I love this shirt from freecodecamp.com

Testimony found on freecodecamp that made me laugh.

C Hashtag anyone?

!rant
How cool is FreeCodeCamp!!

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Successfully completed Basics of JavaScript from freeCodeCamp.

I need more practice on Objects and Arrays as it is not crystal clear yet.

I am loving this. Thank you all for your support.

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#LetsLearnJavaScript

When a Coursera course is way better than the one offered by your university…
A university student's rant...

I study Electrical and Computer Engineering and during the first semester of the second year I selected an optional course: Web Programming. It was believed among students that the course would be really easy, and it was. All the student had to do was build a very simple website using HTML, CSS and a few line of JS. A website containing three or four pages all of which had to be validated using a markup validation service.

Yeah, sure, I passed the course just like everyone else who bothered enough to spend an hour or two working on the project. Oh, I almost forgot! We had an one-hour workshop on Dreamweaver!
So, by that point, everybody was a front-end developer, right?!

That happened over three years ago, and because of that course web-development didn’t impress me…

Thankfully, the last few months I’ve became interested in Web Development, and I’ve been reading some articles, spending time on smashing magazine, making some progress on FreeCodeCamp and taking relevant courses on Coursera!
In fact, a few days ago I completed the Coursera course “HTML, CSS and Javascript for Web Developers”.
Oh boy, the things I didn’t know that I didn’t know…

<sarcasm>Did you know there was a term called “responsive design” and that there are frameworks like bootstrap?</sarcasm>
Well, I d i d n ’ t k n o w ! ! ! (even though I had taken the university’s course).

I understand that bootstrap was introduced in 2011 and I took the university course in late 2012, but by that time, bootstrap was quite popular and also there were other frameworks available before bootstrap that could have been included in the course! (even today, there is no reference in responsive design in the university’s course).
In just five weeks the coursera course managed to teach me more, in a more organized and meaningful way than my university’s course in a whole semester!

When I started the coursera course I shared it with a friend of mine. His response: “yeah, sure, but web development is pretty easy… I didn’t spend much time to complete that project three years ago!”

That course three years ago gave birth to misconceptions in students' minds that web development is easy! Yeah, sure, it can be easy to built a simple, non responsive, non interactive website! But that's not how the world works nowadays , right?!

A few months ago, in the early days of August, I attended Flock, the Fedora community conference. During a break I spent some time speaking with a Red Hat employee about student internships. He told me, and I paraphrase: “We know that students don’t have a solid background and that they haven’t learned in the university what we need them to!”

Currently I’m planning to apply for a front-end developer internship position here in Greece.
Yesterday I wrote my CV, added university courses relevant to that position and listed coursera courses under independent coursework… While writing those I made these thoughts…

What if that course 3 years ago was as good as the coursera course… all the things I’d know by now…

At 13 years old, she is the youngest person to have completed the entire freeCodeCamp curriculum.

Three years ago, tried to learn some JavaScript, failed miserably. Two years ago, managed to learn some Java through Udacity courses. Last year I started learning native Android development and got my first coding summer job. Now I'm back to learning JavaScript through Freecodecamp and that bitch ain't got shit on me no more!

I learned about ++1 from devRant before freeCodeCamp.

Feels great.

A survey by freeCodeCamp showed the following result.
No wonder many are single. :D
What about you people from devRant? Are you single?

Coding is a superpower. With it, you can bend reality to your will. You can make the world a better place. Or you can destroy it.

Source: freecodecamp

This poor fella is asking a simple question we've all asked it before.. It makes me angry to see that some beginners get discouraged thanks to the toxic community at stackoverflow, many of the idiots on stackoverflow forget that they were once beginners and didn't know a thing.. Even if the question sounds stupid for you, why can't you just help them, instead of being an ignorant smartass.. 😠

Holy shit man...

I know its supposed to be hard but I cant ignore how much I want to give up right now.

I've been learning JS for months now, doing daily algorithm challenges, going strong on my freecodecamp dev map and still, I feel like I might no be cut out for this.

It's been more than a week now trying to implement a minimax algorithm into my tic tac toe game. I can't, for the life of me its just getting more frustrating by the day and its driving me crazy! How the fuck am I supposed to ever get a junior webdev job if I can't do something as simple as this!, And I keep reading and reading the theory but I cant implement it into my code! It just makes me want to quit (again)!

I really need to work on my attitude...

I'm teaching myself ATM. I'm currently using freecodecamp, taking courses on Udemy, I have the books HTML & CSS and JavaScript & jQuery by Jon Duckett. Basically using as many of my free resources and catching classes when they're on sale.

