1. freeCodeCamp's Python certification

2. freeCodeCamp's JavaScript certification (Version 10)

3. freeCodeCamp's Responsive Web Design Certification (Version 10)

4. freeCodeCamp's Relational Database + SQL Certification

5. Our A2 level English for Developers Certification

6. Our B1 level English for Developers Certification

7. Our beta A1 level Spanish curriculum

8. Our beta A1 level Mandarin Chinese curriculum

Those are a lot of gifts to unwrap, so let's start unwrapping!

Programming Certifications and Version 10 of the Full Stack Development Curriculum

Over the past 11 years, the freeCodeCamp community has built and rebuilt our core programming curriculum several times.

We are finally approaching our vision of how comprehensive and interactive a programming curriculum can be.

Version 10 of our curriculum is a series of 6 certifications – each with more than a dozen projects that you'll build to solidify your fundamental skills.

At the end of each certification, you'll take a final exam. And if you can manage to pass this exam, you'll be awarded a free, verified certification. You can then embed that on LinkedIn, or add it to your résumé, CV, or portfolio website.

So far, 4 of these certifications are now live:

• Responsive Web Design certification announcement

• JavaScript certification announcement

• Python certification announcement

• Relational Databases certification announcement

And we will release the Front End Libraries and Back End Development certifications in 2026.

After earning all 6 certifications, you can build a final capstone project – which will be code-reviewed by an experienced developer. Then you’ll sit for a comprehensive final exam. And upon completion of that, you'll earn our final Full Stack Developer Certification.

If you start progressing through these first four certifications today, the last two certifications should go live well before you reach them. After all, each of them represents hundreds of hours of conceptual computer science knowledge and hand-on programming practice.

Language Coursework

First, you may be asking: when did freeCodeCamp start teaching world languages?

Well, we started designing our English for Developers curriculum back in 2022. And over the past few years, we've expanded it considerably.

The curriculum involves interacting with hand-drawn animated characters. Along the way, you get tons of practice with reading, writing, listening, and (coming in 2026) speaking.

It's a story-driven curriculum. You step into the shoes of a developer who's just arrived in California to work at a tech startup. You learn grammar, vocab, tech jargon, and slang through day-to-day interactions while living your new life.

So far, two of these certifications are fully live:

• A2 Level English certification announcement

• B1 Level English certification announcement

We're also developing levels A1, B2, C1, and C2 for release over the coming years. (Yes, years. Each of these is a huge undertaking to develop.)

Not only has the freeCodeCamp community designed thousands of English lessons - we also built tons of custom software tools to make all this coursework possible. So in 2024, we asked: could we use the same tools to teach people Spanish and Mandarin Chinese?

And today, the results of this effort are now in public beta. We're starting out with A1 Level for both of these languages, and will ship the remaining levels over the coming years.

• A1 Level Spanish curriculum announcement

• A1 Level Mandarin Chinese curriculum announcement

Why Teach Spanish and Mandarin?

Aside from English, Spanish and Mandarin are two of the most widely-spoken languages in the world. You can use these languages to participate in tons of online communities, visit major cities, and even find new job opportunities.

Learning foreign languages is also excellent for your neuroplasticity, and can be done alongside learning other new skills like programming.

And now you can learn these languages for free, using our comprehensive end-to-end curriculum that was designed by teachers, translators, and native speakers.

Update on Translating freeCodeCamp’s coursework into major world languages

As you may know, freeCodeCamp has been available in many major world languages going back to 2020. But whenever we launch new coursework, it takes several months to translate everything.

Thankfully, machine translation has been steadily improving over the past few years.

The community is still translating tutorials and books by hand, but for something that changes as quickly as freeCodeCamp’s programming curriculum, we want to speed up the process.

We’ve conducted pilots of translating all the new coursework into both Spanish and Portuguese.

• First, we used frontier Large Language Models and extensive glossaries and style guides to process the hundreds of thousands of words in our programming curriculum.

• Then we had native speakers randomly sample these translations to ensure their quality.

• Once we felt the translations were strong enough, we started creating data pipelines to automatically update translations as the original English text changed through open source code contributions.

The monetary cost of doing all this is not significant. So we should be able to offer freeCodeCamp’s programming curriculum in additional languages we weren’t previously able to support, such as Arabic and French.

