTeX ecosystem. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-latex-full-course/
One of the most critical concepts you should understand about Git is Branching. We’ve got you covered. In this tutorial, Deborah Kurata will teach you how to create a local Git repository with a main branch, then branch off of it. She’ll show you how to commit your code changes, then merge those files back into the main branch. This is what I like to call the “core gameplay loop” of software development. Enjoy. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-branching-commands-explained/
You may have heard about REST APIs. But have you heard about its predecessor, SOAP? Or cutting edge GraphQL APIs? This tutorial by software engineer Germán Cocca will teach you about the Client-Server Model, and how each of these API paradigms work. At the end of the day, an API is just “a set of defined rules that establishes how one application can communicate with another.” By the end, you’ll have a better appreciation for how all these computers around the world communicate with one another. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/rest-vs-graphql-apis/
If you’re a Linux enthusiast like I am, you may appreciate the sheer power Linux gives you. But only if you’re willing to take the time to learn how to wield that power. The find command is one of those powerful tools. This tutorial will show you how to search through file systems by owner, type, permissions, recency, and even regex search. This is some SysAdmin-level stuff. And we’ll keep these Linux tutorials coming. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-search-files-effectively-in-linux/
Quote of the Week: “We build our computers the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” — Ellen Ullman, Programmer and Author
You may have heard about AIs that can beat the world’s best Chess players, Go players, and even Starcraft players. Many of these AIs use a game-playing algorithm called AlphaZero. The AI starts out by playing a game against itself to learn the rules and discover strategies. After a few hours of training, it’s often able to play the game at a superhuman level. This Python course will teach you how to code your own AlphaZero algorithm from scratch that can win at both Tic Tac Toe and Connect 4. You’ll learn about Monte Carlo Tree Search, Neural Networks, and more. This is an ideal course for anyone who wants to learn more about Machine Learning. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-alphazero-machine-learning-algorithm/
Security Researcher and freeCodeCamp contributor Sonya Moisset just made her Open Source Security Handbook freely available. If you’re planning to open-source some of your code, this should be a helpful read. You’ll learn about Static Analysis, Supply Chain Attacks, Secret Sprawl, and other s words. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/oss-security-best-practices/
Excel is a surprisingly powerful tool for doing data analysis. And you can get even more mileage out of Excel if you meld it with Python and the popular Pandas library. This tutorial will teach you how to merge spreadsheets, clean and filter them, and import them into datasets. You’ll even learn how to turn spreadsheet data into Matplotlib data visualizations. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/automate-excel-tasks-with-python/
If you’re just starting your developer journey, you may hear a lot about APIs and how to use them in your projects. Well, this tutorial will give you a ton of examples of public APIs you can play around with. Weather APIs, News APIs, even an API to help you identify different breeds of dogs. This is a good place to get started. (16 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/public-apis-for-developers/
My friends Jess and Ramón have taught thousands of people how to code using the freeCodeCamp curriculum. And this week they’re launching a new cohort program called the Bad Website Club. The pressure is off. Your website doesn’t have to look perfect. You can instead just relax and enjoy the process of building websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Everything is freely available. You can join us at the launch party live stream on March 6. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-bad-website-club-and-more-free-bootcamps/
Quote of the Week: “AlphaGo’s way is not to make territory here or there, but to place every stone in a position where it will be most useful. This is the true theory of Go: not ‘what do I want to build?’, but rather ‘how can I use every stone to its full potential?’” — Professional Go player Fan Hui after losing 5 games to AlphaGo, an AlphaZero algorithm trained to play the ancient strategy game of Go
If you’re new to Linux, this freeCodeCamp course is for you. You’ll learn many of the tools used every day by both Linux SysAdmins and the millions of people running Linux distros like Ubuntu on their PCs. This course will teach you how to navigate Linux’s Graphical User Interfaces and powerful command line tool ecosystem. freeCodeCamp instructor Beau Carnes worked with engineers at Linux Foundation to develop this course for you. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/introduction-to-linux
And if you’re more experienced at Linux, you may want to learn how to code your own commands for the Linux command line. This tutorial will teach you how Bash aliases work, and how they can save you time. The author also shares a table of more than 20 aliases that he uses in his day-to-day work as a developer. (18 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-your-own-command-in-linux/
HTML gives structure to apps and websites. In this beginner course, you’ll learn HTML fundamentals. freeCodeCamp instructor Ania Kubów will be your guide to many key web development concepts. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/html-coding-introduction-course-for-beginners/
SOLID Design Principles belong in your developer skill toolbox. They help you build codebases that will be easier to maintain and update without breaking things. This tutorial will introduce you to key concepts like the Single Responsibility Principle, the Open-Closed Principle, the Dependency Inversion Principle, and more. You’ll even get some nice JavaScript code examples to illustrate these principles in action. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/solid-design-principles-in-software-development/
More than 50 years ago, Pong kick-started the video game revolution. And today in 2023, you can code your own Pong game using Python and its built-in graphics library called Turtle. Turtle is even older than Pong. It was such a popular tool for teaching programming to kids in the 60s that Python imported it from an older language called Logo. This tutorial will teach you Python scripting and basic computer graphics concepts. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-code-pong-in-python/
Quote of the Week: “Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.” ― Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux
It’s 2023 and not only can you play other people’s video games – you can build games yourself. This freeCodeCamp GameDev course will teach you how to use JavaScript to code your own physics-based action game. You’ll learn how to animate game sprites, implement collision detection, and program enemy AI. Along the way, you’ll learn some CSS3, vanilla JavaScript, HTML Canvas, and other broadly useful open source tools. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-an-animated-physics-game-with-javascript/
What’s the simplest way to get started with Python web development? Well, many developers will recommend Flask. You can learn the basics of this light-weight web development framework in just a few hours of study. This Python Web Development course will teach you how to build and deploy a production-ready, database-driven Flask app. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/develop-database-driven-web-apps-with-python-flask-and-mysql/
z-index is easily one of the most confusing properties in all of CSS. It controls how HTML elements appear on the page, and how close they are to your user’s eyeballs. This beginner tutorial will teach you about “Stacking Context.” It will give you a solid mental model. Soon you too will understand how your browser’s DOM renders elements on top of one another. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/z-index-property-and-stacking-order-css/
What are URIs? What are HTTP Headers? How does DNS work? This HTTP Networking Handbook will teach you many of the fundamentals about how the web works, with lots of helpful illustrations. You can bookmark it to use it as a reference. And freeCodeCamp also published a 4-hour video course to accompany it if you want to go even deeper. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/http-full-course/
Learn Asynchronous Programming for beginners. This in-depth guide will teach you key async JavaScript concepts. You’ll learn about the Call Stack, the Callback Queue, Promises, Threading, Async-Await, and more. If you want to take your computer science knowledge to the next level, this is well worth your time. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/asynchronism-in-javascript/
Quote of the Week: “In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself. Nature does it for you.” — Frank Wilczek, Physicist, Professor, and Nobel Laureate
When I was first learning to code, I had trouble understanding exactly what an API is. But I came to understand that, in its simplest form, an API is like a website. But instead of sending HTML to a browser or mobile app, an API sends data. Usually JSON data. This in-depth freeCodeCamp course is taught by experienced developer and instructor Craig Dennis. It will teach you how to code your own REST API – complete with server-side code, client-side data fetching, and more. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/apis-for-beginners/
Remember those silly BuzzFeed personality quizzes? Like: “What type of cheese are you?” This course will teach you how to code your own BuzzFeed-style website using 3 different approaches: a vanilla JavaScript app, a React + JSON API app, and finally a TypeScript + Node.js mini-backend. This course is taught by long-time developer and freeCodeCamp instructor Ania Kubów. If you code along at home, I think you’ll learn a ton from this course, and have a lot of fun along the way. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-code-a-buzzfeed-clone-in-three-ways/
If you want to automate random tasks from your day-to-day life, Python is an excellent tool for the job. This tutorial will teach you how to write simple Python scripts that compress photos, turn text into speech, proof-read your messages, and more. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-automation-scripts/
In my years as a developer, I’ve found that people greatly underestimate how powerful spreadsheets are for doing data analysis. You don’t need to be a statistician to squeeze out meaningful insights from your spreadsheet. One of the most helpful spreadsheet functions is LOOKUP, and its descendants VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and XLOOKUP. This in-depth tutorial will show you how to wield these powerful functions to slice and dice data just the way you need it. (14 minute read + video): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lookup-functions-in-excel-google-sheets/
Also, freeCodeCamp just published a massive Git & GitHub course in Spanish. (Over the years, we’ve published several Git courses in English, too.) If you have Spanish-speaking friends who want to learn software development, please tell them that we now have in-depth courses on a broad range of coding topics. These are all taught in Spanish by Estefania. She’s an experienced teacher and software engineer. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-git-and-github-in-spanish-course-for-beginners
Quote of the Week: “An API that isn’t comprehensible isn’t usable.” — James Gosling, Computer Scientist and Lead Developer of the Java Programming Language, on the importance of having easy-to-understand APIs
freeCodeCamp just published a fully-animated computer basics course. Even if you’ve been using computers for years, this course may be helpful for you. And it should definitely be helpful for any friends and family members who’ve never used a laptop or desktop before. This course covers computer hardware, how cloud computing works, security basics, and more. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/computer-basics-beginners
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the foundation of data communication on the World Wide Web. And this in-depth course will teach you how this massive network of computers really works. You’ll learn about Domain Name Systems, URL paths, security, and more. If you’re interested in networks and back end development, this course should be well worth your time. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/http-networking-protocol-course/
Django is a popular Python web development framework. If you want to build a sophisticated website, it may make sense to learn Django. Like Node.js, Django is used at scale – most notably powering Instagram’s website and APIs. This course will teach you Django fundamentals. You’ll code your own online marketplace while learning about core Django features. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-django-by-building-a-marketplace/
If you want to go old school and never even touch your mouse when you’re coding, you can use the Vim code editor. Vim comes built-in with many operating systems. It uses a sophisticated series of keyboard shortcuts for quick code edits. It can take years to get really good at Vim. But I know many developers who swear up and down that this is worth the time investment. If you want to take the plunge, this Vim Beginner’s Guide is a great starting point. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/vim-beginners-guide/
I started freeCodeCamp back in 2014. Since then, a ton of people have asked for my advice on how to learn to code and ultimately get freelance clients and developer jobs. So last year, I wrote an entire book summarizing my many tips. Even though one of the Big 5 book publishers in New York was interested in a book deal, I decided to instead make this book freely available to everyone who wants to become a professional developer. I hope it’s helpful for you and your friends who are getting into coding. (full-length book – roughly 6 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/
Quote of the Week: “To err is human. But to really foul things up you need a computer.” — Paul R. Ehrlich, biology professor at Stanford
freeCodeCamp just published our own university-level course to help you learn Algebra using Python. If you have forgotten much of the Algebra you learned – or if you never really learned it well in the first place – this course is for you. In it, freeCodeCamp instructor Ed Pratowski will teach you how to use Python and Jupyter Notebook to do math. You’ll learn all about Variables, Graphing, Cartesian Planes, Factoring, and more. Ed has been teaching math to university students for more than two decades. I think you’ll find his teaching style to be clear and memorable. (15 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/college-algebra-course-with-python-code/
This course will teach you how to code your own fully-functional Reddit clone. Along the way, you’ll learn some React, Firebase, Next.js, Chakra UI, and TypeScript. You’ll code a lot of key business logic, including how to handle post deletion, community image customization, voting on posts, and more. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-a-reddit-clone-with-react-and-firebase/
Wireshark is a powerful computer network analysis tool. You can use it to analyze and “sniff” packets of data. This tutorial will teach you how to use Wireshark to better understand networks. You’ll also learn about the 5 Layers Model for networks. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-wireshark-computer-networking/
Pre-caching is where you prepare data in advance of serving it to your users. By using this technique, you can speed up the performance of your website or app. This tutorial will teach you key pre-caching concepts. You’ll learn how to use pre-caching both on the client side – with browser-based caching – and on the server side – with CDNs. You’ll learn the many tradeoffs and best practices involved in achieving fast page loads. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-detailed-guide-to-pre-caching/
In the age of Netflix and League of Legends, there are plenty of things to keep you from achieving your goals. But don’t let a lack of learning resources be one of them. My friend Dhawal compiled an in-depth guide to more than 850 Ivy League university courses that are now freely available online. One of the very best things about the internet: it has made it possible for anyone with an internet connection to learn from world-class professors. I hope some of these courses help you push forward toward your learning goals. (Fully-browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/
Fact of the Week: As abstract as Algebra may seem, it was invented to solve the practical math problems of the 9th Century. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was an astronomer in Baghdad. He wanted to figure out fair ways to distribute land, salaries, and inheritance.
In the process, he invented Algebra, which comes from the Arabic word al-jabr – roughly translating to “reunion of broken parts.” In his book “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing” he described methods for reducing and then balancing equations – a task every student of math can now enjoy.
Also fun fact: the word Algorithm comes from a Latinization of al-Khwarizmi’s name.
Tailwind CSS has quickly become one of the most popular Responsive Design frameworks for coding new projects. This beginner’s course will teach you how to harness Tailwind’s power. By the end of it, you’ll know a lot more about CSS. You’ll learn about colors, typography, spacing, animation, and more. You’ll even build your own Design System, which you can use for your future websites and mobile apps. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-tailwind-css/
Python and JavaScript are not the only programming languages you can use to build full stack web apps. You can also use good old trusty Java. And this in-depth Java course will teach you how to build your own movie streaming website. You’ll learn the Java Spring Boot web development framework, React, MongoDB, JDK, IntelliJ, and Material UI. If you want to take the next step with your Java skills, this course is for you. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-stack-development-with-mongodb-java-and-react/
If you want to expand the certification section of your résumé or LinkedIn profile, I’ve got good news for you. freeCodeCamp just published a collection of more than 1,000 developer certs that you can earn from big tech companies and prestigious universities. All of these are self-paced and freely available. You just have to put in the effort. (full browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-certificates/
ChatGPT just came out and already it has blown so many developers’ minds. You can ask the AI just about any question and get a fairly human-sounding response. What better way to familiarize yourself with ChatGPT than to clone its user interface, using React and ChatGPT’s own APIs. This front end development course will help you code a powerful app that can answer questions, translate text, convert code from one language to another, and more. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/chatgpt-react-course/
If you feel stuck in your coding journey, I may have just the thing to help. I published a full-length book that will teach you how to build your coding skills, your personal network, and your reputation as a developer. You’ll also learn how to prepare for the developer job search, and how to land freelance clients. These practical insights are freely available to read – right in your browser. (5 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/
Quote of the Week: “If you ever throw out an ‘I love you’ and don’t get an ‘I love you’ in return, follow it up with: ‘React is great too. But there’s something I just love about Vue.’ This will save you some embarrassment.” — Adam Wathan, Developer and Creator of Tailwind CSS (Get it? ‘I love Vue’)
You may use Google Search several times a day. I sure do. Well this freeCodeCamp course will teach you the art and science of getting good search results. Seth Goldin studies Computer Science at Yale. To prepare this course, he met with several engineers on Google’s search team. In this course, you’ll learn search techniques for developers, such as Matching Operators, Switch Operators, and Google Lens. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-google-like-a-pro/
Unreal Engine 5 is a powerful tool for coding your own video games. Even big triple-A video games like Street Fighter and Fortnite are coded using Unreal Engine. This course is taught by Sourav, a seasoned game developer. He’ll teach you about Blueprints, Modeling Inputs, Netcode, Plugins, Player Control, and more. By the end of the course, you will have coded your own endless runner game. (11 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/developing-games-using-unreal-engine-5/
What is the most popular computer science course in the world? Why, that would be Harvard’s CS50 course. And freeCodeCamp has partnered with Harvard to publish the entire university-level course – 25 hours worth of lectures – on our community YouTube channel. But is this course for you? freeCodeCamp contributor Phoebe Voong-Fadel wrote an in-depth review of CS50. She’ll help you make an educated decision as to whether this course is worth your time. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cs50-course-review/
Learn Software System Design. This course will teach you common engineering design patterns for building large-scale distributed systems. Then you’ll use those techniques to code along at home and build your own live-streaming platform. (1.5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/software-system-design-for-beginners/
Last week I published my new book: “How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job in 2023”. This week, by popular request, I added an additional chapter to it: “How to Succeed in Your First Developer Job”. My book is freely available – right in your browser. You can bookmark it and read it at your convenience. (Full length book – roughly a 5 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/
Fact of the Week: About 15% of all Google search queries are queries that no one has ever searched before. That means every day, humans around the world are googling millions of unprecedented queries.
This book will teach you insights I’ve learned over the past decade: from my own journey into coding as a teacher in my 30s, from working as a software engineer, and from running freeCodeCamp.org.
If you’re looking for a good starting point for your developer journey, this book is for you. You can read the whole thing now. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/
Learn Python for web development. This crash course by freeCodeCamp teacher Tomi Tokko will teach you how to use Python with SQL and web APIs. You can code along at home and build several projects with both the Django and Flask frameworks. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-python-for-web-development/
You may have heard the programming term “abstraction”. But what exactly does it mean? This in-depth tutorial from software engineer Ryan Michael Kay will delve into abstraction, interfaces, protocols, and even lambda expressions. It should give you a basic grasp of these important programming concepts. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-abstraction-in-programming-for-beginners/
If you enjoy listening to music, why not make some yourself? This beginners tutorial will teach you how to use a popular Digital Audio Workstation called FL Studio. In it, professional music producer Tristan Willcox will teach you about Virtual Instruments, Samples, Layers, Arrangement, Leveling, Mixing, Automation, Mastering, and more. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-produce-music-with-fl-studio/
Hundreds of universities around the world have made programming and computer science courses openly available on the web. My friend Dhawal has compiled 860 of these courses that you can explore. If you want, you can strap these together to build your own school year. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day. Teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime.” – David Leinweber, Mathematician and Berkeley Computer Science Professor
The freeCodeCamp community just dramatically expanded our Learn to Code RPG video game. Learn to Code RPG is an interactive visual novel game where you teach yourself to code, make friends in the tech industry, and pursue your dream of working as a developer. The game features a quirky cast of characters, a charming cat, and more than 1,000 computer science quiz questions. While working as a developer in the game, you can unlock more than 50 achievements and 6 different endings. You can play the game on PC, Mac, Linux, and Android. I enjoyed working with Lynn, KayLa, and Nielda on this all year long. We’re excited to get it to you in time for the holidays. Enjoy. (full-length video game): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-rpg-1-5-update/
Build your own SaaS (Software as a Service) app. In this beginner course taught by freeCodeCamp instructor Ania Kubów, you’ll code your own PagerDuty clone project. This handy tool will notify you whenever one of your servers crashes. You’ll learn PostgreSQL, the Stripe API, Twillio for notifications, and other powerful developer tools. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-your-own-saas-pagerduty-clone/
You may have heard about the GPT-3 and ChatGPT AI assistants, and how amazing they are at tasks like writing high school book reports. But how are they at coding? Well, programming book author and freeCodeCamp volunteer David Clinton sat down with ChatGPT for a pair programming session. He shares his thoughts on the quality of GPT’s code, its limitations, and how effective it might be at helping developers. (10 minute read + 6 minute video): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pair-programming-with-the-chatgpt-ai-how-well-does-gpt-3-5-understand-bash/
Megan Kaczanowski has worked her way up the ranks in the field of information security. Not only has she written many infosec tutorials for the freeCodeCamp community over the years – she’s also created this guide for people entering the field. It will help you plan your learning and understand the alphabet soup of certifications. She’ll also give you tips on how to get involved in your local security community, and how to gear up for the infosec job search. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-your-first-job-in-infosec/
Learn how to code your own Santa Tracker app using Next.js and React Leaflet. User Experience Designer and freeCodeCamp volunteer Colby Fayock will walk you through how to code this front end app. You’ll learn how to fetch Santa’s flight plan, including arrival time, departure time, and coordinates. Then you can plot his entire evening’s journey onto a world map. (20 minute read + 23 minute video): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-santa-tracker-app-with-next-js-react-leaflet/
This is my final letter to you for 2022. I hope you’ve had a fun, insightful year. This has been an amazing year for the freeCodeCamp community. People are using freeCodeCamp more than ever. (People spent more than 4 billion minutes learning on freeCodeCamp this year!) We also launched major improvements to our curriculum, our Android app, and – of course – Learn to Code RPG.
Quote of the Week: “The ‘joy of discovery’ is one of the fundamental joys of play itself. Not just the joy of discovering secrets within the game, but also the joy of uncovering the creator’s vision. It’s that ‘Aha!’ moment where it all makes sense, and behind the world the player can feel the touch of another creative mind. In order for it to be truly joyful, however, it must remain hidden from plain view—not carved as commandments into stone tablets but revealed, piece by piece, through the player’s exploration of the game’s rules.” — Derek Yu, game developer and creator of Spelunky
Programming is a skill that can help you blast your imagination out into the real world. This book – by software engineer and freeCodeCamp teacher Estefania – will give you a strong conceptual foundation in programming. You’ll learn about binary, and how computers “think.” (More on this in the Quote of the Week below.) You’ll also learn how to communicate with computers through code, so they can do your bidding. This book is an excellent starting point to share with friends and family who want to learn more about technology. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-programming-tutorial-for-beginners/
Learn JavaScript by coding your own card game. This course is taught by one of freeCodeCamp’s most experienced teachers. Gavin has worked as a software engineer for two decades, and it really comes through in his teaching. You can code along at home while you watch this, and build your own responsive web interface for the game. You’ll use plain vanilla JavaScript to flip, shuffle, and deal cards from your deck. Once you’re finished, you’ll have a fun project to show your friends. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/improve-your-javascript-skills-by-coding-a-card-game/
And if you’re a bit more experienced with JavaScript, I encourage you to learn the powerful Next.js web development framework. freeCodeCamp uses Next.js in several of our apps. And it’s steadily growing in popularity. This course – taught by Alicia Rodriguez – will teach you Next.js fundamentals. You’ll learn about server-side rendering, API routing, and data fetching. You’ll even deploy your app to the cloud. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-next-js-tutorial/
You may have heard about GPT-3, DALL-E, and other powerful uses of artificial intelligence. But what if you want to code your own AI? You’ll want to start with something simple. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the Minimax algorithm, and how you can use it to create an game AI that always wins or ties at tic-tac-toe. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-an-ai-for-two-player-turn-based-games/
Did you know you can use your command line as a calculator? If you open your terminal in Mac or Linux (or in Windows Subsystem for Linux) you can type equations, and then your computer will solve them for you – usually in just a few milliseconds. This is handy if you are fast at typing and don’t want to use a spreadsheet or click around in a calculator. This tutorial will show you some of the key syntax and features for crunching numbers right in the command prompt. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/solve-your-math-equation-on-terminal/
Quote of the Week: “The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.” — Edsger Dijkstra, Mathematician and Computer Scientist
This freeCodeCamp course will teach you how to code your own Python apps that run directly on Windows, Mac, or Linux – not just in a browser. You’ll learn powerful Python libraries like Qt and PySide6. This way you can build apps that run natively on computers, and leverage their full processing power. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-gui-development-using-pyside6-and-qt/
Swift is a powerful programming language developed by Apple. A lot of developers who build apps for either iOS and MacOS prefer to code in Swift. In this in-depth course, a lead iOS developer will teach you Swift development fundamentals. You’ll learn about variables, operators, error handling, and even asynchronous programming. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-swift-programming-language/
If you’re preparing for a coding interview as part of your developer job search, you’re going to want to read this. Dijkstra’s Algorithm is an iconic graph algorithm with many uses in computer science. You can use it to find the shortest path between two nodes in a graph, or the shortest path from one fixed node to the rest of the nodes in a graph. This detailed explanation – with diagrams and a pseudocode example – will help you appreciate its true brilliance. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dijkstras-algorithm-explained-with-a-pseudocode-example/
If you want to move beyond the basics with React, this intermediate JavaScript tutorial will teach you about Separation of Concerns. You’ll learn about React Container Components, Presentational Components, and how to make your code easier to maintain over time. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/separation-of-concerns-react-container-and-presentational-components/
2022 was a massive year for the global freeCodeCamp community. Thousands of people volunteered to help make our charity and our learning resources better. I’m thrilled to announce this year’s Top Contributors. These 696 friendly people have earned this distinction through going above and beyond in helping fellow learners. Whether they answered questions on the community forum, translated tutorials, contributed to our open source codebases, or designed new courses – we deeply appreciate their efforts. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-2022-top-contributors/
Quote of the Week: “A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language, this influence is – whether we like it or not – an influence on our thinking habits.” — Edsger Dijkstra, Mathematician and Computer Scientist
freeCodeCamp just published a course that will teach you how to code your own API using Python. APIs are like websites designed for other computers to understand, rather than humans. Instead of sharing text, images, videos – and other media that humans understand – APIs just share raw data, such as JSON responses. This course will show you how to build your own REST API using the popular Python Django REST framework. (1.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-django-rest-framework-to-create-web-apis/
MATLAB is a popular programming language used by scientists, and in industries like aerospace. Over the years, we’ve had so many people request a MATLAB course on freeCodeCamp. And today I’m thrilled to share one with you. This course will teach you MATLAB programming fundamentals, including how to use its powerful Integrated Development Environment. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-matlab-with-this-crash-course/
React Testing Library is a powerful front end testing tool for your apps. And this in-depth tutorial will walk you through how to use it. You’ll learn unit testing fundamentals, as well as JavaScript testing tools like Jest. And you’ll get to try out Vite, a new tool for bootstrapping your React apps. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/write-unit-tests-using-react-testing-library/
Have you ever wondered why we write it “freeCodeCamp” with a lowercase f? That’s because we thought it would be funny to use Camel Case like JavaScript does for its variables. And this is just one style of cases that developers use. This guide will introduce you to other popular styles of writing variable names, including Snake Case, Pascal Case, and even Kebab Case. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/snake-case-vs-camel-case-vs-pascal-case-vs-kebab-case-whats-the-difference/
2022 has been a colossal year for the freeCodeCamp community. People spent more than 4 billion minutes learning on freeCodeCamp this year. I wrote this article about some of the areas we’ve been focused on expanding. Not just the university degree program, but also our massive translation efforts. You can check out some of the numbers for yourself. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-2022-usage-statistics/
Quote of the Week: “Really good software is never finished; it continues to grow. If it doesn’t grow, it decays.” — Melinda Varian, Software Engineer
Learn to code your own Duck Hunt-style arcade game. This Python and PyGame course will teach you several core GameDev concepts. You’ll learn how to draw sprites on the screen, check for collisions, procedurally move enemies, and display score. You’ll even code the Game Over conditions. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-arcade-style-shooting/
The freeCodeCamp community is thrilled to share this new book with you: The Express and Node.js Handbook. This Full Stack JavaScript book will come in handy when you’re coding your next web app. You’ll learn about JSON API requests, middleware, cookies, routing, static assets, sanitizing, and more. You can read the entire book freely in your browser, and bookmark it for handy reference. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-express-handbook/
You may have heard the term “Random Sampling” before in articles about science, or even learned how to do it in a statistics class. But are you familiar with Stratified Random Sampling? This Python tutorial will show you how you can separate your data into strata based on a particular characteristic before you do your sampling. You may find this helpful the next time you’re doing some data analysis. (13 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-stratified-random-sampling-definition-and-python-example/
When you configure cloud servers, you have to consider who should be able to access which resources. That’s where Identity Access Management comes in. Roles and Permissions can be one of the hardest aspects of cloud computing to wrap your head around. Luckily, freeCodeCamp just published this tutorial that explains IAM using easy-to-understand analogies. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/aws-iam-explained/
freeCodeCamp just shipped a major update to our Android app. You can now learn from our interactive curriculum right on your phone. We spent months polishing the mobile coding user experience. We also added some new podcasts you can listen to. You can see the app in action and join the beta: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-mobile-app-curriculum-update/
Quote of the Week: “Games were not just a diversion, I realized. Games could make you feel. If great literature could wield its power through nothing but black squiggles on a page, how much more could be done with movement, sound, and color?” — Sid Meier, Game Developer and creator of the Civilization strategy game series
If you want to take your JavaScript and React skills to the next level, this intermediate freeCodeCamp course is for you. Software engineering veteran Jack Herrington will teach you about State Management in React. You’ll learn about hooks, reducers, context, and more. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-manage-state-in-react/
WordPress is an open source website tool that – as of 2022 – more than 40% of all major websites use. And in this course, freeCodeCamp software engineer Beau Carnes will show you how to code and deploy a WordPress website using Elementor. He’ll teach you about hosting, installation, responsive web design, and more. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/easily-create-a-wordpress-blog-or-website/
You may have heard about some recent breakthroughs in AI-generated art work. I’ve been having a blast playing around with DALL-E to create silly images for my kids. And now you can create your own React app that uses the DALL-E API to generate art based on your prompts. This tutorial will walk you through how to code your own pop-up art gallery on your website. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/generate-images-using-react-and-dall-e-api-react-and-openai-api-tutorial/
Learn cybersecurity for beginners. This Linux Command Line game will help you capture the flag in no time. For each level of Bandit OverTheWire, you’ll get a quick primer in real-world Linux skills. Then you can pause the video and use those skills to beat the level. You can unpause at any time for more explanation, and to keep progressing through the game. This is a fun way to expand your knowledge of networks and security. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/improve-you-cybersecurity-command-line-skills-bandit-overthewire-game-walkthrough/
If you are new to software development you are going to hear the word “solid” a lot. And not just to describe hard drives. SOLID is an acronym for a set of software engineering principles. These can help guide you in designing systems. In this quick primer, freeCodeCamp engineer Joel Olawanle will break down each of these concepts. This way, next time you’re doing some Object-Oriented Programming, you’ll already have a feel for how to best go about it. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/solid-principles-for-programming-and-software-design/
As you may know, freeCodeCamp is a public charity. We’ve got the same tax-exempt status as The Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, the YMCA, and other big charities. Except that we operate on a fraction of the budget. More than a million people use freeCodeCamp each day, and yet this is only possible thanks to the 8,273 kind people who donate. Help us in our mission to create math, computer science, and programming resources for everyone. Get involved: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Quote of the Week: “The disorder of the desk, the floor, the yellow Post-it notes everywhere, the whiteboards covered with scrawl. All this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program. It piles up around the programmer.” — Ellen Ullman, Programmer and Author
freeCodeCamp just published a hands-on Microservice Architecture course. This is a great way to learn about Distributed Systems. You can code along at home, and build your own video-to-MP3 file converter app. Along the way, you’ll learn some MongoDB, Kubernetes, and MySQL. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/microservices-and-software-system-design-course/
TypeScript is like JavaScript, but with static types. For each variable, you specify whether it’s a string, integer, boolean, or other data type. If you already know some JavaScript, TypeScript may not take that much time to learn. And it can reduce the number of bugs in your code. freeCodeCamp has converted almost our entire codebase to use TypeScript. It still has all the power of JavaScript, but it’s now a bit easier for us to build new features. This beginner course will teach you everything you need to get started coding TypeScript. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/programming-in-typescript/
Testing is a vital part of the software development process. You want to ensure that all your app’s features work as intended. Thankfully, there are some powerful tools out there to help you write robust tests. This handbook will teach you how to code the most fundamental type of test: unit tests. It will also show you some web development best practices for using Jest and the React Testing Library. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-write-unit-tests-in-react-redux/
Learn CSS and Responsive Web Design for beginners. Jessica’s new guide will walk you through one of freeCodeCamp’s most popular projects: coding your own café menu. She’ll show you how to build it step-by-step. You can do this entire project on freeCodeCamp’s core curriculum interactively, and reference Jessica’s article when you get stuck or just need additional context. (45 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-css/
Also, freeCodeCamp just published a massive Bootstrap course in Spanish, where you’ll code your own portfolio. (We’ve also published several Bootstrap courses in English, too). If you have Spanish-speaking friends who want to learn web development and design, please tell them that we now have in-depth courses on a broad range of coding topics. These are all taught in Spanish by Estefania. She’s an experienced teacher and software engineer. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-bootstrap-5-in-spanish-by-building-a-portfolio-website-bootstrap-course-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week:
“The Evolution of Software Architecture: 1990s: Spaghetti-Oriented Architecture (AKA Copy & Paste) 2000s: Lasagna-Oriented Architecture (AKA Layered Monolith) 2010s: Ravioli-Oriented Architecture (AKA Microservices) What’s next? Probably Pizza-Oriented Architecture.” — Benoit Hediard, Developer, Software Architect, and CTO of Agorapulse
freeCodeCamp just published a new Full Stack Web Development course, taught by two of our most popular instructors. This beginner course will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript basics, Node.js, MongoDB, and more. (7.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-full-stack-development-html-css-javascript-node-js-mongodb/
If you’re interested in working in the field of cloud computing, this new course will help you pass the Microsoft 365 Fundamentals (MS-900) Certification. In it, long-time freeCodeCamp contributor Andrew Brown shares how he passed the exam, and covers all of its material. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/microsoft-365-fundamentals-certification-ms-900-course/
Learn how to use CSS Flexbox to make responsive webpages that look good on any device size. This tutorial will walk you through the most common Flexbox properties and explain them visually, using helpful diagrams. Design concepts that were once intimidating will now be much easier to understand. Be sure to bookmark this and share it with a designer friend. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-flexbox-complete-guide/
The Kotlin programming language is a popular alternative to Java. You can use Kotlin to do many of the same things, such as build Android apps or code for the Java Virtual Machine. But Kotlin offers a more contemporary developer experience. freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth Kotlin course to teach you about functions, types, logical operators, and Object-Oriented Programming. (14 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-kotlin-complete-course/
Hacktoberfest was a blast. Jessica oversaw freeCodeCamp’s DeveloperQuiz.org GitHub repository. She QA’d and merged more than 360 pull requests from volunteer code contributors. Her tips to other people who want to maintain open source projects: “Lead with patience, empathy, and kindness.” These are her insights from the past 31 days of coding. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-i-learned-as-a-hacktoberfest-repo-maintainer/
The freeCodeCamp community is hard at work on new math and data science courses, so that you and your family can learn these important skills. As you may know, we are a tax-exempt public charity. We rely on the support of kind, thoughtful people like you. Learn more and get involved: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-math-computer-science-degree-update/
Quote of the Week: “Just crawl it.” — text from the top of Nike’s robots.txt file on their website. (robots.txt is the file Google’s crawlers look at when they’re deciding how to index a website.)
Python is one of the most widely used programming languages on Earth right now. In science, in industry, and in high school robotics clubs around the world. You, too, can learn to wield this mighty Python power. I’m sick as a dog as I type this, so if what I’m saying sounds silly, it’s probably the NyQuil talking. freeCodeCamp has published dozens of Python video courses, but this week I wanted to share something for the folks who prefer good old fashion book learning. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-python-book/
Ah. Graph Algorithms. The bane of every coding interview prepper. These powerful programming patterns are over-represented in job interview questions, so you’ll want to eventually learn them well. This course will help you grok Depth-First Traversal, Breadth-First Traversal, Shortest Path, and Dijkstra’s Algorithm. This Dijkstra guy, he’s kind of a big deal. More on him later. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-graph-algorithms-work/
User Interface VS User Experience – what’s the difference, you might ask? Well, User Interfaces have been around since the industrial revolution. Think the control room of a power station, or the cockpit of a plane. But User Experience – that’s a more recent way of thinking about Human-Computer Interaction. The term was coined in the 1990s by a designer and cognitive psychologist at Apple. This tutorial by freeCodeCamp instructor Dionysia Lemonaki will explain the distinctions between the two and their shared history. She’ll also walk you through the UX Design Process. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ux-vs-ui-whats-the-difference-definition-and-meaning/
Without computer networks, I’d need to put on my sneakers and run this letter to your door. Or bankrupt our charity buying postage stamps. Over the past 30 years, networks have changed almost everything about talking, learning, and getting things done. They are worthy of your attention and your respect. So learn a bit more about how they work. This tutorial will walk you through 5 of the most important layers – from the physical hardware all the way up to the applications running on top of all that sweet, sweet abstraction. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-five-layers-model-explained/
The freeCodeCamp community just turned 8 years old. A big Happy Birthday to all y’all who’ve been a part of our charity’s endeavor. I have a byte-sized update on the community (8.9Kb of text, to be exact). You’ll learn about our progress with the Data Science courses, the Math and Computer Science degrees we’re developing, and more. I promise it’s worth your (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-math-computer-science-degree-update/
Quote of the Week (from the man himself, and apt given we started developing our computer science degree last year): “Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” — Edsger Dijkstra, Mathematician, Computer Scientist, Turing Award Winner, and fellow Texan (I live in Texas if you didn’t know that. Nevermind. I’m not the important one here.)