I've also started a Meetup group for students and self learners like myself.

Any advice for me? Anyone want to mentor?

I'm really enjoying this learning process. And am positive I've found a career that I will actually love. I want

Why I try to ALWAYS use semicolons in JS:

In short, weird shit happens sometimes

An example:

So I'm doing a small project for freeCodeCamp, working with the Twitch API. I decided to make an array on the fly to append a few elements to a documentFrag in order after setting all my props. Forgot a semicolon. Apparently, Babel transpiles this:

info.innerHTML = (``)
[span, caret, info].forEach(elm => frag.appendChild(elm));

to this if you omit the semicolon:
info.innerHTML = ' '[(span, caret, info)]

this is why you should avoid relying on ASI, you're going to have to remember them in other languages out there, so for your own sanity, might as well get used to them. Just thought I'd share--who knows, might help a JS newb out there somewhere.

This job offer, paying in shares roughly a year later, sent to a bunch of freeCodeCamp contributors on GitHub doesn’t seem shady at all 😤

Was looking for an app to see if there was one for free code camp to start learning python. Auto correct suggestion wasn't bad at all 😂
Found sololearn and happy with that for now

I am a CS student. I can do core programming(like solving a basic problems) stuff pretty well but, I can't seem to understand UI design.
I was learning web development.
Learnt the basics of HTML, CSS then thought "let's make a simple website".
Couldn't design a single thing.
I mean i know the concepts how to implement forms tables navs etc stuff. But main problem is I can't think of good design.

Am I just not made for web dev or what?
How to be a web dev? I am following Angela Yu's udemy course, should i try freecodecamp?

I'm new to javascript and I'm doing the freecodecamp. I was doing a challenge and I was looking everywhere how to fix my problem (I needed to use an API from another page) turns out all I needed to do was add the Jquery library, I've been stuck with this for HOURS FML

Hello World!
Where to start? I am trying to learn coding and found FreeCodeCamp today. Anything else you could suggest?

On freecodecamp I'm now at the point where I have to build a full functional website.. It's getting excited yooooooo

I just got done learning Python and can do some stuff with it, and would like to move on to JavaScript.

Any good places to start? Right now I got a free starter course for it on Udemy and have been messing around on Sololearn and FreeCodeCamp. I'm looking for decent introductory points/books/tutorials that could help me get a better introduction of the language.

...making that tic tac toe game from the FreeCodeCamp 4 last projects for the certificate.
Never thought it would be so hard, today i made the winning system, felt good but I have no idea on the "ai".
Time to take a break.
Code is on my Github, forgot to push the system today, i ll do it tomorow.

What could possibly be wrong with me if I had to look at almost every single answer of the Basic Algorithm Scripting exercises on FreeCodeCamp? I spend days tying to solve some of them and just couldn’t. Had to look at the answers. Then I try few days after and maybe remember half of the answer. How can I change this?

You know ordinarily I'm really supportive of the curriculum that freecodecamp has to offer, but I swear who ever wrote the lessons in the es6 section must've been kicked in the fucking head.

Idk maybe the problem with this particular lesson is that I've just spent to much time running slackbuilds lately. But everyone of the them has something or other in it that you wind up having to fucking google because if its explained somewhere else in the curriculum then it could be in either direction of current lesson your on.
This lesson just happens to be the easiest to illustrate.

Working my way through more freeCodeCamp projects... I will earn all the certificates on that fucking platform, by all means. Fuck, I love code.

My dev goal for the new year will be teaching others, and I could use some help!

For quite some time I have been thinking about setting up some kind of community project in my area teaching people who are having a hard time finding a job in their field how to program, specifically web development, in order to advance their job prospects. There is a lot of demand here in Holland and as we all know it doesn't take much more than dedication, disambiguation skills and an almost fanatical fondness for solving puzzles to lead a very happy life as a developer. I'm hoping 2019 will be the year.

What complete courses can you recommend to teach someone how to code, that are fun/inspiring enough to keep someone motivated (and able to go to school and/or make a living in the meantime) until they can use their built up skills and portfolio to get a first job (perhaps 1-2 years)?

I plan on tutoring once or twice a week for a few hours and being available for chat the rest of the week when not working. I have enough experience (and curiosity) to help with any assignment but I do not have that much spare time, which is why I need this resource to be as good as possible, and to need as little extra explanation as possible.

My benchmark is the excellent freecodecamp, but I'm wondering if anything else is available. Bonus points for anything in Dutch, or anything that stands out by explaining things in the clearest way possible, and with great assignments of course.

