Our expanded curriculum is now live on beta.freecodecamp.com and we need your help QA'ing it

The Game of Life project will remain on freeCodeCamp.com after we switch over to our new expanded curriculum, but it won’t be part of the curriculum itself. It is still a valuable exercise, but if you’re in a hurry, you can instead build the React projects that are on beta.freecodecamp.com.

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Thanks for your feedback, and your kind words. I would argue that these new certificate names will look much better on resumes than the old ones, as they are much more focused.

Information Security skills in particular are increasingly important.

I like your chart though and will keep your suggestions in mind.

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Yes - we anticipated such a panic, and plan to require as few new projects as possible. In all cases, we’re replacing harder projects with slightly easier ones (and all projects will be much easier now that they have test suites that will help eliminate ambiguity).

As for some people having more than 6 certificates, this will be a very small number of people in the grand scheme of things, and having the old certificates will distinguish them as early campers.

For example, now if you want to create a Twitter account, your handle must be at least 5 characters long. But there are still thousands of people with Twitter handles shorter than that.

I don’t think new campers will think too much about this, but seasoned campers may notice and respect the fact that someone completed one of the old certificates “back in the day.” :slight_smile:

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@CandiW It was on beta FCC, I’m sorry i should have clarified

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@QuincyLarson Hi, Quincy thank you for inspiring so much people all around the globe. By the way I was wondering do you plan to translate the new curriculum into French?

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Thanks for the tips.

Going to be trying it out!

Not really sure which direction to take now that this is on the horizon. I already have the front end and data viz certs and was planning on spending the next month working on the Dynamic Web Application projects before finally moving on the non-profits.

I saw it answered earlier that if you have all three certs you can still knock out the non-profit projects, which would count towards completion of the new final Open Source cert.

The problem is that these dynamic web application projects are massive and are not on the new curriculum. I want to be able to move on to the non-profits as I had previously planned to, but I don’t want to waste a month working on projects that are going to be phased out.

My question is this: if I were instead to complete the new API and Microservice projects and the new Information Security and Quality Assurance projects, would those, coupled with my current data viz and front end certs, qualify me to begin working on the non-profits before the update occurs?

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Yup, and I’m actually impressed! This is a open-source free online bootcamp and has such a active support .

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Hi, i’m only planning to start freecodecamp and wondering where to start. Old curriculum or new one?

Old curriculum, the new one will be implemented on the old one . If you start completing challenges on beta the stats won’t be saved. If you want to contribute you can still check the beta and post bugs etc.

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Thank you for an enlightening statement on the larger picture.

I agree, and that’s how “the world” and many employers see it. Are you a front-end, back-end, or full-stack developer? That’s the question we’re currently asked.

I LOVE the addition of the new certifications, though. Love them! I would just like to also see the front- and back-end certifications ‘inserted’ where appropriate as you mentioned.

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From what I understand, in an average case, a person should complete the entire Full Stack (cert) map and that is until the full stack certificate is completed, before one would be really and fully ready for work at a company as either a Front-end or Back-end developer. So if the Front-end and Back-end certs were inserted into the new course map, then those 2 certs would both come at the very end, at the same time as when we receive the Full Stack cert. I believe that makes the Front and Back certs obsolete. That’s how I understand it, but I might be wrong…you can read this answer which helped me. ( Answer from Quincy )

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Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions :slight_smile: I really appreciate it. I’ve since finished the Game of Life and I’m glad to hear it will still be on the main site. I agree it is a valuable exercise, and that was my main concern as all of the projects are great learning experiences.

Thanks again - Candis W.

No worries :slight_smile:

Just wanted to help out if you were having trouble…

Thank you for answering all of our questions…this info is really helpful to all of us :slight_smile:

If you’re just starting out, I would go ahead with the old curriculum. It’s valuable experience and I don’t believe some of the first challenges are changing too much. And I think the new curriculum is a few weeks away, by what I’m reading in some of the posts here. Hope this helps :slight_smile:

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