The freeCodeCamp community is proud to publish the full Harvard CS50 computer science lecture series, taught by world-renowned professor David J. Malan. You’ll learn about C programming, Python, SQL, web development, and a ton of computer science theory. This course also includes tons of labs, exercises, and even an offshoot course on game development. (25 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/harvard-cs50/
Learn the powerful Svelte JavaScript framework. This course is taught by Svelte core maintainer Li Hau Tan. He’ll teach you about The Component Lifecycle, Svelte Store Contracts, Reactivity, RxJS, Redux, and so much more. (23 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-svelte-complete-course/
Want to practice your coding skills by building your own Google Docs clone? In this course, you’ll use Flutter, Node.js, Websockets, and MongoDB. You can code along at home and implement your own authentication, collaborative editing, auto-saving, and more. This is a solid intermediate course to sharpen your skills. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-google-docs-with-flutter/
Go is a lightning fast programming language. It powers Docker, Kubernetes, and other popular open source tools. Software Engineer Flavio Copes will teach you how to set up your Go development environment. Then you’ll learn about Golang control flow and data structures. You can bookmark this for reference as you expand your Go skills. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/go-beginners-handbook/
What exactly is a database? This quick tutorial will explain how Relational Database Management Systems work. You’ll learn a brief history of databases. And even how to write some of your own SQL queries. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dbms-and-sql-basics/
Quote of the Week: “In C, there’s no magic. If you want something to be somewhere in memory, you have to put it there yourself. If you want a hash table, you have to implement it yourself. The result by term’s end, we hope, is that students understand how things work from the bottom up and, better yet, can explain as much.” — David J. Malan, the Computer Science professor who teaches Harvard CS50
DevOps engineers help software run at massive scale. The field of DevOps combines programming – the Dev part – with system administration – the Ops part. It is a highly specialized – and high-paying – field to go into. This course for intermediate learners will teach you two of the most widely-used DevOps tools: Docker and Kubernetes. You’ll learn about Containers, Microservices, Persistence, Observability, and more. With these in your toolbox, you’ll be able to efficiently scale your apps, websites, and APIs to millions of users. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-docker-and-kubernetes-hands-on-course/
Do you remember those old clickety-clackety arrival-departure schedule boards? The kind you might see in a train station or an airport? In this JavaScript course for beginners, you’ll code one of those. And you’ll code that same flight widget in three ways: with plain-vanilla JS, with a REST API, and with a database. Along the way, freeCodeCamp teacher Ania Kubów will teach you a ton about full-stack development. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-a-project-three-different-ways-javascript-rest-api-database/
Big O Notation is a tool that developers use to understand how much time a piece of code will take to execute. Computer Scientists call this “Time Complexity.” This comes up all the time in day-to-day programming, and in job interviews. As a developer, you will definitely want to understand Big O Notation well. And that’s precisely why freeCodeCamp engineer Joel Olawanle wrote this Big O cheat sheet for you, complete with code examples. You can bookmark it, then refer to it when you need to calculate the Time Complexity of your code. (18 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/big-o-cheat-sheet-time-complexity-chart/
Learn the Angular JavaScript framework by coding your own ecommerce web shop. This beginner course – taught by frequent freeCodeCamp contributor Slobodan Gajic – will teach you Angular fundamentals. You’ll set up your development environment, build a homepage, code the shopping cart logic, and even implement Stripe checkout. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-webshop-with-angular-node-js-typescript-stripe/
An IIFE stands for Immediately Invoked Function Expression. I must admit, I had to look up that acronym. This in-depth tutorial by prolific freeCodeCamp contributor Oluwatobi Sofela will walk you through JavaScript Functions, Parameters, Code Blocks, and IIFEs too. An excellent resource for the beginner JS developer. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-function-iife-parameters-code-blocks-explained/
Quote of the Week: “Telling a programmer there’s already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there’s already a song about love.” — Pete Cordell, C++ Developer
Pytorch is a popular framework for doing Machine Learning in Python. You can use it to build data models, then ask questions of those models. If you’re interested in Data Science, and know a bit of Python, this course is a solid place to start your journey. You’ll code along at home as you learn about Datasets, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, and more. (26 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-pytorch-for-deep-learning-in-day/
And if you’re new to Python programming, this course focuses on core concepts rather than just the language syntax. You’ll explore Computer Science concepts like Primitive Data Types, Memory Allocation, Error Handling, and Scope. (9 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-python-by-thinking-in-types/
Linux is a popular operating system for Security Researchers. It’s open source and highly customizable. This tutorial will walk you through how some popular distros – like Kali, Arch, and Ubuntu – work under the hood. You’ll get a feel for their many moving parts, and the common shell commands used in infosec. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linux-basics/
And if you have always wanted to learn some Java, you’re in luck. We just published a Java for Beginners course, taught by Java Engineer and prolific freeCodeCamp instructor Farhan Chowdhury. You’ll learn all about Java’s Data Types, Operators, Conditional Statements, Loops, and even some Object-Oriented Programming. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-java-programming/
One of the most powerful concepts in CSS is Selectors. You can use Selectors to grab an HTML element from a website’s DOM. You can then style these elements, or run JavaScript on them. This tutorial will teach you all about Attribute Selectors, CSS Combinators, Pseudo-Element Selectors, and more. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-selectors-cheat-sheet-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week: “I hooked a neural network up to my Roomba. I wanted it to learn to navigate without bumping into things, so I set up a reward scheme to encourage speed and discourage hitting the bumper sensors. It learnt to drive backwards, because there are no bumpers on the back.” — Custard Smingleigh, Developer and Roboticist
We just published Machine Learning for Everybody, a course for intermediate developers and students who are interested in AI. freeCodeCamp instructor Kylie Ying (of CERN and MIT) will teach you about key concepts like Classification, Regression, and Training Models. You’ll code in Python and learn how to use TensorFlow, Jupyter Notebooks, and other powerful tools. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/machine-learning-for-everybody/
Learn JavaScript game development and code your own space shooter game. This GameDev course will teach you about HTML Canvas, Object-Oriented Programming, Core Gameplay Loops, Parallax Scrolling, and more. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-code-a-2d-game-using-javascript-html-and-css/
Kali Linux is a popular operating system in the information security community. If you watched the show Mr. Robot, it’s the main operating system the characters use while carrying out their exploits. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to install Kali Linux so you can leverage the tools of the trade. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-install-kali-linux/
Learn how to build your own ecommerce shop back end from Software Engineer and freeCodeCamp Instructor Ania Kubów. She’ll walk you through using PostgreSQL, Stripe, and REST APIs to build 3 internal B2B apps – all using Low Code tools that require less coding. By the end of this course, you’ll have your own order management dashboard, employee dashboard, and developer portal. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-low-code-ecommerce-app-with-stripe-postgres-rest-api-backend/
What’s the difference between Authentication and Authorization? These two concepts are related, but there’s a bit of nuance. Authentication is the process of verifying your credentials, and that you’re allowed to access a system. Authorization involves verifying what you’re allowed to do within that system. This tutorial will help you better understand these security concepts so you can apply them as a developer. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/whats-the-difference-between-authentication-and-authorisation
Quote of the Week: “Changing random stuff until your program works is ‘hacky’ and a ‘bad coding practice’. But if you do it fast enough, it’s called ‘Machine Learning’ and pays 4x your current salary.” — Steve Maine, Software Engineer
freeCodeCamp just published a Python Algorithms for Beginners course. You’ll learn Recursion, Binary Search, Divide and Conquer Algorithms, The Traveling Salesman Problem, The N-Queens Problem, and more. You’ll also solve a lot of algorithm challenges. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/intro-to-algorithms-with-python/
Learn Three.js and React by coding your own playable Minecraft game. This JavaScript GameDev course will teach you about textures, 3D camera angles, keyboard input events, and more. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-a-minecraft-clone-using-react-and-three-js/
Selectors are one of the most powerful concepts in CSS. And this tutorial will show common ways of grabbing HTML elements from a website’s DOM using Selectors. You can then style these elements or run JavaScript on them. You’ll also learn about CSS IDs, Classes, and Pseudo-classes. You’ll even learn about the mythical, magical Universal Selector. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-select-elements-to-style-in-css/
freeCodeCamp also just published a long-requested Jenkins course. Jenkins is a powerful open source automation server. Developers often use Jenkins for running tests on their codebase before deploying it to the cloud. In this course, you’ll learn DevOps Pipeline concepts, Debian Linux Command Line Interface tips, and about Docker & DockerHub. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-jenkins-by-building-a-ci-cd-pipeline/
You may have heard the terms “white hat”, “black hat”, or even “red hat.” These are terms used in cybersecurity to express whether someone is an attacker, a defender, or a “hacktivist” with a broader agenda. In this fun, totally-not-scientific overview of the types of hackers, Daniel will help you learn each of these through comparisons with popular comic book figures. Which hat would Batman wear if he were in security? (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/white-hat-black-hat-red-hat-hackers/
Quote of the Week: “Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.” — Ellen Ullman, Programmer and Author
freeCodeCamp just published an HTML & CSS for Beginners course, where you learn by coding along at home and building 5 projects. It’s taught by experienced software engineer and tech CEO Per Borgan. This course will teach you about Text Elements, the CSS Box Model, Chrome Devtools, Document Structure, and more. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-html-and-css-from-the-ceo-of-scrimba/
What are the main differences between SQL and NoSQL? And which should you use in which situations? In this course, freeCodeCamp instructor Ania Kubów will teach you about common Database Models like Relational Databases, Key-Value DBs, Document DBs, and Wide Column DBs. More tools for your developer toolbox. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/sql-vs-nosql-tutorial/
When you visit a webpage, everything you see is HTML elements rendered with the Document Object Model. But how does the DOM work? In this hands-on tutorial by Front-End Engineer Ophelia Boamah, you’ll code your own car shopping User Interface. You’ll learn about DOM Selectors, Event Listeners, and more. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-javascript-dom-a-practical-tutorial/
If you have a developer job interview coming up, you may want to brush up on your React. Veteran software engineer Nishant Singh will walk you through 20 common React interview questions, and share his process for solving them. This is an ideal course for intermediate JavaScript developers. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/top-30-react-interview-questions-and-concepts/
You may have heard that one of the best ways to solidify your developer skills is to contribute to open source software. But getting started can be a confusing process. Thankfully, prolific freeCodeCamp contributor Tapas Adhikary has created a comprehensive beginner’s manual to help you understand OSS, identify where you can help, and get your first pull request merged. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-practical-guide-to-start-opensource-contributions/
Quote of the Week: “Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true, and the tendency to miss lunch.” — Tim Berners-Lee, Creator of HTML, and Inventor of the World Wide Web (Yeah, this is one impactful dev.)
Learn React for Beginners. This new freeCodeCamp Front-End JavaScript course will teach you all about React Hooks, State, the Context API, and more. You’ll code along with three experienced software engineers, building projects step-by-step. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-from-three-all-star-instructors/
And if you’d prefer to learn Angular, I’m thrilled to share this course with you as well: Learn Angular and TypeScript for Beginners. This in-depth course will teach you TypeScript Data Types, Angular Directives, Components, RxJS, and Lifecycle Hooks. (18 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/angular-for-beginners-course/
freeCodeCamp also just published a full-length Java Programming Handbook to help beginners get started. You’ll learn about the Java Virtual Machine, Java IDEs, Data Types, Operators, and more. This should serve as an excellent resource for you over the coming years, so I encourage you to read some of it and bookmark it as a reference. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-java-handbook/
With Windows Subsystem for Linux, you can now use Linux right inside Windows on your PC. This said, many developers prefer to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux on the same computer. This tutorial will walk you through dual-booting best practices, so you can have the best of both worlds, Captain Picard style. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-dual-boot-windows-10-and-ubuntu-linux-dual-booting-tutorial/
September is World Translation Month. And the freeCodeCamp community is kicking our translation effort into high gear. If you or your friends grew up speaking a language other than English, I encourage you to get involved. We have more than 9,000 English-language coding tutorials. And we want to make them easier to understand for folks less comfortable reading English. We have powerful software to help you make the most of any time you’re able to volunteer. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/world-translation-month-is-back-how-can-you-contribute-to-translate-freecodecamp-into-your-language/
Quote of the Week: “Is your child texting about JavaScript frameworks? Know the signs: rofl - React offers fast learning brb - building Redux boilerplate lmao - love mastering Angular objects imo - instantiating eMber observables nvm - need Vue mixins wtf - Webpack’s the fastest” — Laurie Voss, Web Developer and co-creator of npm
freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth CSS for Beginners course, taught by an experienced developer and software architect. You’ll learn Selectors, Typography, Variables, CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, and other key concepts. You don’t have to rely on templates and copy-pasted CSS examples. If you put in the time, you can understand how CSS really works under the hood. This course is a solid starting point. (11 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-css-in-11-hours/
Learn Python by building 20 beginner projects. You can code along at home, and get practice by writing these Python scripts yourself. Along the way, you’ll code your own calculator, image resizer, dice roller, and even a Rock-Paper-Scissors game. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/20-beginner-python-projects/
How to protect your personal digital security. This guide will teach you several practical Information Security tips, straight from a Threat Intelligence expert. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/personal-digital-security-an-intro/
One way you can boost your security is by using asymmetric encryption. SSH is a popular protocol for securely connecting to a server. Linux, Git, and many other tools use SSH. This tutorial will show you how to create your own SSH key from your computer’s command line, and explain how the technology works. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ssh-keygen-how-to-generate-an-ssh-public-key-for-rsa-login/
One of the most common ways developers mess up their security is by accidentally sharing their API keys on GitHub. You can avoid this mistake by using Git’s built-in .gitignore feature. This tutorial will show you how you can safely put your code’s API keys and other sensitive information into a .env file, and prevent Git from committing certain files or folders. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/gitignore-file-how-to-ignore-files-and-folders-in-git/
Quote of the Week: “CSS is a programming language. As unintuitive as it might feel to you at times, it’s not just these random things that happen. It’s built using very specific rules. The problem is that most people never learn those rules. We start learning CSS by learning the syntax, which is super simple. That tricks us into thinking that it’s a simple language. Don’t let the simple syntax trick you. Dive into it and learn how it works.” — Kevin Powell, Software Engineer, CSS Educator, and freeCodeCamp contributor
freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth Front End Developer course, taught by a software engineer and freeCodeCamp alum. You’ll learn HTML, CSS, DOM manipulation, and how to use your browser’s DevTools. You’ll also learn key JavaScript concepts, such as primitives, functions, loops, control flow logic, Regular Expressions, and more. This is a beginner course, and it’s good review for intermediate developers as well. (21 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/frontend-web-developer-bootcamp/
My friend Andrew Brown is a CTO and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Cloud Engineering. He’s passed most of the AWS and Azure cloud certification exams. And this week, we released his latest course, which will help you pass the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate exam (AZ-204). Lots of people in the freeCodeCamp community have earned these certs to level-up their DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer careers. (13 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/azure-developer-certification-az-204-pass-the-exam-with-this-free-13-5-hour-course/
Markdown is a powerful way to write precise HTML-like documents. I use it every day. By knowing just a little bit of syntax, you can quickly type out a document using plain text. Then you can paste it into websites like GitHub, Stack Overflow, and freeCodeCamp, where it will expand into a Rich Text Document with headers, hyperlinks, and images. You can bookmark this Markdown cheat sheet, and refer to it the next time you want to practice your Markdown skills. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/markdown-cheatsheet/
Advice from a Full Stack Developer who just finished his first year in tech. Germán talks about his non-traditional path into Argentina’s software industry. He shares tips on how to pick a tech stack to specialize in, how to know when you’re ready to start applying for roles, and how to cope with the stresses of the job. (50 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/my-first-year-as-a-professional-developer-tips-for-getting-into-tech/
Lua is a programming language commonly used for modifying video games, such as Roblox. But you can also use it to build entirely new games. This comprehensive course will teach you Lua fundamentals, and how to use the popular LÖVE 2D GameDev framework. You’ll even code your own playable version of the 1979 Asteroids arcade game. (11 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-games-with-love-2d-and-lua/
Quote of the Week: “Some prefer backend, some prefer frontend, but I always prefer weekend.” — Dan (@khazifire), Front End Developer
Learn C Programming by reading the classic book by C’s creators, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan. In this cover-to-cover read-along, University of Michigan professor Dr. Chuck will guide you through the book, adding his own commentary as a developer and computer scientist. Dr. Chuck has also prepared a number of coding exercises that you can work through to solidify your understanding of key C concepts. You’ll learn Operators, Control Flow, Input/Output, and C data structures including Pointers. This is a deep dive into one of the most widely-used languages in the world, as it was first taught nearly 50 years ago. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-c-programming-classic-book-dr-chuck/
Stardew Valley is a popular farming video game based off of the Nintendo classic, Harvest Moon. And in this Python GameDev course, you’ll use PyGame to build your own playable version of it. You’ll code player inventory systems, soil and rain logic, day-night cycles, and even farm animals. Note that this is an intermediate course. If you’re new to PyGame, the freeCodeCamp community has several beginner courses as well. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-stardew-valley-using-python-and-pygame/
Regular Expressions (often abbreviated as RegEx) can help you with everyday tasks like find/replace in your text editor, filtering Trello cards, or web searches with DuckDuckGo. This tutorial will teach you the RegEx basics. You can then naturally expand on your RegEx skills over the years as you use them. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/regular-expressions-for-beginners/
You may notice a lock in your browser’s address bar. This usually means you’re communicating with a server through a secure HTTPS connection. And in this tutorial, you’ll learn all about HTTPS, and how it improves upon the original HTTP web standard. Along the way, you’ll learn about web security, SSL certificates, and symmetric VS asymmetric encryption. There’s a good chance you’re using HTTPS right now as you read this, so you may enjoy learning a bit more about this engineering marvel. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/http-vs-https/
Computer Science is one of the most popular university majors in the world. But what exactly is Computer Science? And what do Computer Science students learn? If you’re thinking about studying Computer Science in school, this guide will lay out some of the coursework you’ll most likely do, and some of the career opportunities such a degree opens up. Note that you can also learn these topics yourself through freeCodeCamp at your own pace. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-computer-scientist-what-exactly-do-cs-majors-do/
Quote of the Week: “C retains the basic philosophy that programmers know what they are doing. It only requires that they state their intentions explicitly.” — Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan, creators of the C programming language. This quote comes from the same book that Dr. Chuck covers in the course I mentioned above.
freeCodeCamp just published a Python for Beginners course. If you are new to Python programming, this is an excellent place to start. You’ll learn Logic Operators, Control Flow, Nested Functions, Closures, and even some Python Command Line Interface tools. You’ll use these to code your own card game. You can do the entire course in your browser. And another cool milestone: this is the first course we’ve shot in 4K, with more than 8 million pixels of Python goodness. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-programming-course/
Software Engineer and freeCodeCamp alumna Madison Kanna developed this beginner HTML and CSS course. You’ll code your own user interface. And along the way, she’ll teach you about the Client-Server Model, CSS Inheritance, DevTools, and more. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-html-and-css-order-summary-component/
When you type information into a website or app, you’re using a form. And coding good forms in HTML5 is a high art. This tutorial will teach you how to use Fieldsets, Labels, and Legends. You’ll also learn emerging best practices around accessibility and mobile-responsive design. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-and-validate-modern-web-forms-html5/
Learn Event-Driven Architecture with React, Redis, and FastAPI. This course will also teach you the powerful Finite State Machine design pattern. You’ll code your own logistics app, complete with budgets, inventory, and deliveries. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/implement-event-driven-architecture-with-react-and-fastapi/
Also, freeCodeCamp just published a massive Node.js course in Spanish. (We’ve also published several Node courses in English, too). If you have Spanish-speaking friends who want to learn programming, please tell them that we now have in-depth courses on a broad range of coding topics. These are all taught in Spanish by Estefania. She’s an experienced teacher and software engineer. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-node-js-and-express-in-spanish-course-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week: “My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.” — Bram Cohen, Software Engineer and Inventor of BitTorrent
What is Software Architecture? What are Design Patterns? This handbook will answer these questions. It will also teach you some of the more common patterns, with code examples to help you better understand. You’ll learn about Microservice Architecture, the Client-Server Model, Load Balancing, and other practical concepts you can use in your own coding. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/an-introduction-to-software-architecture-patterns/
If you’ve been struggling to learn to code on your own, I have good news for you. My friend Jess is running a free part-time coding bootcamp where you can earn the freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design certification and JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certification, together with people from around the world. You can chat with her and other students, and tune in for her weekly live streams. This can help you stay motivated and get unstuck when you run into particularly tricky coding challenges. (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-coding-bootcamp-learn-to-code-with-class-central-and-freecodecamp/
Learn Microsoft’s .NET 6 framework in this back-end development course. You’ll code your own breakfast-themed REST API. You’ll learn about routes, requests, services, error handling, and more. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-an-industry-level-rest-api-using-net-6/
When people say they’re trying to get into tech, they often mean they’re studying to become a software developer. This said, there are many other careers you can pursue in tech, which require varying degrees of coding skills. In this career guide, Sophia will share 19 different paths into tech – from Mobile App Development to User Experience Design – and some courses you could use to get started in any of them. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-choose-a-tech-career/
Have you ever seen a number followed by an exclamation point? In math, this is called a factorial. 5! is the number 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 120. In programming, if an algorithm has n! time complexity, it means it will be extremely slow and inefficient. Thankfully, you can almost always avoid this through more thoughtful programming. This quick tutorial will teach you a bit more about factorials, with some beginner JavaScript exercises for how you can calculate them. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-factorial/
Quote of the Week: “You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site.” — Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, on the importance of starting a project with a well-reasoned design process
This game development course will teach you how to code your own Mario Bros-like 2D platformer games. You’ll use the simplest tools available: HTML, CSS, and plain-vanilla JavaScript. You’ll learn about sprite animation, parallax scrolling, collision detection, and more. By the end of the course, you’ll have your own playable game featuring an adorable flaming chihuahua fighting against a phalanx of mosquitoes. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-game-development-full-course/
The AI Chatbot Handbook. This advanced project will walk you through coding your own chatbot. Some of the tools you’ll use include Redis, Python, GPT-J-6B, and the Hugging Face API. You’ll learn about architecture, language models, and more. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-an-ai-chatbot-with-redis-python-and-gpt/
Learn Test-Driven Development with JavaScript. This tutorial will teach you the strengths of this software development methodology. You’ll use the Jest library to code your own Unit Tests, Integration Tests, and End-to-End Tests. You’ll even learn how to mimic real-life code dependencies using Test Doubles. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/test-driven-development-tutorial-how-to-test-javascript-and-reactjs-app/
Redux is a popular state management library. It works with major JavaScript front end development frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. This introduction to Redux will show you how to manage state within your apps. You’ll learn about Redux Stores, Actions, and Reducers. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-redux-store-actions-reducers-explained/
Elementor is an open source tool that helps you build WordPress websites by dragging-and-dropping elements onto a page. freeCodeCamp developer Beau Carnes will teach you how to use Elementor. You’ll build your own WordPress site without needing to write custom code. (80 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/easily-create-a-website-using-elementor-and-wordpress/
Quote of the Week: “Old video games couldn’t be won. They just got harder and faster until you died. Just like real life.” — Unknown game developer
Learn how to think like a computer scientist. Watch this Comp Sci professor code his own motion-detecting avatar from scratch in real time. He doesn’t even use the internet. Just JavaScript, HTML, and his intuition. This is a master class in creative problem solving with code. (13 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-think-like-a-computer-science-professor/
Learn all about the JavaScript object data structure. This beginner’s guide will teach you some Object-Oriented Programming concepts like Key-Value Pairs, Dot Notation, and Constructors. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/objects-in-javascript-for-beginners/
One of Silicon Valley’s most notorious failures was Color. The startup raised $41 million and launched their mobile app in 2012 only to shutter it after almost nobody used it. What happened? They did not test their product with end users. If only they had built a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first. Well, that is what you are going to learn how to do with this course. You’ll build an MVP that you can immediately use to get feedback from your friends and family. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-minimum-viable-product/
CSS is an essential tool. It’s also a flexible tool. To highlight this, here are 10 different CSS approaches for centering a DOM element. If you code along with these examples, you’ll be able to add these approaches to your CSS toolbox. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-center-a-div-with-css-10-different-ways/
A Checksum is the result of a cryptographic hash function. You can use Checksums in Linux to compare two copies of the same file across networks, to verify their integrity. Has one of the files been changed? Corrupted? When was it last updated? This quick tutorial will show you how to use the Linux cksum command. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/file-last-modified-in-inux-how-to-check-if-two-files-are-same/
Quote of the Week: “Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you’re given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.” — Alan Kay, Developer, Computer Scientist, and Father of Object-Oriented Programming
Zubin was 37 when he started learning to code. Two years later, he landed a job as a developer at Google. In this comprehensive career change guide, Zubin shares his tips for minimizing risk during your job search, preparing for technical interviews, and turning your disadvantages into advantages. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coding-interview-prep-for-big-tech/
You may have heard the term “private cloud” before. It’s where you have more fine-grained control of all your servers and services, rather than using a “public cloud” like AWS or Azure. freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth course on Open Stack, an open source DevOps tool for building your own private cloud. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/openstack-tutorial-operate-your-own-private-cloud/
Practice your React skills by building your own weather app project. You’ll code your own weather search engine using the GeoDB API to autocomplete city names, and the OpenWeatherMap API to fetch weather data. You’ll also learn how to use the powerful Promise.all JavaScript method, along with async/await design patterns. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-react-and-apis-to-build-a-weather-app/
Ohans Emannuel is a prolific freeCodeCamp contributor and TypeScript enthusiast. He analyzed Stack Overflow to find the 7 questions developers ask most about TypeScript. In this tutorial, he will answer all of these, including: the difference between Types and Interfaces, how to dynamically assign properties, and what that ! operator does. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-top-stack-overflowed-typescript-questions-explained/
What is abstraction? And why is it useful in programming? In this tutorial, Tiago will explain how developers use abstraction, through the analogy of learning to drive a car. For example, you don’t need to know how a braking system works – you just need to know that when you stomp on the brake, the car slows to a stop. The exact mechanisms can be abstracted away from the user interface (the brake pedal). (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-abstraction-in-programming/
Quote of the Week: “Behind all developers there are: tons of hours of practice, failed interviews, failed projects, negative emotions like self-doubt, and impostor syndrome. No matter how popular, or successful, or good, or smart they are.” — Catalin Pit, Developer and freeCodeCamp Contributor
DOM stands for Document Object Model. It’s a tool that helps developers update HTML elements without needing to reload the page. DOM manipulation is when you use JavaScript to add, remove, or modify parts of a web page. This is a core skill in front-end development. And this course will teach you the basics before moving on to more advanced DOM techniques. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-dom-manipulation/
Code your own Jeopardy game. You can channel the spirit of late, great game show host Alex Trebek and expand your web development skills at the same time. This course is taught by freeCodeCamp teacher Ania Kubów. She will guide you through writing the JavaScript line-by-line, teaching you best practices along the way. By the end of this course, you’ll have built two playable games that you can share with your friends and family. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-tutorial-code-two-word-games/
PHP is a popular back-end development programming language for websites. Even though most new websites use more contemporary frameworks like Node.js or Django, a significant portion of the web still uses PHP — including Wikipedia, Tumblr, and millions of WordPress sites. Flavio Copes is a software engineer and long-time freeCodeCamp contributor. If you’re looking for a solid, up-to-date PHP reference, he just published his PHP Handbook and made it freely available. At the very least it’s worth bookmarking. (full length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-php-handbook/
An outlier is a data point that is significantly different from the rest of your data. These may be “true outliers”, which are truly exceptional data points. But many outliers are just caused by errors in your data collection process. This Python tutorial will teach you some common techniques for detecting this statistical noise and removing it from your datasets. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-detect-outliers-in-machine-learning/
A React Hook is a special kind of function that lets you “hook into” powerful React features. If you’re interested in React or front-end JavaScript development, this tutorial by long-time freeCodeCamp contributor Eduardo Vedes will teach you one of the most popular hooks – useState – in just a few minutes. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-usestate-hook-in-10-minutes/
Quote of the Week: “I know a ton of Ruby devs who named their kid Ruby but not a single JavaScript engineer with a kid named DOM.” — Emily Freeman, Software Engineer and Author
Greedy Algorithms are a powerful approach to solving coding challenges. These work by always choosing the “locally optimal” solution at each stage of problem solving – regardless of the long-term consequences. For example, let’s say I’m hiking in the mountains, and my goal is to reach as high an elevation as possible. I take the quick-and-dirty Greedy Algorithm approach of always hiking upward – never downward. At some point I will reach a local maximum – the highest point I can reach. And from that hill I will probably look over and see much taller mountains that I could have reached if I used a different algorithmic approach, such as Divide & Conquer or Dynamic Programming. This course will teach you how to code Greedy Algorithms in Python, and when to best make use of them. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-greedy-algorithms/
As you may have heard, the freeCodeCamp community recently redesigned our entire Responsive Web Design certification. It now contains 1,000+ additional coding challenges. And Jessica just published this step-by-step strategy guide. You can reference this while you blaze through the first project, where you’ll code your own cat photo app. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-responsive-web-design-study-guide/
Terraform is an open source Infrastructure-as-Code tool. It helps you write code that will spin up cloud servers and other cloud services. This saves you the hassle of manually configuring them each time you want to deploy. This course will teach you how to use Terraform and Azure to build your own development environment. You’ll learn about subnets, security groups, and The Provisioner – and no, that is not a WWE villain. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-terraform-and-azure-by-building-a-dev-environment/
Code your own customer support dashboard for your small business or startup. This course is taught by freeCodeCamp instructor Ania Kubów. She’ll show you how to use the Discord API, SMTP email APIs, MongoDB, and Appsmith to build this in the cloud. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-low-code-dashboard-for-your-startup/
React is a powerful front-end JavaScript library. But did you know you can also use it to code your own command line applications? This tutorial will show you how to build your own CLI app that runs in your terminal. You’ll learn how to use React along with the popular Ink library. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-js-ink-cli-tutorial/
Quote of the Week: “Although greed is considered one of the seven deadly sins, it turns out that greedy algorithms often perform quite well.” — Stuart Russell, Computer Scientist and co-author of the popular book “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach”
This Python course will teach you how to automate boring and repetitive tasks. You’ll learn how to automate the process of extracting tables from websites, interacting with spreadsheets, sending text messages, and more. You’ll pick up a variety of Python libraries, including Selenium, XPath, and crontab. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/automate-your-life-with-python/
Learn JavaScript Design Patterns. These come up all the time in large codebases – and also in coding interviews. This tutorial will teach you classics like the Singleton Pattern, the Chain of Responsibility Pattern, and the Abstract Factory Pattern. Each comes with a detailed explanation and a code example. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-design-patterns-explained/
One key concept that all web developers have to wrap their heads around is the Document Object Model, or DOM. It’s a tree-like structure of HTML elements that makes up a webpage. This tutorial will walk you through how DOMs work in the browser, and how you can use them to build sophisticated web apps. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-the-dom-explained-in-plain-english/
React is a powerful JavaScript front end development library. But how do you link your React app to a back end? Through APIs. This in-depth tutorial will teach you how to use the useEffect() hook and the useState() hook. You’ll learn the built-in JavaScript Fetch API, along with the Axios HTTP client. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-consume-rest-apis-in-react/
Visual Basic is one of the original Object Oriented Programming languages. It’s most famously usable within Excel. There are a lot of openings for Visual Basic .NET developers, and this course can serve as a first step toward pursuing them. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-visual-basic-net-full-course/
Quote of the Week: “The great paradox of automation is that the desire to eliminate human labor always generates new tasks for humans.” — Mary L. Gray, Computer Science Professor and Automation Researcher
If you’re interested in Data Science and Machine Learning, I recommend this new intermediate-level Python course taught by MIT grad student Kylie Ying. You can code along at home in your browser. You’ll use TensorFlow to train Neural Networks, visualize a diabetes dataset, and perform Text Classification on wine reviews. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/text-classification-tensorflow/
And if you’re relatively new to Data Science, this tutorial will give you a gentle introduction to a lot of key Statistics concepts and terminology. This will make it easier for you to understand more advanced articles about Data Science, Machine Learning, and Scientific Computing in general. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/top-statistics-concepts-to-know-before-getting-into-data-science/
What is CRUD? You may have heard the term “CRUD app” before to describe a website. It stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete – the 4 essential operations you can do with data. These are what separate a modern website with “dynamic” functionality from the “static” websites pioneered in the 1990s. This short article will explain how these 4 operations power so many dynamic websites. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/crud-operations-explained/
How to solve the Parking Lot Challenge in JavaScript. You’ll use Object-Oriented Programming to build a parking lot that you can fill with cars. Mihail originally created this for his 5 year old daughter to play, but you can learn from it too. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/parking-lot-challenge-solved-in-javascript/
PDF files are great for certain types of documents. But they can be hard to work with as a developer. This tutorial will give you an overview of popular libraries for working with PDF files. Then it will show you how to extract pages from a PDF and render them using JavaScript. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/extract-pdf-pages-render-with-javascript/
Quote of the Week: “The future depends on some graduate student who is deeply suspicious of everything I have said.” — Geoffrey Hinton, Computer Science professor known as the “Godfather of AI”
Flutter is an open source framework for coding Android or iPhone apps. freeCodeCamp uses Flutter to code our own Android app as well. In this course, you will code your own clone of Amazon’s Android app, and implement many of its key features. You’ll learn how to use Node.js to code a web API. Then you’ll use Flutter to build out routing, authentication, shopping cart functionality, deal-of-the-day, and more. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-stack-amazon-clone-with-flutter/
If you are new to algorithms, this is handbook is a great place to start. It’s chock-full of JavaScript algorithm code examples. And it explains key concepts like Time Complexity and Big O Notation. (full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/introduction-to-algorithms-with-javascript-examples/
Learn how to incorporate speech recognition into your Python apps. In this course, you’ll build 5 Python projects: a YouTube video transcriber, a sentiment analysis tool, a podcast summarizer, and more. Along the way, you’ll learn how to use PyAudio, Streamlit, OpenAI, and the AssemblyAI API. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/speech-recognition-in-python/
Raspberry Pi is a small, inexpensive computer used by both hobbyists and serious developers. If you’re thinking about getting one, this tutorial will show you how you can execute Rust programs on it. It will also show you how to code a simple Rust app: a morse code translator. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/embedded-rust-programming-on-raspberry-pi-zero-w/
Learn how to manage a PostgreSQL database right from the command line using psql. If you’re new to SQL, PostgreSQL is a solid open source database option. And we use it in freeCodeCamp’s Relational Database Certification as well. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/manage-postgresql-with-psql/
Quote of the Week: “Every long-lived open source project I’ve ever been involved with has bugs on file from early on. And in every case I see people express surprise that there are bugs that have been open for years. Like, yes, that’s how software development works when you’re successful.” — Ian Hickson, Software Engineer and contributor to the Flutter open source codebase
Learn how to code your own cloud deployment platform. If you’ve heard of Heroku before, that’s essentially what you’ll be building your own version of. This DevOps course will show you how to use the Flask Python framework – along with cloud engineering concepts and a tool called Pulumi – to get your cloud live. (80 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-heroku-clone-provision-infrastructure-programmatically/
Learn how to work with files in Python like a pro. This in-depth tutorial will walk you through how to load files into Python’s main memory and create file handles. You’ll then use these file handles to open files and read them or write to them. You’ll also learn about Python Exception Handling when working with files. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-read-files-in-python/
Learn to code your own Chrome browser extension. In this JavaScript-focused course, you’ll build your own YouTube timestamp bookmark extension. You’ll also use Google’s new Manifest V3 web extensions platform. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-chrome-extension/
CSS Grid is built into CSS, and helps you create responsive website layouts. It’s a 2-dimensional grid that can dramatically simplify your web design process. This tutorial will teach you how to use CSS Grid through a series of examples. It will really help you solidify your understanding of the key concepts. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-css-grid-layout/
Gradio is an open source Python tool for building machine learning web apps. This tutorial will show you how you can take a machine learning model and deploy it to the web so you can debug it and demo it to your friends. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-deploy-your-machine-learning-model-as-a-web-app-using-gradio/
Quote of the Week: “Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you.” – John Carmack, co-founder of id Software, and lead developer of DOOM and Quake
This week I’m sharing 5 new JavaScript learning resources. The first is a book on Intermediate TypeScript and React. TypeScript is a popular statically-typed version of JavaScript that many codebases are switching to, including freeCodeCamp’s open source curriculum. You’ll learn how to build strongly-typed polymorphic components for your React front end. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-strongly-typed-polymorphic-components-with-react-and-typescript/
There are hundreds of open jobs for blockchain developers at companies like IBM, VMware, and Deloitte. And freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth JavaScript course taught by software engineer and finance industry veteran Patrick Collins. You’ll learn key distributed ledger concepts, and even code your own smart contracts. (32 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-blockchain-solidity-full-stack-javascript-development/
freeCodeCamp also published a comprehensive course on how to test your React apps. You’ll learn about testing frameworks like Happo.io, Cypress, and Jest. You’ll also build and deploy your own fully-tested birthday reminder app. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-test-react-applications/
Learn how Lexical Scope works in JavaScript. This guide for beginner JavaScript programmers will teach you about Tokenizing, Parsing, and Function Hoisting. You’ll also get a feel for how JavaScript compiles and executes programs. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lexical-scope-in-javascript/
Anatomy of a JavaScript Framework. In this article, Fabio explores the very first commits on the Vue.js open source GitHub repository. He retraces legendary developer Evan You’s first few lines of JavaScript that created the now-famous Mustache Syntax data binding. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-code-a-framework-vuejs-example/
Quote of the Week: “JavaScript’s global scope is like a public toilet. You can’t avoid going in there, but try to limit your contact with surfaces when you do.” ― Dmitry Baranovskiy, Australian developer and JavaScript artist
Learn Python by coding your own playable drum machine. This course will teach you Object Oriented Programming basics, the popular Pygame library, and how to use audio files to generate sound. Your users will even be able to save the beats they create. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-drum-machine-with-python-and-pygame/
This SQL course will teach you how to improve your database performance. It focuses on SQL Server, but much of it is applicable to Postgres and other SQL flavors. You’ll learn how to build indexes, and how to identify bottlenecks using powerful diagnostic tools. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-improve-sql-server-performance/
Learn all about data structures: hash tables, stacks, graphs, linked lists, and more. This in-depth JavaScript tutorial will explain core concepts, including Big O Notation. You can code along at home, and implement these data structures yourself. It’s a great way to add these to your developer skill toolbox. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-structures-in-javascript-with-examples/
If you’re just getting started with learning to code, you may be wondering whether you can get some sort of IT job in the meantime. This guide will walk you through some of the semi-technical fields you can work in while you continue the long process of becoming a full-blown software developer. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/entry-level-tech-job-guide/
Over the years, I have maintained that any sufficiently motivated person can learn to code. This said, not everyone enjoys the process of writing software. If you’re wondering whether software development is the right career for you, this guide from an experienced freelance developer may give you some helpful insight. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/should-i-be-a-developer-programmer/
Quote of the Week: “The Oberheim DMX [drum machine], released in 1981, featured separate voice boards for each sound, where the tuning would alter sample playback rate. Over the years, many people attributed a particular kind of ‘groove’ to the DMX. After much investigation, I discovered that this is just a by-product of the original factory bass drum sound containing a small amount of silence at the very start of the sample. This delay imparts a very ‘lazy’, dragging feel on any beat using the bass drum – and the lower the pitch the greater the drag.” — A fun fact from the music production-focused Attack Magazine
Learn how to create a neural network using JavaScript. No libraries necessary. You’ll code your own self-driving car simulation and implement every component step-by-step. You’ll learn how to implement the car driving mechanics, define the environment, and detect collisions. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/self-driving-car-javascript
Django is a powerful Python web development framework. And this course will show you how to code your own social network app using it. Your users will be able to create posts, like each others’ posts, and follow one another. You’ll even learn how to add a search engine and algorithmic recommendations. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-social-media-app-with-django
The JavaScript Module Handbook. If you are doing full stack JavaScript development, this book is in my humble opinion a must-bookmark. It has tons of code examples for how to import ES6 modules with Node.js, and how to bundle them using Webpack. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-es-modules-and-module-bundlers/
And the freeCodeCamp community is giving away another full length book, too. “Technology Trends in 2022” will help you keep up with key developments in security, privacy, and cloud development. Author and prolific freeCodeCamp contributor David Clinton wrote this book with managers in mind. And it should be helpful regardless of your skill level. (full-length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/technology-trends-in-2022-keeping-up-full-book-for-managers/
How to code your own Google Docs clone. This intermediate tutorial will give you a grand tour of React, Material UI, and Firebase, and how to use them in concert. You’ll build a realtime collaborative editor. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-google-docs-clone-with-react-and-firebase/
Quote of the Week: “With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it’s only a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him, too.” — Reddit user NormanRB
This handbook will teach you Python for beginners through a series of helpful code examples. You’ll learn basic data structures, loops, and if-then logic. It also includes plenty of project-oriented learning resources you can use to dive even deeper. (full handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-code-examples-simple-python-program-example/
freeCodeCamp just published this course to help you pass the Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification exam. If you want to work as a DevOps or a SysAdmin, this cert may be worth your time. You’ll learn Cloud Engineering fundamentals, Virtual Private Cloud concepts, networking, Kubernetes, and High Availability Computing. (20 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/google-cloud-digital-leader-certification-study-course-pass-the-exam-with-this-free-20-hour-course/
React Router 6 just came out a few months ago, and freeCodeCamp has already published an in-depth web development course teaching you how to use it. You’ll learn about Page Components, Nested Routes, NavLink Components, and more. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-router-6/
Learn REST API design best practices. This comprehensive tutorial will teach you how to use JavaScript, Node.js, and Express.js to build your own Workout-of-the-Day app. You’ll learn about 3-Layer Architecture, HTTP error codes, pagination, and how to format a JSON response. (2 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/rest-api-design-best-practices-build-a-rest-api/
Professor Kelleher has been teaching Data Visualization for over a decade at MIT and other universities. He’s an expert in the popular D3.js JavaScript library. freeCodeCamp just published the latest version of his in-depth data viz course. He’ll teach you how to use rendering logic, data transformation, and dynamic charts through a variety of projects you can code along with from home. (20 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-visualizatoin-with-d3/
Quote of the Week: “Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another’s code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.” — Guido van Rossum, Creator of the Python programming language
If you want to code “close to the metal” and write extremely efficient assembly code that runs directly on device hardware – this is the course for you. You’ll get a solid introduction to ARM emulation and program structure. You’ll also learn how to use registers, stacks, logical operators, branches, subroutines, and memory addressing modes. (2.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-assembly-language-programming-with-arm/
And here’s another full-length course that the freeCodeCamp community published this week. It will teach you Python machine learning for beginners. You’ll learn about Reinforcement Learning by training an AI to play the game Snake. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/train-an-ai-to-play-a-snake-game-using-python/
Last week I shared a tutorial that explained how Linux and MacOS file permissions work. This week we’re going deeper down the rabbit hole to teach you about CHOWN and CHMOD. No, these are not types of foreign cuisine. They are helpful tools you can use right in your command line to control who can access or modify a file. (10 minute read + interactive quiz): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linux-chmod-chown-change-file-permissions/
You may have heard of the Fibonacci Sequence in math class. It’s a series of numbers used in the Golden Ratio – most famously by Leonardo Divinci when painting the Mona Lisa. This tutorial will explain how the Fibonacci Sequence works, and how you can write a Python program that will print any number of digits from the sequence. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-program-to-print-the-fibonacci-sequence/
Memoization is a common technique to speed up your applications. Instead of re-running calculations over and over again, you can store the results in cache. Then your code can retrieve that value the next time it needs it. This tutorial will show you some practical JavaScript memoization examples to help you grok this concept. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/memoization-in-javascript-and-react/
Quote of the Week: “Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they’re much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.” – Eric S. Raymond, author of the pioneering open source essay, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”
Learn Python object-oriented programming by coding your own playable version of the classic Windows Minesweeper game. You’ll code the graphics, gameplay, and even the algorithm that determines where the mines go. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/object-oriented-programming-with-python-code-a-minesweeper-game/
You may have heard the term “Rubber Duck Debugging” before. This is a simple way you can debug problems in your code, and solve them yourself. This brief article will give you the history behind Rubber Duck Debugging, and some tips for using it when you code. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/rubber-duck-debugging/
Redux is a popular open source tool for managing JavaScript state. And the team behind it created the Redux Toolkit to make it easier to follow Redux best practices. In this course, long-time freeCodeCamp contributor John Smilga will teach you about Setup Store, createAsyncThunk, and other key concepts. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-redux-toolkit-the-recommended-way-to-use-redux/
If you’ve used Linux before, you may have discovered how security-focused it is by default. This guide will walk you through Linux file permissions, file ownership, superusers, and explain what on earth drwxrwx— means. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linux-permissions-how-to-find-permissions-of-a-file/
If you want to code your own blog instead of using common tools like WordPress or Ghost, this tutorial will show you how. You’ll use React along with other open source JavaScript tools like Next.js and MDX. (30 minute read) https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-your-own-blog-with-next-js-and-mdx/
Quote of the Week: “A very simple but particularly useful technique for finding the cause of a problem is simply to explain it to someone else. The other person should look over your shoulder at the screen, and nod his or her head constantly (like a rubber duck bobbing up and down in a bathtub).” — Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, authors of the 1999 book The Pragmatic Programmer
There are three big desktop operating systems: Linux, MacOS, and Windows. And this handbook will help you appreciate their relative strengths and weaknesses. You’ll also learn about their histories, and key features like file systems and package managers. (full handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/an-introduction-to-operating-systems/
Terraform is an open source Infrastructure-as-Code tool. It helps you write code that will spin up cloud servers and other cloud services. This saves you the hassle of manually configuring them each time you want to deploy. This course will teach you how to use Terraform and AWS to build your own development environment. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-terraform-and-aws-by-building-a-dev-environment/
Low-code tools make it easier to develop applications without needing to write as much custom code. These are helpful for non-technical managers, and also for developers in a hurry. In this course, you’ll use low-code tools along with Google Sheets and some APIs to build your own customer support dashboard. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/low-code-for-freelance-developers-startups/
TypeScript is a popular statically-typed version of JavaScript. And GraphQL is a lightning fast API query language. What do you get when you mix them together? TypeGraphQL. This tutorial will give you a quick introduction to these tools, so you can consider incorporating them into your next big project. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-typescript-with-graphql/
Did you know that Windows, Linux, and MacOS are all at least partially written in C++? So is Chrome. This programming language first appeared nearly 4 decades ago. But it’s just as relevant today as ever. If you want to code embedded systems, develop video games, or do anything that requires high performance, C++ is a good language to know. And this tutorial will cover some basics and give you a roadmap to learning more. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-learn-the-c-programming-language/
Quote of the Week: “If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.” — Bjarne Stroustrup, Creator of C++. I think this quote can be applied to most of the world’s problems.
