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Free Code Camp.

A free, browser-based coding curriculum that once had learners build apps for nonprofits, still posting new articles as a donor-supported charity in 2026.

Education

Timeline

  1. On record

    freeCodeCamp launched and was incorporated as Free Code Camp, Inc. in San Francisco, founded by Quincy Larson.

    On record · Announced
    en.wikipedia.org
  2. Listing page saved

    The Wayback Machine saved this listing page.

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  3. Activity

    The curriculum moved from AngularJS to React and added data visualisation and back-end certificates.

    Activity · Announced
    en.wikipedia.org
  4. Discontinued

    Graduates could work on projects for nonprofits until 2017; the Open Source for Good projects were archived on GitHub in 2020.

    Discontinued · Announced
    en.wikipedia.org
  5. Site checked

    The product's site was live.

  6. Listed on Stompstart

    “Learn to code by helping nonprofits.”

  7. Domain changed

    freecodecamp.com now redirects to freecodecamp.org (date of the move not established).

    Domain change · Announced
    freecodecamp.org

As listed on Stompstart

Free Code Camp lesson 'Waypoint: Create a Text Field' with a code editor and phone preview.
The listing image as preserved by the Wayback Machine on 11 July 2015.

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“Learn to code by helping nonprofits.”

Free Code Camp helps people build job-worthy portfolios of real apps used by real people, while helping nonprofits. Our 1,600-hour full stack JavaScript curriculum is completely self-paced, browser-based, and free. Our open source community serves people who are traditionally underserved in the coding community: 80% of our students are 25 or older, and nearly a fifth are women.

Platforms
Mobile, Web
Location
San Francisco · United States
freecodecamp.com ↗vimeo.com/125407438 ↗blog.freecodecamp.com ↗facebook.com/freecodecamp ↗twitter.com/freecodecamp ↗linkedin.com/edu/school ↗angel.co/free-code-camp ↗

In our words: The 2015 listing described Free Code Camp as a self-paced, free, browser-based full-stack JavaScript curriculum of about 1,600 hours, in which learners built portfolios by making real apps for nonprofits. It said most of its students were 25 or older.

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Sources

  1. freecodecamp.org
  2. contribute.freecodecamp.org
  3. contribute.freecodecamp.org
  4. en.wikipedia.org

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