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Quincy Larson

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And then we're going to have 83 labs, which are basically just, you have a test suite and you have a blank canvas and you have to write the code to get that entire test suite to pass. And then we're also adding a lot more spaced repetition. So we're adding 66 quizzes and six preparation exams. Then we're adding a big capstone project. And then we're adding a final exam.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And then we're going to have 83 labs, which are basically just, you have a test suite and you have a blank canvas and you have to write the code to get that entire test suite to pass. And then we're also adding a lot more spaced repetition. So we're adding 66 quizzes and six preparation exams. Then we're adding a big capstone project. And then we're adding a final exam.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And that'll be conducted through an audited testing environment that we're building. It's open source. So yeah, we're building our own Flutter app where you can go and you can take exams and stuff like that. And then... If you pass the, you know, the human curated capstone, if you pass, if you build all those different projects, it's like more than a hundred projects.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And that'll be conducted through an audited testing environment that we're building. It's open source. So yeah, we're building our own Flutter app where you can go and you can take exams and stuff like that. And then... If you pass the, you know, the human curated capstone, if you pass, if you build all those different projects, it's like more than a hundred projects.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And if you pass the exam, then you become a certified web developer. And then you have that certification for three years and then you have to create, do some continuing education to keep it refreshed every three years. So it's very similar to all the other big industry certifications. All of them expire after three years.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

And if you pass the exam, then you become a certified web developer. And then you have that certification for three years and then you have to create, do some continuing education to keep it refreshed every three years. So it's very similar to all the other big industry certifications. All of them expire after three years.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

All of them require you to do the additional coursework, continuing education. But, The big distinction with Free Code Camp, we put this word at the beginning of our name, and we're sticking to it. What's that word again? Free.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

All of them require you to do the additional coursework, continuing education. But, The big distinction with Free Code Camp, we put this word at the beginning of our name, and we're sticking to it. What's that word again? Free.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

This certification is going to be completely free.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

This certification is going to be completely free.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

So all the coursework is free. All the prep work, you can take the exam for free, right? There's no exam fee. We actually built our own environment because we didn't want to pay Prometric or whatever. We didn't want you to have to pay them $100, $200 to take some environment where you're sitting in front of your computer taking an exam and they're watching you and stuff, right? Right.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

So all the coursework is free. All the prep work, you can take the exam for free, right? There's no exam fee. We actually built our own environment because we didn't want to pay Prometric or whatever. We didn't want you to have to pay them $100, $200 to take some environment where you're sitting in front of your computer taking an exam and they're watching you and stuff, right? Right.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

We wanted to be able to do all that stuff ourselves so we can keep the marginal cost as near zero as possible so that we can offer it completely free.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

We wanted to be able to do all that stuff ourselves so we can keep the marginal cost as near zero as possible so that we can offer it completely free.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Where is it? What's the state of this?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

Where is it? What's the state of this?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

We're going to launch some of it in time for Christmas. Okay. So this is the first of four planned certifications. The other one, we're doing a machine learning focused certification. All of them are very heavy on Python. We think Python is the future. And you're going to use JavaScript for the web development. Obviously, it's the lingua franca of the web.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

We're going to launch some of it in time for Christmas. Okay. So this is the first of four planned certifications. The other one, we're doing a machine learning focused certification. All of them are very heavy on Python. We think Python is the future. And you're going to use JavaScript for the web development. Obviously, it's the lingua franca of the web.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

But almost everything is like going really deep on Python. We're using relational databases extensively. We're going very low level with especially, okay, so the three other certifications, Certified Machine Learning Engineer, Certified data scientist. Certified software systems engineer. Software systems engineer, a lot of C. A lot of working with compilers.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

But almost everything is like going really deep on Python. We're using relational databases extensively. We're going very low level with especially, okay, so the three other certifications, Certified Machine Learning Engineer, Certified data scientist. Certified software systems engineer. Software systems engineer, a lot of C. A lot of working with compilers.