How Many Hours Motivated You?

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In two thousand hours, you could be building right, pretty sophisticated applications. The average american watches about eighteen hundred hours of tv a year. If an American just swapped out half their teve time, what you're telling me is in eighteen months or so, they could be building significant applications by only cutting half their television time viewing. Just to do back of the envelope math. This is something from the ivory tower that you're just not allowed to do. Do you agree with my basic premise here? Did you agree with mybasic premise here?...

0:50 Jason thanks the front-line workers & intros freeCodeCamp's Quincy Larson
7:45 Why & how did Quincy start freeCodeCamp? What is freeCodeCamp?
12:16 Jason & Quincy discuss starting & running large online communities, benefits of Discord & Slack
15:36 Can you jump right in on freeCodeCamp.org? What types of certifications do they offer?
17:38 COVID-19's impact on user growth & why Quincy is emulating Red Cross, YMCA & other non-profits
21:19 Do they track outcomes at freeCodeCamp, how do they compare to Lambda School?
26:05 Can anyone become a web developer? How many hours would it take for an average high school graduate to be able to build a 1.0 version of Twitter or Shopify?
35:09 Quincy shares some freeCodeCamp success stories
41:21 What's the quickest way to get a job through coding? What program should an aspirational developer start learning first?
45:57 Should new developers prioritize mobile development to maximize earning potential?
48:24 What % of freeCodeCamp users are non-US? Which country has shown the most potential?
50:44 What does the post-COVID world look like for developers?
53:21 freeCodeCamp's developer cards project