Changelog Master Feed freeCodeCamp (Changelog Interviews #195)
Feb 12, 2016
01:31:53
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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- 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
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- 5 Coding Podcasts to Enlighten your Commute - Medium
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