Free Code Camp - New Curriculum and Changes

Free Code Camp recently refreshed their curriculum with lots of new content. If you previously used the beta version you are probably familiar with the content, but if you're not keep on reading! Now, there are total of six new certifications, three previous certifications (Front-end, Data Visualization and Back-end) are now labeled as legacy certifications, but the good thing is you can access the new redesigned certificates for those.  The old certificate is gone a the downside is that if you had it linked somewhere (LinkedIn, Stack Overflow etc.) pointing to your old certificate it will be broken now.

Old version of the Front-end certificate

New version of the Front-end certificate


Apart from the three legacy certifications the six new ones are:
  1. Responsive Web Design Certification (300 hours)
  2. Javascript Algorithms And Data Structures Certification (300 hours)
  3. Front End Libraries Certification (300 hours)
  4. Data Visualization Certification (300 hours)
  5. Apis And Microservices Certification (300 hours)
  6. Information Security And Quality Assurance Certification (300 hours)
Each can be earn by completing the final five project for that certification track. The good part is that if you have already completed a lot of lessons from the old curriculum, lot of these are carried over. That's how (to my surprise) I completed the new: JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Projects certification, thus completing the first out of six new certs!

The forum and the streak count are still there as well as the brownie points (yum yum).  The user profile has changed a little bit, you can now edit your social media links and update more setting then before. That is also where you would submit links for your projects to earn certifications.

Certificate settings


There are few more changes but they mostly relate to UI/UX. The best thing is that even if you completed a ton of old lessons there are a bunch of new ones that you can take!

Keep coding and thanks for reading!



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