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In 2023, freeCodeCamp partnered with Microsoft to develop a Foundational C# Certification. [23] Launched in 2015, the freeCodeCamp YouTube channel reached 10 million subscribers in October 2024. [24] The channel contains more than 700 full-length free-to-watch programming courses, and new courses are published every week. [25]
Code Year was a free incentive Codecademy program intended to help people follow through on a New Year's Resolution to learn how to program, by introducing a new course for every week in 2012. [32] Over 450,000 people took courses in 2012, [33] [34] and Codecademy continued the program into 2013. Even though the course is still available, the ...
Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University. [9] Thrun has stated he hopes half a million students will enroll, after an enrollment of 160,000 students in the predecessor course at Stanford, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, [10] and 90,000 students had enrolled in the initial two classes as of March 2012.
A free course can be "upgraded" to the paid version of a course, which includes instructor's feedback and grades for the submitted assignments, and (if the student gets a passing grade) a certificate of completion. [57] [60] Other Coursera courses, projects, specializations, etc. cannot be audited—they are only available in paid versions.
In software development, frontend refers to the presentation layer that users interact with, while backend involves the data management and processing behind the scenes. In the client–server model , the client is usually considered the frontend, handling user-facing tasks, and the server is the backend, managing data and logic.
[26] edX offers a variety of ways to take courses, including verified courses where students have the option to audit the course (no cost) or to work toward an edX Verified Certificate (fees vary by course). edX also offers XSeries Certificates for completion of a bundled set of two to seven verified courses in a single subject (cost varies ...
LeetCode was founded in Silicon Valley in 2015 by Winston Tang. [12] [13] After moving to the US from Malaysia in 2005, Tang founded the company, citing his own experiences working at Amazon and Google as inspiration.
The website was created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008. [5] The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Atwood's programming blog. [18]