Linux and Unix-based operating systems like MacOS have powerful command line interfaces. This handbook for beginners will show you how to open up your terminal, run some common Git commands, and even write your first shell script. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/command-line-for-beginners/
GitPod is an open source Cloud Developer Environment. With it, you can write and execute code on remote servers – right from the comfort of your browser. This makes it easier to collaborate with friends on coding projects, or to test out other people’s code before merging it into your codebase. Andrew Brown created this in-depth course on how to use GitPod, and how you can earn a GitPod certification. (12 hour YouTube course) https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/exampro-cloud-developer-environment-certification-gitpod-course/
As I type this, there are more than 28,000 job openings seeking a “Full-Stack Developer”. But what exactly is full-stack development? In this guide, Dionysia will explain some core concepts. And she’ll give you some tips for learning key skills to land the job. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-full-stack-developer-full-stack-engineer-guide/
Figma is a popular design tool for planning out apps and their functionality – all before you embark on the lengthy process of coding them. This intermediate design course – taught by an experienced UX Designer – will show you how to use one of Figma’s key features: Variants. Variants will help you streamline your design process and group related components in a single container. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/design-a-scalable-mobile-app-with-figma-variants/
Break The Code 2.0 is a new browser game that sends you back in time to the year 1999. You complete codebreaking missions using your programming knowledge and your puzzle-solving intuition. In addition to cracking the game’s many ciphers, you can explore the Windows 98-inspired game environment. It includes a lot of nostalgia-inducing Easter eggs. (Interactive coding game): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/break-the-code-2-game/
Fact of the Week: During the production of the movie Toy Story 2, an unnamed Pixar employee was doing some routine data cleanup. They wanted to delete some of their files. So they typed this into their command line: bin/rm -r -f *. But they didn’t realize that they were running the command inside the server’s root folder. Animators knew something was wrong when the files they were working on started vanishing. They rushed over and unplugged the computer. But it was too late. 90% of the Toy Story 2’s files had been deleted. The team was going to have to completely restart the $100,000,000 project. Luckily, one of their animators was working from home after having a baby. She had a 2-week old backup of the data sitting on her desk. After she carefully drove her computer to the office, they were able to restore the database.
Go is a lightning-fast programming language used by Google, Apple, Twitch, and other companies that have lots of concurrent users. In this beginner Go course, you’ll learn the fundamentals by building 11 different projects: a web server, a chat bot, an API, and more. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-go-by-building-11-projects/
React is a powerful front end JavaScript library. You can use it to build single-page web applications. But did you know you can also use it to make fun animations? This course will show you how to spruce up your portfolio page with some React animations. (90-minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-portfolio-with-react-featuring-cool-animations/
One of the most important developer skills is being able to look things up quickly. This tutorial will show you some advanced Google search features like wildcards, the minus operator, and date operators. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-google-search-tips/
JavaScript has a more buttoned-down cousin called TypeScript. It adds static types to JavaScript, which reduces the likelihood of bugs in your code. And it runs in the browser, just like JavaScript does. If you already know some JavaScript, this tutorial will quickly bring you up-to-speed on using TypeScript, too. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/an-introduction-to-typescript/
One of Git’s most powerful tools is its “git diff” command. It lists the differences between two files, commits, or git branches. This tutorial will show you some of the ways you can use git diff, and how to make sense of the command’s output. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-diff-command/
Quote of the Week: “One of the reasons I enjoy working with Go is that I can mostly hold the spec in my head. And when I do misremember parts, it’s a few seconds’ work to correct myself. It’s quite possibly the only non-trivial language I’ve worked with where this is the case.” — Eleanor McHugh, a software engineer who’s worked on avionics and satellite communication
If you’re new to coding, Python is a beginner-friendly language to start with. This course will teach you how to install Python and build your first projects. You’ll learn about data structures, loops, control flow, and even a bit about virtual environments. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-python-crash-course/
Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor that most of the freeCodeCamp team uses. One of its coolest features is extensions. They can save you a ton of time when you’re coding. This course will show how to make use of 10 popular extensions, including GitLens, Prettier, Docker, and ESLint. (30 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/vs-code-extensions-to-increase-developer-productivity/
Linux (and Unix-based operating systems like MacOS) have powerful built-in file search functionality. But like many command line tools, it can be tricky to use. This tutorial will show you how to easily find files right from your terminal. This is extra handy when you’re managing remote servers. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-search-for-files-from-the-linux-command-line/
In this intermediate Python FastAPI course, you’ll code your own microservice. You’ll use React on the frontend, and dispatch events using Redis Streams. (90 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-microservices-with-fastapi/
If you are a freelance developer in the US, this course will help you understand taxes. You’ll learn some efficient ways to structure your business, and how to maximize your deductions. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/taxes-for-freelance-developers/
Quote of the Week: “I’m a core developer and security engineer of the second most popular programming language in the world. I wrote and maintain code that protects and encrypts petabytes of data each month. I don’t have an engineering degree.” — Christian Heimes, Core Developer of Python
This beginner course will teach you the three most widely-used web development tools: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You’ll code your own portfolio, which you can use to show off your future websites to potential clients and employers. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-portfolio-website-using-html-css-javascript/
This Debugging Handbook will show you how to get into a debugging mindset and use a variety of problem-solving tools. You’ll learn SOLID principles, how to write DRY code, and how to use both the Chrome and Visual Studio Code debugger tools. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-debugging-how-to-debug-code/
If you really, really want to delete a file, you can use Linux’s powerful shred command. In this quick tutorial, Zaira will show you how to not only remove a file, but also overwrite that sector of the hard drive several times so it becomes practically unrecoverable. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/securely-erasing-a-disk-and-file-using-linux-command-shred/
If you’re interested in learning 3D animation, this OpenGL course will show you how to help your characters move fluidly. You’ll “rig” your characters by placing virtual bones inside of them, then animate them at the skeleton level. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/advanced-opengl-animation-technique-skeletal-animations/
freeCodeCamp just published a massive React course in Spanish. (We’ve also published several React courses in English, too). If you have Spanish-speaking friends who want to learn programming, please tell them that we now have in-depth courses on a broad range of coding topics. These are all taught in Spanish by Estefania, an experienced teacher and software engineer. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-in-spanish-course-for-beginners/
This week, freeCodeCamp.org became one of the top 1,000 most-used websites on Earth. We are now averaging more than 1 million visitors per day – more than many major news websites. I’m thrilled that so many people are finding these learning resources helpful. You can read some of the reactions from the community: https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1503742010422878215
Quote of the Week: “When debugging, novices insert corrective code. Experts remove defective code.” — Richard Pattis, computer science professor at the University of California, Irvine
People often ask me where to start their coding journey. I tell them that HTML is the most concrete starting point, because you can see the results of your code changes right on the webpage. And this week freeCodeCamp published a new HTML course that will introduce you to elements, semantic tags, tables, and more. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-html-beginners-course/
If you’re learning DevOps and Cloud Engineering, freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive Kubernetes course. This course will prepare you to earn the Cloud Native Associate certification, opening up lots of career opportunities. (14 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cncf-kubernetes-cloud-native-associate-exam-course
Vim is a powerful text editor that comes built-in with most operating systems, including Linux and MacOS. Vim allows you to do almost anything with just a few keystrokes. It takes a few hours to learn the basics – and years to become proficient – but this course from a die-hard Vim enthusiast will give you a solid foundation. (75 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-vim-beginners-tutorial/
One of the key concepts that underpins most modern websites is State. By tracking a website’s State, you can understand what your visitors have done – whether that’s toggling a night mode switch or adding an item to their shopping cart. State is a particularly important concept in JavaScript and React. This primer will help you understand State and leverage it with your own web development. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-state/
A developer explores his 4-year journey toward publishing his first adventure game. After experimenting with both Java Playn and WebGL, he switched to Unity 2D. In this article, he shares his thoughts on various gamedev tools, and his evolving game design philosophy. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-developed-my-first-game/
Quote of the Week: “I’m old-fashioned. I like my CSS seperated from my HTML; my HTML seperated from my JS; my JS separated from my CSS. I like my JS layer only added when I need it, usually progressively. CSS added progressively on top of semantic markup. I don’t fight the C in CSS, I embrace it.” — Sara Soueidan, Software Engineer and Accessibility Advocate
One of the best ways to practice your coding skills is to build projects. In this course, Ania will walk you through building 7 retro video games, including Whac-a-Mole, Breakout, Frogger, and Space Invaders. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-by-coding-7-games/
Jessica is an orchestral musician who played live on national television at last month’s NFL award ceremony. She explores how she became a software developer by using freeCodeCamp. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-went-from-a-classical-musician-to-software-developer-and-techinal-writer/
GitLab is an open source Git repository tool. This DevOps course will show you how to use GitLab to build Continuous Integration Build Pipelines, and then deploy them to AWS. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/devops-with-gitlab-ci-course/
Learn how to build your own e-commerce store using WordPress and WooCommerce. This hands-on tutorial will guide you through the process of getting your own store live within just a few hours. (90 minute YouTube): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-an-ecommere-website-using-woocomerce/
Project Euler is a legendary collection of coding challenges first published in 2001. The freeCodeCamp community recently wrote tests for these challenges and made them solvable in JavaScript. And now you can solve them in Rust, too. (hundreds of hours of coding challenges): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/project-euler-problems-in-rust/
Quote of the Week: “The pinnacle of game design craft is combining perfect mechanics and compelling fiction into one seamless system of meaning.” — Tynan Sylvester, Developer and Indie Game Designer
Flutter is a popular open-source toolkit for coding cross-platform apps. You can then run these apps on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac. freeCodeCamp uses Flutter to build our own Android app, rather than Android’s usual Java code. And I have a lot of friends working at big tech companies who develop using it, too. This in-depth course for beginners will show you how to build your own app and publish it. (37 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-flutter-full-course/
If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to use Linux as your operating system, this course is for you. It will walk you through the Linux tool ecosystem and help you install it on a computer. You’ll gain an understanding of Linux’s file structure, package manager, and more. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-basics-of-the-linux-operating-system/
Learn NestJS by building your own bookmark API. This full stack JavaScript course will show you how to build a scalable back-end using NestJS, along with Postgres, Docker, Passport.js, and other popular tools. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-nestjs-by-building-a-crud-api/
I hear from many developers who would like to work remotely. Some want to travel the world as a “digital nomad.” Others just want to spend more of the day with their families. This tutorial will give you some of the pros and cons of working remotely, as well as share some tips for how to uncover remote development opportunities. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/remote-work-how-to-find-remote-working-jobs-from-home/
And if you land a remote role, this guide will help you make the most of it. You’ll learn techniques for separating work from your personal life – even when those share the same space. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/working-from-home-tips-to-stay-productive/
Quote of the Week: “When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” — Buckminister Fuller, Architect and Systems Theorist
Learn C++ for beginners. This course will show you how to install the C++ programming language and start writing and running your code. You’ll learn concepts like control flow, data handling, object oriented programming, pointers & references, polymorphism, and even some functional programming. (31 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-c-with-free-31-hour-course/
How to rock the coding interview. This in-depth guide will teach you tips that helped one freeCodeCamp community member land multiple job offers from Google, Airbnb, and Dropbox. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coding-interviews-for-dummies-5e048933b82b/
Learn iOS development by coding your own Netflix app. You’ll use Swift 5 and UIkit to create a new Xcode project, customize the navigation bar, and access public APIs. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ios-development-by-building-a-netflix-clone/
Tech Entrepreneurship 101. Chris Haroun created this course called “Crucial Lessons They Don’t Teach you in Business School.” It’s a collection of lessons like “every battle is won before it has been fought” and “only the paranoid survive.” If you are considering founding a startup or software development consultancy, this course is a sound place to start. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/important-lessons-they-dont-teach-you-in-business-school/
This guide will walk you through how to audit one of thousands of publicly available university courses. You can learn at your own pace without needing to enroll. It also includes tips for choosing among similar courses. It will help you take a structured, sustainable approach to self teaching. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-audit-a-class-university-course/
Quote of the Week: “C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder. But when you do, it blows your whole leg off.” — Bjarne Stroustrup, Creator of C++
A Design System can save you time when you code a website, and help the pages feel more consistent. This course is taught by the King of CSS, Kevin Powell. (And yes, if you google “king of CSS”, Kevin will be the top result.) You’ll learn a ton of advanced CSS and UI design concepts. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-and-implement-a-design-system-with-css/
We asked 15 experienced software engineers the most common questions people ask about learning to code. I’m friends with several of the devs in this video, and enjoyed hearing their perspectives. I think you will, too. (45 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/your-developer-career-questions-answered/
Markdown is a powerful way to add formatting to your plain-text notes. I use it whenever I create GitHub issues, or post on freeCodeCamp’s forum. In this tutorial, Zaira will teach you Markdown syntax. She’ll show you how you can add code blocks to your text, and format everything on the fly. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/markdown-cheat-sheet/
Learn how JavaScript works behind the scenes. This deep dive will show you how JavaScript engines like V8 and SpiderMonkey parse and run code in your browser. You’ll learn about Scope Chains, Execution Stacks, Hoisting, and more. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/execution-context-how-javascript-works-behind-the-scenes
This article will give you some practical tips for strengthening your developer portfolio. If you want to convince potential clients and hiring managers that you know what you’re doing, a strong portfolio will go a long way. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/level-up-developer-portfolio/
Quote of the Week: “Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know quite where you are.” — Danny Thorpe, Software Engineer and major contributor to the Delphi programming language
This course will teach you User Experience Design best practices. You’ll learn the design thinking methodology of Stanford’s famous d.school, and build prototypes in Figma. This is a beginner-level course and does not require any prior programming experience. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-user-reseach-to-create-the-perfect-ui-design/
Four years ago, an electrician discovered freeCodeCamp and started teaching himself to code. Today he works as a software engineer. In this in-depth guide, he reflects on the React best practices he has picked up over the years. These are his tips for writing better React code in 2022. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/best-practices-for-react/
You may have heard of the Go programming language, which is famous for being extremely fast. This course will show you how to write your own serverless API using Go and AWS Lambda. You’ll also learn how to test and deploy your serverless Go functions to the cloud. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-and-deploy-a-serverless-api-using-go-and-aws/
If you want to build your own video game with 3D graphics, you can use the Unreal Engine and its powerful Blueprint Visual Scripting system. This course for beginners will show you how to trigger events like game over, and even some basic level design. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/unreal-engine-5-crash-course-with-blueprint/
Every year developers hold a competition to build video games using just 13 kilobytes of JavaScript. For reference, the original Donkey Kong game from 1981 was 16 kilobytes. And yet these devs are able to build platformers, puzzle games, and even 3D games in just 13KB. In this video, Ania will demo the top 20 games from this year’s js13k competition, and she’ll explain some of the techniques developers used to code these games. (90 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/20-award-winning-javascript-games-js13kgames-2021-winners/
Quote of the Week: “Every great design begins with an even better story.” — Lorinda Mamo, designer and creative director
This course will show you how to build your own video games using an open source JavaScript GameDev engine called GDevelop. You’ll build a Mario Bros. platform game and an Asteroids space shooting game. You can publish your games to the web or to iPhone / Android. You don’t need any previous programming experience. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-platformer-game-with-gdevelop/
freeCodeCamp just published our first-ever AutoCAD course, taught by architect and Lund University lecturer Gediminas Kirdeikis. Computer Aided Design is a powerful tool for creating 3D models, most often in the field of architecture. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-autocad-with-this-free-course/
HTTP is a set of rules for how servers share resources on the web. In this tutorial, Camila will show you how to use the common HTTP methods – Get, Put, Post, Patch, and Delete – to coordinate servers and clients. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/http-request-methods-explained/
Self-driving car prototypes rely heavily on Computer Vision for perceiving their surroundings. This Python Deep Learning course will explain how cars can “see” the road, and how they process this information using neural networks. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/perception-for-self-driving-cars-deep-learning-course/
Learn how to use TypeScript with your React apps. This course will teach you about aliases, inheritance, reducers, React Hooks, and more – all while coding your own todo list app. (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-code-your-react-app-with-typescript/
Quote of the Week: “In the right context, a game is not just a vehicle for fun, but an exercise in self-determination and confidence.” — Sid Meier, game designer and creator of the Civilization game series
freeCodeCamp just published an entire book on Arch Linux. If you want to get into the most customizable Linux distribution, this book will show you how to install it and season to taste. (free full-length handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-install-arch-linux/
Build your own version of the Netflix website using Python Django and Tailwind CSS. You can code along at home and get some practice building APIs and tweaking user interfaces. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-netflix-clone-with-django-and-tailwind-css/
Next.js is a React framework that describes itself as “unopinionated” and “batteries-included”. It combines simple tools like Create React App with more advanced features. This tutorial will show you how to build a Next.js app. You’ll learn about pages, routes, data requests, SEO considerations, and more. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/nextjs-tutorial/
Kubernetes is a popular open-source DevOps tool. It can help automate the deployment, management, scaling, and networking of containers. This course will help you learn it so you can more easily deploy apps to production. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-kubernetes-and-start-containerizing-your-applications/
And if you want to get certified in Kubernetes, freeCodeCamp just published this guide to the official Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam. This will help you decide whether the certification is worth the effort. Then it will cover all five modules in detail. It also includes a handy kubectl cheat sheet. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/certified-kubernetes-administrator-study-guide-cka/
Quote of the Week: “Linux only became possible because 20 years of operating system research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed, and thrown away.” — Ingo Molnar, Prolific Linux Contributor from Hungary
React is a popular JavaScript front end development library. This course will teach you React for beginners. Learn about props, state, async functions, JSX, and more. Along the way, you’ll build 8 real-world projects, and solve more than 140 interactive coding challenges. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-react-course-2022/
Learn to solve 10 of the most common coding job interview problems. You’ll learn classics like Valid Anagram, Minimum Window Substring, Kth permutation, and Largest Rectangle in Histogram. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/10-common-coding-interview-problems-solved/
Code your own Instagram clone full-stack Android app. You’ll learn how to use Flutter for coding the native app and user interface. You’ll also learn how to use Firebase for your database and authentication. You can sit back and watch or code along at home using the codebase repository on GitHub. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-a-full-stack-instagram-clone-with-flutter-and-firebase/
If you want to expand your Machine Learning skills in 2022, Manoel has you covered. He dug through tons of course data to find 10 publicly accessible university courses that will teach you key topics from the ground up. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/best-machine-learning-courses/
How do file systems work? This in-depth article will give you a solid understanding. You’ll learn about partitioning schemes, system firmware, booting, and the computer science concepts that underpin them. (45 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/file-systems-architecture-explained/
2022 is just getting started. If you want to hit the ground running, you should take my Become-a-Developer New Year’s Resolution Challenge. So far more than 1,000 people have committed to the challenge, which will involve about 30 minutes of learning each day for the next 3 months. No pressure 🙂 https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/2022-become-a-dev-new-years-resolution-challenge/
Quote of the Week: “There is no such thing as ‘zero-config’ software. It’s just someone else’s hard-coded settings.” — Jordan Walke, creator of React
This in-depth course will show you how to code your own Super Mario video game – complete with physics engine, shaders, sprite sheets, animations, and enemy AI. You’ll learn some Java programming and some Java ecosystem game development tools. (25 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-a-2d-game-engine-using-java/
Figma is a powerful user experience design tool used by web and mobile developers. This course will teach you Figma basics, along with Material Design, vector graphics, and Tailwind CSS. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ui-design-with-figma-tutorial/
How does Git work under the hood? This deep dive will show you the key concepts of version control, and the three states of code changes: modified, staged, and committed. It will also show you how Git tracks files and handles tasks like merging. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-under-the-hood/
The high art of Git commit messages. This tutorial will teach you how to explain to other developers what exactly your code does. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-write-better-git-commit-messages/
You can start 2022 off strong by accepting my Become-a-Dev New Year’s Resolution Challenge. You’ll learn about Linux, SQL, and practice your coding. You’ll also play our new Learn to Code RPG video game. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/2022-become-a-dev-new-years-resolution-challenge/
Also, I’m sure this is no big deal, but I’ll leave it here if you’re interested 😉 https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-accredited-bachelors-degrees-in-computer-science-how-do-we-get-there/
Finally, I am proud to congratulate the 647 people who have earned freeCodeCamp’s 2021 Top Contributor award. You can read about these kind human beings and how they’ve been volunteering within the community: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/2021-top-contributors/
Quote of the Week: “Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.” — Shigeru Miyamoto, Creator of Super Mario Bros.
We did it. We built a video game. It took 8 months, but Learn To Code RPG is now live, and you can play it for yourself. In this visual novel video game, you learn to code, make friends, and apply for developer jobs.
It features original anime-inspired art and a jazz soundtrack written and performed by me. There are more than 600 Computer Science concept quiz questions, dozens of Easter eggs to discover, and multiple endings. And it’s all open source.
It runs on PC, Mac, and Linux, and we’ll soon publish mobile versions of the game, too. You can also watch the 1-hour “let’s play” video with Ania Kubow and the game’s developer, Lynn Zheng. (fully playable 3 hour game): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-rpg/
Also, we just published a comprehensive history of the internet, taught by a professor who has been at its forefront since the 1990s: University of Michigan legend Dr. Chuck. You’ll learn about ARPANET & CERN, DNS, TCP/IP, network security, and more. (9 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-history-of-the-internet-in-dr-chucks/
This course taught by Ania Kubow will show you how to build your own Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. You don’t even need to know a lot about programming – you can use low-code tools to build out key features. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-crm/
If you’re new to the JavaScript ecosystem, one of its most powerful features is modules. In this guide, Madison Kanna will show you how ES Modules work, and how they can speed up your website building process. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-modules-beginners-guide/
Linux and MacOS Unix have a convenient tool for securely transferring files from one computer to another. I use this often when I’m working with a remote Linux server. This tutorial by Zaira Hira will show you how to use both the SCP command and the popular network File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to move files. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-transfer-files-between-servers-in-linux-using-scp-and-ftp/
Quote of the Week: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” — George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
DevSecOps is where you start thinking about security early in the process of building your app or website. This DevOps and cybersecurity course by Beau Carnes will help you prevent vulnerabilities, threats, and exploits. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-devsecops/
If you want to work with some emerging full-stack development tools, this course is a good place to start. You’ll learn Svelte, Prisma, and Vercel, running on top of a sensible Postgres database. And you can code the entire app right in your browser using GitPod. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/become-a-full-stack-developer-with-svelte/
Did you know you can run Linux on a Windows computer? In this tutorial, Yosra will show you how to use Windows Subsystem for Linux – also known as WSL – without needing to use a virtual machine or dual-boot your computer. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-run-linux-apps-on-windows-10-11-using-wsl/
Linked Lists are an efficient data structure used in high-performance programming. They often come up in developer job interview questions. This course will teach you how to sum, traverse, and reverse a linked list. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linked-lists-in-technical-interviews/
‘Tis the season. This fun tutorial will teach you the basics of SVG images. You’ll build several holiday-themed graphics. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/svg-tutorial-learn-to-code-images/
Quote of the Week: “Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident security.” — Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher, in 1790
This course by computer science professor and entrepreneur Shad Sluiter will teach you business essentials for developers. You’ll learn the basics of product development, agile project management, marketing, and more. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-build-apps-from-a-business-perspective/
The popular Bootstrap responsive design framework just hit Version 5.0. This course will teach you how to make your websites and apps look good on any device size, without having to write a lot of your own custom CSS. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-bootstrap-5-tutorial-for-beginners/
In the movie Iron Man, Tony Stark has a friendly artificial intelligence named J.A.R.V.I.S. who helps him get things done. You can build your own AI helper in Python with the help of this fun tutorial. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-project-how-to-build-your-own-jarvis-using-python/
Did you know that you can write code on a phone? There are more than 2 billion people around the world who have access to an Android phone, but not a laptop. In this course, 18-year-old Back End Developer Precious Oladele will show you how he builds apps right from his Android phone, and the many tools available for coding on the go. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/can-you-code-on-a-phone/
Over the past 4 months, Boston University sociologist Dilan Eren and I asked more than 18,000 people to anonymously tell us how they are learning to code and which tools they’re using. And today I’m proud to announce that we just published the full results, along with a massive open dataset. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/2021-new-coder-survey-18000-people-share-how-theyre-learning-to-code/
Quote of the Week: “Don’t worry about people trying to steal your design work. Worry about the day that they stop.” — Jeffery Zeldman, Developer, Designer, and co-founder of the Web Standards Project
This course will teach you about the 4 most popular types of NoSQL databases: key-value, tabular, document, and graph. freeCodeCamp teacher Ania Kubow will walk you through how to build these databases. You’ll leverage each one’s interface layer, execution layer, and storage layer. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-nosql-in-3-hours/
If you know how to use Microsoft Excel, you already have one of the most powerful data analysis tools at your disposal. This course will help you pair Excel with Python to build pivot tables, Jupyter Notebooks, and other data analysis artifacts. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-analysis-with-python-for-excel-users-course/
Sim-swapping is a type of cyber attack where someone convinces a phone company employee to transfer your phone number to a new SIM card – a sim card the attacker owns. This happens way more often than you might think. In this tutorial, security researcher Megan Kaczanowski will show you several ways you can protect yourself from these attacks. (13 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/protect-yourself-against-sim-swapping-attacks/
The Design Thinking process can help you come up with new ways to solve your users’ problems. freeCodeCamp Teacher Jessica Wilkins will show you how you can apply Design Thinking to empathize with your users and build better projects. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-design-thinking-process-explained/
Rust is the most-loved programming language in the world, according to 6 back-to-back Stack Overflow surveys. After months of hard work, freeCodeCamp just published a full-length Rust course. Now you can learn Rust development interactively – right in your browser. (Full course where you build two projects): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/rust-in-replit/
2021 has been a wild year for the freeCodeCamp community. And 2022 is going to be even wilder. We’re working on so many ambitious projects. And we’re shipping. If you haven’t read my 2021 year-in-review article, I think you’ll enjoy it. Know that any year-end donations you are able to make to our nonprofit will help us in our mission to create free learning resources for everyone. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-2021-review-budget-usage-statistics/
Quote of the Week: “A database administrator walks into a NoSQL bar. But he turns and leaves because he couldn’t find a table.” — Erlend Oftedal, security researcher and maintainer of Retire.js
If you want to get into DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or other cloud development fields, an AWS certification may go a long way. freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth course to help you prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. You’ll learn cloud computing concepts, architecture, deployment models, and more. (13 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-certification-study-course-pass-the-exam/
Speaking of cloud development, manually deploying your codebase to the cloud several times a day can get tedious. If you learn how to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC), you can automate this process. Code along with this course and you’ll learn the basics of IaC with Python, AWS, and the Pulumi open source library. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-infrastructure-as-code/
Learn Advanced Git from industry veteran Tobias Günther. You’ll explore Interactive Rebase, Cherry-Picking, Reflog, Submodules, Search & Find, and other advanced Git features. (30 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/advanced-git-interactive-rebase-cherry-picking-reflog-and-more/
If you’re using a Windows computer, you can improve your personal productivity by customizing the taskbar. This tutorial will give you some tips. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-customize-your-windows10-taskbar-for-productivity/
The freeCodeCamp community has grown a lot in 2021. How much? Today I crunched the numbers to find out. In short, people have used freeCodeCamp for more than 2 billion minutes in 2021 – the equivalent of 4,000 years. As you read this sentence, more than 4,000 people are on freeCodeCamp learning about programming and technology. And we’ve accomplished all of this on a tiny budget, thanks to a growing community of volunteers. This is my full annual report. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-2021-review-budget-usage-statistics/
Quote of the Week: “In terms of removing the socioeconomic barriers to Computer Science education, I am a huge fan of Quincy Larson and freeCodeCamp.org. When I’m hiring an engineer, I really can’t tell if they learned something at college for $150K, or a paid boot camp for $50K, or freeCodeCamp.org for free.” — Mekka Okereke, a Director of Engineering at Google
Learn Python API development by building your own social network API. You’ll use a powerful library called Fast API, along with the popular Postgres (PostgreSQL) database. This course will show you how to install everything and configure your PC, Mac, or Linux computer for full-stack Python development. You’ll even deploy your own API to the web using Docker and Heroku. (19 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/creating-apis-with-python-free-19-hour-course/
Micro-frontends let you break a website down into individual features that you can then code separately. This can be super useful during development. This course will teach you about cross platform micro-frontends, asynchronous loading, error handling, shared state, how to route multiple applications together, and how to test micro-frontend code. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-all-about-micro-frontends/
A lot of people ask me about the difference between C and C++. They are related languages that have an interesting shared history. The main difference is that C++ is object-oriented, and has a ton of features that make it easier to code complicated applications. This article will delve into both languages, with plenty of helpful code examples. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/c-vs-cpp-whats-the-difference/
Array Destructuring is a DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) way to extract values from your arrays. Almost as if they were JavaScript objects. You can code along with this tutorial and practice using this novel programming approach. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/array-vs-object-destructuring-in-javascript/
A lot of people have been recommending this new TV show from South Korea called Squid Game. I haven’t watched it, but I did enjoy this Squid Game JavaScript game tutorial. You can code along at home and build it to show your friends. Don’t worry – this game is not violent. But it does feature a creepy doll. ◎ܫ◎ (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-squid-game-javascript-game-with-three-js/
Quote of the Week: “Python is the most powerful language you can still read.” - Paul Dubois, physicist and lead developer of NumPy
Linux has a famously powerful command line interface. And this course by prolific teacher Colt Steele will ramp up your terminal skills. You’ll learn commonly-used commands like tail, diff, chown, and grep. This course will also show you how to use Terminal on Mac or Windows System Linux in Windows 10 so that you can practice these commands while you watch the course. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-50-most-used-linux-terminal-commands/
Web Applications for Everybody. University of Michigan professor and frequent freeCodeCamp contributor Dr. Chuck Severance will teach the basics of web development all in a single course. You’ll learn basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You’ll also learn how to use your browser’s developer tools to understand HTTP requests. Dr. Chuck even touches on single-table SQL databases. If you’re looking for a beginner web development course from an experienced teacher, this is a great place to start. (14 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/web-applications-for-everybody-dr-chuck/
And if you’re already fairly experienced with web development, this tutorial will show you how to boost your productivity with time-saving workflow automations. You’ll learn some helpful tricks for live reloading, testing, version control, and deployment. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-improve-your-web-development-workflow/
If you want to get closer to the metal and learn how C works, this tutorial by Bala Priya will show you how C for loops work. She has some elucidating diagrams and C code examples to help you grasp the key concepts. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/for-loops-in-c/
If you have Spanish-speaking friends who want to learn to code, encourage them to check out this comprehensive HTML and CSS course we just released. The freeCodeCamp community is working hard to localize our 7,000+ tutorials and courses into more than 50 languages, including Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, and Hindi. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-html-and-css-in-spanish-course-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week: “The Linux philosophy is ‘laugh in the face of danger.’ Oops. Wrong one. ‘Do it yourself.’ That’s the one.” — Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
React is one of the most widely-used JavaScript front-end development libraries. I did an Indeed job search just now, and saw more than 60,000 job openings in the US that mentioned React. With this in-depth React course, you’ll build your own e-commerce website. You’ll learn about components, event handling, life cycle phases, error handling, two-way binding, and other key React concepts. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-by-building-an-ecommerce-site/
Back in the year 2000, the US National Security Agency first released a Linux feature that gives system admins fine-grained control over the security of a computer or server. It’s called Security-Enhanced Linux, and it comes built-in with most major Linux distributions. If you’re running Linux on a computer or a server, this tutorial by Zaira Hira will show you how to really lock things down. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/securing-linux-servers-with-se-linux/
Learn Android app development for beginners. Stanford lecturer Rahul Pandey will walk you through building your own tip calculator app. You’ll create a mobile user interface using the Kotlin programming language, and even add some basic animations to your app. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/android-app-development-for-beginners/
Django is a powerful Python web development framework used by Instagram and Pinterest. This crash course by Python teacher Bobby Stearman will teach you how to code your own interactive résumé website using a professionally-designed and customizable template. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/django-project-create-a-digital-resume-using-django-and-python/
A lot of people ask me whether software development is a good fit for them as a career. This article by Jessica Wilkins is a solid place to start your research. It will give you a brief tour of the field and the many sub-disciplines in software engineering. This will help you make more informed career plans. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-software-engineering-how-to-become-a-software-engineer/
Quote of the Week: “I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop. It has no internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics. But I trust my family jewels only to Linux.” — Donald Knuth, Stanford professor and 1974 Turing Award recipient (the “Nobel Prize of computer science”)
Unreal Engine is a powerful tool for coding your own video games. And with this GameDev course, you will learn how to use the Unreal Engine to build an “endless runner” game – complete with obstacles, hit detection, and a core gameplay loop. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-an-endless-runner-game-using-unreal-engine-and-c/
Binary Tree Algorithms come up all the time in developer job interviews. This course will help you understand common questions hiring managers may ask you about these data structures, and how to best answer them. You’ll learn about Depth First, Breadth First, Max Root to Leaf Path Sum, and other core concepts. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-implement-binary-tree-algorithms-in-technical-interviews/
When you visit a website like freeCodeCamp.org, your computer starts sending packets of data back and forth across the internet using the Internet Protocol. The IPv4 protocol came out way back in 1980, and gives every server its own 4-byte address. (That’s 4 numbers between 0 and 255. For example, the localhost address: 127.0.0.1). But this only results in 4.3 billion possible combinations. And websites are already using almost all of these. Thankfully, the newer IPv6 protocol can save humanity from the threat of “address exhaustion”. This article will show you how IPv6 works. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ipv4-vs-ipv6-what-is-the-difference-between-ip-addressing-schemes/
We teach React as part of freeCodeCamp’s core curriculum. But a lot of developers also want to learn to use Angular. This course will teach you the Angular Front End Framework component system, lifecycle hooks, event binding, attribute directives, and other key concepts. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-angular-full-course/
Currying is a Functional Programming technique where you only pass one parameter to a function at a time, and then that function returns another function. This tutorial will show you how to compose Curried Functions so you can take your JavaScript skills to the next level. (14 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-currying-and-composition-in-javascript/
Quote of the Week: “Smart data structures and dumb code work a lot better than the other way around.” — Eric S. Raymond, developer and author of the pioneering book on open source, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”
This course taught by legendary freeCodeCamp teacher John Smilga will walk you through building four Node.js and Express.js projects. You’ll build your own task manager, ecommerce API, login dashboard using JWT, and finally your own job board API. These projects will give you a sound foundation in API design and back end JavaScript web development. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-six-node-js-and-express-js/
This Amazon Private Cloud course will teach you how to build your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for your business or personal use. You’ll learn important DevOps concepts like Security Groups and Access Control, Subnets, Transit Gateways, IPv6 Addressing, and logging. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/amazon-virtual-private-cloud-course/
Prolific freeCodeCamp contributor and software development blogger Flavio Copes just made his entire blogging book freely available on our nonprofit’s website. If you are considering writing about your field or your hobbies, this is in my opinion a must-read. (70-page book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-start-a-blog-book/
One of the most common questions I get: how can I code my own video games? If you’re interested in GameDev, this is a great place to start. Jessica Wilkins breaks down the most common game engines, their strengths, and recommends courses you can use to get started building with them. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-a-video-game-create-your-own-game-from-scratch-tutorial/
The next time you want to zip up some files, try using Linux’s powerful Tar command. It also works in the MacOS terminal and Windows System Linux. This tutorial by Zaira Hira will show you how to create a new file archive and compress it – right from the command line. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-compress-files-in-linux-with-tar-command/
Quote of the Week: “Programming would be pretty boring if everyone agreed.” – TJ Holowaychuk, Creator of Express.js
Way back in 1983, telephone companies came together to create the Open System Interconnections Model. This OSI Model is a common way to think about networks and security – from the software application layer all the way down to the physical infrastructure. This tutorial will help you understand each of the network layers and the relationships between them. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/osi-model-computer-networking-for-beginners/
If you have a friend or relative who is completely new to computers, share this course with them. It uses fun animations to explain how computers work, how the internet works, and some computer security basics. I watched it with my kindergarten-aged kids, and even they understood it. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/computer-basics-for-absolute-beginners/
Terraform is a popular Infrastructure-As-Code tool. I just did a search on Indeed (a job board website) and found more than 23,000 open job postings that mention Terraform. If you are interested in DevOps or cloud computing, this comprehensive course will prepare you to pass the Terraform Associate Certification. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/hashicorp-terraform-associate-certification-study-course-pass-the-exam-with-this-free-12-hour-course/
TensorFlow is a powerful Python machine learning tool. freeCodeCamp already has tons of courses on TensorFlow, but this week we published a new one focused on using TensorFlow for Computer Vision. You’ll learn how to build a neural network then train it to see various traffic signs and recognize their meaning. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-tensorflow-for-computer-vision/
How to learn programming – a 14-step roadmap for beginners. This software engineer reflects on 20 years of learning to code, and how he would do things differently if he were starting over again today. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-learn-programming/
Quote of the Week: “I refer to layers 1 through 4 of the OSI Model all the time. They’re a simplified and fairly easy way to understand the obtuse and arcane way modern networks are kludged together. It’s really hard to convey the layers necessary to do proper monitoring and detection without that understanding.” — Lesley Carhart, Security Researcher and Digital Forensics Expert
Learn Git for professionals. This intermediate course will teach you how to use the world’s most popular version control system to manage your code. You’ll learn the difference between merging and rebasing. You’ll also learn about pull requests, branching strategies, and how to wrangle those pesky merge conflicts. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-for-professionals/
This web design course will walk you through building your own multi-page recipe website. You’ll use pure HTML and CSS with no frameworks. This is a great first course for aspiring front end developers. And a solid refresher if you’re feeling rusty. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/html-css-tutorial-build-a-recipe-website/
You may have heard the term DOM Manipulation when talking about web development. But what exactly is the Document Object Model? In this tutorial, Jessica will show you how the DOM works, and how even sophisticated single-page applications still rely on HTML elements as anchors to the page. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-the-dom-document-object-model-meaning-in-javascript/
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is how computers glean insights from human languages like English. Python has a powerful NLP library called spaCy. In this course, data scientist and professor Dr. Mattingly will introduce you to NLP concepts like Word Vectors, Named Entity Recognition, EntityRulers and more. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/natural-language-processing-with-spacy-python-full-course/
Before there was BitTorrent, people shared files the old fashioned way – from the command line. And if you have a Unix shell available (Mac, Linux, or the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux should work) you can relive that 1980s experience. This tutorial will show you how to use the handy SCP command to move files from one computer to another using SSH. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/scp-linux-command-example-how-to-ssh-file-transfer-from-remote-to-local/
Quote of the Week: “We divide Git into high level (“porcelain”) commands and low level (“plumbing”) commands.” — Git and Linux creator Linus Torvalds, in the official Git man page documentation
18 years ago, two developers in a Kansas newspaper office coded the first version of the Python Django web development framework. They named it after jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Today, thousands of major websites run on Django. This beginner’s course by University of Michigan professor Dr. Chuck Severance will teach you how to use Python and Django to build modern web apps. (18 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/django-for-everybody-learn-the-popular-python-framework-from-dr-chuck/
And if you want to learn even more Python, this course will show you how to use a wide range of Python libraries to automate tasks. You’ll build an image converter, a résumé parser, a news summarizer, and more. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-automate-things-using-python/
How to start freelancing in 2021. Tips from a successful Shopify and WordPress developer who works with multiple clients. (14 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-start-freelancing/
As a developer, I’ve probably spent more time building web forms than anything else. This can be particularly tricky with JavaScript. But these best practices will save you a lot of time and headache. (14 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-form-validation-by-making-a-form/
Hundreds of universities around the world have made programming and computer science courses openly available on the web. My friend Dhawal has compiled 700 of these courses that you can explore. If you want, you can strap these together to build your own school year. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “An individual block of code takes moments to write, minutes to debug, and can last forever without being touched again. It’s only when you visit code written yesterday that having code written in a clear, consistent style becomes extremely useful. Understandable code frees up your mental bandwidth from having to puzzle out inconsistencies, making it easier to maintain and enhance projects of all sizes.” — Daniel Roy Greenfeld, Python Django developer and author
Linux is the most widely-used operating system in the world. It powers most web servers. And since Android was built on top of Linux, it runs on most mobile devices. If you’re interested in a career in software development or cyber security, you will want to learn Linux and its command line tools. This course will teach you the basics of Linux servers, networking, and security. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linux-essentials-for-hackers/
Gatsby is an open source front-end development framework. It helps you build fast, reliable static websites using React and other JavaScript tools. These sites generally do not require a traditional back end. Instead they use APIs and CDNs to deliver content to browsers or mobile apps. This in-depth course will show you how to use the latest version of Gatsby to leverage its power. (9 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-gatsby-version-3/
You may have heard the term “asynchronous programming” before. But what does it mean? This tutorial will show you how to write both synchronous and asynchronous JavaScript code, and explain when each of these approaches can be useful. Along the way, you’ll learn the key programming concepts like Call Stacks, Promises, and Event Loops. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/synchronous-vs-asynchronous-in-javascript/
If you use the VS Code editor, you should try freeCodeCamp’s new “Command Line Chic” dark mode template. It will make you feel like an elite developer in no time. We designed it from the ground up to look cool and also be easy on your eyes during those late night / early morning coding sessions. (1 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/vs-code-dark-mode-theme/
If you’re actively contributing to open source, you may have heard of the GitHub Star program. If you can manage to get nominated, GitHub Star status can be a good way to draw attention to your open source activity and raise your profile within the developer community. This discussion features tips from 5 people who have recently earned GitHub Star status. (30 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/github-stars-answer-the-communitys-most-asked-questions/
We’re working on several new interactive coding projects and comprehensive certifications that you and your family can use to expand your skills. If you are fortunate enough to have steady income, you can support our mission directly by making a tax-deductible donation to our nonprofit: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-donate-to-free-code-camp/
Quote of the Week: “One person’s paranoia is another person’s engineering redundancy.” — Marcus Ranum, Network Security Researcher
Blockchain isn’t just for investing – you can use these distributed database tools to automate tasks as well. That’s where Smart Contracts come in. This Python course will show you how to use Solidity to code your own Smart Contracts right onto the Ethereum blockchain. (16 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-solidity-blockchain-and-smart-contracts-in-a-free/
Vue.js is a popular alternative to React and other front end development JavaScript frameworks. In this course, Gwen will teach you how to use Vue.js to build web apps. And you’ll learn about Components, Directives, Lifecycle Hooks, and use them to build your own grocery shopping website project. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/vue-3-full-course/
Jessica compiled this in-depth list of 460 textbooks you can download. These high school and university textbooks are Creative Commons-licensed by their authors, and you can use them freely. Bookmark this, and the next time you need to buy a textbook or assign one to a student, you may be able to use one of these instead. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-textbooks-math-science-and-more-online-pdf-for-college-and-high-school/
In 2014, an Italian developer coded a simple tile-based puzzle game that took the world by storm. That game was called 2048. Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to build your own 2048 game using React and JavaScript. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how. Then you can share your creation with your friends and get them addicted to it. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-2048-game-in-react/
And if you want to dive even deeper into Python, this comprehensive course will teach you the most common algorithms and data structures that are likely to come up during job interviews. Many of these are used in modern Machine Learning techniques. (13 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-algorithms-and-data-structures-in-python/
Quote of the Week: “Most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery who are doing menial tasks. But blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting taxi drivers out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job, and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.” — Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum
This course will teach you the basics of Machine Learning. A young Data Scientist will walk you through some of the main ways engineers use key Machine Learning techniques. He will also show you how to tackle the classic problem of overfitting or underfitting your data. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-machine-learning-course-10-hourse/
Figma is a powerful prototyping tool for developers. And this in-depth Figma course will show you how to design your websites and apps, then get feedback on them before you start the long process of writing code. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-figma-to-design-websites/
Over the past decade, many Back-End Developer and Front-End Developer jobs have merged to form Full-Stack Developer roles. If you are just entering the field, this article can bring you up to speed. It will also help you figure out which skills and technologies you should prioritize learning. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-full-stack-developer-back-end-front-end-full-stack-engineer/
What is an Operating System? This historical deep-dive will show you the core parts of an OS and how they have evolved over the decades. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-an-os-operating-system-definition-for-beginners/
Selenium is a JavaScript tool for testing your user interfaces. You can also use it to automate your browser, so it can click through websites for you, helping you complete web forms or gather data. This course will teach you Selenium basics and help you build several projects you can use in everyday life. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-selenium-to-create-a-web-scraping-bot/
Quote of the Week: “I know a lot about artificial intelligence. But not as much as it knows about me.” — Dave Waters, Geology Professor and Machine Learning Enthusiast
These days you can code right in your browser on sites like freeCodeCamp.org. But if you have never coded on your own computer before, this course will help you install Python and a code editor so you can start programming offline. Jabrils, a self-taught game developer, will teach you basic Python data structures, algorithms, conditional logic, and more. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/programming-for-beginners-how-to-code-with-python-and-c-sharp/
Learn how to code your own Sudoku Android app using Kotlin and the powerful Jetpack Compose UI toolkit. You’ll learn clean architecture, the Java File System Storage, the Open-Closed Principle, and more. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-an-android-app/
You may have heard the term “outlier” before. But what exactly does it mean? This plain-English statistics tutorial will show you how to detect outliers by calculating the Interquartile Range. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-an-outlier-definition-and-how-to-find-outliers-in-statistics/
Learn how to code your own Discord chat bot that talks like your favorite cartoon character. You could choose Rick from Rick and Morty, The Joker from Batman, or even Peppa Pig. You’ll use Python or JavaScript, along with massive character dialogue datasets. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/discord-ai-chatbot/
Davis is a data scientist and machine learning engineer. And he compiled this list of common data science job interview questions, along with resources you can use to prepare for your first data science role. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/23-common-data-science-interview-questions-for-beginners/
Quote of the Week: “Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. Programmers who subconsciously view themselves as artists will enjoy what they do, and will do it better.” — Donald Knuth, Mathematician and Computer Scientist
Spreadsheets are one of the most powerful tools in any developer’s toolbox. This course by a data scientist and university professor will teach you how to use Google Sheets like a pro. You’ll learn how to prepare data, create charts, and leverage formulas. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-google-sheets/
Django is a popular Python web development framework. This course will show you how to use Django to build apps that interface with a variety of APIs. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-integrate-google-apis-with-python-django/
Why learning to code is so hard – even for smart people like yourself. In this article, programming teacher Ayobami will give you some tips for making your learning process a bit easier. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-learning-to-code-is-hard-and-how-to-make-it-easier/
You may have heard the term “open source” to describe software projects like Linux, Firefox and – of course – freeCodeCamp. In this open source primer, Jessica will show you some of the common licenses projects use. She’ll also show you how you can start contributing code to codebases. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-open-source-software-explained-in-plain-english/
Lexical Scope is an important programming concept – especially in JavaScript. This tutorial will explain local and global scope and how they affect variables and functions. Then you can use scope in your code to build more sophisticated applications. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-lexical-scope-tutorial/
Quote of the Week: “Nobody sets out to create a mission-critical spreadsheet. They just happen.” — Felienne Hermans, Scientist and Computer Science Professor
Big O Notation is a tool that developers use to understand how much time a piece of code will take to execute. Computer Scientists call this “Time Complexity.” This comes up all the time in day-to-day programming, and in job interviews. As a developer, you will definitely want to understand Big O Notation well. And that’s precisely what this freeCodeCamp course will help you do. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-big-o-notation/
Google Cloud is the third largest cloud services provider – right behind AWS and Azure. If you want to get into cloud engineering or DevOps, you may want to consider taking the Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification Exam. This in-depth course will help you pass the exam. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/google-cloud-digital-leader-course/
One of the most common ways websites crash is from Distributed Denial of Service attacks. In this tutorial, security researcher Megan Kaczanowski will show you how these DDoS attacks work, and how you can defend against them. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/protect-against-ddos-attacks/
FastAPI is an open source Python web development framework that makes it easier to build APIs. It’s relatively new, but already companies like Netflix have started using it. This crash course will teach you the basics. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fastapi-helps-you-develop-apis-quickly/
OpenGL is a powerful tool for creating both 2D and 3D computer graphics. This course will teach you how to use the Depth Buffer, Stencil Buffer, Frame Buffers, Cubemaps, Geometry Shaders, Anti-Aliasing, and more. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-complex-graphics-with-opengl/
Quote of the Week: “This is an alternative way of thinking about Big O Notation”, from Tennessee-based cloud engineer Josh Carroll. O(1) = O(yeah) O(log n) = O(nice) O(n) = O(ok) O(n²) = O(my) O(2ⁿ) = O(no) O(n!) = O(mg!)
