Do you remember that late night when you wrote your very first lines of code, held your breath, hit run, and saw the screen change? That quiet spark of realization—that you can build something out of nothing—changes a human life forever.
Quincy Larson and the global freeCodeCamp family did something extraordinary: they took that life-changing gift and gave it away to the entire world for free. No debt, no paywalls, no barriers. It has lifted veterans, single parents, blue-collar workers, and kids with borrowed laptops into dignified software careers across every continent.
- "Remember Where You Came From": We didn’t come to freeCodeCamp with an agenda, a sales pitch, or a demand. We came with our work boots on, happy to carry water and chop wood.
- TypeScript Async Challenge Refinements: We quietly submitted surgical bug fixes and test runner improvements to asynchronous promise challenges, ensuring that when a student is studying at 2:00 AM, the compiler gives them clear, empathetic, human guidance rather than frustrating red errors.
No matter how many advanced doctoral degrees we hold, or how complex our enterprise architectures become, we will always maintain a beginner’s mind, a "happy to be here" spirit, and a lifelong commitment to leave the open-source campsite cleaner than we found it.
Below is the original upstream documentation for freeCodeCamp.org.
freeCodeCamp.org is a friendly community where you can learn to code for free. It is run by a donor-supported 501(c)(3) charity to help millions of busy adults transition into tech. Our community has already helped more than 100,000 people get their first developer job.
Our full-stack web development and machine learning curriculum is completely free and self-paced. We have thousands of interactive coding challenges to help you expand your skills.
- Certifications
- The Learning Platform
- Reporting Bugs and Issues
- Reporting Security Issues and Responsible Disclosure
- Contributing
- Platform, Build and Deployment Status
- License
freeCodeCamp.org offers several free developer certifications that make up the Full-Stack Developer Curriculum:
- Responsive Web Design
- JavaScript
- Front-End Development Libraries
- Python
- Relational Databases
- Back-End Development and APIs
Each of these certifications involves completing interactive lessons, workshops, labs, reviews, and quizzes. Throughout the certification, you'll need to complete 5 required projects to qualify for the exam. Once you pass the exam, then you can claim the certification.
freeCodeCamp.org also offers free language certifications designed around internationally recognized proficiency levels:
- A2 English for Developers (Beta)
- B1 English for Developers (Beta)
- A1 Professional Spanish (Beta)
- A1 Professional Chinese (Beta)
Each of these certifications is organized into modules, with sections for warm-ups, lessons, practice exercises, review pages, and quizzes to ensure you fully grasp the material before progressing to the next module. You'll need to complete all of the quizzes in order to qualify for the exam at the end of the certification.
Once you've earned a certification, you will always have it. You will always be able to link to it from your LinkedIn or resume. And when your prospective employers or freelance clients click that link, they'll see a verified certification specific to you.
The one exception to this is if we discover violations of our Academic Honesty Policy. When we catch people unambiguously plagiarizing (submitting other people's code or projects as their own without citation), we do what all rigorous institutions of learning should do - we revoke their certifications and ban those people.
In addition, to help prepare for job interviews, freeCodeCamp.org includes The Odin Project (freeCodeCamp Remix), Coding Interview Prep, Project Euler, and Rosetta Code.
A free, professional Foundational C# with Microsoft Certification is also available.
This code is running live at freeCodeCamp.org.
Our community also has:
- A forum where you can usually get programming help or project feedback within hours.
- A YouTube channel with free courses on Python, SQL, Android, and a wide variety of other technologies.
- A technical publication with thousands of programming tutorials and articles about mathematics and computer science.
- A Discord server where you can hang out and talk with developers and people who are learning to code.
If you think you've found a bug, first read the how to report a bug article and follow its instructions.
If you're confident it's a new bug and have confirmed that someone else is facing the same issue, go ahead and create a new GitHub issue. Be sure to include as much information as possible so we can reproduce the bug.
We appreciate responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities that might impact the integrity of our platforms and users.
The freeCodeCamp.org community is possible thanks to thousands of kind volunteers like you. We welcome all contributions to the community and are excited to welcome you aboard.
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