This is the press kit for freeCodeCamp.org.
Contact information:
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For interview requests, speaking engagements, or social media questions, please contact our founder, Quincy Larson, at quincy@freecodecamp.org.
About freeCodeCamp.org
Quincy Larson founded freeCodeCamp.org in 2014 to help people transition into tech careers using free online learning resources.
freeCodeCamp's mission is to help people learn to code for free.
freeCodeCamp launched our community YouTube channel and our community publication shortly thereafter.
In 2020, the community started localizing the curriculum, tutorials, and video courses into various world languages to make free programming education more accessible to everyone.
freeCodeCamp's staff and volunteer contributors are distributed around the world and work hard to continue creating free learning resources for aspiring developers.
freeCodeCamp.org Fact Sheet
- freeCodeCamp is a 501(c)(3) public charity. People all over the world learn to code online for free using freeCodeCamp's open-source curriculum, free tutorials, and YouTube courses.
- More than 1 million people use freeCodeCamp every day to learn how to code.
- freeCodeCamp has an alumni association on LinkedIn with more than 200,000 alumni, many of whom work at big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Google. https://www.linkedin.com/school/free-code-camp/people/
- freeCodeCamp's core curriculum prepares learners in the key programming skills most employers are looking for in 2022: Python, JavaScript, SQL, Git, Linux, HTML and CSS.
- Our charity runs the largest programming channel on YouTube, with 5.86 million subscribers. We have made more than 700 full-length programming courses freely available there, and we publish new courses every week. https://www.youtube.com/c/freecodecamp
- We also have more than 8,000 searchable programming tutorials on our English publication: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news
- freeCodeCamp is the most-starred open source repository on all of GitHub. It has more stars from developers than projects from Google, Microsoft, and even Linux. It currently has 349,000 stars. https://github.com/freecodecamp/freecodecamp
Important Information
Quincy Larson's Bio
Quincy Larson is a teacher and school director from Oklahoma. At age 31, he started learning to code using free online courses and attending hackathons.
After working as a software engineer, he founded freeCodeCamp.org to help other busy adults also learn to code and transition into tech careers.
More than a million people now use freeCodeCamp courses each day, and 10,000s of people have used it to successfully transition into software development careers.
What's New at freeCodeCamp?
- The freeCodeCamp community is localizing the curriculum and thousands of tutorials into a number of world languages.
- The freeCodeCamp community also recently completely revamped our Responsive Web Design certification
- The freeCodeCamp community is expanding the DevDocs.io documentation search engine: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs.
- The freeCodeCamp community is releasing Chapter, an open source meetup.com alternative for multi-chapter organizations: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter
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The freeCodeCamp Curriculum
New Responsive Web Design Certification
The freeCodeCamp Community Publication
The freeCodeCamp Community Forum
The freeCodeCamp Community YouTube Channel
freeCodeCamp in the News
freeCodeCamp has benefitted from main-stream press coverage in Wired Magazine, Business Insider, and even MIT News:
Podcast Interviews Featuring freeCodeCamp's Founder, Quincy Larson
- GitHub Podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-readme-podcast/freecodecamp-for-curious-aS5e92YZHi8/
- This Week in Startups: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/this-week-in/e1049-freecodecamp-founder-gPJs3CjqGWv/
- The Changelog Podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-changelog-software-development-open-7o41SvyO8z_/
Testimonials
freeCodeCamp Logo
freeCodeCamp's logo appears in two variations.
Here's the full logo:
And here's the campfire glyph:
Here's a link to freeCodeCamp's Design Style Guide if you need further information.
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Quincy Larson founded freeCodeCamp.org in 2014 to help people transition into tech careers using free online learning resources.
freeCodeCamp's mission is to help people learn to code for free.
freeCodeCamp launched our community YouTube channel and our community publication shortly thereafter.
In 2020, the community started localizing the curriculum, tutorials, and video courses into various world languages to make free programming education more accessible to everyone.
freeCodeCamp's staff and volunteer contributors are distributed around the world and work hard to continue creating free learning resources for aspiring developers.