I’m unable to get past verifying with CodeAlly via GitHub. I’m already signed into GitHub so I don’t have to do anything more than check the terms and conditions. Once it says authorizing, it redirects me back to the initial start page and this process just continues. I’m unable to begin the course.
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Thanks for your reply, but I would really like to earn the certification with fCC. Looking at that post, it seems like the person’s issue was resolved. My problem is that it’s redirecting me back to fCC without any changes. It doesn’t say authorized or anything. It just redirects me and I have to start over again.
It looks resolved because the OP of that thread thought it was resolved and marked a reply as resolved. But many people, across browsers, OSes, etc. are still having the exact same problem now – fCC redirects to CodeAlly, they can log in with GitHub and click the button to give authorization, and then CodeAlly goes to a redirect page with two loading icons, but only one of them ever finishes loading and the page never redirects back to fCC. Even if your problem isn’t exactly the same as that, it seems like something is pretty broken at the moment. (The course is undergoing maintenance, after all.)
I completely agree that not getting the cert is incredibly annoying, but my cope is that once fCC/CodeAlly fixes this, it won’t be overly difficult to redo the required-for-certification parts of the RDB course. Plus, both paths offer very useful experiences, IMHO – the local course has you using VS Code, which is good to get used to instead of the comparatively bare-bones fCC editor; the browser version is (will be ) useful for folks like me who have zero understanding of GitHub.
It bites even more for me because I actually have an Info Systems degree, so I already understand the major ideas behind database programming. The cert is one of the two main reasons I’m doing fCC in the first place (the other reason being just to keep my skills sharp – which is why I’m still doing the local RDB course). All that to say, I’m with ya. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.
This has been like that for past couple of months. The course is in maintenance mode. The CodeAlly integration with FCC is completely broken. If you don’t care about the certificate you may just run the course locally on your machine, but even in that many people are still facing issues.
I’m genuinely frustrated & mad that the course I was planning to learn has these technical issues & that I can’t do much besides waiting for the FCC/CodeAlly team to fix the issues.
you may just run the course locally on your machine, but even in that many people are still facing issues
My hunch is that people just aren’t used to how the course works. Most of the complaints I’ve seen have to do with Bash scripting or the Mario DB, which being the first two parts of the RDB course, you’d expect beginners to have issues with.
In particular, it doesn’t seem like there’s an efficient “reset challenge” for the local RDB course. Did you add a column to the wrong table (like I just did a few minutes ago)? Better remember how to drop it from that table, because that’s the only “reset” you have, apart from agonizingly restarting the whole tutorial from step 1.
Apart from that, the local course does seem pretty polished for what it is, though.
I’m genuinely frustrated & mad that the course I was planning to learn has these technical issues & that I can’t do much besides waiting for the FCC/CodeAlly team to fix the issues.
Amen to that! Then again, fCC is an AMAZING free resource, so I’m still grateful for this site.
That’s true, I’ve went through all the existing RDB posts in this forum & almost all are either with the bash topic or mario db topic. I was just trying to follow the order of the lectures, i should try another lecture & see if I face any issues.
I’m not even a beginner, I do have some programming knowledge prior. So I tried digging deeper into this issue yesterday which I shared here in this forum post. "Test runner failed" - #5 by samirmishra27
Amen to that! Then again, fCC is an AMAZING free resource, so I’m still grateful for this site.
No doubt! I applaud FCC for the great initiative they’re doing for teaching tech to people. Sometimes there can be technical issues with these things. And they would take time to be identified & get solved by the team like in any other software development. Hope this gets resolved sooner.
Damn, I thought there would be some fix when I started to read the different posts on the forum regarding these issues but all of them just seem to work one day without explanation so I guess we have to keep trying.
Hey! I’m facing the same issue here. I got all certificates until now and it is time to go to the backend certs. Finished d3 is projects yesterday and went straight to databases but I got the same error as you guys in this post.
When I log in to Codeally with GitHub, it redirects me to fcc to start the boilerplate course and I’m back to step zero. I’m on Windows 10 OS.
Do you think I should try to run this on a Linux installation? I’ve never used one before and It’s going to take some time to me to get one set .
Meanwhile, I’m going to do API certification. I’m planning to get all certs to quality assurance, it bothers me to not be able to follow the recommend path, that’s why I ask you what you think of trying this way with a Linux OS. Or do you think going back to the initial page it is on purpose because of the maintenance? If that it is the case, I don’t think it’s a smart decision to hide from the students what’s going on, and I was very unlucky to have this just now, because I started fcc Nov, 17th, 22, almost exactly one year ago.
Do you think I should try to run this on a Linux installation?
As someone who uses Linux as my daily driver OS, maybe don’t do that to yourself right now lol. The learning curve from Windows to, say, Ubuntu isn’t terrible, but it’s unnecessary. Linux won’t do anything to change your browsing experience. Besides, VS Code probably runs best on Windows anyway (updates can be more annoying on Linux), and I don’t think Visual Studio even works on Linux (if you were thinking about doing C# or other MS-specific things).
When I log in to Codeally with GitHub, it redirects me to fcc to start the boilerplate course and I’m back to step zero.
I’m actually getting that now too. I’ve tried re-clicking “Start the course,” and it almost works for me! CodeAlly loads, and it has a button for “Run with CodeAlly,” and it loads a VM running VS Code! Then it tries to run CodeRoad in the VM, and for some reason, the tab for CodeRoad in VS Code is completely blank…
One last thing. I think it’s still possible to get the RDB cert, because I think I can still make a public GitHub repo and give the link into fCC for each of the required-for-certification challenges. It shouldn’t be super difficult either, because the local RDB course even explains how to make a dump of your database (I just completed the Celestial Bodies part, which explicitly tells you to set up a GitHub repo and post a dump of the database to it). Hopefully some of that made sense.
Hi my friend! thank you for the welcome! Yes, I have a C# background knowlege and I want to get this certification too. I was thinking in install linux on an old notebook. get a light distribution on it.
Today I’ve started the backend and api course. Since its running nice and clean, I’ll stick to this path for now, and hope they finish the maintence untill I finish this course. If they don’t, I’ll start quality assurance and then C#. I really hope they will have solved this issue by then.
If it was a problem only with my setup, I would try harder to solve it. If it is a everyone problem, including other OS, I’m going to wait a little before go throught the course risking to not get the certification. If you manage to get the certification running local, please tell us how to do it . Thank you again
) useful for folks like me who have zero understanding of GitHub.