If you are one of the hundreds of people who’ve contributed translations to freeCodeCamp over the years, we’d still welcome your help translating books and tutorials, which don’t change much after initial publication.

After all, the gold standard for localizing a document is having a single human translator holistically read and understand that document before creating the translation.

This community is just getting started.

This year the freeCodeCamp community also published:

• 129 free video courses on the freeCodeCamp community YouTube channel

• 45 free full length books and handbooks on the freeCodeCamp community publication

• 452 programming tutorials and articles on math, programming, and computer science

• 50 episodes of the freeCodeCamp podcast where I interview developers, many of whom are contributors to open source freeCodeCamp projects

We also merged 4,279 commits to freeCodeCamp’s open source learning platform, representing tons of improvements to user experience and accessibility. And we published our secure exam environment so that campers can take certification exams.

You can view our 2025 list of Top Open Source Contributors.

As a community, we are just getting started. Free open source education has never been more relevant than it is today.

We invite you to get more involved in the community, too.

I want to thank the 10,221 kind folks who donate to support our charity and our mission each month. Please consider joining them: Donate to freeCodeCamp.org.

And here are some other ways you can make a year-end donation that you can deduct from your US taxes.

freeCodeCamp has a vibrant global community of ambitious people who are learning new skills and preparing for the next stage of their career. I encourage you to join the freeCodeCamp Discord and hang out with us there.

And take Naomi’s freeCodeCamp Community Survey to help us understand what you like about freeCodeCamp and what our community can do even better.

On behalf of the global freeCodeCamp community, here’s wishing you and your family a fantastic finale to your 2025. Cheers to a fun, ambition-filled 2026.

This year we made substantial improvements to the new Full Stack Developer curriculum. This is the 10th version of the freeCodeCamp curriculum, and includes 7 certifications. Along the way, learners build more than 100 hand-on projects and pass exams on computer science theory.

Also, over the past year, the freeCodeCamp community published:

• 129 free video courses on the freeCodeCamp community YouTube channel

• 45 free full length books and handbooks on the freeCodeCamp community publication

• 452 programming tutorials and articles on math, programming, and computer science

• 50 episodes of the freeCodeCamp podcast where I interview developers, many of whom are contributors to open source freeCodeCamp projects

We also merged 4,279 commits to freeCodeCamp’s open source learning platform, representing tons of improvements to user experience and accessibility. And we published our secure exam environment so that campers can take certification exams.

Finally, we made considerable progress on our English for Developers curriculum, and started work on our upcoming Spanish and Chinese curricula.

We are just getting started. We’re already mapping out additional coursework on math, data science, machine learning, and other deep, skill-intensive subjects.

All of this is possible thanks to the 10,342 kind folks who donate to support our charity and our mission, and the thoughtful folks who their time and talents to the community.

Below is a list of our 611 most prolific open source contributors in 2025:

GitHub Top Contributors

• Clarence Bakosi

• Supravisor

• Giftea ☕

• Diem-Trang Pham

• Anna

• c0d1ng_ma5ter

• JungLee-Dev

• hbar1st

• dev-kamil

• Ariz Faiyaz

• agilan11

• Vinson Pham

• Stuart Mosquera

• Stephen Mutheu Muya

• Mohamad Salman

• Alex Goldsmith

• Vishnu D

• Kannan

• Tanmay Gautam

• l3onhard

• Prabhakar Yadav

• Ezoh Zhang

• Ajay A

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• Hassan Waqar

• Krzysztof G.

• Roberto Iacono

• Melvin Kosisochukwu

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• Raymond Liu

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• Yusuf Can Aşur

• Karthik Bagavathy

• Naman Khandelwal

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• Omar Rafiq

• Prashant Rathore

• Agung Saputra

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If you're interested in getting involved in the freeCodeCamp community as an open source contributor, I encourage you to read our Contributor Guide and to join our Contributor Discord.

Thanks again, and happy coding. 🏕️

If you’ve ever struggled to center something with CSS or tried to make columns line up nicely, Flexbox simplifies this dramatically. With just a few properties, you can build modern layouts that “flex” to different screen sizes, without needing to write a bunch of custom media queries.

