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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.

Boot.dev's Refer a Friend Program

Dec 29, 2020 by Lane Wagner

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.

Functional Programming Course Released

Oct 19, 2020 by Lane Wagner

We just launched our new “Learn Functional Programming” course, and frankly, I’m a bit exhausted (more on that later). This course is an interactive code-in-the-browser course that teaches the basics of FP in JavaScript and PureScript.

"Learn Algorithms" Course Released

Sep 14, 2020 by Lane Wagner

We’ve launched our new Learn Algorithms course! We wrote this course for engineers who need a refresher on computer science basics or want to learn the fundamentals for the first time.

Announcing a "Basic Intro to Coding" Course in JavaScript

Jul 06, 2020 by Lane Wagner

The boot.dev app - our new gamified learning platform - just launched its first JavaScript coding course! This one is short, sweet, and to the point. We created a thirty-exercise, two-module course that caters to students who have never seen a single line of code before. That’s right, this is a code-in-the-browser course for absolute beginners.

Boot.dev Launches Golang Crash Course - Learn Go

Jul 02, 2020 by Lane Wagner

We just launched the new boot.dev computer science platform and can’t be more excited. Our first crash course in Go, “Learn Go” is now available! We teach students by allowing them to write, compile, and run backend code directly in the browser.

Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"

Dec 09, 2019 by Lane Wagner

The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron and has a Serverless component that uses Golang. It’s all hosted on AWS.