How to get back into coding after years away
If you've taken some time away from coding and want to get back into it, don't worry - totally doable. Tom talks about how he came back after a 7-year hiatus, found freeCodeCamp, and dove in.
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Learning to code on the job - right in the browser

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Become an AI Researcher Course – LLM, Math, PyTorch, Neural Networks, Transformers

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Function declaration vs expression - what's the difference?

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NestJS Course for Beginners - Build Server-Side Applications

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AI tools can be super helpful - but they're not the answer to everything

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Only 6 values are falsey in JavaScript. Do you know what they are?

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Some upcoming features for freeCodeCamp - Tom talks about daily coding challenges, streaks, & more.

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Classic JavaScript gotcha: why does this print 3, 3, 3 instead of 0, 1, 2?

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Advice from a serial career changer with GitHub's Andrea Griffiths [Podcast #199]

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Move out of your parents' house ASAP? or stay if you can? Thomas discusses this with Quincy here.

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Code a turkey timer!

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Pop quiz: does '5' equal 5 in code?

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Do something toward learning programming every day - even if it's just 10 minutes

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CSS Flexbox Tutorial for Beginners

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Can you guess what this code logs?

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What it's like living with daily migraines - and how Thomas manages them

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Remember floppy disks?

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When NOT to use AI in your hackathon project with MLH winners Cindy Cui and Alison Co [Podcast #198]

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Learn programming fundamentals first. Then you can use AI to help you become more efficient.

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Do you know who the first computer programmer was?

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From laser-etching microchips to rediscovering a love of coding

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Create a Cute Room Portfolio with Blender, Three.js, JavaScript – Beginner Course

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JavaScript Clean Code Course – Fix Code Smells & Refactor

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Did you know that you can buy a domain name that's an emoji?

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Intro to Backend Web Development – Node.js & Express Tutorial for Beginners

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How to get back into coding after years away

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Boost your app's performance with CSS containment

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Vue.js grew organically thanks in large part to the community - which Evan You discusses here.

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Harvard CS50 prof David J. Malan on why you should learn programming slowly [Podcast #197]

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Don't settle for boring text underlines...make them more fun!

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Discrete Mathematics Course for Beginners

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If you're struggling, don't isolate yourself - find someone you can talk to.

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n8n Workflow Automation Tutorial – Create an Interview Scheduler & More Step-by-Step

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Guess how many bugs NASA's space shuttle software had?

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This hackathon team built a tool to help blind and visually impaired people learn Braille

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Learn Vue.js – Tutorial for Beginners

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The HTML blink tag was SO annoying it got binned. The more you know...

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How Ania built a course that teaches devs to code their own AI agents

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Z-index not working right? Here's how to fix your layering nightmares

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How to fix janky legacy codebases with Abbey Perini [Podcast #196]

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How to control underline spacing

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Guitar Theory Course for Beginners – Learn Fretboard, Major Scale and Triads

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How to focus your efforts in the right directions when job hunting

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Have you ever wondered why we call it a bug?

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Cryptography for Beginners - Full Python Course (SHA-256, AES, RSA, Passwords)

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Why you should support your favorite open source projects

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Creative Web Development with Three.js and Blender – 3D Portfolio for Beginners

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How to brand your form controls

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The inventor of HTML gave away the web for free...

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What was it like growing up in Dubai?

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The world's first website is still live...so retro.

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How to Compete Against the Global Dev Talent Pool with Patrick Hartley [Podcast #195]

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What does a double !! do in code?

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Playing chess is a lot like software development

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Harvard CS50’s Intro to Cybersecurity – Full University Course

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?Hoisting Horror! Everyone says variables are hoisted. So why does this break?

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Perfect image cropping every time...

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Kubernetes Course – Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam Preparation

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Why you should always negotiate - in the job search and in life

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How to package yourself as a problem solver companies want to hire

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Serverless and Microservices with C# – Scalable Cloud Applications with Azure and .NET Aspire

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Stop using padding hacks to make squares

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How contributing to Open Source can lead to tech jobs

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First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson [Podcast #194]

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Danny Thompson's "Why hire me" experiment

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Make highlighted text match your brand or color scheme

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Flexbox spacing made easy

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SwiftUI Course for Beginners – Create an iOS App from Scratch

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How Ania Kubów uses time blocking to make the most of her day

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How to style your input cursor in CSS

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Audit the advice you're getting - it's not all gonna be good

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How to use Python's .isprintable() method

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What is the JavaScript DOM?

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Why you should surround yourself with the smartest, most driven people

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Intro to MCP Servers – Course for Beginners

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How to make heart shapes in HTML

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Google Generative AI Leader Certification Course – Pass the Exam!

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Evan You – From Art School Kid to Open Source Legend [Podcast #192]

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Harvard CS50’s Intro to Databases with SQL – Full University Course

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React 19 Project Tutorial – AI Code Explainer

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Deep Learning Vision Architectures Explained – CNNs from LeNet to Vision Transformers

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From manufacturing worker to first developer job at age 43 with Thomas Gooch [Podcast #191]

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Become a Fullstack Developer from Scratch – Full Beginner’s Tutorial

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Build a Full Stack Movie Streaming App – Go, React, MongoDB, OpenAI

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AWS CloudOps Engineer Associate (SOA-C03) Certification Course – Pass the Exam!

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Lone Wolf Dev turned Open Source Super Contributor Tom Mondloch [Podcast #190]

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Production-Grade AI Project Tutorial – Build & Deploy

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LLMs from Scratch – Practical Engineering from Base Model to PPO RLHF

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How to Build Advanced AI Agents – Course for Beginners (LiveKit, Exa, LangChain)

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Learn Chess and Become a Better Developer with Ihechikara Abba (ELO rating of 2285) [Podcast #189]

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ASP.NET Web API – Token Based Authentication Tutorial

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Databricks Data Engineer Associate Certification Course – Pass the Exam!

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Playing the Developer Job Search Game to Win in 2025 with Danny Thompson & Leon Noel [Podcast #188]

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Secure PHP Apps with Symfony & MongoDB – Full Course for Beginners

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Checkmate Patterns for Beginners – Full Chess Tutorial

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Building an AI-Powered E-commerce Chat Assistant with MongoDB – Tutorial

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LLM from Scratch Tutorial – Code & Train Qwen 3

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From drop-out to backpacker to self-taught developer with Dominick Monaco [Podcast #183]

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Next.js Caching & Rendering Tutorial – Full Course for Beginners

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DevSecOps Course – API Security

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