Developer and teacher Indra (CodeWithIndra) will walk you through every Flexbox property step by step. You’ll learn how to align items along the main and cross axis, reorder elements without changing the HTML, control how items grow and shrink, and finally understand what flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis are really doing. He also shows real examples from sites like GitHub and DataDog, then demonstrates how to recreate pieces of their layout.

The course ends with two small projects: centering an element vertically and horizontally (the thing everyone Googles at some point) and building a clean navigation bar using only Flexbox.

If you want to improve your front end development skills, this course is a good way to invest a couple hours of your weekend. [2 hour YouTube course]:

But I made one major miscalculation.

I underestimated people's desire to earn certifications within less than a year of study.

With our old curriculum, you could earn your first cert in as little as 300 hours of coursework.

With our new curriculum, it takes around 1,800 hours of coursework to earn the Full Stack Developer capstone cert.

The result is that a ton of people are still choosing to study our outdated legacy cert coursework, rather than studying our new and vastly-improved full stack coursework.

I'm kind of embarrassed that it took me months to understand this.

And to be clear, there are a few other reasons that not everybody has moved over to our new full stack curriculum:

1. The curriculum is still in beta.

2. The Back End JavaScript coursework isn't live yet.

3. Our exam environment isn't live yet. So you can't sit for exams yet.

The good news is that the freeCodeCamp community is working hard to finish these three items.

We're steadily shipping the remaining coursework and finishing our exam environment. And we're hoping to get the new curriculum out of beta as early as summer.

Still, this won't address the problem I mentioned at the beginning: it takes way longer to earn the full stack cert than it takes to earn our old certs.

Well I'm happy to say we've found a solution for that.

Introducing 6 Additional, More Granular Certifications

As you may remember, for the first 9 years of freeCodeCamp's existence, we had tons of shorter certs: Responsive Web Design, Front End Libraries, Relational Databases and more.

We're going back to this model by breaking the Full Stack Development curriculum down into a series of smaller certs. You can earn these new certs along the way as you progress toward earning our Certified Full Stack Developer capstone cert.

Here's the full list of certs you'll be able to earn along the way:

1. Responsive Web Design

2. JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures

3. Front End Libraries

4. Python Programming

5. Relational Databases

6. Back End Development and APIs

The full progression will look something like this:

Each of these certs will require you to build certification projects and sit for an exam. They'll each involve around 300 hours of coursework, like our old legacy certs did.

The main difference: as you earn these certs, you'll progress toward earning our capstone cert: the Certified Full Stack Developer certification.

The finished curriculum will look something like this:

We're working to finish our exam environment so that you can sit for exams and earn our new Responsive Web Design cert and JavaScript cert as early as Halloween.

We'll release subsequent certs as we finish them, with the goal of having all six of these new certs live by summer.

So in conclusion: I underestimated people's desire for smaller, more specific certs that they could put on their résumé, CV, personal website, and LinkedIn.

I'm working hard with the freeCodeCamp community to get these new certs live and out of beta as quickly as we can.

As has always been the case, these will be FREE verified certifications with verification links and QR codes, that will live on freeCodeCamp's servers forever.

Over the past 11 years, people have earned more than 300,000 of these certifications. These represent millions of hours of learning by the global developer community.

I'm proud of our certification program, the rigor it communicates to employers, and the access it extends to anyone willing to put in the time and effort to learn.

These certs will remain a central part of our community and our mission.

FAQ

So instead of earning just one cert for completing the full stack cert curriculum, I'll earn 7?

That's correct. There will be 6 300-hour blocks of coursework (like with the old curriculum), each with their own projects and exam. After all this, you'll build a final capstone project and sit for a comprehensive final exam.

What will happen to the legacy versions of these certs?

They'll eventually expire and you'll want to earn the new version. The soonest they will expire will be 2028, and we may push that date back a bit to ensure people have time to earn the updated version of these certs.

What if I already earned a legacy version of one of these certs?

Great. You've probably learned most of the concepts that you need to earn the updated version. You'll just need to build the required final projects for that cert and sit for the exam. Then you can earn the updated cert.

Tell me about the exam environment

It's a desktop app you can use to securely take the exam for each certification. Instead of needing to go to a testing center, you can take exams at your convenience.

Our app strikes a balance between respecting people's privacy while also flagging for human review anyone who may be cheating.

Are there any other changes to the plans for the full stack cert that you haven't talked about here?

