How we curate, and why it matters
Great education is rarely invented from scratch — it's assembled with care. We think of Atlas as a shelf, and curation as the craft of choosing what goes on it.
Attribution by design
Every lesson carries its provenance in the file itself:
- source — where the lesson came from (open license, original, or creator)
- sourceUrl — the exact upstream page
- sourceLicense — the license it's published under, visible to you
No hidden copying. If freeCodeCamp wrote it, we say so, and the CC BY-SA 4.0 license is shown right on the lesson.
Open content, serious standards
We only curate from openly licensed material we can legally reuse — and that you can legally reuse too. That's not a limitation; it's a guarantee.
When a lesson comes from the open web, you get the same quality, tested against real assertions, but wrapped in Atlas's learning experience: video, docs, and a code editor that checks your answers.
Why this builds trust
- Learners know exactly what they're getting.
- Upstream creators get credit and traffic.
- The platform earns trust by being honest about what it is.
Education without honesty isn't education. It's marketing.