We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
Sometimes folks get confused and wonder, are Boot.dev’s programming courses really free? First of all, the simple answer is yes, all of the content on Boot.dev is free. That means that all the lesson explanations, the explainer videos, and the starter code is free. You can get all of it (not just the first few chapters, or the first course) without ever becoming a paid member.
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
As the founder of a company where my largest static expense is engineering salaries, I’m over here just chomping at the bit, eagerly awaiting the moment I can fire everyone and line my pockets with all those juicy savings. See, about one year ago, I wrote an article titled, “9 Months with GPT-4: Can I Fire my Developers Yet?” and I thought I’d give you a little update on Allan’s employment status.
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days straight… hope your Holidays are staying healthier than mine!
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
I’ve been building a learning curriculum for backend developers for the last 3 years, but I’ve mostly been relying on qualitative feedback and my own intuitions.
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the personal project.
Let’s build a fully-fledged HTTP server from scratch in Go. This course assumes you already have a solid understanding of Go. If you don’t, take a step back and take our Go course.
We’re going to build an RSS feed aggregator in Go! It’s a web server that allows clients to:
The arcanum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight. 88,297,514 xp was gained over the course of the event, and 90,000,000 was all that was needed to secure victory. It’s a shame, but we can’t win them all. The hound will return soon.
In the Boot.dev Discord server, this question appears now and then. Will there be a Rust course? Why is there no Django course? Can you add a Spring Boot course? Maybe there will be in the future. Maybe not. It’s impossible to cover everything that everyone wants. But that’s no reason to not do the curriculum. Even universities with their 3-4 year degrees only cover a fraction of all there is. Instead, it prepares you to specialize and learn what you want.
I’m writing this one a bit early because I’m going out of town next week… better early than late?
I was recently working on a lesson about pointer performance for Boot.dev’s Golang course when I found myself repeating some advice I’ve given many times before.
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June. That’s nuts. I was so preoccupied with how cool it is that you all are learning so much that I’m late on this newsletter. Sorry ‘bout that.
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
A new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen’s Git course is only a couple weeks away. It’s been a good April. glhf.
Pythogoras returned in our second community-wide boss battle. He was vanquished, and there was much rejoicing. Happy coding.
Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a Kubernetes enjoyer (I even wrote a course on it, but I’m not here to argue about that. The part of the video I do want to discuss has nothing to do with k8s. It’s where Theo draws the “Line of Primeagen”.
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
609,179. That’s the number of lessons you crazy folks have completed on Boot.dev in the last 30 days. Good work my fellow pupils.