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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Tadas Petra. He's a software engineer and a Senior Developer Advocate at Agora.io. After learning embedded development in university, he switched to building mobile apps. He's gone on to build dozens of mobile apps and create tutorials to help other devs learn Flutter and other mobile dev tools.
We talk about:
- Immigrating to Chicago from Lithuania
- The Computer Engineering he studied in school, and how it's different from building consumer mobile apps
- His transition from Senior Dev to YouTube creator to Developer Advocacy
- The overlap between mobile dev and web dev, and what he's learned from eachCan you guess what song I'm playing in the intro?
Also, I want to thank the 10,943 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
You can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday.
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Tadas's History of freeCodeCamp video (20 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5n1-hD-x5g
Tadas's video about how to control the lights in your house with Flutter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eib_62D-kSA
Tadas's course platform for learning cross platform app development with Flutter: https://www.hungrimind.com/
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kamran Ahmed. He's a software engineer and founder of Roadmap.sh, which has skill tree roadmaps for lots of developer fields, such as DevOps. As a teacher, he's also a Google Developer Expert and a GitHub Star.
We talk about:
- Kamran's tips for finding the right open source projects to contribute to
- The story behind Roadmap.sh, his popular developer website
- Other specialized open source Kamran has built over the years
- How Kamran became a Google Developer Expert and GitHub StarCan you guess what song I'm playing during the intro?
Also, I want to thank the 10,922 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Kamran's website, Roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/
- Kamran's "Design Patterns for Humans" GitHub book: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/design-patterns-for-humans
- freeCodeCamp's "How to Contribute to Open Source guide" Quincy mentions: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects-beginners-guide/
- Kamran on Twitter: https://x.com/kamrify
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Dennis Ivy, a software engineer and prolific freelancer. He dropped out of college at 18 and taught himself how to build websites. He started his first agency, built and sold products, and eventually started teaching his skills on YouTube.
We talk about:
- Growing up in an immigrant family of 13 kids
- Dropping out of school and working construction before learning to code
- Figuring out how to get web development clients through trial and error
- Selling his codebase to his employer $61,000 and using it to fund his journey into teaching PythonCan you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro?
Also, I want to thank the 10,443 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- The Bussard Ramjet theoretical spacecraft Quincy mentions as an analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
- Dennis Ivy's React + Appwrite course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-sticky-notes-app-with-react-and-appwrite/
- Dennis Ivy's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/dennisivy
- Dennis Ivy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dennisivy11
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews YK Sugi. He's a software engineer and prolific YouTube Computer Science tutorial creator. He's worked at Google and Microsoft. He runs the CS Dojo channel where he shares his insights on software development, AI, and developer career progressions. We talk about: - Emerging AI tools and how developers are adopting them - The role of interest rates in developer hiring - Japan's developer work culture VS the US - How not to burn out Can you guess what song I'm playing in the intro? Also, I want to thank the 10,993 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday. Links we talk about during our conversation: - YK's freeCodeCamp article on the resume he used to get a job at Google: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/heres-the-resume-i-used-to-get-a-job-at-google-as-a-software-engineer-26516526f29a/ - YK's freeCodeCamp article about leaving his job at Google to focus on entrepreneurship: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-i-left-my-100-000-job-at-google-60b5cf4ebefe/ - YK's popular CS Dojo YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CSDojo - YK on Twitter: https://x.com/ykdojo
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Meg Risdal. She's a data scientist and Product Manager at Kaggle, Google's Data Science competition platform.
Megan works closely with the global data science community, and on Google's Gemma open models project.
We talk about:
- Google's Kaggle, which hosts 300k open data sets and runs data science competitions each week that anyone can participate in.
- How people talk in academia VS how people talk in tech
- Stack Overflow VS Kaggle – how Megan contrasts what it was like to work on these two "communities of practice"
- Linguistics and its importance in LLMs and AI research
Can you recognize the song I'm playing during the intro? It's a punk song from 1994.
Be sure to follow The freeCodeCamp podcast in your favorite podcast app. And share this podcast with a friend. Let's inspire more folks to learn to code and build careers for themselves in tech.
Also, I want to thank the 10,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Meg's blog: https://www.meg.dev/
The Sliced Data Science Gameshow that Meg co-hosted with Nick Wan: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PX3YIZuHhyQmXKnyZmVDzdgAYbzwgDw
Meg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeganRisdal
Kaggle's open learning resources: https://www.kaggle.com/learn
The Gemma team at Google that Meg also works on: https://ai.google.dev/gemma
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Eddie Jaoude who is a software engineer and open source creator.
He's worked more than 15 years as a developer everywhere from Germany banking sector to London's tech startup scene. He's now a dev rel for hire and runs several open source projects.
