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Quincy Larson is the creator of an open source community called freeCodeCamp. We talked with Quincy about “the secret to getting good at coding”, their curriculum that spans a solid year (totaling 2,080 hours) of deliberate coding practice, plans for financial sustainability of the project, and the people behind it on the leading/teaching side and the camper side.

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    Show Notes:

    • Subscribe to Changelog Nightly
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    • Quincy Larson on Medium
    • freeCodeCamp
    • Santa Barbara Hackerspace
    • GitHub’s All Time Top Repositories
    • Why Software Is Eating The World by Marc Andreessen
    • Sebastian Thrun on Wikipedia
    • Daphne Koller on Wikipedia
    • Andrew Ng on Wikipedia
    • Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia
    • Agency (sociology) on Wikipedia
    • LoopBack
    • MEAN.IO - MongoDB, Express, Angularjs Node.js powered fullstack web framework
    • Free Code Camp’s First Month - Medium
    • Learn to Code by Coding - Medium
    • lichess.org • Free Online Chess
    • Opportunity cost
    • #165: Everyone’s Welcome Here (Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast)
    • 5 Coding Podcasts to Enlighten your Commute - Medium
    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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