The web based version of the Relational Database curriculum is here! Follow the steps below to run the courses in your browser. If you want to run them locally instead, you can learn how here. Note: you cannot earn your certification running these locally.
How to get started
Follow these steps to get started with the browser version of the courses:
- First, you will need to create a GitHub account if don’t have one.
If you don’t want to save your progress, you can skip to step 4 after you have a GitHub account.
Note: You cannot earn your certification without saving your progress. - After that, go to http://freecodecamp.org/learn/relational-database/
- To save your progress on freeCodeCamp.org, you will need to be signed in. Click the sign in button at the top right and sign in if you aren’t already.
Note: If you sign out of freeCodeCamp after you start a course but before you finish, your progress will not be saved to you freeCodeCamp account. - Go to http://freecodecamp.org/learn/relational-database/
- Click on one of the courses to go to the course page.
- Find and click the button to “start the course”.
- Gitpod will open in a new tab. If you are not signed in to Gitpod, you can login with GitHub by clicking the “Continue with GitHub” button.
- Gitpod will load a vitual machine for you. Once it is finished loading, you need to start CodeRoad to run the course. Do that by clicking the “hamburger” menu button at the top left of VSCode, going to the “View” menu, clicking on the “Command Palette” option, and running the “CodeRoad: Start” command. See this gif:
Follow the instructions in CodeRoad to go through the course. If you get stuck at any point, see the troubleshooting steps below.
You can learn more about Gitpod here.
Troubleshooting
If you’re stuck in some way, continue reading to learn how to troubleshoot some of the issues we’ve seen…
Issues with starting a course:
Your container loaded, but the terminal is not visible
To open the terminal, click on the hamburger menu on the upper left corner > Terminal > New Terminal.
Issues within a course:
Stuck on a step
There’s various issues that make it so you might not be able pass or run a step. The first thing you should try is using the reset button on CodeRoad. That will reset your progress to the beginning of the step you are on - you will have to do the step again. If that doesn’t work, try exiting the terminal by typing exit into it, and opening a new one.
Issues with your progress getting saved:
You finished a course but don’t see check mark next to it when going back to your freeCodeCamp account
Refresh the page to see if that works. A page refresh is required before you see the check mark.
The checkmark still didn’t show up
After the last step of a course, you will see a ‘continue’ button to finish it:
Clicking ‘continue’ is what triggers your progress to get saved. There’s a chance you didn’t click it or something went wrong. Open your finished course back up and it should take you to that screen. Click the continue button again to save your progress to your freeCodeCamp account.
How to save your files for certification projects
When you complete one of the certification projects, you will be asked to save your files somewhere and submit a link to them on freeCodeCamp. Each project has instructions how to create the files and what files you need to save and submit.
In the image above, the file explorer is the left panel with the universe.sql file in it. If you don’t see this panel, click the icon on the far left that looks like two pieces of paper to open it. It’s the one highlighted in white. Once the panel is open, click on a file to open it in the main editor and see the contents of the file. Select all of the contents and copy them. Create a file on your computer with the same name as the file you copied and paste the contents into it. Upload your file(s) somewhere public and submit the URL to them on freeCodeCamp.
Other issues:
You are stuck in some other way
Create a new topic on the forum and someone can help you troubleshoot the problem
