date: 'Sunday, August 18 2024' title: 'An Overview of freeCodeCamp' description: 'The freeCodeCamp platform is dedicated to fostering an international community of coding students. Every aspect of freeCodeCamp is 100% free. The courses, the projects, and even the certifications.' image: 'freecodecamp_va0yks' author: 'Amy Blain Mayo' editor: 'Brenda Zhang'

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An Overview of freeCodeCamp

Written by Amy Blain Mayo • Edited by Brenda Zhang

What Is freeCodeCamp?

freeCodeCamp is a public 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to fostering an international community of coding students. freeCodeCamp is accessible through different devices and web browsers and designed to offer something to learners at every level and ideally in every language.

Per their site, "Every aspect of freeCodeCamp is 100% free. The courses, the projects, and even the certifications."

freeCodeCamp Courses and Community

freeCodeCamp is a flagship of the internet communities dedicated to providing resources and forums to coding students looking to learn essentials like:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Python
• Linux
• Git
• SQL
• And more!

Like other learn-at-home curricula, freeCodeCamp offers courses that are taken at the student's own pace instead of graded based on deadlines.

In addition to educational material, freeCodeCamp fosters a community that includes podcasters, prompt engineers, and crypto enthusiasts.

What Kind of Skills Does freeCodeCamp Teach?

One example of freeCodeCamp's diverse curriculum is this course in Responsive Web Design.

Students learn HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) skills, and then build a cat photo app using the basics of what they've learned. At the end of the course, students will use Flexbox to create a photo gallery and layout a mockup magazine article using CSS Grid.

Another freeCodeCamp course is in Quality Assurance, and aims to teach students how to make continued changes and improvements to JavaScript applications without nullifying sections of code they've already worked on.

This course uses Chai among other testing frameworks and dev tools to test JavaScript applications to verify they're working as expected.

What Are People Saying About freeCodeCamp?

In May 2022, user amamenko writes on the freeCodeCamp forum:

"If you're still looking for that first job and you're preparing - whether it be through freeCodeCamp, YouTube, StackOverflow, LeetCode, project-building, reading documentation, reading textbooks, reading anything - it's important to know that you can do this, you can succeed - as others before you have done - and you are not alone.

The freeCodeCamp community is vast and ever-expanding. You have our support."

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