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Hey Awais, Thanks for your kind words. I'm a fan of yours and your courses as well.

There are no easy answers to your question. We are putting on a free 4-hour conference next week, where we will grapple with many of the implications of the pandemic and how they will affect developer opportunities. I encourage you to come: freecodecamp.org/news/lockdownconf-free-developer…

Quincy Larson Definitely! I'd be there.

First of all, I was a lot older when I started freeCodeCamp. I was 34, and I had already worked as a teacher (and eventually a school director) for about 10 years.

I don't know how old you are, but I find there's this misconception that people in their 20s should be starting companies or nonprofits, and I think - sure if your parents are rich or if you went to Stanford / MIT and have lots of friends with money - go for it. But for most people, it's way too risky. You see the Mark Zuckerbergs or the world and you think: "Oh, a 22 year old college drop out can do it. It's possible. Maybe I can do it." Mark Zuckerberg was rich and his parents hired a private programming tutor for him while he was still in high school.

Far more common is for people to exhaust their resources and have to move back in with their parents.

It's much more effective to spend the first decade or two of your career working for other people, climbing into a management role, and learning on their dime.

Life is long. Your confidence will grow with time. And that confidence will be well-founded. It won't be blind hope. It will be insight informed by experience.

If you are feeling freaked out at the prospect of starting a project, you are trying to tell yourself something. Don't jump off the bridge if you don't yet know what's below the water.

Instead take your time to do lots of small experiments where you can survive failure. With planning and preparation, your odds of success go up dramatically.

Quincy Larson Actually I am 29 and I will be 30 by October but what you described sounds absolutely right.

Thank you for answering my questions and for the many possibilities you opened up with freecodecamp for many people.

Before I got into teaching, I was an entrepreneur. I started two small web design agencies, one of which became the largest web design library in the world. Need to follow assignmentholic.co.uk/our-services/case-study and get more tips to manage their college task. I worked for 3 years building these companies, then moved into teaching. I taught English, journalism, entrepreneurship, and systems administration.

I would need more information. I've written a coding bootcamp handbook that may answer your questions, though. freecodecamp.org/news/coding-bootcamp-handbook

My philosophy on this: I treat articles, podcasts, videos like water rushing past me. I assume that I will only get busier and busier, and if a resource isn't worth my time now, there will never be a time where it will be worth it. So I just let it flow right past, and I keep moving forward.

I used to feel guilty about not keeping up with things, or seeing an article and thinking "gee I should really read that." But now I just say to myself: maybe I'll stumble upon it again in a Google search at some point if it's really that important.

Don't feel bad about not being able to swallow the ocean. You are but one man with one belly to fill with water. It is just the nature of things.

Hi Ryan, thanks for your kind words.

Any advice for those looking to start something similar to FCC in the future?

Yes – figure out a specific area where you think you can do better than anyone else with.

For us, it was teaching foundational web development skills.

Andrew Brown (ExamPro.co) has been eating, sleeping, and breathing AWS certifications for the past few years, and it really shows in his in-depth tutorials.

Dhawal Shah has been a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) enthusiast since the beginning (8 years ago), and he has ridden the Gartner hype cycle all the way up, down, and up again. But he's stuck with it. And now online courses are bigger than ever and all his work is paying off.

If you love headless CMS's, go super deep on that. If you love Golang, go really deep on that. Most people broaden their scope too quickly, and all their passion gets dilluted before they can really get a critical mass.

FreeCodeCamp is a wonderful online project started by Harvard dropout Quincy Larson. I prefer to check this edugeeksclub.com/pay-for-research-paper to learn more new tips about education. Having worked as a senior software engineer at Google and as a developer for Autodesk and Microsoft, Quincy felt that education was under-represented in this country.

Hi Mohd, I don't think any specific skills will be the key.

I think a strong command of the fundamentals will be the key.

Learning statistics really, really well. Spending a ton of time writing different algorithms to the point where you know the main permutations, the main approaches, and why they've become so ubiquitous.

Knowing why things are the way they are so you can know when to buck conventional wisdom and take a different approach.

There's no shortcut to meaningful experience. You have to work both hard and smart for years to get on the level of the strongest engineers. But if you keep at it, and are patient and deliberate, and don't burn out, you'll get there.

That sums it up well Quincy Larson . Thank you.

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Hi Vamsi, thanks for your kind words.

I try to get as many of my to-do items down on my calendar, and live by my calendar. I will assign myself tasks at the beginning of the week. Then when those tasks come up, I just drop everything and do what my calendar says.