We talk about:
- Eddie's journey into open source
- How he built his reputation through hackathons
- How he leveraged his network to find his first freelance clients
- His audio-video setup for filming tutorialsCan you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's the theme from a 1982 police show.
Also, I want to thank the 10,773 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Eddie's YouTube channel with more than 700 tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5mnBodB73bR88fLXHSfzYA
Eddie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eddiejaoude
Eddie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddiejaoude/
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jack Herrington. As a kid he had to work to overcome Dyslexia and didn't have good enough grades to get into college. Despite this, he's worked as a software engineer for more than 40 years at companies like Nike, Adobe, and Walmart. He also runs the popular Blue Collar Coder YouTube channel.
We talk about:
- How Jack struggled with Dyslexia, had terrible grades that couldn't get him into college, but got really into GameDev in the early 1980s
- Early developer job opportunities that took his family from his home town in Pennsylvania to Melbourne Australia
- How he started blogging as he learned, and ultimately published 6 programming books
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1979 new-wave song.
Also, I want to thank the 10,443 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Blue Collar Coder YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jherr
Jack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jherr
1984 ad from Apple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
Edward Tufte, the academic Jack mentions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte
Ben Affleck's funny drunk DVD commentary on Armageddon movie (this contains profanity so don't listen to with young kids around): https://www.tiktok.com/@alltherightmovies/video/7238180210527505690?lang=en
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Emma Bostian. She's a software engineer turned manager at Spotify and Prolific coding teacher.
We talk about:
- How at her first developer job at IBM, Emma's boss told her: "You need to get your stuff together or you won't make it in this industry." And the transformation that followed.
- Emma's thoughts on Computer Science degrees. "Going to college gives you credibility and a network. You can get opportunities that way."
- How Emma hires software engineers. (Hint: she tries to disregard degrees completely.)
- How Emma intentionally procrastinates some big tasks to give her mind time to figure out the puzzle pieces
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1979 punk song.
Also, I want to thank the 10,776 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Emma on Twitter: https://x.com/emmabostian
- The Ladybug Podcast about women in tech that Emma helped host for several years: https://www.ladybug.dev/
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Hiroko Nishimura. She's a special ed teacher turned system administrator turned technical instructor.
Hiroko grew up in Japan and moved to the US as a kid. In her early 20s, she was diagnosed with a vascular tumor in her brain. After life-saving surgery, she had to work to regain the ability to walk and talk. She still lives with disabilities to this day.
Despite this, she's gone on to author technical books, become an AWS hero, and create the popular AWS Newbies community. More than 500,000 people have taken her LinkedIn Learning course.
We talk about:
- How Hiroko moved to the US as a kid and learned English and American culture
- Hiroko's vascular tumor diagnosis, and how she recovered from brain surgery and brain damage
- Her big move to NYC and her years working as a system administrator and ultimately cloud engineer there
- How she made the jump to teaching system administration full-time as a course creator
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1990 song by a Scottish rock band.
Also, I want to thank the 10,443 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Hiroko’s article about her brain surgery: https://hiroko.io/my-words/
- Hiroko's book AWS for non-engineers: https://www.manning.com/books/aws-for-non-engineers
- Hiroko's AWS course: https://introtoaws.com
- And her AWS linktree: https://aws.hiroko.io
- My history of the 100DaysOfCode challenge: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-crazy-history-of-the-100daysofcode-challenge-and-why-you-should-try-it-for-2018-6c89a76e298d/
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Rahul Pandey. He's a software engineer who left his $800K / year FAANG job to build his own startup.
We talk about:
- The post-layoff developer job landscape
- Developer interviews and how to differentiate yourself
- Why salary negotiation still makes sense
- His belief that 10x engineers exist – and even 100x and 1000x engineersCan you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1969 mowtown classic.
Also, I want to thank the 10,443 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Rahul's Android app tutorial on freeCodeCamp (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-build-and-publish-an-android-app-from-scratch/
- Rahul's video about post-college job offers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rceUVaiXQgU
- Taro, Rahul's company: https://www.jointaro.com/
- The story of a software engineer who moves back to India to run his father's chemical business after his death: https://anandsanwal.me/2018/06/19/dad-company-sale/
- Conference talk about the correlation between interest rates and developer hiring, by Pragmatic Engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpPPHDxR9aM
- Rahul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Angie Jones. She's a developer and holder of 27 software patents. She's worked at companies like IBM and Twitter, doing both test engineering and developer advocacy.
We talk about:
- How a bad performance review from her boss early in her career taught her to be less timid and more vocal about her ideas.
- How she invented lots of software testing processes and holds 27 software patents.
- Her work at IBM, Twitter, and other big tech companies.