How does the internet actually work? This in-depth course will teach you Network Engineering concepts and show you how ISPs, backbones, and other infrastructure work. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-does-the-internet-work/
HTML gives websites their basic structure – kind of like how a concrete foundation gives structure to a house. You can learn basic HTML pretty quickly, even if you don’t have any past experience with coding. Long-time freeCodeCamp teacher Beau Carnes will teach you these HTML fundamentals in a fun, interactive way. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/html-crash-course/
If you’ve been struggling to learn to code on your own, I have good news for you. My friend Jess is running a free part-time coding bootcamp where you can earn the freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design certification together with people from around the world. You can chat with her and other students, and tune in for her weekly live streams. This can help you stay motivated and get unstuck when you run into particularly tricky coding challenges. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-coding-bootcamp-based-on-freecodecamp
Learn React and the Material UI design library in this crash course. You can code along at home and use the Google Dictionary API to build your own dictionary website. You’ll get plenty of practice with Progressive Web App concepts as well. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-a-dictionary-with-react-and-material-ui/
Some of the most common developer job interview questions involve graph algorithms. This course will teach you graph data structure basics, and concepts like undirected paths, depth-first VS breadth-first traversal, shortest path, island count, and minimum island. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/graph-algorithms-for-technical-interviews/
Quote of the Week: “Information flow is what the internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don’t share your ideas, smart people can’t do anything about them, and you’ll remain anonymous and powerless.” — Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the internet
Also, a few months back freeCodeCamp published an entire book on Docker, which you can bookmark to use as a reference. Docker is definitely worth learning, and we ourselves use it on more than 60 of freeCodeCamp’s servers. (4 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-docker-handbook/
Some of the most commonly-asked developer job interview questions involve backtracking algorithms. To prepare you for these, Lynn has created this crash course on solving backtracking problems using Python. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/solve-coding-interview-backtracking-problem/
Microsoft Excel has its own built-in programming language called Visual Basic. You can use it to automate all kinds of repetitive spreadsheet tasks. This in-depth tutorial will help you get started. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/automate-repetitive-tasks-in-excel-with-vba/
It takes a lot of practice to get good with CSS. But these tips can speed up the process, and help you arrive at a deeper understanding of CSS styles and responsive web design. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/10-css-tricks-for-your-next-coding-project/
Apache Spark is an open source machine learning library. I did a quick search and found more than 4,000 job postings that mentioned this tool. It’s originally written in the Scala programming language, but thankfully some developers wrote a handy Python interface for it. This course will teach you how to use PySpark to process large datasets in Python. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-pyspark-for-data-processing-and-machine-learning/
Quote of the Week: “The automation for carrying coffee across the world is better and more reliable than the kind of tools we use to ship software between computers.” — Solomon Hykes in 2013, explaining what inspired him to create Docker
Recursion is a powerful computer science concept. But it’s also notoriously difficult to understand. The good news is that this course will explain recursion through a series of easy-to-grasp analogies. You’ll learn about Call Stacks, the Fibonacci Sequence, Linked Lists, Trees, Graphs, Search Algorithms, and other important concepts. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/understanding-recursion-in-programming/
Low Code tools are a convenient way for developers to build real-world applications without writing a lot of custom code. In this course, Ania will show you how to build web apps using a variety of Low Code tools. You can code along at home and by the time you’re finished, you’ll have 3 working apps. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/low-code-tutorial/
If you want to work as a freelance developer, a strong portfolio will help you land clients. A career freelance developer shares 13 of his favorite freelancer portfolios, and lessons they teach about how to impress people with your work. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/13-awesome-freelance-developer-portfolios/
MySQL is a super duper popular relational database. There’s a good chance you’ve visited a website today that uses it. This course will teach you SQL basics before moving on to key MySQL features like Data Modeling, Locks, and Indexes. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-use-the-mysql-database/
Flexbox is a powerful responsive web design tool that’s built right into CSS itself. And this crash course will teach you how to harness its power. You’ll learn core Flexbox properties like flex-direction, flex-wrap, flex-flow, justify-content, align-items, and more. (35 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-css-flexbox/
A lot of people ask me how freeCodeCamp is able to accomplish so much with such a tiny budget. It’s not easy. But I do my best to share the lessons our nonprofit is learning along the way. I wrote this article for you if you want to learn more or get involved: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-donate-to-free-code-camp/
Quote of the Week: “To iterate is human. To recurse is divine.” — L Peter Deutsch, computer scientist and mainframe programmer
How Git branches work. Most developers these days use the Git version control system to store their code and collaborate with other developers. And branches are one of the hardest Git concepts to learn. This crash course will explain Local VS Remote branches, how to create them, merging VS rebasing, and how the whole “detached head” thing works. (30 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-git-branches-work/
The popular React front end development JavaScript library has a ton of new features coming soon. Learn what’s new in React 18 Alpha: Concurrency, Batching, the Transition API, and more. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/whats-new-in-react-18/
What is the difference between UI and UX? A veteran designer breaks down the two disciplines of User Experience Design and User Interface Design, and shows how the fields have diverged over the past decade. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ui-ux-design-guide/
Apache Cassandra – named after the cursed princess from Greek mythology – is one of the most popular NoSQL databases. Apple, Netflix, and even CERN use it to handle large amounts of data. This course will give you an in-depth primer to Cassandra, including data modeling, migrations, and clusters. (45 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-apache-cassandra-beginner-tutorial/
Hundreds of universities around the world have made programming and computer science courses openly available on the web. My friend Dhawal has compiled 760 of these courses that you can consider starting this summer. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “It’s easy to shoot your foot off with Git. But it’s also easy to revert to a previous foot, then merge it with your current leg.” — Jack William Bell, Software Engineer and Git user
The CISSP is a popular cyber security certification. I did a job search on Indeed and found more than 14,000 job openings that mentioned the CISSP certification. If you want to get into security as a developer, this course will prepare you for the exam. Dr. Atef will teach you Risk Management, Security Architecture, Network Security, Identity & Access Management, SecOps, and more. (13 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/get-ready-to-pass-cissp-exam/
This in-depth React course will teach you all about front end development with one of the most popular JavaScript libraries. You’ll learn Styled Components, React Router, State and Props, Hooks, and even some TypeScript. You’ll also deploy your app to the cloud. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-react-js-in-this-free-7-hour-course/
freeCodeCamp author Dionysia wrote an entire book about the C programming language and made it freely available on our site. In addition to teaching you C coding concepts and syntax, she will also give you a broad history of this important language. (2 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-the-c-programming-language-beginner-tutorial/
And while you’re learning C, you can learn how to use the powerful Binary Search algorithm. This comes up all the time in day-to-day programming work, and is a common developer job interview question as well. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-binary-search/
The freeCodeCamp community just launched our 2021 New Coder Survey. It’s anonymous and all questions are optional. We’ll publish the full dataset as open data. If you started learning to code in the past 5 years, you can help the scientific community by taking this ~10 minute survey: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/2021-new-coder-survey/
Quote of the Week: “History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It’s always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you’ll be glad you did.” – Bruce Schneier, Security Researcher
In this Back End Development for Beginners course, Tomi will show you how to install Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and other tools. You can code along at home and build your own calculator. Then you’ll build your own blog, weather app, and even your own chat room system. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/backend-web-development-with-python-full-course/
A design system is a set of patterns and reusable components that you can use throughout your websites and apps to create visual consistency. This course will teach you how to use Figma as a vector graphics editor and prototyping tool. You’ll learn all about User Experience concepts like typography, elevation, spacing, states, and more. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-create-a-design-system-in-figma/
As a developer, companies are paying you to think really hard. And one way you can improve your critical thinking skills is to be aware of common logical fallacies. In this guide, Abbey will introduce you to common fallacies like Sunk Cost, Ad Hominem, False Dilemma, Circular Reasoning, and Equivocation. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/logical-fallacies-definition-fallacy-examples/
This in-depth course will prepare you to pass the Microsoft SC-900 Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification exam. You’ll learn key concepts like Hashing, Salting, and Threat Modeling. You’ll also learn methodologies like the Zero Trust Model and the Shared Responsibility Model. (3.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/microsoft-security-compliance-certification-sc-900/
freeCodeCamp just published our first Summit of the summer. Me, Ania, and other contributors demo several new projects and features coming to our open source learning platform – including Campfire Mode. I think you’ll enjoy it. (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-july-2021-summit/
Quote of the Week: “In many ways, Python is a dull language. It borrows solid old concepts from many other languages: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions. But that’s one of the things I like about Python.” - Tim Peters, Author of “Zen of Python” and creator of the Timsort sorting algorithm
This JavaScript course will teach you key programming language concepts and data structures. You can code along at home through 143 interactive coding exercises. And you can use this course to complement the core freeCodeCamp JavaScript curriculum, to get some additional practice. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-javascript-course-for-beginners/
You may hear the term “Data Analysis” in a lot of Hollywood movies. But what does it actually mean? This in-depth tutorial will teach you data analysis techniques using Python, Numpy, and Pandas. And you’ll even visualize the data using Matplotlib and Seaborn. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/exploratory-data-analysis-with-numpy-pandas-matplotlib-seaborn/
Once you push your code into production, how do you measure its performance? One way is to use telemetry. This course will teach you how to use OpenTelemetry, a popular open source tool for monitoring your apps and websites. You’ll learn all about Microservices, Observability, Tracing, and more. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-opentelemetry/
Most of the web is built around a transfer protocol called TCP. But did you know there’s a second protocol that’s much faster called UDP? Learn all about the relationship between these protocols, and why the slower technology remains the more widely-used of the two. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/tcp-vs-udp-which-is-faster/
One of the reasons CSS is so flexible is because of its powerful Position property. This tutorial will show you how to harness this power to build cooler websites. And it includes tons of code examples and fun illustrations. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-position-property-explained/
Quote of the Week: “JavaScript is the duct tape of the internet.” – Charlie Campbell, Software Engineer
DevOps is one of the highest-paying careers in tech. And even if you aren’t working as a DevOps engineer, learning DevOps will expand your developer skills. This beginner’s course will introduce you to key concepts like Continuous Integration, Code Coverage, Linting, Rolling Deployments, Autoscaling, Metrics, and more. (2 hour YouTube course) https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/devops-engineering-course-for-beginners/
Then you can apply some of those DevOps concepts you learned and deploy one of your projects to the cloud. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-deploy-your-freecodecamp-project-on-aws/
Bioinformatics is where biology and computer science meet. This emerging field uses statistics and machine learning to analyze DNA, discover new medicines, and understand the human body. In this Python course, a biology professor and data mining expert will introduce you to the core concepts. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-for-bioinformatics-use-machine-learning-and-data-analysis-for-drug-discovery/
Keyboard shortcuts are a powerful accessibility tool you can add to your websites. They make it easier for people who have motor disabilities to use your site. They also help power users like myself get things done faster than if I had to click around with a mouse. Here’s how you can design keyboard shortcuts and code them using React. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/designing-keyboard-accessibility-for-complex-react-experiences/
Prolific Linux book author and freeCodeCamp contributor David Clinton just published a course series called “Teach Yourself Data Analytics in 30 Days.” This course will show you how to install Python Jupyter Notebook, find data from public APIs, and visualize datasets. (free 30-day course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/teach-yourself-data-analytics-in-30-days/
Quote of the Week: “Asking experts to do boring and repetitive – yet technically demanding – tasks is the most certain way of ensuring human error that we can think of. Short of sleep deprivation or inebriation.” ― David Farley, DevOps engineer and deployment automation advocate
Learn how to build your own responsive portfolio website to showcase your coding projects. This course will teach you HTML, CSS, Sass, and the newly-released Bootstrap 5 framework. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-bootstrap-5-and-sass-by-building-a-portfolio-website/
If you’re interested in cloud computing or DevOps, you may want to earn the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals Certification (the DP-900). If you decide to study for the exam, freeCodeCamp has got you covered. This course will teach you all about SQL, Apache Spark, ETL, Data Lakes, and other important tools and concepts. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/azure-data-fundamentals-certification-dp-900-pass-the-exam-with-this-free-4-5-hour-course/
Lynn built her own anime-themed Discord bot and deployed it to a chat server of over 1,000 people. But within an hour, her bot went down in flames. In this detailed post-mortem, Lynn shares the problems she encountered with “deployment hell”, how she fixed them, and lessons she learned along the way. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/recovering-from-deployment-hell-what-i-learned-from-deploying-my-discord-bot-to-a-1000-user-server/
How do computers process video? With Computer Vision. Python has a powerful library to process video called OpenCV. And in this course, you’ll learn advanced techniques like Image Enhancement, Filtering, and Edge Detection – straight from the OpenCV team. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-opencv-and-python-for-computer-vision-and-ai/
If you’re interested in hardware and embedded system development, you may have heard of Arduino before. These microprocessor boards respond to real world inputs (like a change in room temperature) by activating LED lights, turning on motors, or even sending messages over the web. This fun beginner course will show you how to get started with Arduino development. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-your-own-electronics-with-arduino-full-course/
Quote of the Week: “Portfolios are everything. Promises are nothing. Do the work.” – Chase Jarvis, American photographer
Computer Vision is how computers process visual cues from the physical world – everything from street signs to dance moves. This advanced Python course will teach you how to use OpenCV, a powerful computer vision tool. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/advanced-computer-vision-with-python/
Learn about encryption algorithms and block ciphers. Megan is a developer and cybersecurity researcher. She explains these concepts with lots of friendly diagrams and examples. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-block-cipher/
Jack Schofield was a prolific journalist who wrote about technology for nearly four decades. Along the way he made three big observations about computers, which his fans dubbed “Schofield’s Laws.” (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/schofields-laws-of-computing/
How to set up a Front End Development project locally on your computer in VS Code. You’ll learn how to plug in all the latest time-saving JavaScript tools, including ESLint, Parcel, and Prettier. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-set-up-a-front-end-development-project/
Over the past month, Beau built a powerful Hackintosh computer. He assembled regular PC components off the web, then used a tool called OpenCore to install the MacOS Big Sur operating system. Now he has a turbo-charged Mac computer for coding and video editing. And he documented this entire process, with detailed steps if you want to build one yourself. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-hackintosh/
Quote of the Week: “The easier it is for you to access your data, the easier it is for someone else to access your data.” ― Schofield’s Third Law
Learn game development basics by coding three games: Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, and Space Invaders. Ania will show you how to add physics, collision detection, and your own custom sprites. By the end of the course, you’ll have sharable links to your games. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-mario-zelda-and-space-invaders-with-kaboom-js/
Responsive Web Design is a way to make websites look good on different screen sizes. This course will show you how to use CSS Media Queries – a key tool built into all major browsers – to build designs that look great on laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. (90 minute course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-css-media-queries-to-create-responsive-websites/
freeCodeCamp just published The JavaScript Array Handbook. Bookmark this as a reference, and learn the dozens of ways you can use the powerful Array data structure. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-javascript-array-handbook/
One of the best ways to build your reputation and expand your coding skills is to contribute to open source projects like Linux, Firefox, and freeCodeCamp. This guide will give you practical tips on how to get started with open source. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects-beginners-guide/
If you want to get a job in tech, here are some tips for how you can build sustainable habits that will help you ramp up toward your first developer job. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-small-sustainable-habits-to-get-your-first-dev-job/
Quote of the Week: “Our job as game developers is to put ourselves in the player’s shoes. We try to see what they’re seeing and support what we think they might think.” – Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong
C++ is a challenging language to learn. But if you want to do high-performance programming, it’s a powerful tool. In this course you’ll use the JUCE framework to build your own audio plugin with a 3-band equalizer and a spectrum analyzer. Don’t know what those things are? No problem. You’ll learn about those and other musical concepts, too. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-modern-cpp-by-building-an-audio-plugin/
You may have heard the term “Web 2.0” to describe interactive AJAX-powered single-page applications like Gmail. And now a “Web 3.0” is starting to emerge. This article will give you a tour of the decentralized internet of the future. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-web3/
Angular 11 is a widely-used JavaScript framework. You can learn it by building your own version of the Steam Game Store. You’ll also learn some basic TypeScript, routing, and how to style components. (75 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/angular-11-tutorial-code-a-project-from-scratch/
Learn all about CSS Selectors and how you can use them to style your apps and websites. (20 minute read) https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-css-selectors-to-style-webpage/
How to create your own email newsletter. If you want to keep your friends and fans up-to-date with your creations, this practical guide will walk you through the technical tradeoffs. Ever wondered why I send these as plain text instead of HTML? Learn the answer to this and more. (11 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-an-email-newsletter-design-layout-send/
Quote of the Week: “There are only two kinds of programming languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” ― Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language
Typography is one of the most useful design skills you can learn as a developer. And freeCodeCamp has got you covered. This course will teach you all about typographic hierarchy, how to layout type, and how to use responsive text so your fonts look crisp on screens of any size. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-design-good-typography/
Kivy is a powerful Python library for coding cross-platform apps and games on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. This course will walk you through coding up some user interfaces in Kivy. Then you’ll build your own spaceship game complete with vector graphics. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/use-the-kivy-python-library-to-create-games-and-mobile-apps/
Zubin worked as a corporate lawyer for 12 years before discovering freeCodeCamp and teaching himself to code. Today he works as a software engineer at Google. In this article, he shares practical insights that you can use in your own quest to expand your skills. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-lawyer-to-google-engineer/
It’s important to test your code. And in this tutorial Nahla will show you how. You’ll learn about the Testing Pyramid, along with several advanced methodologies like Performance Testing, Usability Testing, DAST, SAST, and more. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/types-of-software-testing/
In this free front end development book, you’ll learn Vue.js and Axios by building single-page applications. First you’ll build a simple Twitter clone. Then you’ll expand upon those skills to build your own portfolio website. Each step includes example code and a built-in video tutorial. (Full length book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-portfolio-with-vuejs/
Quote of the Week: “Helvetica is the sweatpants of typefaces.” – John Boardley, Graphic Designer
Microsoft has a popular cloud development platform called Azure. I just did a job search and 48,000 employers mention Azure in their job postings. This full-length course will teach you everything you need to pass the Azure Administrator exam and earn this useful certification. (11 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/azure-administrator-certification-az-104-pass-the-exam-with-this-free-11-hour-course/
And while you’re learning about cloud platforms, Docker is a powerful DevOps tool you can use for cloud deployment. This course will show you how to use Docker along with Node.js. You’ll learn about containers, images, ports, mounts, environment variables, and more. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-docker-by-building-a-node-express-app/
One of the most common ways people get hacked is through what’s called a Cross Site Request Forgery. Megan will show you how these CSRF attacks work, and how you can protect your website’s users from them. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-cross-site-request-forgery/
Windows has a ton of powerful keyboard shortcuts you can use to be even more productive than you already are 😉 And we put together a comprehensive list that you can bookmark and practice over the coming months. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/keyboard-shortcuts-improve-productivity/
If you use Google Chrome, you already have access to one of the most powerful debugging tools around. You can use Chrome DevTools to better understand websites you visit, and even debug your own websites. This crash course will teach you the basics. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-use-the-chrome-devtools-to-troubleshoot-websites/
Quote of the Week: “The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.” – John Ousterhout, Stanford Computer Science professor
If you used the internet today, you probably used NGINX. It’s a powerful web server that most major websites use to handle traffic. And freeCodeCamp just published a free full-length NGINX book that will show you how to use this web server tool for routing, reverse proxying, and even load balancing. (2 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-nginx-handbook/
You can also learn the MERN Stack by building your own Yelp-like restaurant review site. MERN stands for MongoDB + Express + React + Node.js. Then in the second half of the course, you’ll learn how to swap out your Node.js/Express back end in favor of Serverless Architecture. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-mern-stack-app-with-a-serverless-backend/
Learn how to create your own 3D graphics using OpenGL. You’ll work with polygons, textures, shaders, and other important rendering tools. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-3d-and-2d-graphics-with-opengl-and-cpp/
If you’re learning Python, I encourage you to bookmark this. Prolific teacher and developer Estefania walks you through dozens of Python syntax examples that all beginners should learn. Data structures, loops, exception handling, dependency inclusion – everything. (90 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-code-examples-sample-script-coding-tutorial-for-beginners/
And while you’re expanding your Python skills, you can learn how to do back end web development using the popular Python Django framework. You’ll build data visualization web apps using Pandas dataframes, Matplotlib, and Seaborn. You’ll also work with PDF rendering and even base-64 encoding. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-django-3-and-start-creating-websites-with-python/
Quote of the Week: “Anytime someone builds a little application that runs on a cell phone, there’s something that goes on the server.” – James Gosling, creator of the Java programming language
Expand your JavaScript skills by coding along with this course on building your own Instagram app. By the time you finish, your app will look like Instagram’s dashboard, with the ability to sign in and update a profile, and even comment on photos. You’ll learn how to use React, Tailwind CSS, Firebase, Cypress E2E, and other modern tools. (12 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-create-an-instagram-clone-using-react/
UML is a standard way to diagram computer systems or databases. It helps developers visualize the relationships between different pieces of software or hardware so they can more easily plan development. In this course, you’ll learn how to use UML component diagrams, deployment diagrams, state machine diagrams, and more. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/uml-diagrams-full-course/
I’ve shared a lot of courses about data structures over the years, because data structures are important. This new data structures course will help you learn by doing. You’ll use Python and Flask to build your own API that incorporates Linked Lists, Hash Tables, Stacks, Queues, and even Binary Search Trees. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-data-structures-flask-api-python/
You may have heard the term “MVC”. It stands for the Model-View-Controller Architecture Pattern. Lots of web development frameworks follow the MVC pattern, including Python Django, Ruby on Rails, and PHP Laravel. This tutorial will explain key MVC concepts and show you how to build your own MVC JavaScript app. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-model-view-controller-pattern-mvc-architecture-and-frameworks-explained/
“Infrastructure as Code” is a new way of thinking about servers and cloud services. This tutorial will show you the benefits of IaC, and how to use Terraform, an open source tool for spinning up servers programmatically. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-terraform-learn-infrastructure-as-code/
Quote of the Week: “Software development has been, is, and will likely remain fundamentally hard. Building quality systems involves an essential and irreducible complexity, which is why the entire history of software engineering can be characterized as one of rising levels of abstraction. As such, the task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.” – Grady Booch, Inventor of UML
Building video games can be just as much fun as playing them. And this in-depth Unity 3D course for beginners will show you how to get started as a game developer. You’ll learn how to install Unity, program game physics, animate your characters, code your enemy AI, and more. (7 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/game-development-for-beginners-unity-course/
As of 2021, more than 40% of all websites use WordPress. It’s a relatively easy tool for building blogs, ecommerce sites, and more elaborate applications as well. This free course will show you how to host a WordPress site on the web, add custom features through plugins, and design it to look however you want. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-a-website-with-wordpress/
You may have heard about the branch of science called Game Theory. This tutorial will show you how Evolutionary Game Theory works in an ecosystem, with simulations, Python code, and some good old-fashioned math. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/introduction-to-evolutionary-game-theory/
Kubernetes is a powerful DevOps tool for managing software in the cloud. If you haven’t heard of it yet, it’s only 6 years old. This said, I searched Indeed and found 25,000 job openings that mentioned Kubernetes, so a lot of companies are using it. Sergio recently passed the Linux Foundation’s exam to become a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, and he shares tips for how you can do the same. (45 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-become-a-certified-kubernetes-application-developer/
Dhawal just updated his massive list of 450 courses from Ivy League universities that you can take for free online. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/
Quote of the Week: “I’m obsessed with finishing as a skill. Over the years, I’ve realized that so many of the good things that have come my way are because I was able to finish what I started.” – Derek Yu, Game Developer and creator of Spelunky
Learn Python’s Django web development framework by building your own ecommerce website. You’ll also learn the popular Vue.js front end library. If you know a little Python and JavaScript, and want to start applying your skills with a bigger project, this is the course for you. You’ll learn about web servers, authentication, shopping carts, and more. Detailed codebases included. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-an-e-commerce-site-with-django-and-vue/
scikit-learn is a powerful Python library for machine learning algorithms. This beginner-friendly crash course will teach you how to build models using scikit-learn’s metrics, meta estimators, and data pre-processors. Learn some of the tools and techniques that professional data scientists use in the field. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-scikit-learn/
A Buffer Overflow attack is where an attacker writes too much data to a single memory location on a computer, allowing them to then send commands to other parts of the computer’s memory. This simple attack is behind some of the biggest hacks in history. Here’s a detailed explanation of how it works and how you can defend against it. (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/buffer-overflow-attacks/
You may have heard the term PWA before. It stands for Progressive Web App. And it’s a way to make websites feel more like native Android and iOS apps without users needing to download an app from an app store. Starbucks, Spotify, and other companies use PWAs to improve their mobile user experience. This tutorial will explain how PWAs work, and show you some of their key benefits. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-progressive-web-apps/
Dave has taught web development for nearly a decade. Here are the 5 most common mistakes he sees beginner web developers make, and how you can avoid them. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/common-mistakes-beginning-web-development-students-make/
Quote of the Week: “Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.” – Alexander Isley, Designer and American Institute of Graphic Arts medalist
Node.js is a popular JavaScript tool for coding the back end of websites and mobile apps. Lots of big companies use Node in production: Netflix, LinkedIn – even NASA uses Node. In this course, you’ll learn asynchronous programming and how to use event emitters, data streams, middleware, Postman, and a ton of API routing best practices. (8 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-8-hour-node-express-course/
How a Czech DJ built a 3D-printing empire. This is the true story of one man’s frustration with record turntable components, which led him down the path of building one of Europe’s fastest-growing manufacturing companies. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-prusa3d-became-one-of-the-fastest-growing-startups-in-the-world/
Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) have turned the global art market upside down. Like other blockchain applications, NFTs do have drawbacks – namely, their absurd electricity consumption. But if you want to put some of your art or other virtual belongings on the blockchain, this tutorial will show how to do it step-by-step. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-an-nft-and-render-on-opensea-marketplace/
I just learned about Glassmorphism. It’s a new design approach that makes your user interfaces look like etched glass. You can try out some of these CSS techniques for yourself. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/glassmorphism-design-effect-with-html-css/
MLOps is a new field of software engineering that combines Machine Learning with DevOps-style cloud pipelines. This primer will give you a solid handle on MLOps as a potential career specialization. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-mlops-machine-learning-operations-explained/
Also, if you’re wondering who’s behind freeCodeCamp.org and all of these free learning resources, it’s mostly done by thousands of volunteers. But we do have a few core team contributors who work on the codebase, curriculum, and extra-curricular learning resources: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/team/
Quote of the Week: “The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else.” - Melinda Varian, Virtual Machine pioneer
One of the best ways to strengthen your developer skills is to build a lot of projects. Here are 40 free JavaScript project ideas designed specifically with web developers in mind. Each of these projects includes a course or detailed tutorial, along with an example codebase. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-projects-for-beginners/
When you combine JavaScript with HTML Canvas, you get the potential for tons of visually exciting animations. This course will teach you how to use one of the coolest of these: Pixel Effects. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-pixel-effects-with-javascript-and-html-canvas/
And since you’re learning a ton of JavaScript, why not learn one of its most common coding archetypes: Functional Programming. This beginner tutorial will give you a firm grasp on the basic concepts. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/functional-programming-in-javascript-for-beginners/
What about that other major scripting language, Python? Well, here are six quick Python projects you can build in a single sitting. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-six-quick-python-projects/
You may have heard the term “serverless”. Technically, serverless computing does involve servers, but not your own servers. Instead, you just borrow a few cycles on a cluster of somebody else’s servers. And one of the easiest ways to get started with serverless is to add a simple AWS Lambda function to your website. This tutorial will show you how to do this by creating a serverless “contact us” form. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-receive-emails-via-your-sites-contact-us-form-with-aws-ses-lambda-api-gateway/
Also, you may be familiar with the term “writer’s block”. It’s when you have trouble sitting down and writing. Well, there’s something similar with software development: “coder’s block”. Here are some tips for how to power through coder’s block when you encounter it. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-beat-coders-block-and-stay-productive/
Quote of the Week: “Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.” – David Rockwell, architect and Tony Award-winning musical set designer
This course will teach you fundamental data structures like arrays and linked lists. You’ll then use these data structures to build common algorithms like Merge Sort and Quicksort. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/algorithms-and-data-structures-free-treehouse-course/
Learn how to implement your own secure sign-in for your web development projects using JavaScript, Node.js, and the Passport.js library. You’ll learn about HTTP headers, cookies, public key cryptography, and JSON Web Tokens. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-implement-user-authentication-in-node-apps-using-passport-js/
This week I went on the Changelog, a major open source podcast. The hosts interviewed me about the history of freeCodeCamp, the community behind it, and our upcoming Data Science curriculum expansion. (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/quincy-larson-interview-changelog-podcast/
TypeScript is a statically-typed version of JavaScript. A lot of developers prefer it because it can reduce the number of bugs in your code. By the end of this crash course, you’ll understand TypeScript’s key features and how to leverage them. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-typescript-with-this-crash-course/
How to get started with Git, the world’s most popular version control system. You’ll learn common Git commands and gain a conceptual understanding of how Git tracks changes. You’ll also get to try out some Git workflows. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-git-learn-git-version-control/
This week marks the 5-year anniversary of these “5 links worth your time” emails. You can browse all of my past emails in a single page: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/quincy-larson-5-links-worth-your-time-email-full-list/
Quote of the Week: “The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand.” – Douglas W. Jones
freeCodeCamp just published a free 25-hour Database Systems course from a Cornell University database instructor. You’ll learn SQL, Relational Database Design, Distributed Data Processing, NoSQL, and more. (25 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/watch-a-cornell-university-database-course-for-free/
We also published a full-length book that will teach you Python basics. This beginner’s handbook includes hundreds of Python syntax examples. You can bookmark it and read it in your browser, or download a PDF version. (full book): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-python-handbook/
And I swear I’m not trying to overload you, but we also published a 6-hour course on how to configure and operate Linux servers. If you want to become a SysAdmin or DevOps, this should give your server skills a big boost. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linux-server-course-system-configuration-and-operation/
For some lighter reading, Jacob went way back in time to look at the first commit to the Git project’s codebase. You can learn some C fundamentals by reading Linus Torvalds’ original code, which now underpins the world’s most widely-used version control system. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/boost-programming-skills-read-git-code/
And since you just finished reading that Python book – you did finish reading it, didn’t you? 🙂 – why not learn how to use Python’s powerful Flask Web Development Framework. You can code along at home and build your own ecommerce website. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-flask-python-web-framework-by-building-a-market-platform/
I’ve got a full curriculum outline ready for you, with tons of data science and machine learning projects all mapped out. If you haven’t already, take a moment to read this. You can become a part of this as well: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-a-data-science-curriculum-with-advanced-math-and-machine-learning/
Quote of the Week: “You can have data without information. But you cannot have information without data.” – Daniel Keys Moran
Learn the basics of AWS. You’ll get hands-on practice with cloud servers, databases, file storage, automation tools – and even Docker and serverless tools. There are no prerequisites. You just need to block out a few hours to sit down and learn. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-basics-of-amazon-web-services/
How to read a research paper. This guide will introduce you to the 3 Pass Approach so you can better understand papers and better retain their findings. I wish I had read this back when I was in grad school. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-a-habit-of-reading-research-papers/
Postman is a powerful tool for testing APIs. This course will teach you how to install it and use it to inspect query parameters, path variables, and other parts of an HTTP response. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-use-postman-to-test-apis/
The story of how one university student built a web scraper with Python and used it to land his first developer job. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-used-a-side-project-to-land-a-job/
SQL injection attacks are one of the most common ways that hackers try to gain access to a database. In this article, Megan will show you how to sanitize your website’s form inputs to prevent these kinds of attacks. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-sql-injection-how-to-prevent-it/
freeCodeCamp.org is also building a data science curriculum that will teach you advanced mathematics and machine learning. You can learn more about it and get involved (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-a-data-science-curriculum-with-advanced-math-and-machine-learning/
And finally, if you want to learn even more about cybersecurity, here’s a retrospective of the biggest data breaches that happened last year, and what developers can learn from them. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/biggest-data-breaches-lessons-learned/
Quote of the Week: “A secure system is one that does what it is supposed to do, and nothing more.” – John B. Ippolito
freeCodeCamp just published an epic 17-hour Data Visualization course. You’ll learn: D3.js, SVG graphics, React, React hooks – all while building several data visualization projects. (17 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-data-visualization-in-this-free-17-hour-course/
We are translating freeCodeCamp’s curriculum into 30 world languages, and both Spanish and Chinese versions are now live. If you are fortunate enough to be bilingual, I encourage you to help translate, and make these learning resources more accessible for people around the world. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/world-language-translation-effort/
What is a file system? This computer architecture tutorial will teach you how operating systems handle files, partitions, and data storage. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/file-systems-architecture-explained/
How to code Python apps right on your Android phone – no laptop required. You’ll use Pydroid, a powerful integrated development environment, to build a Django project using an Android phone’s touch screen. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-code-on-your-phone-python-pydroid-android-app-tutorial/
My friend uncovered 1,600 Coursera university courses that you can still take for free. And he shows you step-by-step how to access them. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-courses-6d84cdb30da/
Quote of the Week: “By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes. A sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.” – David McCandless
freeCodeCamp just published a free 10-hour Python Data Analysis course. You can learn Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, and other key data science tools. This course is taught by a former Twitter engineer, IIT grad, and ACM ICPC world finalist. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-analyze-data-with-python-pandas/
How to use LinkedIn to get your first developer job – an in-depth step-by-step guide (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linkedin-handbook-get-your-first-dev-job/
What is fuzzing? And why does Google have 30,000 servers dedicated to continuously fuzzing their own applications? Learn all about this intriguing software testing approach. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/whats-fuzzing-fuzz-testing-explained/
Did you know that you can use spreadsheets as a database? Here’s how to turn Google Sheets into your own REST API and use it to power a React app (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-and-googlesheets/
All of the most useful JavaScript array methods in one place, and explained with helpful examples (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/complete-introduction-to-the-most-useful-javascript-array-methods/
Quote of the Week: “I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Learn User Interface and User Experience Design in this hands-on web development course. You’ll build a wireframe, convert it into a design in Figma, and ultimately code a working prototype. (90 minute YouTube course + design files): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ui-ux-design-tutorial-from-zero-to-hero-with-wireframe-prototype-figma/
How one grad student went from weekend hackathons to CTO of a 20-person startup in just 3 years. Yacine’s story is a wild ride, and is jam-packed with insights about software and business. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-hackathon-to-cto-in-3-years/
The Model-View-Controller architecture pattern powers most modern websites. Here’s how it works, explained in plain English. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/model-view-architecture/
What is an API? How do APIs work? This API cheat sheet will answer these questions. It will also show you how to choose the right testing tools to keep your APIs fast and responsive. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-an-api-and-how-to-test-it/
Why you should learn SQL – even if you’re not a developer. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-learn-sql/
Quote of the Week: “A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.” – Martin LeBlanc
The Docker Handbook. This full-length Docker book is rich with code examples. It will teach you all about containerization, custom Docker images and online registries, and how to work with multiple containers using Docker Compose. (free full-length book you can read in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-docker-handbook/
Learn Object-Oriented Programming in C++. Saldina is an experienced C++ developer, and she’ll teach you about access modifiers, constructors, encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, and more. (90 minute YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-object-oriented-programming-oop-in-c-full-video-course/
What Jessica learned from building her first solo web development project. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-i-learned-from-building-my-first-solo-project/
What is a Convolutional Neural Network? Milecia has coded self-driving cars and used machine learning in the field. And in this beginner’s guide to Deep Learning, she explains key concepts in a clear, easy-to-understand way. (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/convolutional-neural-network-tutorial-for-beginners/
freeCodeCamp is building a Data Science curriculum that teaches advanced mathematics and machine learning. You’ll learn Calculus, Statistics, and Linear Algebra using Python and Jupyter Notebooks – right in your browser. We’ve been planning this for months. Our fundraiser has already raised $20K toward our goal of hiring some additional math and computer science teachers to help design these courses. Read all about this and watch my 28-minute demo video: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-a-data-science-curriculum-with-advanced-math-and-machine-learning/
Quote of the Week: “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” – Alan Turing
Python VS JavaScript – what are the key differences? Estefania dives deep into both languages to explore how they handle loops, conditional logic, data types, input/output, and more. These are the two biggest language ecosystems, and they’re rapidly shaping the software development as a whole. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-vs-javascript-what-are-the-key-differences-between-the-two-popular-programming-languages/
The C language – and its close cousin C++ – are great for game development and other computationally intensive programming tasks. This free full-length course will show you how to code advanced data structures “close to the metal” right in C. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/understand-data-structures-in-c-and-cpp/
A developer and hiring manager shares what she looks for when reviewing job applicants’ résumés. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-your-first-dev-job/
How hex code colors work – and how you can choose the right colors for your designs without the need for a color picker tool. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-hex-code-colors-work-how-to-choose-colors-without-a-color-picker/
When I started learning to code back in 2012, podcasts were a key part of my journey. Here are 14 developer podcasts that have taught me the most about tools, concepts, and an engineering mindset. You can listen and learn while you commute, exercise, or just relax. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/best-tech-podcasts-for-software-developers/
Quote of the Week: “Any app that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript.” – Atwood’s Law
This freelancing guide will help you figure out what kind of work you want to do, then find paying clients for that work. It will also give you tips on building your portfolio, marketing your services, and using data to fine-tune your approach. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-your-first-freelancing-client-project/
Build your own shopping cart with React and TypeScript. In this course, you’ll learn how to use Material UI, Styled Components, and React-Query hooks to fetch data from an API. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-shopping-cart-with-react-and-typescript/
Productivity tips from a software developer and behavioral psychology enthusiast. Learn how to feel less overwhelmed and get more things done. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-things-done-lessons-in-productivity/
How to install the powerful VS Code editor and configure it for web development in just a few simple steps. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-set-up-vs-code-for-web-development/
The ultimate beginner’s guide to DOM manipulation. You’ll learn how to use JavaScript to select elements, traverse the page, add styles, and handle events triggered by your users. (16 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-manipulate-the-dom-beginners-guide/
Quote of the Week: “One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.” - Ken Thompson (Co-creator of Unix and Go)