No. We're still proceeding with everything I talked about in my Christmas community update. We're making steady forward progress. The freeCodeCamp open source community is more locked-in and more productive than ever.

When should I switch from the legacy cert curriculum to the new full stack curriculum?

Immediately. If you start now, you can be one of the first people to sit for the Responsive Web Design and JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures exams once they go live.

Again, the new coursework is WAY better than the old coursework. It's more granular, more interactive, and includes more theory and more practice.

So the only change is that you're adding these new certifications along the Certified Full Stack Developer path?

That's right.

Cool. Don't you usually sign off with your catch phrase? Say the line, Bart.

Happy coding.

He immediately hustled to land freelance development clients – something he still does today on top of his full time job and raising his 4 kids.

We talk about:

• Making ends meet doing freelance work

• How to bootstrap your reputation toward getting a job in big tech

• Mistakes he sees careers changers make

• The pros and cons of working in big tech VS working at developer agencies

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Support also comes from the 11,384 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. You can join these chill human beings and help our charity's mission by going to donate.freecodecamp.org

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Shashi's conference talks and other podcast interviews: https://bento.me/shashilo

Tae'lur taught herself Python and JavaScript using freeCodeCamp and worked as a software engineer for 5 years before specializing in security engineering. Now instead of building applications, she breaks them.

We talk about:

• Making ends meet working McDonalds in Florida

• How she taught herself programming using freeCodeCamp and the #100DaysOfCode challenge

• Leveraging local meetups to make developer friends

• Moving to Thailand and working remotely

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Thanks to the 11,384 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. You can join these chill human beings and help our charity's mission by going to donate.freecodecamp.org

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Tae'lur's website and blog articles: https://taeluralexis.com

• Tae'lur's YouTube channel about working remotely in Bangkok: https://www.youtube.com/@TaelurAlexis

• Tae'lur on Twitter: https://x.com/TaelurAlexis

After one of her kids got diagnosed with autism, she left her career for 3 years to be a full-time mom. She then re-entered the workforce and now teaches other moms how to do the same through a charity called Tech-Moms. She recently won a teacher of the year award and was a top 5 finalist in a data visualization competition.

We talk about:

• How Alyson taught herself programming while working as an accountant

• How she transitioned to data analyst and ultimately data engineer

• Tips for preparing for a break from work to take care of your family or address burnout

• How to re-enter with the workforce with gusto

Support for this podcast comes from the 11,384 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. You can join these chill human beings and help our charity's mission by going to donate.freecodecamp.org

You can watch the podcast on YouTube:

You can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Alyson's new analytics consultancy: https://alysonla.com/

• The charity Alyson teaches at: https://www.tech-moms.org/

• Tech-Mom's Data class: https://github.com/Tech-Moms/data-analytics-course

• The petition site Alyson mentioned: https://playground-petition-portal-9cfaeecf.vercel.app/

• Alyson's Drake fan page: https://alysonla.github.io/drizzydrakefanpage/

• Alyson's matching game: https://alysonla.github.io/hubber-memory-game/

• Alyson substack: https://alysonsaiplayground.substack.com/

• The data visualization app Alyson that was a finalist in the recent competition: https://pixar-scroll-tale.lovable.app/

He dropped out of college but eventually worked as an engineer at IBM and has gone on to roles at many other companies, doing everything from software architecture to management. He runs CodeTV, a Bravo-style reality TV channel for developers.

We talk about:

• Jason's winding path into development from building websites for bands

• Teaching yourself programming by chasing your curiosity

• How in-person events gives you tacit knowledge that makes you a better engineer

• How a having broad range of skills ultimately helps you build better projects

Thanks to the 11,384 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. You can join these chill human beings and help our charity's mission by going to donate.freecodecamp.org

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• CodeTV: https://codetv.dev/

• The CodeTV YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnty0z0pNRDgnuoirYXnC5A

• Jason's website: https://jason.energy/

Ryan dropped out of college and worked as a musician and violin instructor. He spent 5 years teaching himself how to program before getting freelance gigs, and ultimately landing developer jobs.