- How feature development and test development are completely different disciplines, which each require dedicated practice and their own mindsets
- Her interest in the game Second Life and the possibility of virtual worlds
- How she uses AI for debugging and test engineering
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's a 1992 Acid Jazz song.
Also, I want to thank the 9,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Test Automation University learning paths: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/learningpaths.html
- Angie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/techgirl1908
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Ken Jee. Ken's a Data Scientist. He's also a Sports Analytics practitioner who works with US Team Golf and USA Basketball.
Ken hosts the excellent Ken's Nearest Neighbors podcast and the Exponential Athelete podcast.
We talk about:
- How an injury pushed Ken out of pro sports and into data science
- How Ken explains his statistical insights to coaches and players to help them improve their performance
- Why Ken doesn't think building projects is all that useful anymore. "Data Scientists should instead build products."
- How Ken starts and ends each day with meditation, and writes down all the ideas that pop into his head after each session.
- Ken's observation that: "Who is the best suited to excel in a world where AI tools are prominent? Probably the people who are building them. People in the data science domain, people who are coding – they're the most prepared to use these tools for other things."
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 2006 dance song, and it was originally played on a synth.
Also, I want to thank the 10,109 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Ken's Nearest Neighbors Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpEJMMRoTIHJ8vG8q_EwqCg
The Exponential Athelete Podcast, also hosted by Ken: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAkSd12rP282takuFJKsAsYlHdpdEDhuE
The Founders podcast, which both Ken and Quincy listen to. James Dyson episode: https://www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/88384801/senra-james-dyson-against-the-odds-an-autobiography
Anna Wintour episode: https://www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/58741411/senra-326-anna-wintour
San Antonio caves that Quincy visited: https://naturalbridgecaverns.com/
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews John Washam, a software engineer at Amazon. John's also creator of one of the most popular open source projects of all time, Coding Interview University.
This is John's first-ever podcast interview, and the first time he's told his story. Interviewing him was an absolute honor.
We talk about:
- How John delivered pizzas to save enough money to buy his first computer in the 90s. "I was tired of being a broke kid."
- John's first career in the US military, where he worked as a translator in South Korea
- How John crammed Computer Science for 8 months and taught himself enough theory and coding skills to get a job in big tech, then published Coding Interview University on GitHub
- What it's like to work as a senior developer at a big tech company, and what you can expect the journey to be like
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1986 rock song.
Also, I want to thank the 9,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Coding Interview University: https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
- The Starup Next Door, John's blog: https://startupnextdoor.com/
- Follow John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnawasham/
- The Talent Code, the book John recommends: https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/055380684X
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Daniel Bourke. He's a Machine Learning Engineer and creator of many popular tutorials on YouTube. He's also a frequent freeCodeCamp contributor.
We talk about:
- How as a kid he hacked into his school's network and gave himself good grades, just like the kid from Wargames. (Don't try this at home.)
- What he learned from helping fix 5,000 people's computers
- How Machine Learning actually works. What the AI models are actually doing for you in the background.
- His advice for anyone getting into Machine Learning in 2024, in terms of what to prioritize learning
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 2020 song by an Australian musician.
Also, I want to thank the 9,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Daniel's 26-hour PyTorch course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-pytorch-for-deep-learning-in-day/
Nutrify, Daniel's "pokedex for food". Uses computer vision to map photos of food to nutrition data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jpLqtAWKfo
Daniel's Charles Bukowski-inspired novel "Charlie Walks": https://www.charliewalks.com/
The research website Daniel mentions: https://arxiv.org/
Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrdbourke
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Chan AKA Coder Coder. She's a software engineer has worked in the field for more than a decade. Interestingly, she studied photography in school and never took a programming class.
We talk about:
- How she and her sister ran a dial-in Bulletin Board System (BBS) back in the pre-web days
- How her first year as a dev she "was just living in abject fear of losing my job."
- How she stayed at her first developer agency job for 7 years, and went from imposter syndrome afflicted newbie to getting promoted
- Her philosophy on creating programming tutorials: "You don't have to be on the cutting edge. I don't operate on the cutting edge."
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1993 rock song.
Also, I want to thank the 9,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Jessica's 7-hour "How to Build a Website" freeCodeCamp course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-simple-website-with-html-css-javascript/
Jessica's coding journey animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA14r2ujQ7s
Kevin Powell, the "King of CSS", who has also shared courses on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/author/kevin-powell/
Jessica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecodercoder
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Scott Hanselman. Scott's a developer at Microsoft, a prolific teacher, and has hosted the Hanselminutes podcast for nearly two decades.
We talk about:
- How he leads a fully-remote team from his home of Portland, Oregon
- His 11-year journey to getting his degree
- What he learned from teaching programming at community college
- What he's learned about software development from recording 980 podcast interviews across 20 years
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1994 punk song.