In this course, Jessica will teach you how to design and code a modern website step-by-step. You’ll use CSS Grid, Flexbox, JavaScript, HTML5, and responsive web design principles. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-a-landing-page-using-html-scss-and-javascript/
How one musician’s training and years of playing an instrument helped her when she embarked on learning to code. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-my-musical-training-helped-me-learn-how-to-code/
Learn to build 12 data science apps using Python and a new tool called Streamlit. A university professor will walk you through each of these apps one-by-one, including deployment to the cloud. You’ll build a bioinformatics app, a stock price tracker, and even a penguin classifier. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-12-data-science-apps-with-python-and-streamlit/
Eduardo was working odd jobs overseas. But he wasn’t happy with his career. In this article he shares how he used freeCodeCamp to learn web development, got a well-paying developer job, and was able to move his family back to his home country. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-civil-engineer-to-web-developer-with-freecodecamp/
Tech talks are a great way to top-up your developer knowledge. And freeCodeCamp has a second YouTube channel where we publish new talks each week from conferences around the world. Here are 10 tech talks I personally recommend you watch during your lunch breaks. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/tech-talks-software-development-conferences/
Quote of the Week: “Security is always excessive until it’s not enough.” – Robbie Sinclair
Every year developers hold a competition to build video games using just 13 kilobytes of JavaScript. For reference, the original Donkey Kong game from 1981 was 16 kilobytes. And yet these devs are able to build platformers, puzzle games, and even 3D games in just 13KB. In this video, Ania will demo the top 20 games from the 2020 js13k competition, and she’ll explain some of the techniques developers used to code these games. (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/20-award-winning-games-explained-code-breakdown/
How to build your own Instagram mobile app using JavaScript, React Native, Redux, Firebase, and Expo. Your app will include an authentication system, database, file storage, and more. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-an-instagram-clone-with-react-native-firebase-firestore-redux-and-expo/
The OSI Model is a powerful way of thinking about computer networks. And in this network engineering crash course, Chloe will explain how all 7 of its layers work – in plain English. You don’t have to administer a server farm to be able to understand this model. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/osi-model-networking-layers-explained-in-plain-english/
How do developers measure the performance of their code? Using Big O Notation. And in this tutorial, Cedd explains some key time complexity concepts using cake as an analogy. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/big-o-notation/
I hope your 2021 will be filled with lots of learning new things and stretching your mind. Here are 730 free online programming and computer science courses from universities around the world to help you get started in the new year. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “The golden rule of level design - finish your first level last.” - John Romero (co-creator of DOOM)
In this Pokémon-style animation, Jessica explains how she taught herself to code over a six year process, and ultimately landed a six-figure developer job. She doesn’t have a computer science degree, and has never attended a bootcamp or paid for any courses. Instead she just kept applying for increasingly difficult coding jobs and ramping up. (7 minute read + animated video): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-learned-to-code-without-a-cs-degree-or-bootcamp/
This course will show you how to use webhooks to automate the boring parts of your day. It’s a fun primer on Event-Driven Programming. Even if you’re new to coding, you should learn quite a bit. (2.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-ultimate-webhooks-course-for-beginners/
How to create your own Discord chatbot with Python and host it in the cloud for free. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-discord-bot-with-python/
The unlikely history of the 100 Days of Code Challenge, and why you should try it for your 2021 New Year’s Resolution. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-crazy-history-of-the-100daysofcode-challenge-and-why-you-should-try-it-for-2018-6c89a76e298d/
How to build your own Java Android app that can handle data from a REST API. (2.5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/java-android-app-using-rest-api-network-data-in-android-course/
This has been a big year for the freeCodeCamp community. And I want to share some fun facts about freeCodeCamp with you in this year-end review. I hope you enjoy it. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-2020/
Quote of the Week: “It’s not at all important to get it right the first time. It’s vitally important to get it right the last time.” – Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, in the classic book The Pragmatic Programmer
Learn Python by building 12 projects in this new freeCodeCamp course. You can code along at home and watch Kylie, a graduate student at MIT, as she builds Minesweeper, Madlibs, a Sudoku Solver, and other fun projects. (3 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-build-12-python-projects-in-one-course/
You may have heard the term post-mortem, which is Latin for “after death.” But did you know we use it in software development, too? In this article, you’ll explore some of the worst bugs in history, and see how the companies investigated them afterward. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-software-post-mortem/
Algorithmic Trading is where you code a script that trades stocks for you. If you want to learn about the overlap between finance and technology, you can code along in Python. This is purely for educational purposes, and all the trades are simulated. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/algorithmic-trading-using-python-course/
What is SQL? Relational Databases explained in plain English. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/sql-and-databases-explained-in-plain-english/
How to use the Minimax Algorithm to create an unbeatable game AI. In this beginner AI tutorial, you’ll use step-by-step illustrations to understand how the algorithm decides which move to make next. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/minimax-algorithm-guide-how-to-create-an-unbeatable-ai/
Quote of the Week: “As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.” – Maurice Wilkes
Dynamic Programing is a style of coding where you store the results of your algorithm in a data structure while it runs. These strategies can speed up your code and help you ace your job interviews. This new course will teach you all about Memoization, Tabulation, and other approaches for solving coding challenges. (5 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-dynamic-programing-to-solve-coding-challenges/
TCP/IP are two protocols that make the modern internet possible. Victoria explains how they work through drawings of a layer cake. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-tcp-ip-layers-and-protocols-explained/
How to become a freelance developer and get your first clients. Advice from a 20-year freelancing veteran. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-freelancing/
Learn how to build your own Android app and publish it in the Google Play Store. You’ll use tools like Kotlin and Firebase in this hands-on course, which is taught by a FAANG engineer who also teaches at Stanford. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-build-and-publish-an-android-app-from-scratch/
My friend Dhawal crunched the numbers, and here are the 100 most popular free online university courses of 2020, according to a massive dataset of student reviews. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/most-popular-free-online-courses/
Finally, this is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write, and I want to share it with you. It’s the story of two brilliant programmers from India who helped me when I was learning to code. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mycodeschool-youtube-channel-history/
Quote of the Week: “Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.” – Fred Brooks
This beginners’ handbook will show you what React is, why so many developer jobs require it, and how to install it. You’ll also learn how to use the fundamental building blocks of a React app: Components, State, and Props. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-beginner-handbook/
I am proud to share this full length university course on Linear Algebra with you. Linear Algebra is a key skill for doing advanced machine learning, data science, and even some forms of game development. You’ll learn Gaussian reduction, vector spaces, linear maps, determinants, eigenvalues and more. (20 hour YouTube Course + free textbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/linear-algebra-full-course/
A Brief History of the Internet. Dionysia will walk you through 60 years of history as she shows you who invented the key technologies and how these work together to connect us all. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/brief-history-of-the-internet/
Not all websites have public APIs for accessing their data. Fortunately, Python has a powerful library called Beautiful Soup that you can use to “screen scrape” websites. This course will show you how to use this powerful data collection tool. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-scrape-websites-with-python/
What is Static Site Generation? This tutorial will introduce you to a static web development framework called Next.js and show you how to use it to build light-weight web apps. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/static-site-generation-with-nextjs/
Quote of the Week: “People tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and to underestimate what can be done in five or ten years.” - JCR Licklider, co-creator of the internet
How to put a website online. This course will show you how to build a static website, host it, and give it a custom domain. If you want to build a personal website or a website for a small business, this is a good place to start. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-put-a-website-online-guide-to-website-creation-custom-domain-and-hosting/
How to make your website more accessible for people with disabilities. This course will cover some core HTML elements, some useful JavaScript features, and styling with Sass. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-an-accessible-web-app-with-html-sass-and-javascript/
If you want to get into machine learning, you’re going to need some basic statistics knowledge. And freeCodeCamp has got you covered. You’ll learn the difference between Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, sampling, distributions, and how to build a model. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/statistics-for-data-science/
Ruby on Rails powers GitHub, Shopify, and a lot of other major websites. And freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth Rails course. You’ll learn about MVC, CRUD, authentication, styling with Bootstrap, and other key concepts. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ruby-on-rails-video-course/
And if you want something simpler than Rails, one approach is to use AWS Amplify with React to build your own cloud-native web or mobile app. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ultimate-guide-to-aws-amplify-and-reacxt/
Quote of the Week: “The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it’s managed responsibly.” – Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
This Linux Command Handbook covers 60 core Bash commands you will need as a developer. Each entry includes example code and tips for when to use that command. You can bookmark this in your browser or download a PDF version for free. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-linux-commands-handbook/
The best way to learn a new tool is to practice building projects with it. And if you want to get good with React, you’re in luck. This course will walk you through building 15 projects using the popular React JavaScript library. (9 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/solidify-your-react-skills-by-building-15-projects/
Learn how to use Excel like a pro by building 5 projects, including a grade book, payroll system, and an inventory database. This two hour crash course will cover fundamentals like VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables. And our future freeCodeCamp courses will also cover Excel scripting, ETL, and statistical methods. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-microsoft-excel/
OpenCV is a popular Python computer vision library. This course will help you learn how to use it by building your own Simpsons Character Recognizer app. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/opencv-full-course/
Metaprogramming is where you code programs that can modify other programs – or even modify themselves. In this JavaScript tutorial, a 15-year industry veteran will give you a plain-English explanation of how you can use metaprogramming in your day-to-day coding. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-metaprogramming-in-javascript-in-english-please/
Quote of the Week: “You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it’ll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it’ll even do what you expect.” ― Scott Simpson
Dive into Deep Learning with this machine learning course taught by industry veterans. You’ll learn about Random Forests, Gradient Descent, Recurrent Neural Networks, and other key coding concepts. All you need to get started with this course is some Python knowledge and a little high school math. And if you need to brush up on those, freeCodeCamp.org has you covered. (15 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-deep-learning-from-the-president-of-kaggle/
How does Wi-Fi security work? Security Engineer Victoria Drake will walk you through the history of WPA Key encryption, and show you how it keeps your local network safe. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/wifi-security-explained/
Build your own Model-View-Controller framework from scratch with PHP. You can code along at home and implement your own custom routing, data migrations, authentication, validation, and other web development essentials. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-an-mvc-framework-from-scratch-with-php/
Learn how to take an open dataset from a site like Kaggle and analyze it. You’ll use Python libraries like Pandas, Matplotlib, and Seaborn to create data visualizations. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/kaggle-dataset-analysis-with-pandas-matplotlib-seaborn/
Watch this Super Mario Bros-themed tech talk by prolific freeCodeCamp contributor Colby Fayock. He explores the core features of HTML and CSS that he thinks all web developers should know. (22 minute YouTube talk): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-fundamentals-of-web-development/
Quote of the Week: “The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.” – Gene Spafford
This full-length course will teach you how to build your own social network platform. And in the process, you’ll learn key web development tools: MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js, and GraphQL – the powerful MERNG stack. (6 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-use-react-and-graphql-to-make-a-full-stack-social-network/
I wrote this guide on how to opt-out of “people finder” search engines that stockpile your information and sell it without your permission. If you can make time to go through this tutorial, it should help you reduce your lifetime risk of getting stalked, having your identity stolen, or getting discriminated against by nosy employers. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/white-pages-removal-remove-information-spokeo-peoplefinder-whitepages-opt-out/
Learn two of the most widely-used DevOps tools: Docker and Kubernetes. This course will teach you concepts like images, containers, layers, logs, Minikube, and the kubectl command line tool. (4 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/course-on-docker-and-kubernetes/
You may have heard of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. But did you know that Google has its own cloud services platform? This in-depth tutorial will walk you through Google Cloud Platform and show you how to deploy your websites and APIs there. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/google-cloud-platform-from-zero-to-hero/
CSS has tons of built-in tools for visual transitions and animations. Learn how to use them with this quick, interactive tutorial. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-transition-examples/
Quote of the Week: “Privacy is not for the passive.” – Jeffrey Rosen
Learn React, one of the most popular web development tools. This beginner-level course will teach you how to use the React JavaScript library. It will also teach you how to use React Hooks, React Router, and the context API. (10 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-10-hour-course/
freeCodeCamp is one of the biggest open source projects on GitHub. And in this course, you’ll learn about how the open source community works. We’ll also show you how to use tools like Git, and how you can get experience as a developer by contributing code to open source projects. (1 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-ultimate-guide-to-open-source/
How to write a résumé cover letter that hiring managers will actually read. Practical tips from a developer and cybersecurity engineer who is a hiring manager herself. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-improve-your-cover-letter/
Learn the basics of Data Science with this hands-on course. You’ll learn important concepts like Linear Regression, Classification, Resampling and Regularization, Decision trees, SVM, and Unsupervised Learning. (2 hour YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/hands-on-data-science-course/
Tech talks are a fun way to expand your conceptual knowledge of the field. freeCodeCamp has partnered with dozens of big programming conferences to bring you tech talks from developers around the world. You can learn at your convenience on our new freeCodeCamp Talks channel, and we publish new talks five days a week. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/watch-tech-talks-whenever-you-want-from-conferences-around-the-world/
Quote of the Week: “Programming isn’t about what you know. It’s about what you can figure out.” – Chris Pine
This free crash course will teach you powerful Object Oriented Programming concepts like Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, and Polymorphism. If you have a little experience with a programming language like JavaScript or Python, you should be able to learn quite a bit from this. (30 minute video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/object-oriented-programming-crash-course/
Build your own fully playable Flappy Bird and Doodle Jump games using plain vanilla JavaScript. You’ll learn more than 30 key methods including forEach, setTimeout, splice, and more. (90 minute video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-tutorial-flappy-bird-doodle-jump/
Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm is one of the most famous algorithms in all of computing. Engineers use it to plan out power grids, telecom networks, pipelines, and it is the basis of most GPS systems. In this tutorial, we illustrate how this graph algorithm works, with plenty of visual aids. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dijkstras-shortest-path-algorithm-visual-introduction/
As of 2020, 1 out of every 6 top websites use WordPress. And freeCodeCamp just published a full course on WordPress and its PHP-language ecosystem of tools. You can code along from home and learn how to build a modern WordPress site from start to finish. (5 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-website-from-start-to-finish-using-wordpress-and-php/
Hundreds of universities around the world have made programming and computer science courses openly available on the web. Here 700 of these courses that you might consider starting this October. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “Computer programming is an art because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. Programmers who subconsciously view themselves as artists will enjoy what they do and will do it better.” – Donald Knuth
This 2-hour Visual Studio Code course will show you how to use the open source VS Code editor like a pro. You’ll learn how to set up your own local developer environment. You’ll also learn how to use plugins to turbocharge your coding sessions. (2 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-visual-studio-code-to-increase-productivity/
And if you really want to dive deep into VS Code, read this definitive VS Code snippet guide for beginners. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/definitive-guide-to-snippets-visual-studio-code/
Two weeks ago I shared a course on how to design websites using the wireframe technique. Now I’m excited to bring you a follow-up UI design course: how to turn your wireframes into interactive prototypes. (40 minute video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/designing-a-website-ui-with-prototyping/
This NumPy crash course will show you how to build n-dimensional arrays in Python. NumPy is essential for many day-to-day data science and machine learning tasks. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/numpy-crash-course-build-powerful-n-d-arrays-with-numpy/
My friend crunched the numbers. Here are the 200 best free online university courses of all time, according to a massive dataset of thousands of student reviews. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/best-online-courses/
Quote of the Week: “Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.” – Dan Salomon
Learn key computer network engineering concepts from an industry veteran. This free course is also a great primer for network and security certifications like the CompTIA and the CCNA. (9 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-computer-networking-course/
freeCodeCamp just published the next university math course in our series on Math for Programmers. This Calculus 2 course is taught by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor Dr. Linda Green. (7 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-calculus-2-in-this-free-7-hour-course/
If you are new to Python, here’s how to write your first Python app right on your computer, and run it from your computer’s command line. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/hello-world-programming-tutorial-for-python/
If you are more advanced with Python, here’s how to build your own Neural Network using PyTorch. This tutorial will show you how to use a powerful Python library to do some basic Machine Learning. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-neural-network-with-pytorch/
What is Data Analytics? This plain-English tutorial will give you a 30,000-foot view of the field and introduce you to several key Data Analysis concepts. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-30-000-foot-introduction-to-data-analytics-and-its-foundational-components/
Quote of the Week: “Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not understanding. Understanding is not wisdom.” – Gary Schubert & Cliff Stoll
freeCodeCamp just published a free Intro to Data Structures course that covers Linked Lists, Dictionaries, Heaps, Trees, Tries, Graphs and lots of other computer science concepts. (3 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-all-about-data-structures-used-in-computer-science/
We also published a new Unreal Engine GameDev course. You’ll use the Blueprints visual scripting system to build a 2D Snake game. We include all the assets, as well as a boilerplate codebase. (3 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/unreal-engine-course-create-a-2d-snake-game/
A senior software engineer looks back on the 9 habits he wishes he had as a junior developer. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/good-habits-for-junior-developers/
What is TLS? The modern web relies on Transport Layer Security Encryption. And Victoria explains how it works in plain English. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-tls-transport-layer-security-encryption-explained-in-plain-english/
How to host a static website or mobile app in the cloud with AWS Amplify. Marcia walks you through the four big steps. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-host-a-static-site-in-the-cloud-in-4-steps/
Quote of the Week: “Less than 10% of the code has to do with the ostensible purpose of the system. The rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance, and other housekeeping.” – Mary Shaw
Learn a powerful User Experience Design tool called Wireframing to plan out your websites using nothing more than a pencil and a sheet of paper. This can help you think through a project before you type the first line of code. (6 minute read + 30 minute video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-wireframe-ux-design-tutorial-website/
We just shipped our latest cloud engineering course. This free course will help you pass the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate Exam and earn an intermediate Amazon cloud certification. freeCodeCamp now has 4 full-length courses on AWS, along with some Azure and Oracle courses as well. (14 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/aws-sysops-adminstrator-associate-certification-exam-course/
How HTTP works and why it’s important, explained in plain English. This key protocol powers much of the World Wide Web. And this tutorial will explain how it all works. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-the-internet-works/
One of the most important database concepts is table joins. And this SQL tutorial will walk you through many join variations, with examples. You’ll learn the Cross Join, Full Outer Join, Inner Join, and more. (22 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/sql-joins-tutorial/
Some of the world’s best universities are making their coursework available for free on the web. And boy oh boy do we have a list for you. Here are 700 Programming and Computer Science courses you can take starting this September. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.” – An unknown developer who learned the value of planning the hard way
Learn intermediate Python skills with this new course freeCodeCamp just published today. You’ll learn threading, multiprocessing, context managers, generators, and more. This is a great second course if you’ve already learned some basic Python. And if you haven’t yet, we have plenty of courses on basic Python, too. (6 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/intermediate-python-course/
Learn to code by playing video games. Yes – that is possible. And not just kids’ games. How about a murder mystery game, or a game where you scavenge derelict space vessels for parts. I compiled this list of my all-time favorite coding games. Most of them are playable right in your browser. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/best-coding-games-online-adults-learn-to-code/
Dr. Linda Green teaches Calculus at the University of North Carolina. And in this 12-hour course, she’ll teach you Limits, Derivatives, and even the Squeeze Theorem. Grab your graphing paper and get ready for a mind-expanding ride. (12 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-college-calculus-in-free-course/
Milecia has programmed self-driving car prototypes, and has a lot of other software engineering and hardware experience, too. In this article, she’ll teach you some of the core Machine Learning concepts that developers use in the field. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/machine-learning-basics-for-developers/
Build your own API in the cloud. In this hands-on tutorial, Sam will show you how to use TypeScript and AWS to build your own city data API – complete with translation into 55 world languages. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-an-api-with-typescript-and-aws/
Quote of the Week: “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” - Albert Einstein
If you’re new to Python, here’s a good project to get started. This course will walk you through how to build your own text-based adventure game. (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/your-first-python-project/
How Jesse went from 0 to 70,000 YouTube subscribers in just 1 year. In this case study, Jesse also shares how much money he has made, and tips he learned along the way. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-grow-your-youtube-channel/
The Kubernetes Handbook. If you sit down and read this from cover to cover, you’ll learn all about containers, orchestration, and other key DevOps concepts. Tons of companies use Kubernetes in the cloud and in their data centers, so there are lots of jobs in this area. (90 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-kubernetes-handbook/
The ultimate guide to SQL operators. In this intermediate SQL guide, you’ll learn how to query databases using Bitwise, Comparison, Arithmetic, and Logical Operators. (22 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/sql-operators-tutorial/
Universities around the world just launched 900 free online courses that you can take from the safety of your own home. Use your downtime to pick up some new skills – straight from world-class professors. (Browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/new-online-courses/
Quote of the Week: “One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.” - Sophocles
A Brief History of Responsive Web Design. You’ll learn about the design breakthroughs that have helped developers build websites that work equally well on desktop, mobile, and tablet. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/history-of-responsive-web-design/
Learn networking in Python by building 4 projects. You’ll build your own port scanner, chat room, and email client. You’ll also learn some Python penetration testing techniques. (1 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-networking-course/
Machine Learning For Managers. You don’t have to have a Ph.D. to understand concepts like Supervised VS Unsupervised learning. Or to know techniques like Classification, Clustering, and Regression. This article will give you a good non-technical introduction to all of this. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/machine-learning-for-managers-what-you-need-to-know/
What is Python Used For? Here are 10 of the most common ways developers use the Python programming language to get things done. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-python-used-for-10-coding-uses-for-the-python-programming-language/
Pointers in C Explained. This data structure may not be as hard to understand as you might think it is. If you’ve got half an hour to spare, get ready to learn some memory-level computing concepts. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pointers-in-c-are-not-as-difficult-as-you-think/
Quote of the Week: “The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.” - Cargill’s Rule
How to Write a Developer Résumé Hiring Managers Will Actually Read. Practical tips from a cybersecurity engineer who is a hiring manager herself. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-write-a-resume-that-works/
Brush up on your math with this free 5-hour freeCodeCamp Pre-Calculus course. Dr. Linda Green covers most of the math you’ll need to tackle Calculus which – spoiler alert – we are going to teach in future courses as well. You don’t need to know Calculus to become a developer, but it can help you work on more advanced projects. (5 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/precalculus-learn-college-math-prerequisites-with-this-free-5-hour-course/
The Self-Taught Developer’s Guide to Learning How to Code (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-self-taught-developers-guide-to-coding/
How to Switch from jQuery to Vanilla JavaScript By Using Bootstrap 5 (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/bootstrap-5-vanilla-js-tutorial/
Here are 700 Free Online Programming and Computer Science Courses You Can Start This August (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “We shall do a much better programming job, provided we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as very humble programmers.” - Alan Turing
This Deep Learning Crash Course will teach you all about Neural Networks, Activation Functions, Supervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and other key concepts and terms. (90 minute video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deep-learning-crash-course-learn-the-key-concepts-and-terms/
How to build your own online store in just one day using AWS, React, and Stripe. You’ll design the architecture, add the plugins, and even create some serverless functions. (1 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-a-store-in-one-day-aws-react-stripe/
How to convert your simple HTML websites into a blazing fast Node.js web apps. This step-by-step guide will help you design a web server and deploy it to the cloud. (16 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/develop-deploy-first-fullstack-web-app/
Concise code isn’t always clean code. Here’s how to avoid common code readability pitfalls. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/concise-code-isnt-always-clean-code/
If you want to automate parts of your day-to-day work, one tool is Natural Language Processing. This primer will show you how to use NLP through Google’s popular BERT library. (11 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/google-bert-nlp-machine-learning-tutorial/
Quote of the Week: “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein
Brush up on your math skills with this free College Algebra course. Dr. Linda Green covers most of the algebra you’d learn as a US university student. It should come in handy when you’re coding algorithms. (7 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-algebra-to-improve-your-programming-skills/
How to become an outstanding junior developer: a handbook to help you succeed in your first developer job. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-become-an-astounding-junior-developer/
How to automate your life and everyday tasks using the Zapier no-code platform and its many off-the-shelf API tools. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-automate-your-life-and-everyday-tasks-with-zapier/
TypeScript types explained. This mental model will help you think in terms of types. (35 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-mental-model-to-think-in-typescript-2/
How to build your own Linux dotfiles manager from scratch (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-your-own-dotfiles-manager-from-scratch/
Quote of the Week: “The mathematician’s patterns, like those of the painter’s or the poet’s, the ideas, like the colours or words, must fit together in a harmonious way. There is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.” - Godfrey Harold Hardy from “A Mathematician’s Apology”
Learn React and TypeScript by building your own quiz app. You’ll learn the popular create-react-app tool, design your own styled components, and use TypeScript to integrate with a quiz API. (80 minute video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-quiz-app-using-react-and-typescript/
How to set up your own VPN server at home for free using Linux and WireGuard. This is a great way to boost your own privacy and security without needing to share your data with a paid VPN service. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-server-at-home/
A crash-course in Responsive Web Design. You’ll learn techniques for making your web apps look good on phones, tablets, and even big screen TVs. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/responsive-web-design-how-to-make-a-website-look-good-on-phones-and-tablets/
The Docker Handbook. This will give you a strong foundation in one of the most important DevOps tools out there – one that freeCodeCamp.org itself uses extensively. (45 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-docker-handbook/
How to go from being a junior developer to becoming a mid-level or senior developer. Tips from a dev who just significantly increased their income and job title. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-go-from-junior-developer-to-mid-level-developer/
Quote of the Week: “Programming is the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There’s an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.” – Andy Hertzfeld
Our 4 new Python certifications just went live on freeCodeCamp. I recommend you read my big update on Version 7.0 of our curriculum first. I talk about these new certifications, and some other helpful improvements. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-curriculum-is-live/
This free course will show you how to build your own 2.5-dimensional platformer game using the Unreal Engine. (3 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-2-5d-platformer-game-with-unreal-engine/
What is a Correlation Coefficient? We explain this important statistics concept – the r value – using lots of diagrams and color-coded equations. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-correlation-coefficient-r-value-in-statistics-explains/
Here are 23 alternative coding career paths that you can grow into as a software developer (16 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/alternative-career-paths/
The AWS Cloud Cheatsheet: 5 things you’ll want to learn first when getting started with Amazon Web Services (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/top-5-things-to-learn-first-when-getting-started-with-aws/
Quote of the Week: “The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code - not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death.” - Python creator Guido van Rossum
Tips from a developer who just did 60 coding interviews in a single month. And yes, he got multiple job offers. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-i-learned-from-doing-60-technical-interviews-in-30-days/
Learn Deno, the new JavaScript runtime from the inventor of Node.js. This free full-length course will also teach you basic TypeScript, packages, and how to build your own survey app. (6 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-deno-a-node-js-alternative/
What is a Deep Learning Neural Network? Here’s what you need to know, explained in plain English. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deep-learning-neural-networks-explained-in-plain-english/
The SaaS Handbook – how to build your first Software-as-a-Service product step-by-step. (1 hour read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-your-first-saas/
Here are 700 free online Programming and Computer Science courses you can start this July (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
And one extra for you: a full course on how to build your own full-stack website using Gatsby and Strapi, two powerful new web development tools. (5 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-full-stack-website-with-strapi-and-gatsbyjs/
Quote of the Week: “If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.” – Kurt Lewin
This course will teach you how to use Keras, a popular Python library for deep learning. You’ll build and train a neural network, then deploy it to the web using Flask and TensorFlow.js. (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/keras-video-course-python-deep-learning/
And this course will teach you Scikit-Learn, another powerful Python Machine Learning library. You’ll learn Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K-Means Clustering, and more. And you’ll build your own app that can recognize handwritten digits. (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/machine-learning-with-scikit-learn-full-course/
How to pass Google’s TensorFlow Developer certificate exam, explained by a developer who just passed it. (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-passed-the-certified-tensorflow-developer-exam/
How to code eight essential graph algorithms in JavaScript (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/8-essential-graph-algorithms-in-javascript/
And finally, learn some spicy SQL with these five easy recipes. “I like to think of WHERE, JOIN, COUNT, and GROUP_CONCAT as the salt, fat, acid, and heat of database cooking.” (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/sql-recipes/
Quote of the Week: “You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” — Daniel Keys Moran
Here are the 9 most commonly used Machine Learning algorithms, all explained in plain English. This article will walk you through Random Forests, K-Nearest Neighbors, Linear Regression, and other approaches in a beginner-friendly way. (18 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-no-code-intro-to-the-9-most-important-machine-learning-algorithms-today/
If you want to get cloud-certified, here’s a free Azure cloud certification course. It will teach you the concepts you need to know to pass the AZ-900 exam. (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/azure-fundamentals-course-az900/
Flutter is a powerful new framework from Google that lets you build apps for iPhone, Android, the web, and PCs – all at the same time with the same codebase. This course will teach you Flutter fundamentals. (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/flutter-app-course-mobile-web-desktop/
DevOps is, statistically speaking, the highest-paid non-managerial developer field you can go into. And this free course will teach you some of the Linux, networking, and other concepts you need to get started learning DevOps. It’s not an entry level career, but if you already have some basic programming skills, this will get you moving in the right direction. (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/devops-prerequisites-course/
How to create a professional chat API using Node.js and web sockets. This comprehensive tutorial will help you build your own API step-by-step and give you lots of coding practice. (35 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-professional-node-express/
Quote of the Week: “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world. But the real problem is that computers are too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” – Pedro Domingos
This free course will help you improve your JavaScript skills by building 15 bite-sized projects (8 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/hone-your-javascript-skills-by-building-these-15-projects/
What is a Primary Key? Learn this important database concept, and how to use it in SQL. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/primary-key-sql-tutorial-how-to-define-a-primary-key-in-a-database/
Here are 5 Git commands you should know, with code examples (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/5-git-commands-you-should-know-with-code-examples/
License To Pentest: an Ethical Hacking course for beginners (9 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/license-to-pentest-ethical-hacking-course-for-beginners/
How Johan Rin earned AWS certifications, got a job as a software architect, and became a freeCodeCamp author - all while social distancing during the pandemic (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-got-awscertified-and-got-a-job-during-the-pandemic/
Quote of the Week: “If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.” – Lindsay Buckingham
This Python Data Science course for beginners covers basic Python, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, and even teaches you some problem solving and pseudocode planning skills. (12 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-data-science-course-matplotlib-pandas-numpy/
How to implement a Linked List in JavaScript – a quick introduction to this iconic data structure, with lots of code examples (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/implementing-a-linked-list-in-javascript/
How to write code right inside an Excel spreadsheet using Visual Basic (11 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/excel-vba-tutorial/
How to make your own VS Code Extension (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/making-vscode-extension/
Here are 680 free online programming and computer science courses you can start this June (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.” – Ernst Schumacher
My analysis of the results from Stack Overflow’s survey of 65,000 software developers around the world. I explore their salaries, educational backgrounds, and their favorite programming languages. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stack-overflow-developer-survey-2020-programming-language-framework-salary-data/
Learn how to build your own Android App. This free course for beginners covers basic Java, Material Design, RecyclerView, data persistence, and more. (15 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-develop-and-android-app-no-experience-required/
A self-taught developer shares 5 mistakes he made during his coding journey, so you can avoid them (13 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lessons-learned-from-my-journey-as-a-self-taught-developer/
Here are four Design Patterns you should know for web development: Observer, Singleton, Strategy, and Decorator (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/4-design-patterns-to-use-in-web-development/
How to Build your own Pokémon Pokédex app using HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, with tons of code examples (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-practical-guide-to-typescript-how-to-build-a-pokedex-app-using-html-css-and-typescript/
Quote of the Week: “Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” – Edsger Dijkstra
Learn some JavaScript by building your own playable Tetris game. This free course will teach you a ton of JavaScript methods and DOM manipulation approaches, along with some basic GameDev concepts. (90 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-by-creating-a-tetris-game/
How to use Deliberate Practice to learn programming more efficiently (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-deliberate-practice-to-learn-programming-fast/
What it’s really like to cope with endless distractions while working from home. How a family of working parents with two kids stay productive in their 500-square-foot apartment. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coding-with-distractions/
How to get started with React — a modern project-based guide for beginners. This step-by-step tutorial also includes React Hooks. (26 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/getting-started-with-react-a-modern-project-based-guide-for-beginners-including-hooks-2/
How to create an optical character reader using Angular and Azure Computer Vision (13 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-an-optical-character-reader-using-angular-and-azure-computer-vision/
Quote of the Week: “Tetris came along early and had a very important role in breaking down ordinary people’s inhibitions in front of computers, which were scary objects to non-professionals used to pen and paper. But the fact that something so simple and beautiful could appear on screen destroyed that barrier.” – Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov
What is Agile software development? Here are the basic principles. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-agile-and-how-youcan-become-an-epic-storyteller/
How to write freelance web development proposals that will win over clients. And this includes a downloadable template, too. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-web-design-proposal-template/
What is Deno – other than an anagram of the word “Node”? It’s a new security-focused TypeScript runtime by the same developer who created Node.js. And freeCodeCamp just published an entire Deno Handbook, with tutorials and code examples. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-deno-handbook/
This free course will show you how to use SQLite databases with Python (90 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/using-sqlite-databases-with-python/
You may have heard that there are a ton of free online university courses you can take while staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. But did you know that 115 of them also offer free certificates of completion? Here’s the full list. (Browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coronavirus-coursera-free-certificate/
Quote of the Week: “Planning is everything. Plans are nothing.” - Helmuth von Moltke
What is a Proxy Server? This powerful security tool explained in plain English. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-proxy-server-in-english-please/
Learn how to use the Python PyTorch library for machine learning, using this free in-depth course. (10 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pytorch-full-course/
Johan just passed the AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam. He shows you how you can use your lockdown time to earn a professional cloud certification. (6 minute read) https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-passed-the-aws-certified-developer-associate-exam/
Vim is one of the simplest and most powerful code editors out there. It comes pre-installed on Mac and Linux, and you can easily install it on Windows. Here are some tips for how to learn it and use it to write code faster. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/7-vim-tips-that-changed-my-life/
How to use pure CSS to create a beautiful loading animation for your app. (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-css-to-create-a-beautiful-loading-animation-for-your-app/
Quote of the Week: “The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.” - Edsger Dijkstra
What exactly is computer programming? Phoebe – a developer from the UK – explains the art of software development using simple analogies. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-computer-programming-defining-software-development/
freeCodeCamp’s May 2020 Summit. We’re hosting a 1-hour live stream on Friday, May 1st at 10 a.m. Eastern time. We’ll demo a lot of new tools and courses we’ve been working on, including our new Python certifications. You can watch live (or the on-demand video after it ends) here: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/may-2020-summit/
How to build a simple Pokémon web app using React Hooks and the Context API (17 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-a-simple-pokemon-web-app-with-react-hooks-and-context-api/
A guide to understanding formal software engineering requirements that you will encounter as a developer working on large-scale projects. (14 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-understanding-software-requirements-matter-to-you-as-a-software-engineer/
Here are 650 free online programming and computer science courses you can start this May. (Browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries – is not “Eureka!” but “That’s funny…”.” - Isaac Asimov
Learn the basics of programming and computer science with this beginner-friendly free course. You’ll learn concepts like variables, functions, data structures, recursion, and more. (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/introduction-to-computer-programming-and-computer-science-course/
How Braedon went from working in sales to working as a software developer. He looks back on the 16 months he spent learning to code at home after work, and the first 2 years in his new job as a professional web developer. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-went-from-sales-to-frontend-developer-in-16-months/
Permutation and Combination are two math concepts that are really important for programming. And you can learn how to use both of these without much pre-existing math knowledge. Here’s how. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/permutation-and-combination-the-difference-explained-with-formula-examples/
Learn how to create your own WordPress theme from scratch. This course includes a full codebase, along with some sleek UI designs. (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-create-your-own-wordpress-theme-from-scratch/
How to build an auto-updating Excel spreadsheet with stock market data using Python, AWS, and the API for the IEX stock exchange. (22 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/auto-updating-excel-python-aws/
Quote of the Week: “Unless in communicating with a computer one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.” – Alan Turing
Learn Data Analysis with Python. This free course covers SQL, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and other tools for visualizing data and creating reports. We also include Jupyter Notebooks so you can run the code yourself, along with plenty of exercises to reinforce your understanding of the concepts. (4 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-data-analysis-with-python-course/
And if you don’t know much Python yet, I’ve got you covered. We also published this Python Beginner’s Handbook this week. (50 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-python-guide-for-beginners/
How to set your future self up for success with good coding habits (11 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/set-future-you-up-for-success-with-good-coding-habits/
How to style your React apps with less code using Tailwind CSS and Styled Components (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-style-your-react-apps-with-less-code-using-tailwind-css-and-styled-components/
On Tuesday we hosted an online developer conference called LockdownConf. Developers from around the world gave advice on how to learn new skills during the pandemic and find new jobs and freelance clients. You can watch the entire conference ad-free on freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel. (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lockdownconf-free-developer-conference/
Quote of the Week: “Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.” - Stephen Covey
Learn cloud computing and get AWS certified. Our new AWS Developer Associate Certification course is now live. You’ll learn DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk, Serverless and more. (16 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pass-the-aws-developer-associate-exam-with-this-free-16-hour-course/
On Tuesday we’re hosting a free developer conference on freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel. It’s called LockdownConf. You should totally come. Full details: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lockdownconf-free-developer-conference/
