Typically this will only list resource additions and deletions. The goal is always to minimize changes to the curriculum, so that someone following it isn't trying to 'hit a moving target'. However, from time to time, a resource becomes no longer available, and the curriculum will be modified to accommodate a replacement resource.
December 15, 2024 Updated to Version 6.1, streamlining Tier 1 to only focus on one main resource plus practice projects for greater clarity of purpose.
December 1, 2024 Updated to Version 6 - Unfortunately, in V5, I relied too heavily on CodeSignal as I believed it was a reasonable resource on the free tier but didn't realize that I wasn't hitting limits of the free tier as I had a pro subscription. I revamped to remove the CodeSignal reliance and shifted to other resources I'd identified while researching for the v5 update.
November 11, 2024 Updated to Version 5 - this was a substantial update that reflected significant changes in the open source resources available to learners. Since v4, a/A Online has stopped being updated, Google Code Jam (and other competitions) are not available, and several other resources have become far more robust. You can still find v4 in the v4 directory, however, it is no longer maintained and I would recommend migrating to v5 as the available resources are more current and reflect newer content.
September 1, 2020 Add CS50's AI course. Add Odin Project Full Stack JavaScript. General cleanup.
July 1, 2019
Add Deep Dive Into Modern Web Development - Full Stack Open 2019 from the University of Helsinki as a fullstack bootcamp option in the specializations as it provides an opportunity to study react further after App Academy and to branch out and use Node/Express for backend.
June 29, 2019
Refactored Tier 0 to remove the 'Learn Enough' resources as they'd been paywalled. Set Tier 0 as App Academy's online fullstack bootcamp - that way it can either be taken as Tier 0, or if you skip Tier 0, it can later be taken as a specialization. This makes sense to show up at this point in the Guide as the Khan Academy resources in Tier X are sufficient prep for App Academy to be doable but challenging.
May 25, 2019
Complete overhaul to version Version 4.0. Consolidated the 'special interest' guides into specializations, migrated from Coursera and Edx resources which now sit behind paywalls, and restructured the 'guides' into one cohesive guide that contains core material within each tier and allows further study each tier of a learner selected specialization. This fixes two issues. First, it handles the paywall issues to make the guide require less volatile maintenance (swapping out courses as they are paywalled). Second, it provides better structure and answers the 'which guide should I pick' question.
All prior guides have been moved to deprecated and may be out of date and/or contain dead links. Focus will be on maintaining the 4.0 Guide version, deprecated guides will not be maintained.
December 1, 2018 Added Job Ready Guide - JavaScript Edition 3.0. Added Video Game Programming - comprehensive foundations 2.0. Marked all previous versions of the Job Ready and Video Game Programming guides as deprecated. The deprecated guides remain for those who don't want to switch to the newer versions but they are no longer maintained and may contain dead links.
April 26, 2018 Swapped the Natural Language Processing course from Michigan for the Robotics Fundamentals course from Penn. There wasn't a similarly outstanding NLP course available so I replaced it with an outstanding course from a similarly interesting field taught at a similarly advanced level of rigor.
April 2, 2018 Added Computer Science and Backend Development - Java Focus Guide.
March 31, 2018 Swapped the OSU Calculus courses from Coursera (they're being decommissioned) for MITOCW Calculus Courses.
March 6, 2018 Added Software Development Capstone Project to the cs-wd and wd-cs guides. It's the next course in the series and became available today.
January 25, 2018
Added Vue topic guide. Added React topic guide.
January 24, 2018
Added Angular topic guide.
January 03, 2018
Added Software Engineering: Introduction to the cs-wd and wd-cs guides. It's the next course in the series and becomes available on the 9th of January.
October 23, 2017
Added Speedrun/Practice section, with topic specific lists of practice projects/problems for use in practice, building a portfolio, or speedrunning.
October 18, 2017
Replaced D3 course in the JavaScript Job Ready 2.0, Python Job Ready, and Data Science guides with a free alternative, as the one from egghead migrated to requiring a Pro membership for access to the bulk of the course.
October 11, 2017
Added Software Construction: Object-Oriented Design to the wd-cs and cs-wd guides, it is the next in the How to Code series and just became available.
September 30, 2017
Added The Data Science Guide, the Python Job Ready Guide, and updated the original Job Ready guide to a 2.0 version this week.
September 11, 2017
Swapped out the MongoDB course on edX for a choice between the MongoDB course on MongoDB University and the full stack course by Penn State on edX - reason, the original course listed became no longer available.
June 24, 2017
Swapped the course Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies for Introduction to Cloud Computing - reason, the original course was no longer available.
July 18, 2017
Swapped the link for the Operating Systems and System Programming course - reason, the original link was no longer valid.