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7 years ago @QuincyLarson I have to say that I'd be a bit concerned about this. This feels like scope creep to me. It takes me quite a while just to scroll through this list, let alone code the challenges and integrate them in.
I don't mean to sound negative, but we're currently sitting on a major curriculum update that's overdue by quite some time, which many people's hard work has gone into, which is still not in good enough shape to release.
Even once the app overhaul is done, there is still a huge amount of work to do just to bring it to completion, some of which simply can't be done right now because there isn't support yet for writing ES6 tests. The thought of adding these challenges, plus project Euler, plus a Data Science and Machine Learning curriculum, long before the original curriculum overhaul is completed feels like biting off more than the community can chew.
I've tried to continue contributing to see the current curriculum update through, but find myself blocked by our current limitations, even when suggestions are made on how to fix them. I think if we commit to something like this, and shift our focus away from the priorities at hand, we can probably count on waiting a good deal longer before seeing the curriculum update in production.
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The freeCodeCamp community has started building an interactive, browser-based Math for Programmers curriculum. It's just a matter of designing the thousands of LaTeX-driven challenges necessary to teach campers all the math they'll need to succeed in software engineering roles.
The interactive prototype
We have a prototype for our testable LaTeX math for programmers challenges here.
This prototype can be used for developing challenges. And we're working to incorporate all this functionality directly into freeCodeCamp's challenge platform.
The challenges will be written in the same JSON seed file structure we're using with freeCodeCamp's web development challenges, which looks like this.
We're working to incorporate this functionality directly into our learning platform. We'll be able to copy these JSON seed files over directly, then roll out new Math for Programmers challenges as they're ready.
How to contribute
We are seeking volunteer contributors to help with this massive effort. It will involve creating instructions and tests for thousands of mathematical concepts and their tests.
If you're interested in helping out with this endeavor - regardless of your math or programming background - shoot me an email at quincy@freecodecamp.org.
The curriculum outline so far
We'll start off by teaching some basic LaTeX syntax - preferably while also teaching basic arithmetic. Here's a reference for LaTeX mathematical notation
Each of these topics should probably have several consecutive challenges to give practice with the concept and drive it home. Then we should create what @SaintPeter called "checkpoints" that bring several concepts together for review.
One topic that is missing currently is Statistics, which will be vitally important to the Data Science & Machine Learning curriculum that will follow on the challenge map.
Here's the current proposed curriculum put together by @makkoli, a Virginia Tech math major and freeCodeCamp alum-turned software engineer. It contains around 1,800 topics and subtopics we plan to cover.
Anyone with freeCodeCamp write permission can directly update this post to add additional topics and subtopics they think we should cover.