Getting started with Free Code Camp

Tents in front of lake and mountains
Photo by Dino Reichmuth

We’ll be using FreeCodeCamp as a sort of interactive companion text for this course.

You’ll complete this list of 479 lessons broken into 21 groups on the schedule outlined on the syllabus to earn 25% of your final grade in this class.

To get started, complete the following steps:

  • Create an account on FreeCodeCamp.org
  • Click “Update my account settings.”
  • Change your username to something thing that makes sense to you; just be sure that the username is single word (in other words, no spaces). For example, “suesmith” would be fine.
  • Scroll down and make the following public:
    • Profile
    • My points
    • My heat map
    • My certifications
    • My timeline
    • Portfolio