freeCodeCamp Turns 10 + Major Certification Updates

Hi freeCodeCamp contributors and forum campers,

I’m thrilled to share that this week, freeCodeCamp turned 10 years old. Happy birthday to the community!

Over the past 10 years, we’ve built:

  1. An interactive 3,000-hour core curriculum that teaches Math, Programming, and Computer Science
  2. A library of more than 12,000 programming tutorials – and dozens of full-length books – on our publication
  3. A YouTube channel with more than 1,000 free full-length courses. We just hit 10 million subscribers a few days ago.
  4. The kindest, most supportive programming forum on the planet. And we have a similarly kind Discord server, too.

I’ve prepared this document sharing many of the major curriculum improvements we’re working on, and I’d value any thoughts you all have, or questions you may have about it: freeCodeCamp Turns 10 + Major Certification Updates

If I get some good questions from you all, or a lot of heavily-upvoted questions, I can add them and answers to them to the article.

Thanks and happy coding!

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Very excited about your plans for the next 10 years. You’re doing an amazing job! Can’t wait to get stuck into the new certifications.

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Some good stuff! Thank you for the efforts you’ve made and you’re continuing to make.

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Haha. Well if you get stuck, you can rest assure that you’ll have kind peers like yourself to help you get unstuck :slight_smile:

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Hi! Just finished Backend Dev/API projects but my project status got disappeared as soon as I claimed for certificate. Is it related to the updates?

Wow, that is exciting @QuincyLarson. I can’t wait to see this evolve.

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No it’s not, please open a topic describing your issue

The article was a thrilling read. So many of the difficulties I encountered on my learning journey were covered in the new improvements that I have this uncanny feeling someone was reading my mind!

I especially love the addition of guides, reviews and more theory to the lesson plans. This combined with the existing practical method of project-based learning is sure to bring the quality of fCC’s curriculum to a whole new level.

So exciting.

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You are a wizard! @QuincyLarson, happy! happy! joy! joy! :tada: :sparkler:

Hi !
I’m at step 79 of Learn CSS grid by building a magazine. My media queries have been applied successfully and are working very well but, my code does not pass.
What should I do? I getting stucked here!
Thank you.

Hi there @wemoren !

Welcome to the FCC forum. If you have any questions about specific curriculum challenge. Create a topic to the challenge step using Help button.

Congratulations! What a feat :clap: :clap: Thank you for all you do, coding, freeCodeCamp, and all contributors.

Hoping to get to the article later. Thanks for the quick insight.

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nice job! I have been enjoying my time with the free resources so far. i just need some clarification concerning the current certifications. will the certificates no longer be available even if completed as a ‘legacy’ course after the update?

If you claimed them they will be available, but with an expiration date. At one point it will not be possible to claim legacy certifications anymore

that point being Dec 25?

it depends on how things are rolled out