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Hi Josh,

In order to show up in that statistic you quoted (2,000+ campers you have gotten their first developer job - and it's now 5,000+), campers must first:

1) use Free Code Camp with the intention of getting a developer job
2) stick with coding until they've gotten good enough to apply for jobs
3) go through the dozens of applications and interviews that most first-time developers have to endure before they start getting job offers
4) bother telling us that they've gotten a job after all of that (and most people are too busy telling their friends and family and getting ready for their first day)

Free Code Camp helps people learn to code for free. We have a Medium publication where we publish tons of free articles by campers who now work as developers, such as this one we published a few days ago about improving your portfolio: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/i-reviewed-fifty-portfolios-on-reddit-and-this-is-what-i-learned-e5d2b43150bc#.rfl5x115v

We also have 1,500 local groups where people meet up and code together in coffee shops and libraries.

Again, everything is free, all our code is open source, and all of our assets are creative commons. Many campers don't even bother creating accounts, and that's OK. The important thing is that when someone really wants to become a developer, they are able to do so regardless of where they live or how much money they have.

If you have an internet connection, and can budget some time learn to code, you can get a developer job. That's been true since for the last 20 years. But for the last two years, Free Code Camp has made this a whole lot easier.