I just published my book: Learn to Code & Get a Developer Job in 2023.🏕️

And I made the entire book freely available on freeCodeCamp.📖

When you read it, you'll learn how to:
🛠️Build your coding skills,
🕸️Personal network,
🏛️Reputation as a developer,
👷And get a developer job Back in 2017, one of the Big 5 book publishers from New York City reached out to me about a book deal.

I met with them, but didn't have time to write a book. I was too busy running freeCodeCamp.

Well, last year I finally had time to sit down and write it.

I'm proud to share freeCodeCamp learner Noëlle's inspiring story with you.

These are her own words, from her Instagram: instagram.com/noeycodes/

"When I was 19, I dropped out of college because I was $20,000 in student loan debt and could no longer afford the price of classes." "That same year, I discovered I was pregnant with twin girls. I had to move back in to my parents’ house and work full time hours at minimum wage (then about $8/hour) to make ends meet."

Happy 8th birthday to the global freeCodeCamp community. 🎂🎇

I some big announcements for you all about our progress on:
📊 Python Data Science courses
🧮 Free Associate of Mathematics university degree
💾 Free Bachelor of Computer Science degree

To summarize in 1 picture: We are working to make it possible for anyone – anywhere in the world – to work toward earning free, accredited university degrees.

This vision may take a decade or longer to accomplish. But we have already made substantial progress toward realizing it.

People often ask me: "How can I build a community?"

Over the past 8 years building @freeCodeCamp, I've observed several approaches that seem to work. And I've seen other community builders use them, too.

I hope these community building tips will help you in your journey. 🌄 Note that I am lucky enough to have US citizenship, and to be physically + mentally well. And I'm a white guy in a world largely controlled by white men.

Your mileage may vary.

None of these tips are rocket science. They just require patience, mindfulness, and curiosity.

I'm excited to share freeCodeCamp's big goal for the next decade:

📜 To provide computer science bachelor's degrees...
🏛️ from an accredited US university...
🆓 for free.

[thread] 🧵

freecodecamp.org/news/free-accr… We want this degree program to be freely available to anyone anywhere on the planet.

Regardless of their socioeconomic background, or their ability to obtain a US visa.

Take the 2022 Become-a-Dev New Year's Resolution Challenge:
📊Max your stats in #LearnToCodeRPG
⌨️Start #100DaysOfCode
🛢️Finish the fCC Relational Databases Cert
📜Publish 3 tutorials on @Hashnode
To accept: quote-retweet this saying "I'm in." I'll add you to my Twitter list. 🧵 @hashnode I've written this article with all the details of the challenge (3 minute read): freecodecamp.org/news/2022-beco…

Introducing Learn To Code RPG: a video game where you learn to code and get a developer job.

🎮Hours of gameplay
🎨Original art & music
📚600+ Comp Sci quiz questions
🚀50+ Easter Eggs to discover
👀6 different endings
🎆All FREE & open source. You can download and play it now. After months of hard work, @lynnzheng08 and I have finished the first build of this game. A huge thank you to these chill human beings for helping create conceptual questions, code, and editing:

@EstefaniaCassN
@codergirl1991
@DeniseLemonaki
@nhcarrigan
@abbeyrenn
@beaucarnes

If it weren't for the USPS, @freeCodeCamp would never have existed.

It costs a lot of money to run a nonprofit. Servers. Legal. Payroll.

How did a teacher living in a one-bedroom apartment pull together $150,000 to fund a nonprofit?

In short: by using USPS. [Thread] For years I had a side hustle:

1. Find large lots of old video games on Craigslist.

2. Drive around the state buying them up.

3. Sell the games individually on eBay to a world-wide market.

Without USPS, I couldn't have done any of this.

Hi friends, in solidarity with those demanding justice and equality, I am going to stop tweeting about programming for the next few days.

Instead, I'm going to leave you with this thread. I hope it will give you some context into what is happening here in the US. The US has a messy history. Our economic success as a British colony was largely due to slavery. Hundreds of years later, these wounds have still not healed. We pretended they don't exist. But they do.

We're almost done building @freeCodeCamp's updated platform. Rather than ship buggy code on Christmas, we're going to keep hammering on it.🛠

So to make up for the delay, here's a list of 10 new free learning resources, so you can make the most of this last week of 2017!🎄🎊 New Free Learning Resource #1: This interactive CSS Grid course by @perborgen will teach you an exciting new way to build responsive user interfaces. (~5 hour interactive course) medium.freecodecamp.org/heres-my-free-…