Also, I want to thank the 9,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Scott's Hanselminutes Podcast: https://www.hanselman.com/podcasts
- A personal tour of Lotus Notes founder Ray Ozzie's computer artifacts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4awQH6WhP4
- Scott on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shanselman
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Alison Yoon. She's a Software Engineer who started off in fashion design and taught herself to code using freeCodeCamp.
We talk about:
- What it's like to work in fashion. "You're surrounded by exhausted, unhappy people."
- How she used freeCodeCamp and the 100DaysOfCode challenge to learn to code and start her software development career
- How she learned English and how to work on engineering teams in the UK.
- How she's leading the Korean translation effort for the freeCodeCamp community, with 10,000s of people now reading Korean articles each month
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1985 song.
Also, I want to thank the 9,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- freeCodeCamp's Korean edition, including Quincy's "Learn to code and get a developer job" book translated into Korean: https://www.freecodecamp.org/korean/news/learn-to-code-book/
- Alison on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aliyooncreative
- Devil Wears Prada trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZOZwUQKu3E
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Adrian Twarog. He's a Software Engineer who started his career by working as the office IT guy at a school and other offices for 10 years. He's since published YouTube courses that millions of people have watched.
We talk about:
- How Adrian built his development skills by volunteering to taking on web design projects at work
- How he started making design tutorials on YouTube and published 300 in a single year
- How he was early to the AI engineering craze and published GPT tutorials with millions of views
– Adrian's many freeCodeCamp courses, and his gorgeous book on design fundamentals
- Being a dev in Perth, Australia – on the other side of the Earth from Silicon Valley – yet still staying at the forefront of the state of the artCan you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1995 industrial rock anthem.
Also, I want to thank the 9,771 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Adrian's popular video "Real life RPG to track your life": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMn9sxCWN0M
- Adrian's UX course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ui-ux-design-tutorial-from-zero-to-hero-with-wireframe-prototype-figma/
- Merge, Adrian's Discord community for devs: https://www.mergewebdev.com/
- Adrian's design book, Enhance UI: https://enhanceui.com/
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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Colby Fayock. He's a Software Engineer and prolific teacher who has created 68 tutorials for freeCodeCamp, and more than 100 videos on his YouTube – all freely available.
We talk about:
- Colby's early days doing design work for local bands
- How Colby went to art school, then pivoted that into a software development
- His early career at ThinkGeek where he not only did web dev but also worked as a male model for their products.
- Colby's day-to-day work as a developer experience engineer, building demo applications and SDKs
- How Colby uses AI tools in his day-to-day work, and what he thinks its current limits are.Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1995 punk song.
Also, I want to thank the 9,771 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Colby's freeCodeCamp course on building a clone of Google Photos using AI tools and Next.js: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-google-photos-clone-with-nextjs-and-cloudinary/ Colby's Trailer and web design work: https://photowall-colbyfayock.vercel.app/wall/design Colby's ThinkGeek Modeling. He's legit a male model: https://photowall-colbyfayock.vercel.app/wall/thinkgeek Colby's music from his band years: https://soundcloud.com/colby-fayock/sets/day-late-hero The XKCD comic I mention about how the scope of developer work can be non-intuitive: https://xkcd.com/1425/ -
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Dr. Chuck. He's a software engineer and Computer Science professor at University of Michigan, which has one of the top-ranked CS programs in the world.
Dr. Charles "Chuck" Severance is also creator of many popular free learning resources like his Python for Everyone and C for Everyone, which millions of students have taken over the past decade.
We talk about:
- What seperates a Master Programmer from an average developer, and how to become one
- Dr. Chuck's mission to make programming knowledge freely available
- The fundamental shortcomings of how Computer Science is currently taught at universities – even elite universities like the one he's a professor at
- Dr. Chuck's theories on recent tech layoffs and what he thinks the near future holds
- Dr. Chuck's love of racing $2,500 "lemon" cars that he revives from the junk yard, and flying planesCan you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1973 song.
Be sure to follow The freeCodeCamp podcast in your favorite podcast app. And share this podcast with a friend. Let's inspire more folks to learn to code and build careers for themselves in tech.
Also, I want to thank the 9,331 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Dr. Chuck's latest freeCodeCamp course on C programming: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/complete-c-programming-course-from-dr-chuck/
- Dr. Chuck's Python for Everyone freeCodeCamp Course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-for-everybody/
- Kylie Ying's popular Machine Learning for Everyone course inspired by Dr. Chuck: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/machine-learning-for-everybody/
- Dr. Chuck's website with his free interactive coursework: https://online.dr-chuck.com/
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