Quincy Larson

Quincy Larson (born December 14, 1980) is an American software developer and technology writer who is best known as the founder of the free open-source web development course freeCodeCamp.
Biography
Larson did his graduate work in China through Oklahoma City University, and went through an intensive Mandarin program. During his time in China, he taught at and served as an interpreter for various language training operations. He worked as a teacher and tutor throughout college and graduate school, and later (2007-2012) served as director of several schools in the United States and China.
His interest in programming was initially sparked by a desire to automate some of the more repetitive tasks in school administration so teachers could spend more time with their students. He started out writing scripts in AutoHotkey, then switched to Ruby and Python and went to hackathons every weekend before seeking employment as a software developer in 2012.
freeCodeCamp
In 2014, Larson launched the freeCodeCamp community project and founded a company in California called Free Code Camp, Inc. to support it. The company pays for servers and other expenses.
Larson is the editor of and one of the most prolific contributors to freeCodeCamp's Medium publication, which is Medium's largest technical publication.
In a 2015 podcast interview, he summarized his motivation for creating freeCodeCamp as follows: “freeCodeCamp is my effort to correct the extremely inefficient and circuitous way I learned to code. I’m committing my career and the rest of my life towards making this process as efficient and painless as possible. All those things that made learning to code a nightmare to me are things that we are trying to fix with freeCodeCamp.”

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