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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Show Notes:

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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
• #165: Everyone’s Welcome Here (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast)
• 5 Coding Podcasts to Enlighten your Commute - Medium

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