Also I'd be very interested in any stories about similar (not-for-profit) initiatives, especially from a learner's point of view.

Thanks!

my next challenge is now building a personal portfolio page :)
I'll create a one pager.
I'm just excited cause its a lil bit harder than building an easy tribute page. My heart will go on xD

I have a question, and I need your opinion.

I'm taking a Multimedia course, but it has more subjects besides web dev and app dev.
So, becouse I really want to learn more, I'm taking the FreeCodeCamp course.
I'm enjoying it, and making a web project alongside it (with the help of the bootstrap documentation of course)

My question is:
Is it any good for my future?
Do you think it's a good place to learn development or is it a waste of time and I should learn somewhere else?
What do YOU think?

I don't want to be wasting my time on something that's not going to provide me with good knowledge...

Ooh. FreeCodeCamp has been revamped/improved.

I can't wait to not finish that

!rant

Does anyone know of any websites that have project ideas with requirements/user stories. I generally get side tracked if I sit down and just build something. There are a few full stack projects on freecodecamp with user stories which made me wonder if there are any other similar sites.

Contribute open source, finish freecodecamp, create portfolio, hackerrank is a must, learning ML can't be left out, and office work!

When freecodecamp has these react projects but react tutorial still isn't finished... wtf ?

Not a rant, but a question: I'm currently learning to develop for the web through freecodecamp. They decided some time ago to change their curriculum from Angular to React, kinda moving away from the MEAN set of technologies. Now that Angular 2 is out and looking good, I'm not sure if I should stick to their curriculum or learn it in place of React. What do you guys think?

hoi guys,
on freecodecamp i had a lesson to build a website on codepen.io with bootstrap.
except that it has some code features, it felt like normal coding.
i have to write all on my own also.
And then I opened a html5 project on netbeans with downloaded bootstrap and it filled the index. html plus css and other files with much content (but looked like shit)..
why is there such a big difference between codepen bootstrap and netbeans bootstrap?

What's the difference between freecodecamp and the fcc beta version?

Is freecodecamp frontend certificate worth something in the community, I am about get mine soon only two projects away...

It's been a while, hoes. I've been doing tons of shit, so much that I totally forgot this place even existed. I've been learning Haskell (which I absolutely love, don't get me wrong) but I'm hella pissed it has a garbage collector. Let me manage my own memory dammit. Rust is cool and all, but I'm falling for that functional shit. I'm currently doing a naive neural network in Haskell (naive as in I'm not using stochastic anything because I'm not smart enough), and also working on some new curriculum content on freeCodeCamp, introducing iterators and generators. It's been fucking busy. I haven't got to do FCC as much because recompiling to see the changes takes about, say, 10 minutes at a time, so if you make a typo in your JavaScript, open up your console, and see that error message, you'll feel nothing but self-loathing as you go back and recompile.

This summer, I am tasked with moving our production server from PHP5 to PHP7, and our current CMS has been modified in a way to be only compatible with PHP5 (as in, someone went in to the source code [and did not make a plugin] and modified the CMS), so now we are probably going to have to start everything over, or do the painstaking process of finding all of the modifications and reverting them, and then seeing the reverberations across the website of that, and fix everything. Not in the mood.

One (now previous, graduated) member of our team brought up the idea of straight up dropping everything and moving to a new language. I honestly don't even know where to start in doing so. Our code is vanilla PHP, no Laravel, no nothing, just hypertext pre-processing. I cannot fathom how the graphic designers and people who aren't too familiar with the system would handle such a shift in paradigm. On one hand, I would love to use something like Rust, with Rocket and a compile-time template engine (aka not Handlebars), but on the other hand, not everyone in the team is as experienced as me, so there would be a whole new learning curve that disregards all the previous progress they made in PHP.

Even though freeCodeCamp and the PHP migration are pretty time-consuming tasks, I really enjoy everything I'm doing this summer. I'm teaching myself new things (Haskell + neural nets), teaching other people new things (FCC), and doing some actual work that can be put on my resume (PHP).

I dabbled a bit a few months ago in Lua, which is kind of like Python, but the arrays start at one so fuck that language, damn it to hell.

Bye hoes.

The freecodecamp beta is so ****ing buggy, all I want to do is brush up on my JavaScript and learn a little ES6 and nothing works and their validation is so terrible that I have to bring my code out and validate it somewhere else to make sure I’m doing it right. This isn’t a beta, it’s an alpha

Super random but I started a FreeCodeCamp chapter in Mountain View check it out on FB. Slack channel coming very soon.