We talk about:

• Life as a broke musician

• Teaching yourself to code while working full-time

• How Ryan had to move back in with his parents after a divorce

• His 5-year journey to his first developer job

Also, I want to thank the 11,384 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Links we talk about during our conversation:

Ryan's podcast, Web Dev Dialogues: https://www.webdevdialogues.com/episodes

Ryan's website: https://www.ryanfurrer.com

A freeCodeCamp course on the Astro front end development framework taught by freeCodeCamp podcast guest James Q Quick: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-the-astro-web-framework/

More Francesco has published courses on learning Docker and the Rust programming language.

We talk about:

• How Francesco worked as a volleyball coach until we was 32, before getting serious about coding

• Francesco's work on coding satellites

• How he's given dozens of talks about emerging tools at major tech conferences

• How he creates tech tutorials even though he's a proud introvert who has to put himself out there

You can watch the interview on the freeCodeCamp YouTube channel.

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

A huge thanks to the 11,384 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. You can join these chill human beings and help our mission by going to https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Francesco's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@francescociulla

• Francesco's upcoming book on Rust: https://mybook.to/YJI6DI

• Francesco's personal website and all his links: https://www.francescociulla.com

I built the first version of freeCodeCamp's website in 2014. And now more than half a million people use freeCodeCamp every day.

Our tiny charity is able to help so many people thanks to clever use of technology and the help of thousands of volunteers.

In this brief article, I'll tell you how you can support our mission by donating. And I'll give you all the information you need to get involved.

How transparent is freeCodeCamp.org?

Very. We have a Platinum transparency rating from GuideStar.org.

You can download our IRS Determination Letter here.

And you can download our most recent 990 (annual tax report) here.

How efficient is freeCodeCamp?

freeCodeCamp's budget is much smaller than most comparable charities. Part of that is because I am admittedly bad at fundraising. We haven't brought in professional fundraisers. Instead, I just do everything myself.

Am I a fool for doing this? Maybe. But I can look you in the eye and tell you exactly where all the money is going, because I oversee everything myself.

I can also tell you that – on a budget of only a few hundred thousand dollars per year – we have been able to help millions of people.

What's the most common way people support freeCodeCamp?

You can set up a simple \(5 / month donation to our charity here. We are a very donation-efficient charity, and every \)5 you donate will help us provide more than 250 hours of learning to people around the world.

More than 11,000 kind people support us this way every month.

Depending on where you are in the world, $5 per month may not seem like much money. But it does add up, and this monthly approach makes it easier for our charity to budget its mission.

How can I make a one-time donation?

If you'd prefer to make one-time donations, you can support freeCodeCamp's mission whenever you have cash to spare. You can use this link to donate whatever amount feels right through PayPal.

If you'd prefer to use a credit card to make a one-time donation, here are some quick links you can use. Just click the "checkout" button and you can input your information securely into Stripe (only they will see your credit card information):

• Make a one-time donation of $20

• Make a one-time donation of $65

• Make a one-time donation of $100

Does freeCodeCamp accept donations in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies?

Yes, and we would welcome your cryptocurrency donations. Please email quincy@freecodecamp.org and he can give you a wallet address for whichever currency you'd like to donate.

Can I mail a physical check?

Yes, we would welcome a check. You can mail it to us at:

Free Code Camp, Inc.
3905 Hedgcoxe Rd
PO Box 250352
Plano, TX 75025

How can I set up matching gifts from my employer, or payroll deductions?

This varies from employer to employer, and our charity is already listed in many of the big donation-matching databases.

Some people are able to volunteer for freeCodeCamp and their employer matches by donating a fixed amount per hour they volunteer. Other employers will match any donations the donors make up to a certain amount.

If you need help with this, please email me directly: quincy@freecodecamp.org.

How can I set up an Endowment Gift to freeCodeCamp.org?

This would be a huge help. Since this is a more manual process, I can help walk you through it personally. Please email me directly at quincy@freecodecamp.org.

How can I donate stock to freeCodeCamp.org?

We would welcome your stock donations. Please email me directly and I can help you with this, and share our charity’s brokerage account details: quincy@freecodecamp.org.

How can I set up a Legacy gift to freeCodeCamp.org?

We would be honored to put such a gift to good use helping people around the world learn to code. Depending on where you live, this may also be tax exempt.

You can add this language, or something like it, to your will:

I give, devise, and bequeath [the sum of _____ USD (or other currency) OR _____ percent of the rest and residue of my estate] to freeCodeCamp.org (Free Code Camp, Inc. tax identification number 82-0779546), a charitable corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, currently located at 3905 Hedgcoxe Rd, PO Box 250352, Plano, Texas, 75025 United States, to be used for its general charitable purposes at its discretion.