Expand your JavaScript skills by building 7 grid-based browser games – including Tetris. Aina will show you how to use graphics and mathematical functions. And she includes full working codebases for each game. (2 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-by-building-7-games-video-course/
Some lessons we can learn from the Git Revert command in our fight with COVID-19. This comes straight from a developer in the middle of the Madrid outbreak, helping run an app-based grocery delivery service for people in his city. (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-we-can-learn-from-git-revert-in-our-fight-against-covid19/
And finally, we just launched a community Discord chat room. This is a friendly, inclusive place to chat, make developer friends, and share positive energy. And I think we all need that now more than ever. (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-discord-chat-room-server/
Quote of the Week: “To teach is to learn twice.” - Joseph Joubert
You may have heard the terms “Architecture” or “System Design.” These come up a lot during developer job interviews. Especially at big tech companies. This in-depth guide will help prepare you for the System Design interview, by teaching you basic software architecture concepts. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/systems-design-for-interviews/
How to create your own Coronavirus dashboard and map app using React, Gatsby, and Leaflet. You can code along with this tutorial, learn some new tools, and build your own map of the outbreak to show your family and friends. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-create-a-coronavirus-covid-19-dashboard-map-app-in-react-with-gatsby-and-leaflet/
The next time you need to build an architecture diagram for your software project – or just a flow chart for your business – you’ll know which tools to use. We showcase the best ones here. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/flow-chart-creator-and-workflow-diagram-apps/
OWASP (The Open Web App Security Project) has an up-to-date list of the 10 most common security vulnerabilities in websites. Learn these mistakes so you don’t repeat them in your own projects. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/technical-dive-into-owasp/
Var, Let, and Const – What’s the Difference? Learn the 3 main ways to declare a variable in JavaScript, and in which situations you should use them. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/var-let-and-const-whats-the-difference/
Quote of the Week: “Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know quite where you are.” — Danny Thorpe
How to Stay Productive in the Age of Social Distancing (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/staying-productive-in-the-age-of-social-distancing/
How Hashing Functions Work. And What’s the Most Secure Encryption Hash? MD5, SHA1, or SHA2? (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/md5-vs-sha-1-vs-sha-2-which-is-the-most-secure-encryption-hash-and-how-to-check-them/
From Mechanical Engineer to Software Developer – My Coding Rollercoaster. Milecia tells the story of how she stumbled into coding while chasing her passion for cars. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mechanical-engineering-to-software-developer/
How to Become a Software Engineer if You Don’t Have a Computer Science Degree (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/paths-to-becoming-a-software-engineer/
Learn the PERN Stack - Postgres, Express, React, Node - by Building a Todo List App (free 90 minute video course with full example codebase): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-pern-stack-full-course/
Quote of the Week: “Act in haste and repent at leisure. Code too soon and debug forever.” - Dr. Raymond Kennington
The Coronavirus Quarantine Developer Skill Handbook – my tips for how to make the most of your time and learn to code for free from home (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coronavirus-academy/
How to outsource your online security, and stay secure without having to think so hard about it (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/outsourcing-security-with-1password-authy-and-privacy-com/
A software engineer from Romania live-streamed himself finishing all 6 freeCodeCamp certifications in a single month. It takes most people thousands of hours to accomplish this. Here’s his story. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/i-completed-the-entire-freecodecamp-curriculum-in-a-month-while-recording-everything/
How to get started with Serverless Architecture (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-started-with-serverless-architecture/
An Intro to Metrics Driven Development, and how data can inform the design of your apps (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/metrics-driven-development/
Quote of the Week: “Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” - Edward V. Berard
Developers use the expression “close to the metal” to mean lower-level coding that interacts closely with a computer’s hardware. And the king of low-level programming is C. This C Beginner’s Handbook will help you learn C basics in just a few hours. (35 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-c-beginners-handbook/
These quick user interface design tips that will help you dramatically improve the look of your front end projects. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-your-front-end-projects/
You can build fast, secure websites at scale - all without a web server or traditional back end. This new approach is called the JAMstack, and this tutorial will show you how to use it. (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/jamstack-full-course/
What is cached data? And what does it mean to clear a cache? This article will give you a functional understanding of how caches work and why they’re so important to the modern web. (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-cached-data/
A developer uncovered 1,400 Coursera online university courses that are still completely free. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-courses-6d84cdb30da/
Quote of the Week: “It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it. It’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.” - Steve McConnell
We just released a massive, free Python Machine Learning course focused on TensorFlow 2.0. You’ll learn: core learning algorithms, deep learning with neural networks, computer vision with convolutional neural networks, natural language processing with recurrent neural networks, and reinforcement learning. It took us months to make this. I think you’ll enjoy it. (7 hour watch + Jupyter Notebook modules): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/massive-tensorflow-2-0-free-course/
The JavaScript Beginner’s Handbook - 2020 Edition. This comprehensive JavaScript reference also comes with a downloadable PDF (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-complete-javascript-handbook-f26b2c71719c/
How to avoid getting your password cracked. An information security engineer explains hashing, dictionary attacks, rainbow tables, the Birthday Problem, and more. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/an-intro-to-password-cracking/
Multithreaded Python: slithering through an I/O bottleneck (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/multithreaded-python/
Here are 610 free online programming and computer science courses from universities around the world that you can start this March (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming. Testing is the treatment.” - Kent Beck
Resume tips from a developer who got job offers at Microsoft, Amazon, and Twitter (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-your-resume-is-being-rejected/
How one developer listens to 5+ hours of podcasts per day to stay on top of technology news, and the tools he uses to organize his podcast RSS feeds (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcasts-are-my-new-wikipedia-the-perfect-informal-learning-resource/
Victoria shares some command line tricks for managing your messy open source repositories (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/command-line-tricks-for-managing-your-messy-open-source-repository/
How one biology student got his first developer job and won his first hackathon: 2 wild days of research, design, and coding (27 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-won-the-hackathon/
How to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for your project (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/minimum-viable-product-between-an-idea-and-the-product/
Quote of the Week: “The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.” - Alan Cooper
A developer crunched the results of 213,000 coding interview tests which were completed by job candidates from around the world. He shares the insights, and a full 39-page report of the results. (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/top-2020-it-skills/
How to build and deploy your own portfolio website. This free video course covers basic HTML, CSS, Flexbox, and Grid. (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-portfolio-website-and-deploy-to-digital-ocean/
The much-hyped JAMstack explained in detail – and how to get started with it. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-the-jamstack-and-how-do-i-host-my-website-on-it/
Even though JavaScript is a prototype-based language – and not a class-based language – it’s still possible to do Object Oriented Programming with it. Here’s how. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-javascript-implements-oop/
A Complete Beginner’s Guide to React Router. This tutorial even includes Router Hooks. Give it a try. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-react-router-include-router-hooks/
Quote of the Week: “That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.” - Jacob Bronowski
How to get your first job as a self-taught developer – tips from a freeCodeCamp graduate who got her first software engineering job last year (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-your-first-job-in-tech/
An experienced developer shares his favorite Chrome DevTools tips and tricks (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/awesome-chrome-dev-tools-tips-and-tricks/
How to build your own piano keyboard using plain vanilla JavaScript (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-piano-keyboard
How to build a Progressive Web App from scratch with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You’ll build a simple coffee menu app that uses service workers and continues working even if you disconnect from the internet. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-pwa-from-scratch-with-html-css-and-javascript/
Here’s a no-hype explanation of what Blockchain is and how this distributed database technology works (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-blockchain-and-how-does-it-work/
Quote of the Week: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
I analyzed a new survey of 116,000 developers and hiring managers from around the world. I share some of their noteworthy findings about developer tools, higher education, and wages. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/computer-programming-skills-2020-survey-developers-hiring-managers-hackerrank/
What is statistical significance? P Value explained in a way that non-math majors can understand and calculate it (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-statistical-significance-p-value-defined-and-how-to-calculate-it/
Adobe XD vs Sketch vs Figma vs InVision - how to pick the best design software in 2020 (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/adobe-xd-vs-sketch-vs-figma-vs-invision/
Learn how to build web apps using ASP.NET Core 3.1. Along the way, you’ll use Razor to build a book list project. (3 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/asp-net-core-3-1-course/
Here are 610 free online programming and computer science courses you can start this February (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
Quote of the Week: “Looking at code you wrote more than two weeks ago is like looking at code you are seeing for the first time.” — Dan Hurvitz
This course will teach you User Interface Design fundamentals like whitespace, visual hierarchy, and typography (1 hour interactive course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ui-design-fundamentals-with-this-free-one-hour-course/
Learn Natural Language Processing with Python and TensorFlow 2.0. You’ll build an AI that can write Shakespeare. And this is a beginner-level course, meaning you don’t need to have any prior experience with machine learning. (90 minute course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-natural-language-processing-no-experience-required/
How to approach your first tech job fair (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-approach-your-first-tech-job-fair/
Your React Cheatsheet for 2020 - with dozens of practical real-world code examples (16 minute read + downloadable PDF): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-react-cheatsheet-for-2020/
A data-driven analysis of all the best free online courses that universities published last year (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/best-online-courses-of-2019/
Quote of the Week: “Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” - unknown
The Complete Freelance Web Developer Guide. People have asked freeCodeCamp to publish a course like this for years. I am so excited to share this with you. This course features in-depth advice from a veteran freelance developer, an attorney focused on business law, and an accountant. Think of it as “your freelance developer business in a box.” Enjoy. (1 hour read + 4 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freelance-web-developer-guide/
What one developer learned from reading the classic book “The Pragmatic Programmer”. In short: it’s old but gold. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/thought-on-the-pragmatic-programmer/
How to replace Bash with Python as your go-to command line language (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-for-system-administration-tutorial/
Truthy VS Falsy values in Python: this detailed introduction will explain the hidden logic behind how Python evaluates different data structures as true or false (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/truthy-and-falsy-values-in-python/
10 important Git commands that every developer should know (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/10-important-git-commands-that-every-developer-should-know/
Quote of the Week: “Those who know how to learn… know enough.” - Henry Adams
In this article I break down all the different cloud-related developer roles and the professional AWS certifications you can earn for each of them. I also introduce freeCodeCamp’s 2020 #AWSCertified challenge. (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/awscertified-challenge-free-path-aws-cloud-certifications/
How I stopped a credit card thief from ripping off 3,537 people – and saved our nonprofit in the process. Yes, this really happened to me last week. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stopping-credit-card-fraud-and-saving-our-nonprofit/
Universities around the world now offer tons of free online programming and computer science courses. Here are 620 that you can choose from to kick off your 2020 learning. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-online-programming-cs-courses/
How to deploy a website in just 3 minutes straight from your Google Drive. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-deploy-a-static-website-for-free-in-only-3-minutes-with-google-drive/
How to make your first JavaScript chart using the JSCharting library - a detailed tutorial with code examples. (18 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-your-first-javascript-chart/
Quote of the Week: “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” - Yogi Berra
Everything I know about New Year’s Resolutions: how to make 2020 your big breakout year as a developer (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/developer-new-years-resolution-guide/
This free course will show you how to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam and earn one of the most in-demand cloud certifications (10 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/pass-the-aws-certified-solutions-architect-exam-with-this-free-10-hour-course/
How one inspired developer built 100 projects in 100 days. Given his rapid pace, some of these projects are really impressive. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-built-100-projects-in-100-days/
How to build a complete back end system using serverless technology (24 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/complete-back-end-system-with-serverless/
Python dictionaries explained: a visual introduction to this super useful data structure (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-dictionaries-detailed-visual-introduction/
Also, I want to recognize the many women and men around the world who are contributing code to freeCodeCamp’s open source codebase, writing articles, and helping people on our community forum. I’ve assembled this list of the fCC 100 - the top contributors to the freeCodeCamp community. I hope to see some of you on my 2020 list :) https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fcc100-top-contributors-2019/
Quote of the Week: “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.” - Daniel Boorstin
Learn how to build your own API in this free video course. First you’ll get an overview of how computers use APIs to communicate with one another. Then you’ll learn how to use Node, Flask, and Postman to build your own API. (2 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/apis-for-beginners-full-course/
The year in review: here are the 100 most popular free online university courses of 2019 according to the data. If you have time over the holidays, you can give one of them a try. (Browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/100-popular-free-online-courses-2019/
Flutter is a powerful new tool for building both Android and iOS apps with a single codebase. Here’s why you should consider learning Flutter in 2020, plus a ton of learning resources. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-flutter-and-why-you-should-learn-it-in-2020/
What is technical debt? Colby explains this agile software development concept, and gives you some ideas for how your team can fix it. (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/give-the-gift-of-a-tech-debt-sprint-this-agile-holiday-season/
The ultimate guide to end-to-end testing. You’ll learn how to use Selenium and Docker to run comprehensive tests on your apps. (13 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/end-to-end-tests-with-selenium-and-docker-the-ultimate-guide/
Quote of the Week: “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” - Thomas Watson
Web development in 2020: My friend Brad Traversy made a 70-minute video about the state of web development, and which tools he recommends learning. I agree with pretty much everything he says here. And I’ve summarized his suggestions for you here. (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/web-development-2020/
Learn how to build your own video games using the newest version of the Unreal Engine. In this free video course, you’ll build 3 games and learn a lot of fundamentals. (5 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-unreal-engine-by-creating-three-games/
How to choose the best JavaScript code editor for doing web development (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-choose-a-javascript-code-editor/
How to Create your own Santa Claus tracker app using Gatsby and React Leaflet (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-your-own-santa-tracker-with-gatsby-and-react-leaflet/
An introduction to Unified Architecture - a simpler way to build full-stack apps (11 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-stack-unified-architecture/
Quote of the Week: “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” - Martin Fowler
How to create a password that is actually secure (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/actually-secure-passwords/
The beginner’s guide to bug squashing: how to use your debugger to find and fix bugs (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-beginner-bug-squashing-guide/
How to write good commit messages: a practical Git guide (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/writing-good-commit-messages-a-practical-guide/
How to start your own coding YouTube channel. We made this free course with tips from some of the sharpest programmers on YouTube. (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-start-a-software-youtube-channel/
People often ask me how I funded freeCodeCamp during its first 3 years before we got tax-exempt nonprofit status. It’s one of the top autocomplete options when you try googling my name. So am I secretly a millionaire? (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/quincy-larson-net-worth/
Quote of the Week: “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” - Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix
How to plan, code, and deploy your startup idea in a single weekend (2 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/plan-code-and-deploy-a-startup-in-2-hours/
freeCodeCamp will offer 4 new Python certifications in 2020: ️Scientific Computing, Data Analysis, Information Security, and Machine Learning. And that’s not all. We’re working on lots of other exciting upgrades to our curriculum. (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-curriculum/
How a simple cron job can save you from a ransomware attack (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cronjob-ransomware-attack/
How to use Google Tag Manager to maintain your Google Analytics and get other insights into your website’s visitors (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-google-tag-manager-to-maintain-google-analytics-and-other-marketing-tags/
Why you should use SVG images, and how to animate your SVGs and make them lightning fast (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-fresh-perspective-at-why-when-and-how-to-use-svg/
Quote of the Week: “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.” - Emo Philips
Next.js is a powerful new framework for coding React apps that involve a lot of data. I’m using it myself on a new project. And this free book by Flavio Copes will show you how to make the most of it. (40 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-next-js-handbook/
Learn how to use Tkinter to code Graphic User Interfaces for your Python apps. You’ll learn event-driven programming and Matplotlib charts. You’ll even build your own clickable calculator app - all with Python. (6 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-use-tkinter-to-create-guis-in-python/
I drove down to Houston and interviewed the open source legends behind The Changelog as part of their 10 year anniversary. Then they turned around and interviewed me about freeCodeCamp and our plans for the future. I think you’ll enjoy it. (4 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/open-source-moves-fast-10-years-of-the-changelog/
Developer Gwendolyn Faraday shares her favorite personal privacy and security tools, so you can set up shields around your life. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/privacy-tools/
freeCodeCamp just launched a powerful new donation management tool. This is something we’ve been working on for a while. We’re proud to give our supporters as much transparency and control as possible. Here’s how it works. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/donation-settings/
Quote of the Week: “To err is human. But to really foul things up, you need a computer.” - Paul Ehrlich
David Tian spent the past 10 years working on Wall Street. He’s a non-native English speaker in his 40s. And yet he was able to get a job as a software engineer at Google and is now working on their new Pixel phones. In David’s detailed guide he explains exactly how he got the job. Even if you’re not aiming for Google, there are a ton of tips here that will help you gear up for your own job search. (50 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/career-switchers-guide-to-your-dream-tech-job/
How to use JSON Web Tokens to make sure your app’s user data stays private. This is a free course on modern authentication methods, taught by an experienced software engineer. (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-json-web-tokens-jwt-auth-tutorial/
How to conquer your fear of public speaking once and for all. Megan shares 10 tips for getting over her pre-conference talk jitters. (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fear-of-public-speaking/
Mohammad did a full statistical analysis of the big 3 front end libraries: React, Angular, and Vue. He explores how marketable each skill is on the job market, and how fast each project is improving. (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/angular-react-vue/
A complete guide to end-to-end API testing with Docker. You’ll build a Node/Express API and test it with Chai and Mocha. (19 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/end-to-end-api-testing-with-docker/
Quote of the Week: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” - Alan Kay
If you’re looking for a fun way to practice Python, start here. You’ll build Tetris, Pong, Snake, Connect Four, and even an online multiplayer game. Each game tutorial includes a working example codebase. (7 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-python-by-building-5-games/
Learn how to build native Android apps using Kotlin, a powerful alternative to Java. You’ll learn how to use Android Jetpack, Firebase, and more in this free full-length course. (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-develop-native-android-apps-with-kotlin-full-tutorial/
The freeCodeCamp Forum is now getting 5 million views each month. People use it to ask programming questions and get fast answers. And now we’re expanding the forum into an open source alternative to Reddit and Facebook. (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-future-of-the-freecodecamp-forum/
This beginner’s guide to Git and GitHub will introduce you to some version control fundamentals. (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-beginners-guide-to-git-github/
Linting is like spellcheck but for code. Here’s how to get started using linting tools, so you can catch bugs in your code as you type. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dont-just-lint-your-code-fix-it-with-prettier/
Quote of the Week: “Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.” - Christopher Zeeman
A quantum computer just solved a problem that should take supercomputers 10,000 years to solve. And it solved the problem in just 200 seconds. Here’s a plain-English explanation of what quantum computing is, how it works, and Google’s new claim to “quantum supremacy” (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-quantum-computing-googles-quantum-supremacy-claim-explained/
This free course will teach you how to become an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in about a week. It’s a good first step toward more advanced cloud certifications, and there’s no coding required. (4 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-training-2019-free-video-course/
This is the story of how a 36-year-old mom landed her first developer job. Phoebe doesn’t have a computer science degree. She didn’t attend a bootcamp. She just studied part-time for 2 years on freeCodeCamp, and practiced by building projects for freelance clients. (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-went-from-stay-at-home-mum-to-landing-my-first-web-developer-job/
What’s the difference between a framework and library? It’s the difference between buying a house and cautiously building your own. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/frameworks-vs-libraries/
How to speed up your old laptop - using stuff you have lying around your house (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/speed-up-old-laptop/
Quote of the Week: “Today, most software exists, not to solve a problem, but to interface with other software.” — Ian Angell
5 years ago, I launched freeCodeCamp from a desk in my closet. Today, we’ve helped more than 40,000 people get developer jobs. In this article I’ll show you the numbers behind our nonprofit, our plans for 2020, and a ton of new features we just pushed live. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-future-of-freecodecamp-5-year-anniversary/
CSS Zero to Hero. This free course teaches you CSS basics like coloring and text, and advanced skills like custom animations. (6 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-css-in-this-free-6-hour-video-course/
Niamh had no computer science degree, no bootcamp, and no clue. But after 7 months of learning to code, she got her first developer job. She shares tips that helped her get hired so quickly. (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-became-a-web-developer-in-under-7-months-and-how-you-can-too/
200 universities just launched 620 free online courses. More proof that these days you can learn almost any subject straight from university professors - at your convenience and for free. (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/new-online-courses/
How Jessica Chan went from photography student to freelance developer. She also created a popular Instagram account that explains computer science concepts through diagrams. Here’s her exciting and relatable story. (1 hour podcast interview): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-jessica-chan-codercoder-went-from-photography-degree-to-prolific-content-creator-and-successful-freelancer/
Quote of the Week: “If you want a team to go fast, a feeling of momentum is more important than a sense of urgency.” —Elisabeth Hendrickson
Learn graph theory algorithms from a Google engineer. This course walks you through famous graph traversal algorithms like DFS and BFS, Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm, and topological sorts. You even learn how to solve the traveling salesman problem using dynamic programming. When you’re preparing for your developer job interviews, this will be a huge help. (7 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-graph-theory-algorithms-from-a-google-engineer/
Code linting - what is it and how can it save you time? (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-linting-and-how-can-it-save-you-time/
How to solve Sudoku puzzles using math and programming - a detailed guide with code examples (15 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-play-and-win-sudoku-using-math-and-machine-learning-to-solve-every-sudoku-puzzle/
How to create your own blockchain using Python (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-cryptocurrency-using-python/
I interviewed the creator of Software Engineering Daily about how he got his start in tech. We talk about his time as a developer at Amazon, his advice for entrepreneurs, and how he’s managed to record more than 1,200 episodes of his podcast (2 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/jeff-meyerson-software-engineering-daily-podcast-interview/
Quote of the Week: “A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” - Alan Kay
Learn the fundamentals of Machine Learning with this Python course. You’ll learn how to build your own neural network and use TensorFlow 2.0 to train your models so you can make predictions. (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-develop-neural-networks-using-tensorflow-2-0-in-this-beginners-course/
You snooze, you… win? Here’s a collection of studies on software developers, sleep, productivity, and code quality (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/programmers-you-snooze-you-win/
How to prepare for your technical job interviews - tips and tricks to perform your best (14 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/interviewing-prep-tips-and-tricks/
How to make your app’s architecture secure right now: separation, configuration, and access (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/secure-application-basics/
Ruben Harris grew up in Atlanta and worked in finance. In this interview, he shares how he transitioned into tech, got into Y Combinator, and raised $2 million in investment for adult education startup (75 minute listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-ruben-harris-used-the-power-of-stories-to-break-into-startups-podcast/
Quote of the Week: “The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.” - Gene Spafford
Learn data structures from a Google engineer. This free beginner-friendly course will teach you common data structures like singly and doubly linked lists, stacks, queues, heaps, binary trees, hash tables, AVL trees, and more. (8 hour video course + code examples): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-data-structures-from-a-google-engineer/
How to code your own Random Meal Generator. Your web app will give you a random recipe and cooking tutorial video whenever you’re hungry, but don’t know what to cook. (7 minute read with code samples and a working demo): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/creating-a-random-meal-generator/
How to learn constantly without burning out (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-constantly-learn-without-burning-out/
How to use productivity apps to organize your digital life, and get more done in less time (11 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/productivity/
Lessons learned during Lekha’s first year as a software engineer. She shares insights on what to expect, and also some tips for women getting into tech (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/my-first-year-as-a-software-engineer/
Quote of the Week: “The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.” - Alan Cooper
This free course will teach you responsive web design basics. You’ll learn how to make websites look equally good on mobile phones, tablets, laptops - even big-screen TVs. (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/master-responsive-website-design/
How Jason went from writing his first line of code to accepting a $226,000 job offer - all in just 8 months (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/first-line-of-code-to-226k-job-offer-in-8-months/
The 100 best free online courses of all time, based on the data (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/best-online-courses/
How to stay safe on the internet: it’s proxy servers all the way down (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-apps-stay-safe/
Ohans grew up in Lagos. He used freeCodeCamp to learn to code, and to teach other people in his community how to code as well. He’s published several books on front end development, and now works in Berlin. Abbey interviewed him about his coding journey so far. (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stay-focused-and-create-quality-content/
Quote of the Week: “In an information economy, the most valuable company assets drive themselves home every night. If they are not treated well, they do not return the next morning.” — Peter Chang
An introduction to HTTP: everything you need to know about the protocol that powers the world wide web (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/http-and-everything-you-need-to-know-about-it/
Give your CSS some superpowers by learning Sass. This free course will show you how to use the Sass pre-processor to clean up your CSS and make it a lot more powerful (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/give-your-css-superpowers-by-learning-sass/
A beginner’s guide to Git. This will help you understand several core version control concepts (13 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-the-laymans-guide-to-understanding-the-core-concepts/
How to deploy your React app to the AWS cloud - an in-depth tutorial on networking, security, Postgres, PM2, and nginx (20 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/production-fullstack-react-express/
Andi learned to code and became obsessed with CSS. She moved from Florida to San Francisco and created some of the city’s first CSS-focused events. Now she runs several monthly tech events. In this podcast interview, she shares tips for how you can start tech events in your city (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-design-event-experiences/
Quote of the Week: “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” - Brian Kernighan, co-creator of the C language
How developers think: a walkthrough of the planning and design behind a simple web app (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-walk-through-the-developer-thought-process/
How to create a programming YouTube channel: lessons from 5 years and 1 million subscribers. I’m proud of our YouTube channel and all the creators who contributed to this video. (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-start-a-software-youtube-channel-video-course/
A quick intro to recursion in JavaScript (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/quick-intro-to-recursion/
Here are 650 free online programming and computer science courses you can start this September (browseable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/650-free-online-programming-computer-science-courses-you-can-start-this-september/
My coding bootcamp handbook: how bootcamps work and are they right for you. I spent weeks researching the bootcamp industry and talking with bootcamp graduates to create this handbook. If you’re considering going to a bootcamp, I hope you find this helpful. (30 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coding-bootcamp-handbook/
Quote of the Week: “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
The secret to unlimited ideas for your coding projects (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-secret-to-unlimited-project-ideas/
Take your React skills to the next level. This free course will walk you through building your own clone of Todoist, a popular to-do app. You’ll use Firebase, React Hooks, React Testing, and more (8 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-firebase-todoist-clone/
How to survive - and thrive - at your first tech meetup (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/first-meetup/
How to write clean code: an overview of JavaScript best practices and coding conventions (8 minute read, plus video): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/javascript-naming-convention/
Harry was an aimless college student. He learned enough coding to get a job at a small startup. In this podcast interview, he describes the journey that lead to him working as a developer and manager at MongoDB in New York City (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-startups-to-manager-at-mongodb-podcast/
Quote of the Week: “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘Now that’s funny…’” - Isaac Asimov
Freelancing 101: how to start earning your side-income as a developer (17 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freelancing-101/
Learn DevOps basics with this free 2-hour course on Docker for beginners. You can do the whole course in your browser. You don’t even need to spin up your own servers (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/docker-devops-course/
Progressive Web Apps - an overview of how they work, how they’re competing with mobile apps, and how to build them (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/practical-tips-on-progressive-web-app-development/
Awesome terminal tricks to level up as a developer (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/terminal-tricks/
How one music teacher used freeCodeCamp to teach herself to code, then landed a job at GitHub. A podcast interview with Briana Swift (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-a-former-music-teacher-taught-herself-to-code-and-landed-a-job-at-github-podcast/
Quote of the Week: “No amount of testing can prove a software right. A single test can prove a software wrong.” - Amir Ghahrai
How to build your own playable Tetris game. You’ll learn the latest techniques, including React Hooks and Styled Components (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-hooks-tetris-game/
The Software Developer’s Guide to Career Ownership (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/software-developers-career-ownership-guide/
What you need to know about DNS (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-dns-anyway/
Developer News is growing fast. In this article I lay out our vision for the future (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-new-way-forward-for-developer-news/
How to become a successful freelancer: a podcast interview with Kyle Prinsloo. Kyle dropped out of school and worked as a jewelry salesman before teaching himself to code. His freelance business grew, and he now runs a profitable software development consultancy in South Africa. (90 minute listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-become-a-successful-freelancer-podcast/
Quote of the Week: “As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.” - Maurice Wilkes
Learn closures - an advanced coding concept - in just 6 minutes with this fun guide (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-javascript-closures-in-n-minutes/
How to Build your own YouTube clone web app: an in-depth React tutorial, with a full example codebase and video walkthrough (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/youtube-clone-app/
How to set up a new MacBook for coding. Amber highlights some of the best Mac tools for developers (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-set-up-a-brand-new-macbook/
So little time, so many resources. Here are 670 free online programming and computer science courses you can start this August (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-programming-courses-august-2019/
How one US Army veteran went from English Major to Full Stack Developer. On this week’s podcast, Abbey interviews Jamie about how she learned to code and got her first developer job in her 30s (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-an-army-vet-went-from-english-major-to-full-stack-developer/
Quote of the Week: “Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.” - Francis Glassborow
The Best JavaScript meme I’ve ever seen, explained in detail (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/explaining-the-best-javascript-meme-i-have-ever-seen/
We just published a free in-depth course on penetration testing. Learn dozens of Linux tools and cybersecurity concepts. (15 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-penetration-testing-course/
freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel recently passed 1 million subscribers. How did we do it? We share all the secrets we learned over the past 4 years, so you can launch your own programming channel if you want. (25 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-start-a-software-youtube-channel/
We just re-designed Code Radio. Now you can listen in your media player of choice, and control playback and volume from your keyboard. (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/play-code-radio-on-vlc/
When she was 11 years old, Linh moved from Vietnam to England. She didn’t even speak English. But she taught herself to code using freeCodeCamp, and now she works as a developer at Lego (yes - that Lego) in London. On this week’s podcast, she talks about her coding journey and her new life. (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-from-biochemical-engineer-to-software-engineer-at-lego/
Quote of the Week: “The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.” - Tom Cargill
Flavio Copes is famous for his in-depth handbooks on developer tools. And he just published his HTML handbook on freeCodeCamp this week. (45 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-html-handbook/
Learn Blockchain Development with this free course on the Solidity programming language. Start writing Smart Contracts for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (90 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-solidity-programming-language/
The 3 types of Design Patterns all developers should know - with code examples of each (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-basic-design-patterns-all-developers-need-to-know/
Freelancing? Here are 7 places where you can sell your software development services (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/selling-services/
Princiya grew up in India, learned to code, started contributing code to Firefox, and now works as a developer in Berlin. She shares her story, and her tips for getting accepted to speak at tech conferences (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-how-taking-risks-catapulted-one-software-engineers-career-forward/
Quote of the Week: “Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.” - Eagleson’s Law
How to get started with Git - a free crash course for new developers (7 minute read + video): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-commands/
A father and military veteran tells his story of learning to code and getting his first developer job (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/landing-my-first-development-job-what-a-crazy-journey/
The Definitive TypeScript Handbook (13 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-definitive-typescript-handbook/
How to build a reusable animation component using React Hooks, the newest React feature (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/animating-visibility-with-css-an-example-of-react-hooks/
3 years ago, Joe Previte left grad school to learn to code. In this interview, he talks about getting his first developer job, teaching other people how to code, and even running the local GraphQL meetup in Phoenix, Arizona (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-from-linguistics-grad-student-to-front-end-developer/
Bonus: Code Radio is back! 24/7 music designed for coding. And now it works better on your phone and uses less data: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-radio-24-7/
Quote of the Week: “Good code is its own best documentation.” - Steve McConnell
Learn Back End Development in Node.js. This free JavaScript course will teach you the fundamentals (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/getting-started-with-node-js/
How to make your first Pull Request on GitHub (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-your-first-pull-request-on-github/
After each of your job interviews, this is the most effective post job interview thank-you email you can send (11 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/interview-thank-you-email/
Here are 660+ free online Programming and Computer Science courses you can start in July, so you can make good use of your summer and expand your skills (browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-coding-courses-july-2019/
This is the story behind Harvard CS50 - the most popular computer science course in the world. I interviewed Professor David Malan and game dev teacher Colton Ogden about how they got into programming and brought CS50 online for everyone (2 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-harvard-cs50s-david-malan-and-colton-ogden-on-computer-science/
Quote of the Week: “The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.” - David Emery
Learn the science (and the art) of Data Visualization in this free course. You’ll build charts, maps, and even interactive visualizations - all using tools like SVG and D3.js (13 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-visualization-using-d3-course/
Here’s my overview of the Developer Roadmap for learning Front End Development, Back End Development, and DevOps - with all the recommended skills and technologies mapped out visually (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/2019-web-developer-roadmap/
How Sam reverse-engineered the Hemingway Editor - a popular writing app - and built his own version from a beach in Thailand (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/https-medium-com-samwcoding-deconstructing-the-hemingway-app-8098e22d878d/
Abbey interviews developer/designer Eleftheria (whose name means “freedom” in Greek) about her many contributions to the developer community, the #100DaysOfCode challenge, and her many tech talks at conferences around Europe (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-how-a-developer-youtuber-and-masters-student-does-it-all/
We just launched a new freeCodeCamp backpack for developers. It features a dedicated laptop slot and tablet slot, a USB port, detachable key fob, and even a water bottle holder. I demo all its features in this video (1 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/2019-freecodecamp-backpack/
Quote of the Week: “There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.” - Larry Flon
Learn how to build your own social media app from scratch using React, Redux, Firebase, and Express - a full-length intermediate course - all free and with no ads (12 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-firebase-social-media-app-course/
How to write an amazing cover letter that will get you hired - template included (18 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-write-an-amazing-cover-letter-that-will-get-you-hired/
A 30-year-old plumber switched careers and became a full-time developer. We interviewed him about his amazing journey (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-plumber-to-full-time-developer/
How to kill procrastination and absolutely crush it with your ideas (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-kill-procrastination-and-crush-your-ideas/
How to set up your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) - a checklist to get you up and running (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-define-an-mvp/
Quote of the Week: “The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.” - an unknown programmer
How to build an amazing LinkedIn profile - 15 tips from Austin, who got job offers from Microsoft, Google, and Twitter (35 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-an-amazing-linkedin-profile-15-proven-tips/
This free course on Webpack by Colt Steele will show you how to simplify your code and speed-up your website (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/webpack-course/
How Madison went from homeschooler to self-taught full stack developer. In this interview, she shares tons of tips for staying focused and motivated through the struggle (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-homeschooler-to-fullstack-developer/
The Essentials of Monorepo Development - how to build your entire project in a single code repository (14 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/monorepo-essentials/
How to power through the entire developer job application process - an interview with Chris Lienert (90 minute listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-go-through-the-job-application-process-an-interview-with-chris-lienert-2/
Quote of the Week: “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” - L. Peter Deutsch
In this free course, you’ll learn college-level Statistics fundamentals and data science concepts you can use as a developer (8 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-statistics-course/
Here are the soft skills that every developer should cultivate (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/soft-skills-every-developer-should-have/
Your complete guide to giving your first conference talk (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/complete-guide-to-giving-your-first-conference-talk/
Learn the basics of the R programming language with this free course on statistical programming (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/r-programming-course/
Angela is a developer and artist who has published a dozen of her video games on Steam. We interview her about her journey into coding and her life as a college student at Stanford (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-digital-artist-and-game-dev/
Quote of the Week: “Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.” - Kent Beck
Learn Data Science fundamentals with this free course. Even though Data Science is a math-intensive field, Professor Poulson designed this course to teach you the basics without the need for math or programming skills. (6 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-science-course-for-beginners
I interview the founder of CodeNewbie about her journey into tech. We talk about how she immigrated to the US from Ethiopia, learned to code, got a job at Microsoft, and created her own conference. (2 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/talking-with-codenewbie-saron-yitbarek
How does CSS Flexbox work? A picture is worth a thousand words. And animated gifs are even better. (4 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-complete-flex-animated-tutorial
Here are 650 free university courses on programming and computer science starting in June, so you can make the most of your summer learning. (Browsable list): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/650-free-online-programming-computer-science-courses-you-can-start-this-summer
As a teenager, Alejandra left Mexico to escape her family’s involvement in a cult. She taught herself to code while making ends meet, and went from junior developer to working at AWS (2 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/from-cult-survivor-to-developer-advocate-at-aws
Quote of the Week: “First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.” - George Carrette
Gatsby.js is a popular tool for creating static websites with JavaScript, React, and GraphQL. In this full free course, you’ll learn how to build and deploy your own Gatsby-powered website (5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/great-gatsby-bootcamp
Jesse Weigel has coded live on-stream for hundreds of hours. He’s built websites for clients in front of a huge audience - mistakes and all. In this week’s podcast, we interview him about streaming, his new job, and how he finds time to spend with his 4 kids (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-jesse-weigel
How to make peace with deadlines in software development (8 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/6cfe3e993f51
The Psychology of Pair Programming - here are some of the techniques developers use when they sit down and code together (6 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/86cb31f9abca
What a long strange trip it’s been. After years of “bad decisions which led me to the brink of self destruction” this Slovenian student dropped out and learned to code. He looks back on his first year working as a professional developer (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/277031
Quote of the Week: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” - Bill Gates
