Ten years of freeCodeCamp (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other’s pods. Can you believe it’s now five years later and we’re all still here doing our thing?! Let’s learn what Quincy and the amazing community at freeCodeCamp have been up to!

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Featuring:

• Quincy Larson – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Five years of freeCodeCamp (Changelog Interviews #369)
• Ten years of Changelog (Backstage #9)
• How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job [Full Book]
• Learn to Code RPG – A Visual Novel Video Game Where you Learn Computer Science Concepts
• podcast - freeCodeCamp.org

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1. Your favorite ever show (00:00:00)

2. Let's talk! (00:01:25)

3. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:02:03)

https://fly.io/

4. Birthdays & Friends (00:04:51)

5. A vision realized? (00:05:42)

6. Just getting started (00:10:20)

7. Deciding what to work on (00:16:03)

8. The liberty hook (00:18:41)

9. A bad precedent (00:23:51)

10. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:25:17)

https://speakeasy.com/

11. The job market (00:26:10)

12. Entrepreneurship (00:34:39)

13. Quincy has a book?! (00:41:39)

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-to-code-book/

14. Sponsor: AssemblyAI (00:46:21)

https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast

15. Sponsor: Wix Studio (00:48:38)

https://www.wix.com/studio

16. Curriculum talk (00:49:32)

17. Going low-level (01:00:24)

18. Obsessed with learning (01:04:15)

19. Teaching English (01:06:48)

20. Teaching from our transcripts (01:09:31)

21. Finding the right people (01:14:52)

22. Still being ignored (so far) (01:19:46)

23. freeCodeCamp esports! (01:22:49)

24. Learn to Code RPG (01:25:24)

25. The future of education (01:27:58)

26. Quincy on the bass! (01:35:50)

27. Adam's challenge (01:37:33)

28. Bye, friends (01:40:28)

29. Next week on The Changelog (01:41:01)