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Free Code Camp is a free, open source, internet based program that offers coding lessons and experience. Founded by Quincy Larson, Free Code Camp blends online tutorials and real world experience to give the user a foundation in coding. As of August 30, 2015, 95,599 users had joined Free Code Camp since launch (319 days prior). Students of Free Code Camp learn through online tutorials and real experience. For the second half of the course students work on a project for a non-profit organization. Due to this, non-profit organizations can seek coding work through Free Code Camp.

User Experience
The initial lessons are built around an end goal of having the user build code for a non-profit organization. The program has built in tutorials, but also utilizes external resources such as Codeacademy and Stanford University's Online Computer Science 101 course. Students on Free Code Camp collaborate to build code. In an interview with Business Insider, Larson stated that, "the process of talking over your code with someone else and having a conversation, it's invaluable." To further aid users to collaborate, Free Code Camp has built in chat and blogging systems.

According to their website, students of Free Code Camp will be exposed to:
 * HTML5
 * CSS3
 * JavaScript
 * Databases
 * Git
 * Node.js
 * Angular.js
 * Agile

Time Required for Completion
The course takes around 1,600 hours to complete from start to finish. The first 800 are spent working through the online tutorials and building a basic website. The second half of the course is time spent by the student working on a project for a non-profit organization.