freeCodeCamp (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Quincy Larson is the creator of an open source community called freeCodeCamp. We talked with Quincy about “the secret to getting good at coding”, their curriculum that spans a solid year (totaling 2,080 hours) of deliberate coding practice, plans for financial sustainability of the project, and the people behind it on the leading/teaching side and the camper side.

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Show Notes:

• Subscribe to Changelog Nightly
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• Quincy Larson on Medium
• freeCodeCamp
• Santa Barbara Hackerspace
• GitHub’s All Time Top Repositories
• Why Software Is Eating The World by Marc Andreessen
• Sebastian Thrun on Wikipedia
• Daphne Koller on Wikipedia
• Andrew Ng on Wikipedia
• Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia
• Agency (sociology) on Wikipedia
• LoopBack
• MEAN.IO - MongoDB, Express, Angularjs Node.js powered fullstack web framework
• Free Code Camp’s First Month - Medium
• Learn to Code by Coding - Medium
• lichess.org • Free Online Chess
• Opportunity cost
• #165: Everyone’s Welcome Here (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast)
• 5 Coding Podcasts to Enlighten your Commute - Medium

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