Learn to code mobile apps with React Native (Free 5-hour JavaScript course)

Here are this week's five links that are worth your time: 1. freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth course on React Native. You can use this framework to code your own native mobile apps using JavaScript. You'll learn how to structure your app and set up your developer environment. Then you'll learn about React Components, Props, Styles, and more. By the end of the course, you'll have your own weather app you can run right on your phone. (5 hour YouTube course): 2. Learn to automate tasks and get Linux servers to do your bidding. This Bash course will teach you powerful command line skills you can use on Mac, Linux, and even Windows (using Subsystem for Linux). You'll learn about input redirection, logic operators, control flow, exit codes, and even text manipulation with AWK and SED. (1 hour YouTube course): 3. Firebase is a powerful database that runs in the cloud. This course will teach you how to use Firebase along with HTML, CSS, and React to develop your own simple shopping cart app. You can code along at home in your browser, and even deploy your finished app to the cloud. (2 hour YouTube course): 4. Linting is not just when you clean out your pockets. It's also a term for tools that can spot errors in your source code before you even run it. This tutorial will walk you through the history of linting tools stretching all the way back to the 1970s. It will also teach you about Code Formatters like Prettier, Beautify, and ESLint. This is an excellent primer for JavaScript devs. (15 minute read): 5. Keeping up with all this year's AI breakthroughs can feel overwhelming. Which is why I'm thrilled to share Edem Gold's History of AI, which stretches all the way back to the 1950s. You'll learn about Perceptrons, Hidden Markov Models, Deep learning, and more. (25 minute read): Wow. Another week, another wave of AI breakthroughs. The freeCodeCamp community is developing several courses to teach you both beginner and advanced AI concepts, and all the math you'll need to build your own AI systems. As you may know, we're a tax-exempt public charity. It costs a lot to run our 106 servers in data centers around the world. If you'd like to support our work, it will be a big help to our mission: Quote of the Week: “Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals.” — Geoffrey Hinton, Computer Scientist, Cognitive Psychologist, and the “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence”, talking about the increasingly successful neural network approach to Machine Learning Happy coding. -- Quincy Larson Teacher at freeCodeCamp.org I share useful things on Twitter at If these aren't worth your time, you can turn them off: