freeCodeCamp
A nonprofit community helping people learn to code through free interactive lessons, full-length video courses, tutorials, and verified certifications.
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Known for
- Python certification2025 · Interactive coursework and verified certification
freeCodeCamp - Relational Databases certification2025 · Bash, SQL, and Git coursework
freeCodeCamp - Learn Python basics with Mike Dane2019 · Featured beginner video course
YouTube - Learn JavaScript: full 134-part course2018 · Course by Beau Carnes
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Overview
- Founded
- 2014, by Quincy Larson
- What they make
- Free coding courses, tutorials, and verified certifications
- Community
- A donor-supported 501(c)(3) public charity
- Early growth
- By 2018, a global community of millions of developers
- YouTube milestone
- Passed 10 million subscribers in October 2024
Mini bio
How it started.
Quincy Larson had been a teacher and school director before learning to code at 31 and working as a software engineer. In 2014, he founded freeCodeCamp to help other busy adults learn programming and move into tech careers. He wrote its first few hundred lines in a closet in his San Francisco apartment.
A community takes shape.
The project grew through people teaching, contributing code, leading study groups, and helping fellow learners. By 2018, freeCodeCamp described a global community of millions of developers. Its YouTube channel and publication gave learners more ways to study alongside the interactive curriculum.
Learning together.
In 2020, the community began localizing its curriculum, tutorials, and video courses into more languages. By its tenth anniversary in October 2024, freeCodeCamp reported more than 1,000 free full-length YouTube courses and 10 million subscribers. Its courses, projects, and certifications remain free.
What they are building now.
Recent work includes new Python, JavaScript, and database certifications, courses on AI security and search, and a documentary about builders at a Hong Kong hackathon. In August 2026, the team announced that all six core certification tracks were available, following the backend certification launch.
Creditschronological, newest first
Courses and curriculum
- 2026Back End Development and APIs certificationCurriculum and certification publisher
- 2025Python certificationCurriculum and certification publisher
- 2025JavaScript certificationCurriculum and certification publisher
- 2019Learn Python basics with this in-depth video courseCourse publisher; taught by Mike Dane and featured in January 2019
- 2018Learn JavaScript: full 134-part course for beginnersCourse publisher; taught by Beau Carnes
Documentary
- 2026Inside a Hong Kong HackathonPublisher; featuring Quincy Larson at SeaHack
Awards
Quotes
Our mission: to help people learn to code for free.freeCodeCamp, official website
The mission statement that accompanies freeCodeCamp’s public learning resources.
Trivia
- Community members call themselves campers.
- The first version was coded in a closet in Quincy Larson’s San Francisco apartment.
- The community began localizing its learning resources into more languages in 2020.
- freeCodeCamp welcomes people livestreaming their progress and blogging about how they solve its projects.
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Follow the community for free courses, new certifications, and stories from fellow campers.
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