We just launched community insights. There’s something magical about learning to code together.

Apr 27, 2022 by Lane Wagner

tl;dr At Boot.dev we’ve launched “community insights”! Insights make it possible for our students to drop comments at the bottom of any step in our coding courses. We’ve quickly found that we have amazing students, and it’s much better for everyone if we give them tools to help each other more directly. If you’re interested in joining our self-paced, online-only computer science bootcamp, you can sign up for free here.

Qvault is moving to Boot.dev

Apr 07, 2022 by Lane Wagner

We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming languages and technologies. Anyhow, we think the new name does a much better job conveying our project’s goals, and the new dark theme is much easier on the eyes.

We’re starting our first hackathon in the Qvault Discord server on January 17th at 8AM. Everyone is welcome to participate. Let’s go over the details about of event. You can RSVP for the event here. Date and time Our first hackathon will be a quick one! We tried to find a time that would work for most of our members, and so we cut it down to just 5 hours of hacking, so you’ll need to code fast!

Roles in the Boot.dev Discord Server

Dec 19, 2021 by Lane Wagner

In our community Discord server, we have two main groups of roles you can take on as a member, earned roles and declared roles. Earned roles, as you would expect, you have to earn! You can get them in various ways as we’ll discuss shortly, but you can’t just ask for them. Declared roles on the other hand you simply assign to yourself, and are a way of showing the community what kinds of technologies you enjoy learning about, and what your programming goals are.

We’re super excited to bring you our next learning track: Gopher Gang. We released our Python Track and Data Structures & Algorithms Track last month, and after such a positive response, we felt we had to do the same with our Golang course content. But after hearing some feedback from Reddit, Discord (join ours here), and a couple of other places, we felt we could further improve your CS learning experience by developing projects that you can create in VS Code or any other preferred code editor off-site, and display in your portfolio to land a Go programming job.

We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Big-O Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the course in Python! …This led to a larger conversation on how we can help people who don’t want an entire computer science syllabus, and who want more targeted learning – such as a more in-depth journey through Python.

We’ve just launched our latest course, Python Fundamentals. Start the “Python Fundamentals” Course Now What’s more: to celebrate the release, we’re offering full FREE access to the entire course — yep, you can take the entire course for free for a month — but the code expires in just 14 days. Simply enter this code at checkout: YAYPYTHON Featuring more than 65 interactive, code-in-your-browser lessons across six modules, this course is perfect for new-to-beginner students who have completed our Intro To Coding with JavaScript Courses and picked up the basics of a trickier language by taking Go Mastery 1.

All Coding Courses on boot.dev Are Now Free to Audit

Mar 15, 2021 by Lane Wagner

Last weekend I did a major revamp of boot.dev’s payment strategy, after toying with the first version since I launched in the summer of 2020, as it turns out, the microtransaction (gem) strategy didn’t work out to the benefit of my students, nor to the growth of boot.dev. As a result, I’ve flipped my funding strategy on its head and decided to make all of boot.dev’s content free to audit. Let’s take a look at exactly what that means.

We think learning is better with friends! For every person you invite to join, you’ll both earn some free gems. As soon as your friend signs up, we’ll credit each of your accounts with, at the time of writing, 150 gems. How to Invite Friends Follow these steps to refer your friends directly from the app. Login to Boot.dev Click the Store tab on the left Click “Invite friends, get free gems” from the bullet list Copy your unique invite link and share it with as many friends as you want When friends sign up, you’ll both receive free gems Learn Go by writing Go code I'm a senior engineer learning Go, and the pace of Boot.

Earn Money While Promoting Computer Science Education

Dec 28, 2020 by Lane Wagner

We just launched our new affiliate partner program to give Dev bloggers and influencers everywhere an opportunity to make some serious cash while promoting a great educational project. Here are the high-level details: You earn 50% of each purchase made on boot.dev by people who use your referral link It takes less than 5 minutes to sign up Payments go directly to your PayPal account You’re provided a dashboard to track your performance of clicks and conversions You’re helping to promote affordable coding and computer science education to those who need it You can read more about the program on our affiliate page here.