Learn how to install Python on your computer, do Object Oriented Programming, work with databases, and more. My friend Dr. Chuck at University of Michigan will teach you all the Python fundamentals in this free course (14 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-for-everybody
Don’t just learn a magic card trick - build a card trick using Node.js. In this tutorial, Beau shows you how to entertain your friends with this API-powered magic trick (45 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/magic-card-trick-with-javascript-and-nodejs
Summer is coming! Make the most of it by expanding your skills with some of these 650 free university courses on programming and computer science (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/650-free-online-programming-computer-science-courses-you-can-start-this-summer-6c8905e6a3b2
React is improving fast. Here’s every single change to React, explained in detail, to help you keep up with this popular JavaScript library (75 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/60686ee292cc
“I worked menial dead end jobs to make ends meet. For several years I was feeling lost, insecure and directionless… One step a day is better than no step at all.” Marlon was musician in London who learned to code after work each day, and is now working full-time as a developer. Here’s his story (2 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/276222
Quote of the Week: “A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.” - Bill Gates
Learn HTML and CSS - including HTML5 and CSS3 - from scratch with this full free course (11 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/html-css-11-hour-course
Learn RESTful APIs by building your own recipe app using React and React Router (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/apis-in-react
If you can cook pasta, you can understand the concept of “state” in JavaScript (6 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/2baf10a787ee
Tim was a US Army veteran who got into a bar fight and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. After prison, he worked retail jobs while using freeCodeCamp to learn new skills. He eventually got a job as a software developer, and has had a fulfilling career ever since. I interviewed him on this week’s episode of The freeCodeCamp Podcast (2 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/developer-after-prison
How Don used freeCodeCamp to get promoted to a mid-level developer job only 1 year into his career, and his advice for you if you want to do the same (2 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/274233
Quote of the Week: “Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.” - Eric Raymond
The CSS Handbook - a full free book to guide you through CSS (85 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/b56695917d11
If you work with big documents or datasets, you may be able to save hours by using Regular Expressions. This free course will give you a firm understanding of the basics (45 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/regular-expressions-crash-course
Learn about famous programmers from throughout history - all while you play classic card games like Poker, Blackjack, and Solitaire. Programmer Playing Cards are here (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/programmer-playing-cards
Docker Simplified: a hands-on guide for absolute beginners (15 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/96639a35ff36
Rachel was a special education teacher when she won 2nd place at the DEF CON hacking conference. Here’s the wild story of how she got into infosec (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-rachel-tobac
Quote of the Week: “Security in IT is like locking your house or car – it doesn’t stop the bad guys, but if it’s good enough they may move on to an easier target.” - Paul Herbka
Learn how to solve common developer job interview algorithm challenges in this free course from a professional developer interview coach (5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/master-your-coding-interview
Neural networks are at the core of what we call “Artificial Intelligence.” Learn about convolutional and recurrent neural networks, and deep learning in this free course (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-deep-neural-networks-work
How one developer used Python to analyze Game of Thrones (19 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/503a96028ce6
What I wish I knew when I started to work with React.js (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/3ba36107fd13
3 years ago, Shawn walked away from a US $350,000/year job in finance to learn to code with freeCodeCamp. Today he’s a developer at Netlify, and he runs the official ReactJS subreddit. I interviewed him about his coding journey (2 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/shawn-wang-podcast-interview
Quote of the Week: “A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.” - Doug Linder
If you’ve ever wanted to learn C# and the .NET developer tool ecosystem, you’re in luck. We just published a full 24-hour course where you’ll build a complete tournament tracker app from start to finish - including planning, database design, and error handling (24 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/c-sharp-24-hour-course
How one developer built his first-ever React Native app for his first-ever freelance client - and beat out proposals from several established mobile app agencies (34 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d78bdab795e1
How to avoid these 7 mistakes Chris made as a junior developer (7 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a7f26ce0f7ed
How to write your own AI to play Sonic the Hedgehog, using Python and the NEAT algorithm (7 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/9d862a2aef98
In this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, Abbey interviews freeCodeCamp super-contributor Ariel Leslie about how she got into software development and how she tackles hard engineering problems (1 hour listen): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-episode-58-software-developer-and-freecodecamp-superstar-ariel-leslie
Quote of the Week: “The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.” - Nathaniel Borenstein
Learn SQL with this free 4-hour course on the popular PostgreSQL database. You’ll learn Queries, Joins, Aggregations, and other important concepts (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/postgresql-full-course
Here are 570 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in April (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/b8ddbdda61e2
How to use Python to build your own AI that wins at Connect Four (1.5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-connect-four-artificial-intelligence
How to build your own online multiplayer game using Python and Pygame (2.5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-online-multiplayer-game-development-tutorial
In this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview Adam Hollett, a software developer at Shopify in Ottawa, Canada. He worked as a writer before teaching himself to code using freeCodeCamp and taking his career in a more technical direction. (1 hour listen in your podcast player on your phone, or here in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/podcast-episode-57
Quote of the Week: “One person’s ‘paranoia’ is another person’s ‘engineering redundancy.’” — Marcus J. Ranum
How to build your own iPhone and Android app from a single JavaScript codebase by using React Native - a powerful tool that turns websites into mobile apps (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-an-app-that-works-on-ios-android-and-the-web-with-react-native-web
How to make a custom website from scratch using WordPress (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-a-custom-website-from-scratch-using-wordpress
Asymptotic Analysis explained with Pokémon: a deep dive into Complexity Analysis (34 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/8bf4396804e0
Allan didn’t like his corporate job, so he spent his nights and weekends at the public library learning to code through freeCodeCamp. 2 years ago he got his first developer job, and now he’s launching his own company. He just posted his story on our forum (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/264857
In this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, Abbey interviews Tracy Lee about how she became a developer, her love of JavaScript frameworks, and what it’s like to be a developer evangelist (1 hour listen in your podcast player on your phone, or here in your browser): https://podcast.freecodecamp.org
Quote of the Week: “The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.” - Gene Spafford
How to code like a pro - learn advanced programming concepts from a freeCodeCamp graduate who’s now working as a software engineer (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-code-like-a-pro
Learn the basics of Data Science - statistics, data visualization, and Python programming - in this free course (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-basics-of-data-science
Madison writes about how she went from complete beginner to software developer, and offers tips for how you can too (7 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/dd36ed08e11b
In this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, I interview lawyer-turned-developer Zubin Pratap. We talk about hackathons, moving to Melbourne, and leaving one promising career for another (1 hour listen in your podcast player on your phone, or here in your browser): https://podcast.freecodecamp.org
Also, freeCodeCamp now has an Instagram account where we share photos from the global developer community (browsable gallery): https://www.instagram.com/freecodecamp
Quote of the Week: “Security is always excessive until it’s not enough.” - Robbie Sinclair
How to code your own Double Dragon-style fighting game - a free Unity 3D course (5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-beat-em-up-game-in-unity
“I’m finally getting paid to do what I love!” How Franklin taught himself to code and got his first job as a front-end developer (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/261411
Here are 550 free online programming and computer science courses that you can start in March (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d1944d6e467
In this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, Abbey and I talk about the history of the podcast and our upcoming interviews with developers from all around the world (50 minute listen in your phone’s podcast player or here in your browser): https://podcast.freecodecamp.org
Advanced TypeScript patterns - learn how to write statically-typed JavaScript using Ramda and currying (20 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/f747e99744ab
Quote of the Week: “In a relatively short time we’ve taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters.” - Jeff Jarmoc
How to solve algorithm challenges in job interviews - a free 4-hour course. This is taught using Python, which is similar to JavaScript and also worth learning. (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-algorithms-for-job-interviews
The host of a popular Python podcast explains NoSQL databases and helps you get started with MongoDB (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mongodb-quickstart-with-python
How to write an awesome junior developer résumé in a few simple steps (7 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/316010db80ec
How a young father from a small town in the American South taught himself to code for 2 years then got a job as a data engineer (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/258285
From Zero to Deploy: How Eden created her own static website from scratch using Netlify and Gatsby, and how you can do it, too (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/ebca82612ffd
Quote of the Week: “A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.” - Mitch Ratliff
Learn back end development with Node.js and Express using this free in-depth course (2.5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-express-js-in-this-complete-course
Kevin got his first job as a web developer when he was 49 years old. He shares his advice for how you can learn to code and get a developer job, too (41 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/258707
From ES5 to ESNext - here’s every feature added to JavaScript since 2015 (40 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d0c255e13c6e
How to build your own Pokémon game - the latest in freeCodeCamp’s series of Harvard University GameDev lectures (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-your-own-pokemon-game
An introduction to Test-Driven Development - written by a developer who spent 5 years avoiding TDD but finally embraced it (22 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/c4de6dce5c
Quote of the Week: “The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.” - Grady Booch
What’s the difference between a library and a framework? (4 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/bd133054023f
Learn the key machine learning concepts and how to apply them to real-life projects using PyTorch (6 hour video course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/applied-deep-learning-with-pytorch-full-course
How one economics student in Europe taught himself to code for two years then got his dream job as a developer (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/254796
Never feel overwhelmed at work again - how to use the MIT technique to be more productive (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/70d132aad0cc
Did you know that the freeCodeCamp community has a music live stream called Code Radio? Tune in to some jazzy beats while you code (24/7 live stream): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/code-radio
Quote of the Week: “If having a coffee in the morning doesn’t wake you up, try deleting a table in a production database instead.” - Juozas Kaziukenas
Python is a great programming language to learn once you feel comfortable with JavaScript. Here’s Harvard’s Intro to Python (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-python-from-harvards-cs50
And if you want to dig even further into Python, try our in-depth course on Python basics (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-python-basics-in-depth-video-course
How to produce your own meaningful datasets - right in SQL (7 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/394c4781a5e0
Ursula was in her late 30s and unhappy with her career in science. Here’s how she taught herself to code using freeCodeCamp for 10 months, then got a job as a developer (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/252499/32
Here are 560 free online programming and computer science courses that you can start in February (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/e621d959e64
Quote of the Week: “The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.” - Henry Petroski
Harvard’s CS50 Intro to Computer Science course is now free (and ad-free) on freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel. We’re posting one new video each day and discussing them here (40 hour course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/the-first-few-harvard-cs50-videos-are-now-live/253738
Capture The Flag challenges are a great way to expand your cybersecurity and ethical hacking skills. Here’s an in-depth walkthrough of the popular PicoCTF challenge (6 hour tutorial): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/improve-cybersecurity-skills-with-ctfs-picoctf-walkthrough
How Graph Data Structures work - explained visually (9 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/6d88f36ec768
How to build your own First Person Shooter game - using Unity3D (8 hour tutorial): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/unity-3d-first-person-shooter-game-tutorial
Maribel’s parents immigrated to the US as field workers. She was the first person in her family to graduate from college. And after years of teaching herself coding, she is now working as a software engineer. This is her story (16 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/4ae301fc02b
This weeks quote: “The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.” — Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the web)
How to build your own e-commerce website from scratch with React, and how to host it for free using Netlify (6 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-tutorial-ecomerce-site
Here are 380 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/9b3ffcbd7b8c
How to design website layouts that work well with screen readers - so that blind people can use your website, too (7 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/347b7b06e9cc
The story of how Vivian went from working in a Nigerian call center to landing her first job as a software developer. She used freeCodeCamp and took the 100 Days of Code Challenge. (6 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/19b01f17bca1
Introducing: You Can Do This - a new place where you can get support during your coding journey (1 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-can-do-this
This week’s quote: “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” — Alan Turing
The React Handbook - a massive free guide to building web applications with ReactJS (116 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-react-handbook-b71c27b0a795
How to build your own Tetris game using Python and Pygame (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/tetris-python-tutorial-pygame
The story of how Christina went from stay-at-home mother of 3 kids to working full time from home as a JavaScript developer (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/244230
Learn MongoDB - the popular NoSQL database - by building a Node.js CRUD app from scratch (75 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mongodb-crud-app
Over the winter holiday, Angela challenged herself to build one coding project each day for 20 days. Her resulting apps are fun and elegant. (6 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/5cd4c9383f84
Learn React.js with this free 5 hour course for beginners. You’ll learn about styling components, conditional rendering, state management, and more (5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/jiLKNpplm
Introducing Programmer Playing Cards - learn about programmer history while you play classic card games like Poker, Blackjack, and Solitaire (4 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d3eeeffe9a11
Here are the results of the freeCodeCamp 2018 New Coder Survey. 31,000 respondents told us about how they’re learning to code and getting their first developer jobs (6 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/e10feb9ed419
Learn how to build your own Android app. This free course will show you how to use Android Studio, Firebase, Java, and more to build your own clone of WhatsApp messenger (5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/ksLpiub87
How Phoebe went from stay-at-home mom to working as a front end web developer in less than a year by studying freeCodeCamp (8 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/39724046692a
Learn JavaScript - our free 134-part video course for beginners (3.5 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/j4Va5cR1p
Learn penetration testing, from beginner to advanced. We cover Ethical Hacking concepts like CSRF, XSS, Brute Force Attacks, SQL Injection, and more in this free video course (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/pena5cR1p
Amazingly, 1 out of every 200 developers is completely blind. Here’s how freeCodeCamp is helping teach even more blind people how to code (4 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/c47c68d4a237
Even in an active war zones in Afghanistan, thousands of people are coming together to learn to code and expand their careers using freeCodeCamp (4 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d553719579e
Here are 670 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in December (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a90149ac6de4
Learn back-end development with this free Node.js for Beginners course (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/9LMjG46Rf
The All Powerful Front End Developer - a jam-packed tech talk from CodePen founder Chris Coyer (30 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/i9ZVp2312
How to build your own Tetris game using Python and Pygame - a full free video course with example code (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/t3tR1spY6
Laura helped build a popular mobile app for learning to code called Grasshopper. She talks about how she used data to make tough design decisions - all while pregnant with her first baby. (11 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/3f8fc96acff7
Colin was stuck in a tiny, noisy apartment in Tokyo with an irrelevant college degree. He learned to code, hustled for internships, and now he works as a developer at a top tech company. This is his story. (23 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d1fcf52c0650
How to code your own Mario-style platformer video game in JavaScript - a full free video course with code examples (3 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/m1JO9zlF4
People have now spent more than 1 billion minutes using freeCodeCamp - the equivalent of 2,000 years. Here’s how our tiny nonprofit is helping millions of people around the world learn to code for free at scale (12 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/9c2ee9f8102c
How to understand CSS Position Absolute once and for all (3 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/b71ca10cd3fd
What programmers actually do - explained by an engineer at Airbnb (5 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/m1JO9qazx
How four strangers built a live game show app in a single weekend and got first place at the freeCodeCamp JAMstack Hackathon (8 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/f8c1fec4f55b
The 2018 State of JavaScript survey asked 20,000 developers about which tools they use and why. Here are the results (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/8322bcc51bd8
Here are the winners of the 2018 freeCodeCamp JAMstack Hackathon at GitHub, and demos of the winning projects (7 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/2a39bd1db878
An Airbnb software engineer talks about 7 habits she has observed that most successful engineers have in common (9 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/ms9fp28jf
An introduction to Git Merge and Git Rebase: what they do and when to use them (6 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/131b863785f
Young left his job at a Los Angeles pharmacy, coded for 8-months, and got a job as a professional developer. This is his journey from anxiety to triumph (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/240212
A free 6-hour video course on Angular - everything you need to start building Angular web apps (6 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/OHbjepWjQ
Deep Learning without frameworks - how neural networks actually work at a basic level (75 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/d3epL34rn
Before Jim got his first developer job, he was a 30-year-old college dropout working as a personal fitness trainer. Jim shares his 2-year quest to learn coding, and lessons from his job search (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/239871
How not to be afraid of Git anymore - understanding the machinery to whittle away the uncertainty (9 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/fe1da7415286
How to beat procrastination by “eating frogs” (15 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/543b07ecf360
The Complete JavaScript Handbook (91 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/f26b2c71719c
A software Engineering Survival Guide - resources that will help you at the beginning of your career (11 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/fe3eafb47166
How to build your own classic 1970s Simon flashing light game using JavaScript (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/s1M0ntu70
A quick introduction to computer networks (8 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/n3tW0rk88
Podcast #51: Erica Peterson founded Moms Can Code to help mothers learn to code so they can embark on new careers. She has a ton of helpful advice. (70 minute listen in your Apple Podcasts app, or right here in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/jdigPOM2d
What is a quantum computer? Here’s how quantum bits called “qubits” work, and why they’re so useful (8 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/b8f602035365
How a teacher got his first developer job at age 40 after 10 months of coding in his free time (11 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/b8895e855a8b
How to build your first website - a full video course on basic HTML and CSS (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/sleibh3W
Anissa shows you how to use Kanban Board tools like Trello and GitHub Projects to plan out your coding projects (12 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/k4NbAnb04
These tools will help you write clean code: a look at Prettier, ESLint, Husky, Lint-Staged and EditorConfig (13 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/da4b5401f68e
How to earn your free Hacktoberfest 2018 t-shirt — even if you’re new to coding (5 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/FDoftlSup
How to write a killer Software Engineering résumé - an in-depth analysis of the résumé that helped a recent college graduate get interviews at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple - and a job at Tesla (15 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/b11c91ef699d
The History of JavaScript - a timeline of the programming language’s evolution over the past 20 years (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/39ut308ZX
An Intro to GameDev: how to build your first video game - right in your browser - using plain JavaScript (75 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/pqogm3nsF
Want to learn AngularJS? Here’s a free 33-part AngularJS course with fully interactive code examples (15 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/fc2ff27ab451
How to use JavaScript classes - a one-hour introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/9klmNCA23
Johann was a professional dog-walker - even during Chicago’s brutal winters. Here’s how he taught himself to code, moved to Los Angeles, and got a job as a React Native developer, and his advice for other people who want to do the same (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/220874
How to build your own GraphQL server - an intermediate course that will also teach you Typescript, PostgreSQL, and Redis (8 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/lmMiLZ23f
190 universities around the world just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/3d9ad7895f57
Podcast #50: I interview Sacha Greif, a designer, developer, and prolific open source project creator. We talk about his journey from designing website themes to building his own JavaScript framework, and his life in Japan (94 minute listen in your Apple Podcasts app, or right here in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/bsFzUUaba
Math for Programmers - a free course that will teach you some math and logic principles, and help you improve your coding (1 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/09iy8H6lC
How a former tech recruiter used freeCodeCamp.org - and his own knowledge of the hiring process - to land his first developer job in London (6 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/223385
Here are 660 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in October (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/99725c056812
Why you learn the most when you feel like you’re struggling as a developer (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/7513327c8ee4
Podcast #49: Lyle Troxell is a senior software engineer at Netflix. But he spent his 20s and 30s as a teacher and radio show host. I interview Lyle about his coding journey and the story behind him building Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s personal website. (94 minute listen in your Apple Podcasts app, or right here in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/TBDUnq5n2
This free full-length HTML5 Basics course will help you learn how to build your own website (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/j49MHj8uK
How Candice taught herself to code using freeCodeCamp and became a developer at Microsoft (8 minute read): https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/228646
Introducing Code Radio: jazzy beats you can listen to while you code (24/7 music live stream): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/OZ9MIh9Kr
How to understand any programming task (12 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/q3cxvAP77
Podcast #48: I interview Ali Spittel. She’s a developer, artist, and the creator of the Zen of Programming. We talk about how she learned to code, and how her passion for political journalism lead to her working in data visualization (56 minute listen in your Apple Podcasts app, or right here in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/krk00lk24
How computers work and how the internet works - all explained as simply as possible (25 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/94i0Frgd4
Focus and Deep Work - your secret weapons for becoming a 10X developer (9 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/mK4L0lP32
A full-length course on MongoDB that also teaches you some Node.js, Express.js, and Mongoose (75 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/ec8iI9oO9
“Alexa, start the freeCodeCamp Quiz.” We just released an Alexa app so you can learn programming concepts on your Amazon Echo (3 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/p0piI9oO9
Podcast #47: I interview Laurence Bradford. She’s the creator of the Learn To Code With Me podcast and a technology writer at Forbes. We talk about how she taught herself coding and got her first freelance clients. (75 minute listen in your Apple Podcasts app, or right here in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/mku00lP20
The Node.js handbook - a free full-length book about back end JavaScript (95 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/rSaL0lP34
How to use psychology to design fantastic user experiences (50 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/kd948glYU
Eva shares her story of working at McDonalds for 22 months while teaching herself to code. She just got her first front end developer job and tripled her salary (3 minute read): https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/223622
The fearless interview: how to win your coding interview and get a developer job (47 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/9kN7Oks
Podcast #46: I interviewed Alexander Kallaway, the creator of the 100 Days Of Code Challenge. We talked about how he and his wife moved from Russia to Toronto, how he used freeCodeCamp to study for his first developer job, and how he helps thousands of people stay motivated while they do the same. (1 hour listen in your Apple Podcasts app, or right here in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/bkuL0lP20
freeCodeCamp’s full course on algorithms and data structures, designed with beginners in mind (2 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/EWd2k87
How Jordan went from enlisted Air Force to full-time software engineer at Twitter - and what he learned along the way (10 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/7906bfc10984
Here are 640 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in September (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/f0bd3a184625
GitHub basics tutorial: Tiffany’s guide to GitHub commits, branches, and pull requests (31 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/7mdMGAPL
Podcast #45: I interview Dylan Israel, a college drop-out turned software engineer. Dylan is a prolific YouTuber and course creator. We talk about how he recently secured 4 different job offers and used them to get a 40% raise at his current job. (25 minute listen in your Apple Podcasts app, or right here in your browser): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/bkuy9lG20
A beginner’s guide to SQL and databases - a full course for beginners (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/FLkLcFzA
Contributing to open source isn’t that hard: Jennifer’s journey toward contributing code to the Node.js open source project (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d10760e31194
The 50 best free online university courses of all time, according to the data (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/e67d0da38e95
How to create a portfolio website (40 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/NJvAzCG2
freeCodeCamp is hosting a hackathon at GitHub’s headquarters in San Francisco - and an online hackathon, too - on October 27-28. Here’s how you can get tickets (3 minute read): https://hackathon.freecodecamp.org
This quick introduction to web security will teach you about CORS, CSP, and other web security concepts (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/bkuy9lG10
We threw a big party in New York City for freeCodeCamp’s top open source contributors. Here are the highlights and interviews from the event (57 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/akuy9lG10
Big O Notation explained simply, using some illustrations and a video (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/ckuy9lG10
How to build a chat room app using React - a full JavaScript course (94 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/dkuy9lG10
In this week’s podcast, I interview John Sonmez, founder of Simple Programmer. He’s a prolific author and course creator. We talk about how to stay motivated while learning to program (32 minute listen in your Apple Podcasts app, or right here in your browser): https://podcast.freecodecamp.org
3 simple rules that will help you become a Git master (7 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/pkuy9lG19
Web design basics for non-designers (10 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/rkuy9lG19
Learn Python basics with this in-depth video course (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/z5uy9lG19
How you can build a memory matching game in pure JavaScript (34 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/zkuy9lG19
How you can style your terminal to look like Medium, freeCodeCamp, or any way you want (8 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/qkuy9lG19
freeCodeCamp’s new coding curriculum is live - with 1,400 coding lessons and 6 developer certifications you can earn (3 minute read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/lLe9TtWfj
Here are 500 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in August (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/bc1bcac1af5e
What I learned after 100 solid days of coding every day (13 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/z5uU9lG_9
How to code the classic game Snake and play it in your browser, using functional JavaScript - a full tutorial with code examples (93 minute watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/n/6iEy3BKxQ
Mistakes I’ve made as a junior developer - and how you can avoid them (10 minute listen in Apple Podcasts or right here in your browser): https://podcast.freecodecamp.org
How to build your own 8-Ball Pool game from scratch using JavaScript and HTML5 - a comprehensive video tutorial (1 hour watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwCrtAo4Wc
JavaScript symbols, iterators, generators, async/await, and async iterators — all explained simply (14 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/4003d7bbed32
How to use JavaScript Regular Expressions to rapidly search through text (12 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/48b46a68df29
How to code your own YouTube app: a full YouTube API tutorial with code examples (1 hour watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sWEecNUW-o
Craigslist, Wikipedia, Lichess, and beyond - my personal journey into the Abundance Economy, where developers build software designed to be free for as many people as possible (13 minute listen - you can listen in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or right here in your browser): https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com
How a 33-year-old museum tour guide became a professional web developer - her 18 month coding journey (10 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/2902d074f5ba
Here are 530 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in May (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/5e82f5307867
How to make a super simple website. Alice walks you through the fundamentals of HTML (33 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlxWf493en4
Demystifying JavaScript’s “new” keyword (6 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/874df126184c
How to land a six figure job in tech with no connections. Advice from a biology major who got job offers from Google and Twitter (60 minute listen - you can listen in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or right here in your browser): https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com
One freeCodeCamp contributor turned his website into a Progressive Web App, then published it in 3 app stores. Here’s what he learned along the way (14 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/7cb3f56daf9b
Cracking the system design interview: developer job interview tips from a software engineer at Twitter (9 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/dda63ed27e26
How web tracking works: a developer’s guide to tracking tools and your privacy online (6 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/42935355525
Let’s learn D3.js: a full video course on the popular JavaScript data visualization library (27 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4t6qfHZ6Tw
Hackers stole a tech entrepreneur’s website from her. Here’s the dramatic story of how she pulled off a sting operation to get it back (16 minute listen - you can listen in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or right here in your browser): https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com
What exactly is Node.js? Here’s a clear explanation of the tool that Netflix, Uber, and LinkedIn use to handle millions of users at the same time (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/ae36e97449f5
“Everyone’s journey is different, and every one of us has our own battles to fight in the background.” Sibylle shares how she completed the 100 Days of Code challenge by finding 30 minutes to code each day (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d7c6dca80f09
This new 24-part JavaScript course by freeCodeCamp grad Dylan Israel is a solid way to learn the basics (8 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/e7777baf86fb
How to add ESLint to your Node.js project and find errors automatically (9 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhuFviJn-es
On this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Software Engineer Jane Phillips shares tactics for succeeding at take-home coding challenges - one of the most common types of developer job interview (28 minute listen - you can listen in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or right here in your browser): https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com/
Learn React.js in 5 minutes - a quick introduction to the popular JavaScript library (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/526472d292f4
How to organize your thoughts on the whiteboard and crush your technical interview (8 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/b668de4e6941
Learn HTML5 - a full video course (53 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPnqb74Smug
How to escape async/await hell (4 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/c77a0fb71c4c
After a year of coding and scraping data, one freeCodeCamp contributor finally launched his leaderboard of the top Medium stories of all time. Then a last minute change threatened to kill his app. (8 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/e07a32cf5255
Here’s every new feature added to JavaScript over the past three years with examples (16 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d52fa3b5a70e
How one freeCodeCamp camper went from being a coding newbie to a software engineer with a six-figure salary in just 9 months - all while working full time (19 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/460bd8485847
Here are 470 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in April (browsable list): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/433e50dfdc57
An easy way to improve your designs: use Google Font “Superfamilies” for multiple visually similar fonts (5 minute read): https://medium.freecodecamp.org/1dae04b2fc50
Alexa Development 101: here’s a full Amazon Echo course in a single video (70 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SXCHvxRSNE
Here’s a free 10-part course on Bootstrap 4.0 to help you learn responsive web design (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2I3p2J1
A major open source project called DevDocs just donated itself - and all of its code - to the freeCodeCamp.org community (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2umK6In
Did you know that Google has its own JavaScript style guide? It lays out best practices for writing clean, understandable code. Here are some of the highlights (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2GtBwN3
Bonus: Remi is a musician in Berlin, and yesterday he got his first developer job. In this forum post, he talks about his transition: “I can say that Freecodecamp works. I went from basic programming knowledge to landing a job in a specialized framework in a matter of months, without paying anything, going to university, or getting any “official” certificate.” (2 minute read): https://fcc.im/2E3EZwm
How to write a great developer résumé and showcase your software engineer skills (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2psxiLN
Learn Bootstrap 4.0 in 5 minutes: get to know the newest version of the worlds most popular front-end component library (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2p9xAqF
Why software engineers disagree about everything (40 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fVdg3EEbi4
Bonus: Jordan was a junior enlisted in the US Air Force. He knew nothing about coding. Here’s how he taught himself to code, built his network in San Francisco, and landed a prestigious developer internship at Twitter (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2G4LTql
Stack Overflow just released the results of their 2018 survey - and more than 100,000 developers responded. I’ve compiled the most interesting results right here for your convenience (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2FY23li
After teaching herself to code, Maria wanted a new challenge. So she redesigned Tumblr (13 minute read): https://fcc.im/2FCCd65
Here are 620 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in March (browsable list): https://fcc.im/2p07R44
Bonus: On this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, we explain exactly what an API is - in plain English (9 minute listen - you can listen in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or right here in your browser): https://fcc.im/2HEmAsn
How to make your website lightning fast (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2oU8Pi3
How Vince transitioned from a graphic designer to a front-end developer in just 5 months (9 minute read): https://fcc.im/2oWCYws
How ancient mathematics can enrich your design skills (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2oUF1Ss
Bonus: We just launched freeCodeCamp Radio - our community’s new 24/7 live stream with music you can code to (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2Fi7dZW
An 8-minute guide to GitHub and how developers use it to share code (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2oBIFjg
How Zhia Hwa landed offers for developer jobs from Microsoft, Amazon, and Twitter - all without an Ivy League degree - just a ton of hard work (18 minute read): https://fcc.im/2F9ZQCS
How Rodney made $200,000 when he was just 16 years old by programming tools for a video game (9 minute read): https://fcc.im/2F26LyU
Bonus: Jane created this comprehensive guide to take-home coding challenges, one of the most common formats for developer job interviews (21 minute read): https://fcc.im/2t5215F
Tools I wish I had known about when I started coding (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2ooWcdJ
How I applied lessons learned from a failed technical interview to get 5 job offers (18 minute read): https://fcc.im/2BHKOlx
The best free online courses of 2017 according to the data (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2omh2ug
Bonus: An introduction to web scraping using Node.js. Learn how to get data from any website - no API necessary. You can watch this free in-depth video tutorial and code along (27 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUYMiztBEdY
CSS finally supports variables. Here’s everything you need to know about CSS variables, including three example apps you can build to better understand them (22 minute read): https://fcc.im/2o8NbFN
How to add HTTPS to your website for free in 12 minutes, and why you need to do this now more than ever (12 minute read): https://fcc.im/2BuqC6O
Scrum explained in 16 minutes - a look at how developers use the popular Scrum agile methodology to write better software, and faster too (16 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBFzAdaHDY
Bonus: Many of you have written me asking for an archive of these “three links” emails I send each Thursday. So I compiled one. And I also share the story behind these emails, and why I decided to use this simple no-nonsense format (browsable list): https://fcc.im/2GhEyjM
Here are 330 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free (browseable list): https://fcc.im/2C6En8m
3 years ago I was just a 30-something teacher coding in his closet. But yesterday, the IRS granted freeCodeCamp Tax Exempt status. And freeCodeCamp is now a public charity. As a result, every donation you’ve ever made to freeCodeCamp is now tax deductible. Here’s what all this means for you and for the global freeCodeCamp community (3 minute read): https://fcc.im/2BjNVjJ
If you’re considering freelancing or creating a startup, this is a must-watch. My friend Luke Ciciliano — who does freelance web development for law firms — will walk you through the best way to set up your US business for tax purposes (21 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtIB_3_DZUk
Bonus: Elvis was “just a village boy from Nigeria who had nothing but a dream and a Nokia J2ME feature phone.” Today, he’s a 19 year old Android developer who has worked on over 50 apps and currently works for an MIT startup. On this week’s episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, I tell his inspiring story of how he built apps using nothing more than his feature phone (15 minute listen): https://fcc.im/2EdyvMb
Learn how you can code your own chat room app using React, Redux, Redux-Saga, and Web Sockets in this free in-depth YouTube tutorial (85 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_fHXt9V3zQ
How to manage your taxes as a freelance developer or startup (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2BKOYp4
Want to build apps using blockchain and smart contracts? This in-depth guide will help you get started (21 minute read): https://fcc.im/2nuzrFZ
Bonus: Here are 440 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in February (browsable list): https://fcc.im/2DR0rVY
My friend just launched a free full-length CSS Flexbox course where you can build responsive websites interactively in your browser (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2E5INyK
A 5-minute intro to Color Theory: how to combine colors and set the mood of your designs (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2nasXe6
How you can build your own VR headset for $100 (3 minute read): https://fcc.im/2ncIiuC
Bonus: 5 years ago, Ken was a college dropout who woke up every day at 4 a.m. to drive a forklift. He taught himself to code and kick-started his career by convincing a local web development company to hire him. In this week’s episode of The freeCodeCamp Podcast, Ken shares his advice on how to go from a hobbyist to a professional developer (15 minute listen, also on iTunes and Google Play): https://fcc.im/2FfGpoH
These CSS naming tips will save you hours of debugging (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2mNUFNw
CSS Flexbox basics explained in just 5 minutes (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2FR1DtW
We just published a free video course on how to build your own iOS flashcard app using React Native, from setup to animations. All four videos are now live on freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel (4 hour watch in total): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b6F0KiFpG8
Bonus: How not to bomb your job offer negotiation: part two of Haseeb Qureshi’s tips that helped him negotiate a $250,000 starting package when he got his first developer job at Airbnb. This episode of The freeCodeCamp Podcast can help you increase your starting salary by thousands of dollars (34 minute listen, also on iTunes and Google Play): https://fcc.im/2rk69Ow
Here are some stories from 300 developers who got their first tech job in their 30s, 40s, and 50s (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2miUtWv
HTTPS explained with carrier pigeons (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2D0Infc
How we recreated Amazon Go in 36 hours (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2qUlgOv
Bonus: If you’re actively looking for a developer job in the new year, this is a must-listen. Hasseeb Qureshi is famous for negotiating a $250,000 starting compensation package when he accepted his first developer job at Airbnb in San Francisco. In this new episode of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, Hasseeb shares negotiation tips you can use to increase your starting salary by thousands — and in some cases — tens of thousands of dollars (27 minute listen, also on iTunes and Google Play): https://fcc.im/2D3sANt
Some lessons I learned from 7 self-taught coders who now work as professional software developers (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2CF6S2a
Don’t do it at runtime. Do it at design time (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2CRUpVE
Next Level Accessibility: 5 ways Scott made the freeCodeCamp Guide more usable for people with disabilities (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2EPTeqk
Bonus: Here are 600 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in January (browsable list): https://fcc.im/2CztEbq
The unlikely history of the 100 Days Of Code Challenge, and why you should try it for 2018 (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2lmVXhR
CSS Grid is an exciting new way to build responsive websites. And a freeCodeCamp contributor just released a full CSS Grid course for free (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2E6oT6i
How exactly does Bitcoin work? This camper built an interactive web app to show you (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2C47zl3
Bonus: How I built and launched a chatbot over the weekend (10 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IUgB5-CKDQ
This is the story of a high school kid in Nigeria named Elvis who coded and launched two popular apps using nothing more than his Nokia feature phone. He eventually earned enough money from freelancing to buy a proper laptop, and now he works for an MIT-based startup (10 minute read): https://fcc.im/2Bwp50Y
Sacha just asked 23,000 developers what they think of JavaScript. Here are the results of his 2017 State of JavaScript Survey (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2BtKuYI
Here are 5 helpful GitHub tips for new coders (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2kzNAQp
Bonus: I just published episode 11 of The freeCodeCamp Podcast: “Programming is hard. That’s precisely why you should learn it.” Listen to it in iTunes or Google Play, or right here in your browser (11 minute listen): https://fcc.im/2k9zLuH
This is the best article I’ve ever read on Bitcoin technology and the engineering challenges it faces (17 minute read): https://fcc.im/2Cjax1A
How to make your HTML responsive by adding a single line of CSS (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2ktADqP
Briana’s back with her new in-depth video: how to use Bash and the command line in Mac, Windows 10, and Linux (33 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFMyUgF6I8Y
Bonus: I just published episode 10 of The freeCodeCamp Podcast and it’s gut-wrenching: “We fired our top developer talent. Best decision we ever made.” Listen to it in iTunes or Google Play, or right here in your browser (10 minute listen): https://fcc.im/2k9zLuH
How did I land my first job as a self-taught developer? I prepared like crazy (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2iDU67l
The definitive JavaScript handbook for your next developer interview (14 minute read): https://fcc.im/2jwgTmL
Here are 450 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in December (browsable list): https://fcc.im/2A1x6Gs
Bonus: Learn how to build an API using Node.js with this free in-depth YouTube tutorial (33 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsCjFHuMXj0
Learn CSS Grid in 5 minutes: a quick introduction to the future of website layouts (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2AjmK89
How I built the Airbnb of music studios in a single evening: the story of Studiotime (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2BAxZY0
Regular Expressions Demystified: RegEx isn’t as hard as it looks (21 minute read): https://fcc.im/2AlB8KU
Bonus: I just published Episode #8 of The freeCodeCamp Podcast: “What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp.” You can subscribe to The freeCodeCamp Podcast in iTunes or Google Play, or just listen to all the episodes in your browser here (10 minute listen): https://fcc.im/2k9zLuH
The freeCodeCamp Toronto team hosted the first freeCodeCamp conference. More than a hundred campers attended this free event, including myself. And we live-streamed it to the global community. Here’s the opening talk I gave (24 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si1pjn5R0xU&t=1540s
This tool makes learning algorithms and data structures way more fun (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2A1FG99
Andy just got a developer job at Facebook. Here’s how he prepared for on-site interviews at seven Silicon Valley companies, and what he learned from them (9 minute read): https://fcc.im/2A26WV1
