So I imagine like if someone goes through the program, it's easier to get volunteers that way. Quincy: It's three people plus hundreds of volunteer contributors.īrian: Oh very cool. Basically I just try to do everything I can to help as many people learn to code and get their first developer job as I can.īrian: Cool, and then so we've got two of you here so how big is a team that's involved in Free Code Camp? Quincy: I started Free Code Camp back in October of 2014 and ever since then I've just been kind of overseeing the curriculum and doing support and I edit the Medium publication so I wear a lot of hats. I essentially manage the Gitter, repo and servers and the databases and everything else technical that we can't easily open up for everyone to take a look at.īrian: Cool, and then Quincy, what's your role at Free Code Camp? So do you guys want to really quick explain what your roles are at Free Code Camp?īerkeley: So I'm CTO at Free Code Camp. We have about 350,000 people who use it each month and very active chat rooms on Gitter and a popular forum and then we have our Medium publication where we publish articles, mostly technical articles, but also some motivational articles about learning to code.Īnd then we also have a YouTube channel so people are creating short educational videos on computer science and mathematical concepts there too.īrian: Wow, sounds like it's pretty involved. And you have access to a massive community that's all working through the same curriculum together so everybody can help everybody.Īnd that's basically how it works. So if you have ever wanted to learn to code, at night, after work, after the kids are down for bed or just over the weekends when you have time, Free Code Camp's completely self-paced. Quincy: Yeah, Free Code Camp is an open source community where you learn web development, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and then a lot of advanced technologies like Node.js, Express, React and even some D3. Do one of you guys want to explain what Free Code Camp is? So hopefully I'm not the test of all the other users at Free Code Camp, but I'm also a big fan of what you guys are doing. Started one of the first lessons and then I dropped off really quickly. I don't know if I even told you this, but I actually started it a while ago back when it first came out. On the line I've got Berkeley Martinez, the one and only.īrian: And then I've also got Quincy Larson.īrian: So I'm actually a big fan of Free Code Camp. Brian Douglas: Welcome to another installment of JAMstack Radio.

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