Free Code Camp Is Like The Codacademy I Used To Remember

I have no idea why I didn't use this sooner; I had been subscribed to the FreeCodeCamp Blog for a few months now, as it had lots of little bits of coding news and things like that. I honestly thought it was solely a blog with new ideas on, and maybe a little side community!

However, the main FreeCodeCamp itself is made up of it's free main web design "certification" course, alongside local communities and a scheme in which you can contribute coding to non-profits later on in said course. I nags you once for a donation, near the beginning of the course itself, and that's it.

And I have to say I am impressed. It reminds me of the old design of Codecademy, which would encourage you to start learning from the homepage itself. Although FCC isn't quite from the homepage (there are a couple of pages of logging in and introduction to the site itself), the barriers between the homepage and learning are very small, and you start earning challenge points from your first log in.

This challenge point thing is the one idea that keeps me coming back to FCC at the moment... Each goal is incredibly small, maybe change a piece of code here or there (based on a similar example in the learning materials)... So it's very quick to delve in and start learning, even if there has been some time between learning sessions. This has the effect of making it much more likely you will return to it, and means you're also likely to learn for much longer. This is the kind of concept I hadn't quite been able to find up to now... But FreeCodeCamp definitely ticks the boxes for accessibility and ease of use.