And I'd like to thank the Wikimedia Foundation for providing this formal language for us to use.

Again, if you have any questions about this process, please email me at quincy@freecodecamp.org.

Can I donate Microsoft Rewards points or Bing points?

Yes. If you use Microsoft Rewards, you can donate your points to freeCodeCamp through Give with Bing. These are sometimes called Bing points or Microsoft points.

You can use this Give with Bing link for Free Code Camp, Inc. to make a one-time points donation, or you can set up a monthly recurring donation of your points.

This does not charge your credit card. Microsoft converts your points redemption into a cash donation through Benevity, and those donations help support freeCodeCamp’s servers, services, staff, and education initiatives.

Can I get a donation receipt so that I can deduct my donation from my taxes?

Absolutely. Just forward the receipt from your transaction to donors@freecodecamp.org, and tell us you'd like a receipt and any special instructions you may have, and we'll reply with a receipt for you.

I set up a monthly donation, but I need to update or pause the monthly recurrence. How can I do this?

Just forward one of your monthly donation receipts to donors@freecodecamp.org and tell us what you'd like us to do. We'll take care of this for you and send you confirmation.

Is there anything else I can learn about donating to freeCodeCamp.org?

I think that's everything. I’m just a teacher who is still learning a lot of this as I go.

If there is some other way you'd like to support our charity and its mission that isn't listed here, or if you have any questions at all, please email me at quincy@freecodecamp.org.

I am honored by the faith you have placed in freeCodeCamp.org to be a good steward of the global developer community. We will take seriously all donations, and any questions you may have about our charity. May peace be with you.

Jesse has created tons of tutorials over the years on YouTube and on freeCodeCamp. We talk about his coding journey, how the field has changed over the few years, and how hype has distorted peoples' perception of getting into code.

We talk about:

• Growing up in a one stop light town

• Teaching himself to code for free using freeCodeCamp

• How he created YouTube tutorials to inspire his kids, then got quite good at it

• How Jesse's early interest in Web3 lead him to needing to "dig himself out of the grave" of being "the NFT tutorial guy"

Support also comes from the 11,384 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. Join these kind folks and help our mission by going to https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Jesse's tutorials on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/author/codeSTACKr/

• Jesse's course on how to set up and configure the VS Code editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJEbVCrEMSE

We talk about his experience getting laid off as a dev, and how we prepared for his mid-career job search.

We talk about:

• How Caleb got laid off and went about landing his next developer job

• How most people sleep on networking and recruiters, but shouldn't

• Why Caleb is so serious about teaching system design concepts

• How Caleb pairs his deep focus with broad extracurricular learning through podcasts and white papers

Support comes from the 11,343 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. Join these kind folks and help our mission by going to https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Caleb's course on Database Design: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/database-design-full-course-43233664125b/

• Caleb's system design lecture playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e7yQ43bUtg&list=PL_c9BZzLwBRLSs6x50D5WIH76VCUxJs9E

• Caleb on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebcurry/

Anjana was an English teacher who studied computational linguistics, and found building software to be more fun than actual research.

She's worked at ton of tech companies and has freelance clients. She shares some excellent tips on learning new skills and avoiding burnout.

We talk about:

• How Anjana taught herself to code in her 30s

• Being an American dev working in Europe

• Stress, burnout, and how she gets by

• How skills from your previous non-developer career can help differentiate you as a developer

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Support comes from the 11,243 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. Join these kind folks and help our mission by going to https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• "How to be the ideal newb" article: https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/

• "Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle" book that Anjana mentions: https://www.amazon.com/Burnout-Secret-Unlocking-Stress-Cycle/dp/198481706X

• Anjana's website: https://anjana.dev/

We talk about:

• How Vaughn struggled with high school and joined the Navy

• How he learned Japanese so he could work as a personal trainer in Japan

• How he learned coding using freeCodeCamp as a way to make more time and more money

• His pragmatic approach for teaching himself new skills for free

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Vaughn's YouTube channel and his approach to pursuing multiple skills in tandem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnsjmsgJS8

• Vaughn on Instagram where he posts guitar: https://www.instagram.com/vaughngene/