Bonus: The newest episode of The freeCodeCamp Podcast explores developer ethics, and what happens when your code can kill people (10 minute listen): https://fcc.im/2mRhgwd
I just published the first 6 episodes of the new freeCodeCamp Podcast all at once. You can binge-listen to them now, or subscribe and listen to them at your convenience. We’ll publish new episodes every Monday. Here’s the full episode list, with links to listen for free (3 minute read): https://fcc.im/2ioiZEw
Everything you should know about React: the basics you need to start building (10 minute read): https://fcc.im/2zHmsb6
Hard coding concepts explained with simple real-life analogies: how to explain coding concepts like streams, promises, linting, and declarative programming to a 5-year-old (15 minute read): https://fcc.im/2mvDGml
Bonus: The Reusable JavaScript Revolution — our newest freeCodeCamp Talk (42 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNClb7HEqeI
I’m thrilled to announce a new YouTube channel called freeCodeCamp Talks. Here’s how you can watch the best tech talks for free (3 minute read): https://fcc.im/2hRbfL8
Everything you need to know about Tree Data Structures (16 minute read): https://fcc.im/2zuuvYu
Here are 430 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in November (browsable list): https://fcc.im/2m8TYkT
Bonus: Check out one of the talks from the new freeCodeCamp Talks YouTube channel: “SVG can do that?!” by Sarah Drasner. If you don’t have time to watch it now, just subscribe and you can watch it at your convenience (38 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLgb3CVVTRw
How one developer hacked Google’s bug tracking system and made $15,600 in bounties in the process (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2gTA3Rq
What’s the difference between JavaScript and ECMAScript? (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2zaxaq1
How to become a better Stack Overflow user in five simple steps (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2huUkxA
Bonus: If you have Instagram on your phone, follow the freeCodeCamp community there. We post fun photos from campers around the world: https://fcc.im/2heLvrz
200 universities around the world just launched 560 free online courses. Here’s the full list, sorted by category: https://fcc.im/2gJktf8
Remember the $86 million license plate scanner that an Australian developer replicated in just 57 lines of code? Well, he built a prototype just to prove to skeptics that it worked. And he immediately caught someone who was driving on a cancelled registration (11 minute read): https://fcc.im/2y4j4qI
freeCodeCamp just published a massive free guide to Bootstrap 4. It dives deep into responsive web design (67 minute read): https://fcc.im/2laYcIf
Bonus: Here’s a free 73-page eBook on how to establish your career in web development. It features interviews with me, Wes Bos, and a bunch of other developers — all sharing lessons we’ve learned along our coding journey: https://fcc.im/2i5NNJp
How I would explain a decade of progress in web development to a time traveler from 2007 (10 minute read): https://fcc.im/2gD4uPI
Bootstrap 4: Everything You Need to Know. This is a free book-length deep dive using Bootstrap 4 to solve some common responsive web design problems (66 minute read): https://fcc.im/2laYcIf
How Emily fought through anxiety and depression to finish freeCodeCamp’s front end development certificate (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2yIP7tC
Bonus: I just got my free Hacktoberfest shirt. Here’s a quick way you can get yours (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2hZSuEz
How to think like a programmer — a step-by-step guide to approaching projects and coding challenges (9 minute read): https://fcc.im/2kKi8RZ
How to make money as a freelance developer — business tips from my friend Luke Ciciliano, who does freelance web development for law firms (35 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTzLgra5dQ
Here are 500 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in October (1 to 30 minutes to browse): https://fcc.im/2yjrWYG
Bonus: How a 33 year old father in Brazil spent a year learning to code through freeCodeCamp, then got his first Front End Developer job (2 minute read): https://fcc.im/2yfD1Yt
How Alvaro went from selling food in the street to coding software at Apple and other top tech companies (13 minute read): https://fcc.im/2fRSzwM
One year ago, Billy wanted to hang out and code with other people in Sacramento. Today, he leads one of the most active freeCodeCamp study groups in the US. Here’s how brought together campers in his community (10 minute read): https://fcc.im/2yZZoRS
After dropping out of grad school and working as a nanny, Lupe learned to code with freeCodeCamp and just accepted her first developer job offer. Here’s how she built her portfolio, prepared for interviews, and negotiated her salary (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2kol2f6
Bonus: We just published this full YouTube tutorial on how to build and deploy your own website for free using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and newer tools like Hugo and Netlify CMS (30 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSts93C9UeE
Facebook just changed the open source license on React. Here’s my 2-minute explanation why they did this (2 minute read): https://fcc.im/2fB2lDE
Yang Shun Tay wrote an in-depth guide to rocking your next coding interview. You can read this now or bookmark it for next time you’re looking for a job. (28 minute read): https://fcc.im/2wZ9dgm
freeCodeCamp contributor Ethan Arrowood live-streamed this introduction to React from his university auditorium (46 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rIP81hjs2U
Bonus: Beau Carnes just published a step-by-step tutorial on how to code Conway’s Game of Life — one of the most common programming homework assignments in history (55 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM0_Er3SvFQ
I just announced a new way to learn coding tools and concepts right when you need them. Introducing the freeCodeCamp Guide (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2xuMTNM
Amir had a clear path toward a finance job on Wall Street. But instead, he decided to learn to code. And he never looked back (9 minute read): https://fcc.im/2xWU2Jy
Preethi answers one of the most common questions people ask her as a software engineer: What programming language should you learn first? (12 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqiEhZYmvKk
Bonus: This quick tutorial on how to code virtual reality apps using a JavaScript tool called WebVR (10 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEfT9YjLcU
The Equifax hack was the worst data breach in history. Here’s my quick summary of what went wrong, and some tips for protecting your family from identity thieves (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2f0Ig5u
The engineer’s guide to not making your app look awful (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2vYXgYy
Our nonprofit needed a cheaper way to send email blasts. So we engineered one. Introducing freeCodeCamp’s Mail for Good (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2yc3vtG
Bonus: Here’s a step-by-step tutorial for building a Tic Tac Toe game with an unbeatable AI, using JavaScript and the Minimax Algorithm (51 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2TcQ3h0ipQ
Here’s how Blockchain works, explained interactively in your browser (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2xdnU4j
Stacy wanted to get real time push notifications from her GitHub projects. Here’s how she used open APIs and built her own Chrome extension for this (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2xd7atR
Here are 450 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in September (browsable list): https://fcc.im/2wMcb9I
Bonus: Watch an experienced developer build a full stack web app using Vue.js and Express.js. He explains every step in detail (56 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4cRMaTDUI
Australian police spent $86 million on software to help them catch car thieves. Here’s how a single developer replicated that system, using just 57 lines of code (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2iJWWuE
The anatomy of a Bootstrap dashboard theme that earns thousands of dollars each month for its designers (13 minute read): https://fcc.im/2wpIFX2
A beginner-friendly guide to building a chatbot, with code and a live demo (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2vLr5el
Bonus: A data scientist switched from Windows to Linux and wrote about the lessons he learned along the way (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2eHGZRk
How a self-taught teenager built an operating system that runs in your browser (10 minute read): https://fcc.im/2g8Flvf
How Recursion Works — explained with flowcharts and a video (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2w7iYdL
All the fundamental React.js concepts, jammed into a single Medium article (16 minute read): https://fcc.im/2vrZBdy
Bonus: Jon got a developer job less than a year after he started coding. Here’s how he leveraged the freeCodeCamp community and made the jump (2 minute read): https://fcc.im/2wJ15V9
One developer tracked startup hiring trends for years. Here’s his latest analysis of the skills that YCombinator startups are looking for when they hire developers (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2wjp0tL
Vim isn’t that scary. Here are 5 free resources you can use to learn it (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2vMzWha
Preethi left a dream job as a venture capitalist to learn to code and work as a developer. Today on her “Ask Preethi” YouTube series, she answers the question: “After you complete coding tutorials, how do you take what you’ve learned and build something real?” (13 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxfJ7xw5hQE
Bonus: How Anthony — a freeCodeCamp camper who recently moved to the US from Peru — overcame anxiety and landed his first developer job (2 minute read): https://fcc.im/2v58PvU
Joe and Rachel teamed up to make their first open source code contribution — less than a year after they started learning to code. Here’s what they learned from the experience, and what you can too (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2uvePCX
Why striving for perfection might be holding you back as a developer (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2vVuqvN
freeCodeCamp contributor Beau Carnes just published a series of YouTube videos to help you learn jQuery in a fast, clear way (4 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhtEmR2A1Fw&list=PLWKjhJtqVAbkyK9woUZUtunToLtNGoQHB
Bonus: How Kate went from no degree and no experience to landing her first developer job in less than a year (3 minute read): https://fcc.im/2wOX527
Here are 450 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in August (browsable list): https://fcc.im/2unPHZJ
An MIT-trained software engineer-turned-recruiter talks about how to interview your interviewers when applying for a developer job (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2u4nvfb
Cody shows you how to solve Reddit’s “Talking Clock” problem step-by-step on a whiteboard, then code a solution in JavaScript (15 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPahhyYEIk
Bonus: How freeCodeCamp helped Adham beat depression and get his dream job (10 minute read): https://fcc.im/2vw6ZJc
How to choose the right laptop for programming (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2h4hTzp
The story behind hundreds of strangers who coded together on freeCodeCamp at Google I/O Sri Lanka (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2h3OqG3
Professional web developer Jesse Weigel is building a modern React app from start to finish, live on freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel. So far he’s 6 days into the project (12 hour watch so far — you can skip around): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUPBEpfBEXo&index=1&list=PLWKjhJtqVAbkxYR9ly9ksx8UYyCpBRmMc
Bonus: Matt spent 2 years going through freeCodeCamp part time. He just got a job as a software engineer, and he has tons of advice for the job search. He says: “You either win, or you learn. The only way to lose is to quit.” (20 minute read): https://fcc.im/2uZnsVA
1,000 days ago I launched freeCodeCamp from a desk in my closet. Today, more than a million people are learning to code through our community. Here’s what you can expect from the next thousand days (2 minute read): https://fcc.im/2tL5mFH
Suz live-streamed herself coding on Twitch.tv for a year. Here’s what she learned from the experience (11 minute read): https://fcc.im/2tOLcZC
Watch Cody break down a popular Reddit coding challenge step-by-step on a white board, then solve it using JavaScript (11 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK0o-8GMRss
Bonus: Jose was a college dropout, providing for his family by working as a security guard in Spain. Here’s his story of learning to code and getting hired as a back-end developer (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2sMW210
10 common data structures explained with videos and exercises (11 minute read): https://fcc.im/2tuhCZm
Software Engineer Preethi Kasireddy answers the question: Should you go back to school to get a Computer Science degree? (13 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TVYjjWkuOU
Here are 460 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in July (15 minute read): https://fcc.im/2uujt0r
Bonus: Pieter just got his first web developer job at a solar power company. He has been a regular in the freeCodeCamp community, helping teach other campers and answer their questions. He says that this old saying really is true: “To learn, read. To know, write. To master, teach.” (2 minute read): https://fcc.im/2sQM0Lu
Aline is an MIT-trained software engineer turned recruiter. She analyzed thousands of coding interviews, and here’s what she found. (15 minute read): https://fcc.im/2u3g08J
Preethi left a dream job as a venture capitalist to learn to code and work as a developer. Now she’s launched a new YouTube series called “Ask Preethi” to help you through the hardest parts of your coding journey. (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2tqBONs
How one developer switched from coding on a laptop to coding on an iPad (14 minute read): https://fcc.im/2srdHu9
Bonus: The story of a freeCodeCamp camper who shared his personal projects on Reddit, got discovered by an employer, and ultimately got a full time developer job (3 minute read): https://fcc.im/2smiSjJ
How hackathons work, and why you should consider going to one (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2tkPM16
How two developers coded a JavaScript tool that can turn multiple phones and tablets into a single connected screen (10 minute read): https://fcc.im/2sYQHqQ
freeCodeCamp contributor James Rauhut got a software designer job at IBM. He filmed this fun day-in-the-life video (11 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXfYSn8qaUE
Bonus: One camper who just got a developer job offer says: “The one thing that most helped me become good at coding was helping others learn to code.” (1 minute read): https://fcc.im/2rG9vam
All the web developers at Grab — a big Asian ride sharing startup — use this front end development guide to keep their skills sharp. Even their back end developers use it. (23 minute read): https://fcc.im/2spxFsP
How we got 1,500 GitHub stars by mixing time-tested technology with a fresh UI (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2tw8zpk
The dark side of Apple’s $70 billion app store success (10 minute read): https://fcc.im/2twfT4m
Bonus: Aiden worked through freeCodeCamp’s certificates and was able to skip the junior developer role entirely by landing a mid-career developer job. Here’s his story (3 minute read): https://fcc.im/2syhE3V
Meeting for Good: how campers built an open source tool to solve time zones (4 minute read): https://fcc.im/2rOieYE
435 free online programming and computer science courses you can start in June (1 to 28 minute read): https://fcc.im/2sdMuyM
Going Serverless: how to run your first AWS Lambda function in the cloud (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2r3n5YW
Bonus: Sophanarith didn’t have a college degree, but 37 days after he finished freeCodeCamp, he got hired as a Front-end Web Developer. Here’s his story (1 minute read): https://fcc.im/2qYziKz
What I learned from coding for 100 days straight (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2rloKpL
The best Data Science courses on the internet, ranked by your reviews (12 minute read): https://fcc.im/2qCenMW
Google not, learn not: why searching can sometimes be better than knowing (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2qFUaKg
Bonus: How Danny got a React Developer job offer on day 97 of his 100 Days Of Code challenge (1 minute read): https://fcc.im/2roZIWO
How scientists used software to reconnect a paralyzed man’s hands to his brain (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2nBZfjK
How to set up a VPN in 10 minutes for free, and why you urgently need one (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/2nOaNAP
Recreating legendary 8-bit video game music using Tone.js and the web audio API (15 minute read): http://bit.ly/2nO2XYf
Bonus: I’m currently listening to “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions.” This book is a fascinating mash-up of technology and psychology (12 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2nNQ5Bl
How to go from hobbyist to professional developer (14 minute read): https://fcc.im/2r03UPp
Here’s how you can make a 360 virtual reality app in 10 minutes using Unity (7 minute read): https://fcc.im/2rxMCsG
What’s the difference between cookies, local storage, and session storage? (9 minute watch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwicscsvGLg
Bonus: How Elise learned to code while working full-time, and got her first full stack developer job — and the many things she learned along the way (2 minute read): https://fcc.im/2qhH0yQ
Here are all of the big announcements from the Google I/O developer conference yesterday, jammed into a single 11-minute video (11 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNLVZjBE08g
How we taught dozens of refugees to code, then helped them get developer jobs (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2rnAAhK
The only person you should compare yourself to is yourself (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2q0mbqQ
Bonus: I’m reading “The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World.” It’s a hard-hitting history of these two tech startups and the industries they’re disrupting (10 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2qtPoht
The 12 YouTube videos that new developers mention the most (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2poH7MP
Programming is hard. That’s precisely why you should learn it (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2qiUazp
Why I left a prestigious law firm to learn to code and become a product manager at a startup (5 minute read): https://fcc.im/2qWOkzR
Bonus: I’m currently listening to “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions.” This book is a fascinating mash-up of technology and psychology (12 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2nNQ5Bl
We asked 20,000 people who they are and how they’re learning to code. Here are the results of our 2017 New Coder Survey (6 minute read): https://fcc.im/2p1yWpv
How I went from zero to San Francisco software engineer in 12 months (8 minute read): https://fcc.im/2p32CxF
Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews (20 minute read): https://fcc.im/2pJRNT3
Bonus: All freeCodeCamp t-shirts and hoodies are now sold at-cost (without any profit margin - just the cost of production). If you haven’t gotten one yet, you can now get one inexpensively (1 minute read): https://fcc.im/2p9LVkd
Google just released a free course on how to build Progressive Web Apps (self-paced): https://fcc.im/2ppTsz9
Yesterday, America’s FCC announced a campaign to kill Net Neutrality. Hundreds of tech companies signed open letters urging the FCC to leave Net Neutrality alone. Here’s why Net Neutrality is so important (26 minute read): https://fcc.im/2qcdaPw
Real ways to improve your SEO without trying to cheat the system (15 minute read): https://fcc.im/2p50Yil
Bonus: A Carnegie Mellon researcher developed a way to automatically convert old 2D Nintendo games into 3D (16 minute watch): https://fcc.im/2oNcRWV
Facebook just announced they have a team of 60 engineers working on a way to literally read your mind. Their brain scanning technology would read patterns in your brain activity so it can listen for your mind’s inner voice. They claim this would help you type faster. While this could revolutionize user experience, it has terrifying privacy implications (5 minute read): http://tcrn.ch/2o80YyY
Google is planning a built-in ad-blocker for Chrome. This will get rid of most annoying ads, but it’s bad news for websites that depend on ads as their business model — including most newspapers (2 minute read): http://on.wsj.com/2o7ZHrI
Putting comments in code: the good, the bad, and the ugly (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/2ouGzQe
Bonus: freeCodeCamp has more than 1,800 study groups around the world. You can hang out with like-minded campers and learn to code together in-person. Find the study group nearest you seconds: https://www.freecodecamp.com/study-group-directory/
Some guy just built a Macintosh out of a few legos and a Raspberry Pi (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2nIIWDl
Our giant JavaScript Basics course is now live on YouTube (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/2oRqCIp
So what’s this GraphQL thing I keep hearing about? (12 minute read): http://bit.ly/2pqamdH
Bonus: A fast new way to find people in your city to code with (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2obtTO7
That time I had to crack my own Reddit password (11 minute read): http://bit.ly/2o1fkOw
What Reddit’s 1-million pixel April Fools experiment says about humanity (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/2p5uP7o
Which tech CEO would make the best supervillain? (8 minute read): http://bit.ly/2nOosVJ
Bonus: I learned a ton from Robert Scoble’s insightful new book: “The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything” (5 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2mKbbNW
How scientists used software to reconnect a paralyzed man’s hands to his brain (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2nBZfjK
How to set up a VPN in 10 minutes for free, and why you urgently need one (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/2nOaNAP
Recreating legendary 8-bit video game music using Tone.js and the web audio API (15 minute read): http://bit.ly/2nO2XYf
Bonus: I’m currently listening to “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions.” This book is a fascinating mash-up of technology and psychology (12 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2nNQ5Bl
What I learned from Stack Overflow’s massive survey of 64,000 developers (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2o8nfsn
Hackers stole my website. Then I pulled off a $30,000 sting operation to get it back (12 minute read): http://bit.ly/2mY3svt
How I got a second degree and earned 5 developer certifications in just one year, while working and raising two kids (8 minute read): http://bit.ly/2mw4X85
Bonus: I’m listening to Tim Wu’s new book: “The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.” Here’s a profound quote from his book: “Every time you find your attention captured by an advertisement, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.” (15 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2mYfeps
The future of the open internet — and our way of life — is in your hands (the basis of my SXSW talk — 24 minute read): http://bit.ly/2mNJ9S2
What the CIA WikiLeaks dump tells us: encryption really works (5 minute read): http://nyti.ms/2nwpWUS
Practical color theory for people who can code (15 minute interactive): http://bit.ly/2mz8OwK
Bonus: I’m listening to “Data and Goliath” by Bruce Schneier. He’s the world’s foremost expert on computer security. Here’s a profound quote from his book: “I used to joke that Google knew more about me than my wife did. But now I realize that Google knows more about me than I do.” (9 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2mjheuO
How building side projects can help you get a tech job — even without experience (7 minute read): http://bit.ly/2mKzRZv
The CIA just lost control of its hacking arsenal. Here’s what you need to know (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/2mGi71a
We’re building a massive public dataset about people who started coding in the past 5 years (2 minute read): http://bit.ly/2mKKGuv
Bonus: I’m listening to “Data and Goliath” by Bruce Schneier. He’s the world’s foremost expert on computer security. Here’s a profound quote from his book: “I used to joke that Google knew more about me than my wife did. But now I realize that Google knows more about me than I do.” (9 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2mjheuO
How you can start a career in a different field without “experience” — tips that got me job offers from Google and other tech giants (20 minute read): http://bit.ly/2lxgfTU
I wanted to see how far I could push myself creatively. So I redesigned Instagram. (13 minute read): http://bit.ly/2lxouPP
Why typography matters — especially at the Oscars (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2ldN79c
Bonus: I’m listening to Robert Scoble’s new book, and it’s awesome: “The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything” (5 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2mKbbNW
Using data science to find the saddest Radiohead song ever. Even though this analysis is done in the R language, it’s clearly described in plain English (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/2moTWki
How to design software with seniors in mind (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/2lznFIb
For the first time ever, you can get real-time US stock market data for free through IEX’s public API (2 minute read): http://bit.ly/2lzp3KC
Bonus: IEX is the focus of Michael Lewis’s book “Flashboys: A Wall Street Revolt” about how Wall Street is now dominated by software developers and algorithmic traders. If you’re interested in stocks, I highly recommend this book (10 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2jDwB02
How a single programmer changed the music industry (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2lP7iKf
I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you (7 minute read): http://bit.ly/2kPxOBI
An interview with the creator of Linux: “Successful projects are 99 percent perspiration, and one percent innovation” (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2llSIcL
Bonus: I highly recommend this eye-opening book by Bruce Schneier, the world’s most famous expert on computer security (11 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2lWNOPN
Here are 250 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free (12 minute read): http://bit.ly/2luQuVG
Meet Darth Pai, the Sith Lord who’s taken over the Federal Communication Commission (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/2k7KArB
A lot of websites now won’t even load on a slow connection (12 minute read): http://bit.ly/2ls8m2v
Bonus: This book makes a strong historical argument for why Net Neutrality is important and how internet monopolies like Comcast need to be regulated: “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires” (14 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2cjtFDH
How I went from zero experience to landing a 6-figure San Francisco design job in less than a year (12 minute read): http://bit.ly/2ktW0KA
How to get free wifi on public networks (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2kwjTAu
Courtland Allen, creator of Indie Hackers, talks about how to create a profitable side project (55 minute listen): http://bit.ly/2kk3MGO
Bonus: The book that Courtland Allen recommends to all developers who are interested in entrepreneurship is “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business” (13 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2kkbj8l
An opinionated guide to writing developer résumés in 2017 (18 minute read): http://bit.ly/2jiG60M
How making hundreds of hip hop beats helped me understand HTML and CSS (9 minute read): http://bit.ly/2knHfWI
I ranked every Intro to Data Science course on the internet, based on thousands of data points (11 minute read): http://bit.ly/2k4ny8A
Bonus: I’m learning a lot from this well-researched book: “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better” (11 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2jAN7Ly
Ranked: the most popular JavaScript tools of 2016 (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/2jCoTn8
Google reveals how its servers all contain custom security silicon (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2k7oXfl
freeCodeCamp contributor Bill Sourour talks about developer ethics and the code he’s still ashamed of (52 minute listen): http://bit.ly/2k4QJoJ
Bonus: In Bill’s interview, he mentions Michael Lewis’s 2015 book “Flashboys: A Wallstreet Revolt” about how Wallstreet is now dominated by software engineers and algorithmic trading. It’s an excellent book (10 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2jDwB02
Why your browser’s autocomplete is insecure and you should turn it off (1 minute read): http://bit.ly/2ioN47b
Female dialogue in 2016’s biggest movies, visualized (8 minute read): http://bit.ly/2igTNl7
A TV news anchor said “Alexa, order me a dollhouse” and triggered viewers’ Amazon Echo devices to make a purchase (2 minute read): http://bit.ly/2jI4JbZ
Bonus: Read this excellent overview of how technology will impact the world economy: “The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies” (9 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2jIdfaL
The Great AI Awakening (1 hour read): http://nyti.ms/2iAcNbr
Thousands of people joined us for our community’s 4-hour New Year’s Eve live stream. Now you can watch the whole thing, or specific guest interviews here (20 to 260 minute watch): http://bit.ly/2iuom6d
2017 isn’t just another prime number (2 minute read): http://bit.ly/2hVmLH2
Bonus: How can we help computers reach human-level intelligence? What will happen when we do? “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” is the best book on general AI and its implications (14 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2j8fobI
How a farmer built her own broadband network (3 minute read): http://bbc.in/2iHnqfe
All of 2016’s top mobile apps are owned by either Google or Facebook (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2hwwzpq
Start 2017 with the 100 Days of Code challenge (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2hvgvUA
Bonus: I’m hosting Open2017, an interactive New Year’s Eve live stream for the entire Free Code Camp community. We’ll start at 11 p.m. EST (New York City time) on Saturday on our YouTube channel. Read more about our exciting guests, including the creator of Stack Overflow (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2h6l1pk
I’m hosting #Open2017, an interactive New Year’s Eve live stream for developers. We have a ton of exciting guests (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2h6l1pk
Hackers are making $5 million a day by faking 300 million video views in one of the biggest cases of ad fraud ever (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2hf7pgl
Inside George Moore’s epic 20-year journey from truck driver to tech support to senior developer (48 minute listen): http://bit.ly/2idBblW
Bonus: If you want to better understand all these cyber attacks you keep hearing about, I recommend reading “Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War” (9 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2ii9AMk
I studied full-time for 8 months just for the Google interview (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/2gNIuP4
On getting old(er) in tech (11 minute read): http://bit.ly/2hyMNMU
If you don’t talk to your kids about quantum computing, someone else will (6 minute webcomic): http://bit.ly/2hRZBND
Bonus: “In The Plex” is easily the best book about Google and what it’s like to work there (20 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2apnpIK
Infrastructure is beautiful (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2h0AL0P
People are much worse at using computers than you might think (8 minute read): http://bit.ly/2hmQJ25
How designers use dark patterns to trick you into doing things you don’t want to do (29 minute watch): http://bit.ly/2gdvm2i
Bonus: I’m listening to Michael Lewis’s new book “The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds” about two soldiers who became scientists, then explored human decision making and cognitive biases together. It’s epic. (10 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2gn3EDJ
Governments are outlawing your privacy. Here’s how you can stop them (8 minute read): http://bit.ly/2fJScTP
Researchers have discovered a security breach of more than 1 million Google accounts (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2fPWmVw
How Font Awesome’s Kickstarter campaign shattered the records for open source software (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/2gZiXDN
Bonus: I helped design a cryptography-inspired ugly Christmas sweater (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2gStReO
I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy the internet (7 minute read): http://bit.ly/2gcUl7b
The author of Cracking the Coding Interview has changed her mind about coding bootcamps (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2gHAL6p
This week programmers Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honor (2 minute read): http://bit.ly/2fzfo5t
Bonus: Learn more about Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, and other pioneers in “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution” by the author of the Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein biographies (17 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2aZVCR6
How Craigslist, Wikipedia, and Free Code Camp are changing economics (9 minute read): http://bit.ly/2g2jbXX
You can now fly around the world like superman using Google Earth VR (2 minute watch): http://bit.ly/2gkqbCm
ICQ Messenger just turned 20. Here’s how this small team handled millions of messages with 1990s technology (9 minute read): http://bit.ly/2g21xnh
Bonus: The New York Times interviewed me and published some of my privacy tips from last week (6 minute read): http://nyti.ms/2f88e7U
How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2eVtED3
We just upgraded our forum, which is now one of the largest technology forums on the planet (1 minute read): http://bit.ly/2eN1RH7
A podcast interview where I share the importance of hanging out with other people who code (40 minute listen): http://bit.ly/2eNRgvE
Bonus: “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know” is deep, yet accessible. You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible (12 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2enrb7U
I crunched the numbers behind which programming language you should learn first (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/2e4s8lo
Briana’s new video series on Git and GitHub concepts is now live (1 to 20 minute watch): http://bit.ly/2fh3Oum
A gamer spent 200 hours building an incredibly detailed digital San Francisco (1 minute read): http://bit.ly/2eX51Zo
Bonus: If you’re in the US and able to vote, please do :) And learn more about how data scientists predict the outcomes of elections in Nate Silver’s “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t.” You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible (15 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2bwrGY2
Last Friday, a botnet attacked Dyn, a DNS, bringing down much of the internet. Can we secure the “internet of things” in time to prevent another attack? (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2eT7ksY
Code dependencies are the devil (7 minute read): http://bit.ly/2eHScz
Watch a Tesla drive itself around town and parallel park to the Rolling Stone’s “Paint it Black” (4 minute watch): http://bit.ly/2fhoVz2n
Bonus: Want to learn more about how internet works and the story behind the geniuses behind it? Check out “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.” You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible (10 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2fhkvZk
6,000 freelancers talk about money, happiness, and their hopes for the future (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2e9t3T5
A haunting data visualization of unemployment in the US between 1990 and 2016 (2 minute watch): http://bit.ly/2ebJvyL
Carbon nanotubes finally outperform silicon in transistors (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2elmOXw
Bonus: “Fire in the Valley” covers the entire history of Silicon Valley, computers, and how transistors made all this possible. You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible (15 hour listen):http://amzn.to/2dAO71H
How to make HTML disappear completely (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2ei723N
Barack Obama and Joi Ito on neural nets, self-driving cars, and the future of the world (18 minute read): http://bit.ly/2e9woMc
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s live demo of their new virtual reality experience, built on top of Oculus Rift (7 minute watch): http://bit.ly/2de0woP
Bonus: Here’s a data-driven list of the 50 best free online courses from universities around the world: http://bit.ly/2e9uevS(1 to 10 minute read): http://amzn.to/2aAvfvM
How to stand on shoulders (7 minute read): http://bit.ly/2dgjmMZ
A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. It found quite a few (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2dTqhQQ
9,000 JavaScript developers responded to a survey about who they are and what tools they use (5 to 30 minute read): http://bit.ly/2dwJu7M
Bonus: Elon Musk’s biography is definitely worth reading. You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible (13 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2aAvfvM
Elon Musk revealed SpaceX’s system for $200,000 round-trip tickets to Mars as soon as 2027 (6 minute watch): http://bit.ly/2dsZpav
It’s the 20th anniversary of Super Mario 64. Here’s an interview with its developers (18 minute read): http://bit.ly/2dtbEj2
If you want to become a data scientist, check out David’s in-depth analysis of the best R and Python courses (13 minute read): http://bit.ly/2dge8SV
Bonus: Elon Musk’s biography is definitely worth reading. You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible (13 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2aAvfvM
Announcing Open Source for Good (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2d1s3Ke
The data from half a billion Yahoo accounts has been breached by hackers (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2d538Yc
Briana tells her story of how she went from elementary music teacher to Free Code Camp camper to working at GitHub (29 minute listen): http://bit.ly/2d51t55
Bonus: Our community just designed new laptop stickers. Get all 4 with free worldwide shipping: http://bit.ly/2cz8Wai
Someone is learning how to take down the internet (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2cbR5um
For 25 years, this man has been fighting to make public information public. Now he’s being sued for it (25 minute read): http://bit.ly/2cZzkM4
GitHub announced a ton of new collaboration features (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2cfZrPZ
Bonus: I just added new Free Code Camp gear to our community’s shop, including t-shirts, hoodies, and recommended books: http://bit.ly/2cz8Wai
I live asynchronously. You should try it, too (8 minute read): http://bit.ly/2c6HamL
When you change the world and no one notices (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2c060Jn
How Elizabeth Holmes’ $9 billion Theranos house of cards came tumbling down (20 minute read): http://bit.ly/2cbLi6X: http://bit.ly/2aXZwov
Bonus: Learn the history of Net Neutrality — straight from the professor who coined the term. You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible, then learn while you commute (14 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2cjtFDH
Linux turns 25 this week. Here are my 25 favorite Linux facts (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2bYg80I
90% of US developers live outside Silicon Valley, and “Software Developer” is now the most common job title in 4 states (2 minute read): http://bit.ly/2csgfFP
In a huge win for net neutrality, Europe announced new telecom guidelines (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/2bJ3Gk1
Bonus: We just added some new code-themed T-shirts to our shop: http://bit.ly/2cgeD0T
I crunched the numbers on working from home (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2bhzJgg
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month (7 minute read): http://bloom.bg/2bDbA36
The long, remarkable history of the GIF (20 minute read): http://bit.ly/2bHSAPZ
Bonus: If you want to learn more about data science but don’t know where to start, check out Nate Silver’s “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t.” You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible, then learn while you commute (15 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2bwrGY2
A data analysis of the men’s 100 meter dash going all the way back to the 1896 Olympics (3 minute watch): http://nyti.ms/2aXiqjl
How SoundCloud designed and built their iPhone app (20 minute read): http://bit.ly/2boExjk
An in-depth interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook (40 minute read): http://wapo.st/2b3dd4U
Bonus: We just launched a new T-shirt celebrating the Open Data movement. We have fitted women’s sizes, too: http://bit.ly/2b099sb
How I made my first million dollars (in pro bono code) (9 minute read): http://bit.ly/2bkxVib
The father of the world wide web wants to give you your data back (4 minute read): http://bit.ly/2bgY9CU
Quora’s founder talks about how they use machine learning and the scientific method (1 hour listen): http://bit.ly/2aXZwov
Bonus: I just finished Elon Musk’s biography and it’s definitely worth reading. You can get the audiobook for free with a free trial of Audible, then learn while you commute (13 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2aAvfvM
How to hack time (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2ayYrs8
Apple just announced bug bounties for developers who discover security flaws (3 minute read): http://tcrn.ch/2amwKkY
Tips for surviving large legacy codebases (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2ayYjJl
Bonus: Get a “Future Coder” onesie for the baby in your family. Available in sizes newborn to 24 months, in pink or Free Code Camp green: http://bit.ly/2aI6RIX
Yahoo was once the biggest website on earth. This week, its assets were auctioned off to the highest bidder (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2a1wcRH
Uber explains their app infrastructure in depth. They use Node.js, React, and lots of other cutting-edge tools (7 minute read): http://ubr.to/2aMaI88
A brief history of the command line, with plenty of Easter eggs (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/2azLsmA
Bonus: “In The Plex” is easily the best book about Google and what it’s like to work there. I’m listening to it for a second time. You can download the audiobook for free with a trial Audible membership, then learn while you commute (20 hour listen): http://amzn.to/2apnpIK
The Apollo 11 space mission’s complete codebase is now available on GitHub — including both the command module and lunar module. Definitely worth starring on GitHub (1 minute read): http://bit.ly/2abmRDo
Patryk wasn’t satisfied with Chrome’s browser history, so he completely redesigned it (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/29FpPit
22 years after the Sega Saturn’s release, one PhD student has finally managed to crack it. Here’s a fairly accessible case study on how to reverse engineer hardware (27 minute watch): http://bit.ly/29AEnlK
Bonus: If you’re considering writing on Medium, here’s literally everything I know about how to write Medium stories that people will actually read (9 minute read): http://bit.ly/29KFhwP
Getting a raise comes down to one thing: Leverage (9 minute read): http://bit.ly/29ylLFH
Good coding instincts will eventually kick you in the teeth (7 minute read): http://bit.ly/29ua4fY
If you’re thinking about launching a product, here’s how to set up servers that can handle a sudden spike in traffic (11 minute read): http://bit.ly/29jv1wg
Employers will only look at your résumé for 6 seconds. Here’s how you can simplify your résumé to maximize your chances of getting an interview (7 minute read): http://bit.ly/29dgAsj
GitHub released 3 terabytes of their platform’s activity data, and you can query it (2 minute read): http://bit.ly/29abHkL
Here’s how you can manage your time — and sanity — while learning new coding skills (8 minute read): http://bit.ly/294WEUU
Bonus: Netflix Developer Lyle Troxell hosts GeekSpeak, one of the oldest technology podcasts around. He invited me onto his show to talk about freeCodeCamp and the work we do for nonprofits (38 minute listen): http://bit.ly/297chAb
Why do so many developers hate recruiters? Let’s explore how recruiters work, and whether they can really help you get a better job (9 minute read): http://bit.ly/291rK2C
Many scientist now agree that the $1 billion brain training industry is built on top of bad research (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/28USzYB
If you’re looking for some weekend inspiration, this 54-year old university janitor took night classes for years, finished his degree, then got a job as a propulsion engineer (3-minute read): http://nbcnews.to/28UW6Xh
One of the teaching assistants in a Georgia Tech Artificial Intelligence(AI) class was itself an AI chat bot (4 minute read): http://wapo.st/1rVimoe
Google’s I/O conference was filled with announcements of new AI apps similar to Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Echo. Here are the highlights (10 minute video): http://bit.ly/27C4PSZ
One of our campers also built a simple AI. In three days. On a bus. (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/1WDDfkU
Bonus: Our forum for discussing all programming resources — books, videos, online courses, and even code-related video games — is now live and highly active. (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/1TR9xof
One does not simply learn to code (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/1OsMiSY
One camper just started his “100 days of code” challenge (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/28HSM73 and another just finished hers (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/1UB2nT9
How to download Coursera’s courses before they’re gone forever (9 minute read): http://bit.ly/1ZUiEGU
After last week’s release of 117 million LinkedIn account email-password combinations, 360 million more email-password from Myspace — and 65 million from Tumblr — have also emerged. Passwords are becoming a massive security liability, and the only way to fix this is to get rid of passwords completely (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/1X18NAO
You can now explore and visualize a variety of important algorithms, right in your browser. Choose an algorithm, select “trace,” then click the “run” button in the upper right hand corner to watch it in action: http://bit.ly/1UiOybP
Jed Watson wrote open source code for more than 1,000 days in a row. Read about how this streak followed him through many life milestones, such as the launch of KeystoneJS and the birth of his daughter (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/1r48RSB
Bonus: We’ll host our June Summit on Saturday at noon EDT. Join us on our YouTube channel for this one-hour interactive live stream. We’ll showcase our most sophisticated Nonprofit Project yet, demo new features, and answer your many questions. You can one-click subscribe on YouTube (it’s free): http://bit.ly/233Uegl
Oracle is suing Google for $9 billion because Google included a few Java libraries in Android. Oracle obtained the rights to these libraries after by acquiring Sun Microsystems — after Google had launched Android. Regardless of its outcome, this lawsuit will permanently affect the way developers build software (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/1NOYD3z
Remember when LinkedIn got hacked back in 2012? Hackers just put 117 million login-password combinations up for sale. There’s a good chance yours is in there, so go change your LinkedIn password now (takes 1 minute): http://bit.ly/1TY2EPz
One way you can immediately make your accounts more secure is by enabling two-factor (mobile phone) authentication. You can do this for LinkedIn here (takes 1 minute): http://bit.ly/1WPwE6t
Bonus: We had nearly 2,000 posts on freeCodeCamp’s new forum last week. Here’s how you can join our discussion of programming resources — books, videos, online courses, and events (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/1TR9xof
One of the teaching assistants in a Georgia Tech Artificial Intelligence(AI) class was itself an AI chat bot (4 minute read): http://wapo.st/1rVimoe
Google’s I/O conference was filled with announcements of new AI apps similar to Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Echo. Here are the highlights (10 minute video): http://bit.ly/27C4PSZ
One of our campers also built a simple AI. In three days. On a bus. (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/1WDDfkU
Bonus: Our forum for discussing all programming resources - books, videos, online courses, and even code-related video games - is now live and highly active. (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/1TR9xof
Has anyone ever told you that you shouldn’t learn to code? Well, they were wrong. And here are three great historical figures who will tell you why (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/24QCwRR
Software-related podcasts are a great way to learn on the go. Here’s Ayo’s break-down of the best podcasts for new coders, and the best tools for listening to them (7 minute read): http://bit.ly/1Ynb1rV
We just launched a forum for discussing all programming resources - books, videos, online courses, and even code-related video games (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/1TR9xof
More than 15,000 people responded to the 2016 New Coder Survey. Find out who they are and how they’re learning to code (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/1NYpcD8
A single Brazilian judge shut down WhatsApp, the country’s most popular communication tool, for 24 hours. Read about the legal drama and its global privacy implications (5 minute read): http://bit.ly/24t0anh 2. A single
Hackers stole $81 million from World Bank this week. Learn the history of electronic bank robbery, and how vulnerable our finaicial systems are (7 minute read): http://nyti.ms/1SQlN60
Bonus: Join us on Saturday at Noon EDT for freeCodeCamp’s interactive live stream. We’ll share some exciting improvements — and answer your many questions — on our YouTube channel (you can subscribe for notifications): http://bit.ly/1QSEhkj
Adrian destroys any concerns you may have about becoming an older developer (19 minute read): http://bit.ly/1qWJy53
Collin spent last winter in a showerless, stove-heated cabin in Northern Utah. But he was able to complete freeCodeCamp’s Front End Development certification in record time (6 minute read): http://bit.ly/1UiImF9
Silicon Valley — everyone’s favorite TV show about data compression — is back for a new season. Let’s learn how JPG image files are able to save so much space. There’s no “middle-out” here — just clever mathematics (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/1NC4skz
Bonus: Check out this Rube Goldberg machine (silly chain reaction) made entirely out of HTML form elements (1 minute to watch): http://bit.ly/23a59Dx
O’Reilly just published the results of their salary survey of 5,000 developers. Here are the highlights (3 minute read): http://bit.ly/1qVhvU6
Kobe Bryant played his final game of professional basketball this week. The Los Angeles Times used Leaflet.js to build an interactive data visualization of all 30,699 shots he took over his 20 year career: http://bit.ly/1YEcrOk
Building a website? Here’s are 101 concise tips to make it an awesome one (10 minute read): http://bit.ly/1Wc80v6
The downside of the Internet of Things is that companies can turn the appliances you depend on into useless bricks, warns the Electronic Frontier Foundation (4 minute article): http://bit.ly/1qHatSE
You may have heard of artificial neural networks, which use a series of interconnected “neurons.” These neuron’s connections to one another strengthen and weaken in response to data, as part of a “learning” algorithm. But hey, enough explaining. You can now experiment with neural networks right here in your browser: http://bit.ly/1SM2VVh
Last year, programmer and journalist Paul Ford wrote an 30,000 word interactive essay called “What is Code” (http://bloom.bg/23tbUWe). This week, CodeNewbie interviewed him about his essay and what drew him to programming (1 hour podcast): http://bit.ly/25YSmrI
Bonus: Today’s the final day to pick up a dapper black freeCodeCamp t-shirt for yourself and a loved one. We have fitted women’s sizes, too: http://bit.ly/1RYcaal (If you’re in the EU, use this link: http://bit.ly/236lXQT)
Last week, a developer “broke the internet” when he unpublished his open source modules from npm. Read how another developer immediately stepped in and prevented a potential security disaster related to this: http://bit.ly/1qf5WGN
Moore’s law, which held that computer power would double every two years at the same cost, is coming to an end: http://econ.st/1pIhodw
The Gitter team talks about their real time chat app, and how they can accommodate freeCodeCamp’s massive community on this one-hour podcast: http://bit.ly/25uE2qt
Learn about JavaScript’s complicated 20-year history, why its current ecosystem is so complicated, and how its tools are improving so rapidly: http://bit.ly/1pGyxFd
If you flip a coin several times, the outcome of each flip is independent of the previous flip. But what about the weather? If it’s sunny today, tomorrow is more likely to be sunny than rainy. So how do we determine probabilities where each outcome is dependent on the previous outcome? With Markov Chains. Learn how these work in a fun, interactive way: http://bit.ly/1RbVABy
Jeff Atwood, one of the creators of Stack Overflow, discusses his new open source project Discourse, JavaScript, and “hybrid cloud” web hosting on this one-hour podcast: http://bit.ly/1MytPOa