New Certifications?

[Luca]

Hi folks,

I thought new Certifications were meant to be dropping today. Has there been any official communication regarding the delay? Or am I looking in the wrong place?

Wish you all a great 2020,

Luca

[ILM]

there was nothing programmed for January 1st
any announcement said “sometimes in 2020”

[Luca]

Here is a screenshot from https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-curriculum/

[ArielLeslie]

There was an announcement in December that they were no longer going to try to push for January 1st because it would require the team to grind through the holidays rather than spend time with their families. (The page just didn’t get updated.)

However, last week they opened up early access to the Python projects on a limited scale. (Note: Only the final projects are ready, the practice challenges building up to them will be part of the new curriculum.)

How to get early access to the new Python certification projects

Hey everyone, I have some quick updates on Version 7.0 of the freeCodeCamp curriculum. @beaucarnes and @scissorsneedfoodtoo have made remarkable progress with designing these new certification projects. We are just about ready to publish these new certification projects on freeCodeCamp. Initially you will build these on REPL.it. Then, later in 2020, we will finish our new freeCodeCamp Editor. This will give you the option of building these projects right on freeCodeCamp.org. (The same with a…

[Luca]

Thanks!
Can’t wait for the new content to drop