QuincyLarson

[Metz Practical Object-Oriented Design](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096BYG7C/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0096BYG7C&linkCode=as2&tag=out0b4b-20&linkId=VQZINITQQLA7TJZC)

[Neumann The Computer and the Brain](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008AUGWLS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B008AUGWLS&linkCode=as2&tag=out0b4b-20&linkId=L3VQLVAJDTIN2DDF)

[Iverson A Programming Language](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471430145/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0471430145&linkCode=as2&tag=out0b4b-20&linkId=BEEWKY27UHLAPBLM)

[Minsky Finite and Infinite Machines](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1462946178/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1462946178&linkCode=as2&tag=out0b4b-20&linkId=N2RF6GGBWSOC5IGH)

[Yourdon Classics in Software Engineering](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131351796/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0131351796&linkCode=as2&tag=out0b4b-20&linkId=DCWKXDFYYR3MPBWZ)

QuincyLarson

[Stanford Machine Learning](https://www.class-central.com/mooc/835/coursera-machine-learning)

[Functional Programming in Scala](https://www.class-central.com/mooc/422/coursera-functional-programming-principles-in-scala)

[MIT Analytics Edge](https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1623/edx-15-071x-the-analytics-edge)

[Principles of Reactive Programming](https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1186/coursera-principles-of-reactive-programming)

[Stanford Algorithms Part 1](https://www.class-central.com/mooc/374/coursera-algorithms-design-and-analysis-part-1)

QuincyLarson

function redirectToNextChallenge(req, res, next) {
    let challengeId = req.query.id || req.cookies.currentChallengeId;

    if (badIdMap[challengeId]) {
      challengeId = badIdMap[challengeId];
    }

    if (!isMongoId('' + challengeId)) {
      challengeId = null;
    }

QuincyLarson

What inspired you to found Free Code Camp?

Before I became a software developer, I was a school director. My teaching staff spent lots of time at their desks doing paperwork when they would have rather been helping students. So I picked up some basic programming, and eventually automated some of our teachers' routine tasks. This freed them up to spend more time with students.

After my initial success with automating tedious tasks, I decided to dive deeper into programming. I quickly realized that there were a lot of good beginner resources, but not very many resources that could help a beginner become someone who could actually build and maintain applications.

Learning to code was a lot harder than it had to be. It was also a pretty lonely process. So I decided to create a community where people could learn to code together and help keep each other motivated. 

QuincyLarson

#,"How old are you?","What's your gender?","Which country are you a citizen of?","Which country do you currently live in?","About how many people live in your city?","Are you an ethnic minority in your country?","Which language do you you speak at home with your family?","What's the highest degree or level of school you have completed?","What was the main subject you studied in university?","Do you financially support any dependents?","What's your marital status?","Do you have children?","How many children do you have?","Do you financially support any elderly relatives or relatives with disabilities?","Do you have any debt?","Do you have a home mortgage?","About how much do you owe on your home mortgage (in US Dollars)?","Do you have student loan debt?","About how much do you owe in student loans (in US Dollars)?","Regarding employment status, are you currently...",Other,"Which field do you work in?",Other,"About how much money did you make last year (in US dollars)?","About how many minutes total do you spen

QuincyLarson

#,"How old are you?","What's your gender?","Which country are you a citizen of?","Which country do you currently live in?","About how many people live in your city?","Are you an ethnic minority in your country?","Which language do you you speak at home with your family?","What's the highest degree or level of school you have completed?","What was the main subject you studied in university?","Do you financially support any dependents?","What's your marital status?","Do you have children?","How many children do you have?","Do you financially support any elderly relatives or relatives with disabilities?","Do you have any debt?","Do you have a home mortgage?","About how much do you owe on your home mortgage (in US Dollars)?","Do you have student loan debt?","About how much do you owe in student loans (in US Dollars)?","Regarding employment status, are you currently...",Other,"Which field do you work in?",Other,"About how much money did you make last year (in US dollars)?","About how many minutes total do you spen

QuincyLarson

#,"How old are you?","What's your gender?",Other,"What's your nationality?","Where do you live now?","About how many people live in your city?","Are you an ethnic minority in your country?","What's your native language?","What's the highest degree or level of school you have completed?","What was your undergraduate major (field of study)?","Do you financially support any dependents?","What's your marital status?","Do you have children?","How many children do you have?","Do you financially support any elderly relatives or relatives with disabilities?","Do you have any debt?","Do you have a home mortgage?","About how much do you owe on your home mortgage?","Do you have student loan debt?","About how much do you owe in student loans?","Regarding employment status, are you currently...",Other,"Which field do you work in?","About how much money did you make last year (in US dollars)?","About how many minutes do you spend commuting to and from work?","Do you consider yourself under-employed?","Have you served in yo

QuincyLarson

#,"How old are you?","What's your gender?",Other,"What's your nationality?","Where do you live now?","About how many people live in your city?","Are you an ethnic minority in your country?","Is English your native language?","What's your native language?","What's the highest degree or level of school you have completed?","What was your undergraduate major (field of study)?","Do you financially support any dependents?","What's your marital status?","Do you have children?","How many children do you have?","Do you financially support any elderly relatives or relatives with disabilities?","Do you have any debt?","Do you have a home mortgage?","About how much do you owe on your home mortgage?","Do you have student loan debt?","About how much do you owe in student loans?","Regarding employment status, are you currently...",Other,"Which field do you work in?","About how much money did you make last year (in US dollars)?","About how many minutes do you spend commuting to and from work?","Do you consider yourself unde

QuincyLarson

Why do you want to learn to program?
- Higher salary
- More fulfilling work
- Ability to work remotely
- To create a business
- For artistic reasons
- Other

How old are you?
(number)

QuincyLarson

We have been building Free Code Camp in de-facto 1-month sprints, where we ship a block of improvements every Summit. 

This has worked OK so far, but there are some areas where we need to focus, and have longer-term goals with measurable outcomes.

Here are our points of focus:
- Improving FCC's codebase (new features, paying down technical debt)
- Expanding (and internationalizing) our video challenges
- Expanding (and internationalizing) our wiki
- Getting campers to stream much, much more frequently on Twitch.tv
- Building external tools that can be maintained outside of FCC's core repo (like the Challenge-o-matic)