This is a bit more work than just putting everything into a todo list, but it is more effective. (Since human nature is to focus on the quick, less ambiguous tasks first and maybe never get to the large, hard tasks.)

As for favorite YouTube channels, aside from tutorial sites, if you're interested in video games at all, I strongly recommend Game Historian. He shares the hardware and software development stories behind many of the most iconic video games.

youtube.com/channel/UCnbvPS_rXp4PC21PG2k1UVg

Great question. Business Insider wrote an article about me and my famously bad case of impostor syndrome, back when I first started freeCodeCamp.

Here's the article, which also includes some of my advice to cope with it: businessinsider.com/learning-how-to-code-imposter…

Quincy Larson Thanks a lot

Great question, Bolaji. Thank you for your many articles over the years, and everything you're doing for the global developer community.

We published a good article by Jessica Chan a few weeks ago that encapsulates most of my advice: freecodecamp.org/news/staying-productive-in-the-a…

A lot of it is just a shift in mindset. Nobody is standing over your shoulder telling you what to do. You have to get used to keeping yourself motivated, and managing your time. It gets easier with practice.

Thanks for the kind feedback Quincy Larson :).

I'll also check out the article, thank you.

I don't know the exact numbers for each of the certifications (our database has gotten so big that it often times out when I try to run such queries - definitely something we need to optimize once we get time, but we have a lot of competing priorities).

I can tell you that 10,000s of people have earned certifications, and at this point probably hundreds of people have earned the Full Stack Developer Certification that you get when you complete all 6 certifications.

Also, more than 40,000 people have gotten their first developer job after completing at least some of freeCodeCamp's curriculum.

As for the interview prep section – we started the #ProjectEuler100 certification to encourage people to get more algorithm and data structure practice. So far people have gotten far – maybe 60 problems into it. But nobody is anywhere near completing all 600+ Project Euler problems and the hundreds of Rosetta Code problems. I don't know if it's humanly possible. Maybe you or someone reading this can prove me wrong :)

Quincy Larson It would be nice if you included more statistics, keeping track of things like the activity of FCC and how many people complete the certificates. etc.

Hi Steve, this is the most common question people ask me.

There's the old Shigeru Miyamoto quote: "A rushed game will be forever bad. A delayed game will eventually be good."

We don't have deadlines within freeCodeCamp, but rather priorities that we consistently work toward.

Rather than giving you a firm timetable, I will say that we are close to having the certifications live, and that we are doing a staged roll-out.

In the meantime, we have tons of full-length Python courses on freeCodeCamp's YouTube :)

Hi Bello,

For tips on how to become a "world class developer" – I personally think tons of practice is the key. Solving all the Project Euler problems. Building your own operating system. Building your own compiler. Designing your own programming language. All the things computer science students dread, but some of them do put in the time to accomplish.

But that is just to be a "world class developer" who might become the head of engineering at a Fortune 500 company, or a developer at an extremely selective company like Valve, or work at CERN or DARPA.

A better path is to just take your time and actively steer your developer career in more and more technical direction as you progress. Over the course of 10 or 20 years, you can get exposed to a lot of problems and a lot of solutions. You can come out the other side a wisened sage who can solve problems on the whiteboard in a few hours that might take a team of less experienced developers weeks to figure out.

You don't have to be a world class developer to have a successful career. But software is a deep, deep field and you can spend your entire life progressing if you want to.

It's better to have a single, complicated project that people are actually using, and that you're actively maintaining.

In applications and interviews, I recommend leading with your strongest project.

Building tons of projects is great for practice, though. And practice is how you become a strong developer. Check this out: freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-built-100-projects-in…

My advice is hang in there and finish college. This isn't just a sunk cost fallacy – if you leave college mid-way you might as well have never gone, statistically.

Make the best of it, and supplement your instruction there with lots of practice projects, hackathons, and free online courses.

Thanks for the question, Fazle. I'm looking forward to co-MC'ing Lockdown Conf with you on Tuesday.

I have lots of relatives in China, so we knew the pandemic was going to be bad from early on. We had been following it closely, and cautioning our family here in the US to take it seriously. We started social distancing a few weeks earlier than most Americans, and I think that helped because none of us have gotten sick.

The main change for me personally has been having my kids at home with us. This is fun, but it's a big challenge to work productively and have meetings when the kids can bust in at any minute and start singing songs or jumping on your head.

For the developer ecosystem as a whole, I think this will accelerate a lot of trends that were already taking shape: more remote work, and more pushing elements of systems to the software layer where they can be updated remotely.

This pandemic is a global tragedy, and will be a net negative for the world, but there will be a few positives that come out of it. I encourage everyone to look for those.