Yes - plenty of campers get hired without a formal CS degree. University degrees are a huge career boost, and often lead to higher paying jobs, but they are not necessary for getting a developer job. There is no direct substitute for a university degree. No certificate program or intensive coding bootcamp will give you a credential that holds a candle to a university degree, which is still the gold standard for most employers. If you are almost finished with college, I recommend finishing. Spend as little money on it as absolutely necessary. If you can get a developer job without a university degree, great! But you should still use online courses to plug the gaps in your theory knowledge. Here's a list of great online courses - most of which are free - that freeCodeCamp.org just published a few hours ago: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-50-best-free-online-university-courses-according-to-data-deb6fe34ef30

I answered a similar question a minute ago, so again I'll link to this article I wrote again. It's basically all of my core productivity hacks wrapped into one article: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/live-asynchronously-c8e7172fe7ea

Academia often lags behind industry. I would try and learn everything your professor tells you to learn, but I would also supplement that with lots of books, podcasts, YouTube videos, and online learning platforms. University professors are well-meaning, but ultimately it's up to you to learn what you need to learn so you can get a good developer job. Don't get complacent and think that a university degree will guarantee you a job. It won't.

Thanks for your kind words, Hrishi! I'm going to answer this specifically for continuing education for adults, which is where I've spent my career as an educator, and is whom freeCodeCamp is focused on helping. Right now a lot of technology resources that used to be completely free are moving over to corporate training. This is a much more lucrative field than trying to help individual learners gain practical skills they can use to get a better job. All of the original massive open online course programs seem to be moving in this direction. I think that's great. Employers should invest in professional development for their employees, and these platforms are way better than what employers used to use for this purpose. But there are also hundreds of millions of adults out there who would benefit tremendously to learn to code, and their employers aren't going to foot the bill for that. So I see the rise of inexpensive (and in freeCodeCamp.org's case, completely free) resources that focus on helping busy people learn to code in a self-paced way. These resources will continue to get more convenient and accessible.

We try to keep things as simple as possible on our forum and in our chat rooms. The fewer rules, the better. So this means that becoming a forum moderator is a pretty straight-forward process. If you regularly contribute to the conversation on Free Code Camp's forum, and are interested in becoming a moderator, you can contact Michael Henderson, who's our core team member in charge of our forum: http://forum.freecodecamp.com/users/michaelhenderson/activity He can consider making you a moderator. We don't have any expectation of a specific number of hours or anything like that. We just appreciate that you are willing to volunteer your time and make our forum a better place to discuss technology and coding!

Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA LevelUp Tuts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyU5wkjgQYGRB0hIHMwm2Sg DevTips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIe-61Y8C4_o-zZCtO4ETQ And of course Free Code Camp's YouTube channel, which is run by Briana and Wesley on our core team: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ

I think it's awesome that they're including Bash in Windows soon. It will make it much easier to be a developer in the Windows environment - which is still the dominant desktop environment, especially in China and India. I will applaud any effort for a company to become more transparent and open source. Here's hoping Apple's next 😄

Thanks for your kind words. Staying motivated is the biggest challenge of all. Just keep coding every day and know that the more you practice and learn, the faster you will be able to get a developer job. Instead of studying math independent of programming, I recommend solving Project Euler challenges. These will help you learn applied mathematics and practice programming at the same time: https://projecteuler.net/

Thanks for your kind words. For people who haven't yet finished college yet, I strongly recommend getting a degree in computer science. For everyone else, I recommend taking free online computer science course s from great universities. Here's the best list of these: https://www.class-central.com/subject/cs Even though some HR people will filter you out because you don't have a bachelors in CS, I still wouldn't recommend going back to get a second degree. Instead, learn the underlying theory and work on extending your network. I've written about how most developers claim to be self-taught and less than half of them have computer science degrees here: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/2-out-of-3-developers-are-self-taught-and-other-insights-from-stack-overflow-s-2016-survey-of-50-8cf0ee5d4c21#.f39zmdujb

I have only two big tips: code every day hang out with other people who code