freeCodeCamp Podcast

By freeCodeCamp.org

What's freeCodeCamp Podcast about?

The official podcast of the freeCodeCamp.org open source community. Each week, founder Quincy Larson interviews developers, entrepreneurs, and professors. You'll learn all about how to build your skills and accelerate your career in tech.

Learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs: https://www.freecodecamp.org

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freeCodeCamp Podcast episodes:

05.17.2024
#124 AI is Overrated – Why ThePrimeagen Ripped Out GitHub Copilot Out From His Code Editor
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews ThePrimeagean. He's a software engineer who streams himself programming. He recently left his job at Netflix to stream full-time. We talk about: - Prime's journey from his teacher...
05.10.2024
#123 How to Become a Pro Designer in 2024 with Gary Simon [DesignCourse Founder]
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Gary Simon, a developer and designer who started DesignCourse.com and has published several courses on freeCodeCamp.org over the years. We talk about: - Growing up in rural Ohio,...
05.03.2024
#122 From Construction Worker to Teaching MILLIONS of Developers with John Smilga
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews prolific programming teacher John Smilga. John grew up in the Soviet Union. He worked construction for 5 years before becoming a developer. Today he has taught millions of...
04.26.2024
#121 Ben Awad is a GameDev Who Sleeps 9 Hours EVERY NIGHT to be Productive
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Ben Awad, a game developer who creates developer tutorials on YouTube and TikTok. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Can you guess what bass line I'm playing...
04.19.2024
#120 CTO Andrew Brown Passed Dozens of Cloud Certification Exams
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Andrew Brown, a CTO-turned co-founder of ExamPro.co. Andrew created this cloud certification exam prep website with another Andrew – also from Canada, who also loves Star Trek. We...
04.12.2024
#119 CSS Artist Kass Moreno talks Art and Code
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kass Moreno, a Senior Front End Developer and CSS Artist. Kass started learning coding at age 28 and has since built a reputation as one of the...
04.05.2024
#118 Indie Game Dev Jabrils talks about AI, Anime, and How to Build Games
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Jabril. He's an indie game developer who's building a turn-based fighting game called ultrabouters. Jabril has developed tons of other games as well. He runs the popular Jabrils gamedev focused-YouTube....
03.28.2024
#117 Learning How to Learn with 100Devs Founder Leon Noel
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp Founder Quincy Larson interviews Leon Noel, founder of 100Devs and head of engineering at Resilient Coders. Growing up, Leon had it drilled into him that he had to become a doctor,...
03.22.2024
#116 She wrote code you use every day – GitHub dev and Electron JS pioneer Jessica Lord
In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Lord, AKA JLord. She's worked as a software engineer for more than a decade at companies like GitHub and Glitch. Among her many accomplishments, Jessica created the...
03.15.2024
#115 From 36-year-old Mom to Developer with Phoebe Voong-Fadel
This week freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Phoebe Voong-Fadel about her childhood as the daughter of refugees, and how she self-studied coding and became a professional developer at the age of 36. Phoebe worked from age 12 at her...
03.08.2024
#114 From Microsoft Engineer to CTO – Quincy interviews Meme Queen Cassidoo (Cassidy Williams)
In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson talks with developer-turned-CTO Cassidy Williams, also known as Cassidoo on Twitter and TikTok. She's worked in tech for over a decade as a developer at several...
03.01.2024
#113 AI and the Future of Education with Seth Goldin
In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson discusses AI and the future of education with Seth Goldin. Among other things, Seth is co-founder of College Compendium, an education charity, and studies computer science at Yale. Also,...
02.23.2024
#112 What it's like working at ChatGPT Creator Open AI – My Interview with Logan Kilpatrick
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Logan Kilpatric, a software engineer and ChatGPT creator Open AI's first-ever Developer Advocate hire. The week Logan started, ChatGPT hit 1 million users. (It now has 180 million monthly users.) During...
02.16.2024
#111 How the Insane Pressure of Working in Classical Music Prepared Jessica Wilkins for Tech
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview orchestral musician-turned software engineer Jessica Wilkins. Jessica found success in the extremely competitive field of classical music, playing the Oboe in orchestras, recording sessions, and even at major events such as...
02.09.2024
#110 AI Engineering with Scrimba CEO & Engineer Per Borgen
In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Per Borgen about AI engineering and interactive developer education. Per is the co-founder and CEO of Scrimba and is a software engineer. Be sure to follow The freeCodeCamp...
02.02.2024
#109 Oh My Zsh Creator and Planet Argon CEO Robby Russell
In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Robby Russell. Robby created the open-source project Oh My ZSH. Oh My Zsh is a framework for managing your Zsh configuration for your command line...
01.25.2024
#108: Running the Biggest Programming Channel on YouTube with freeCodeCamp's Beau Carnes
Beau Carnes has run the freeCodeCamp community YouTube channel for the past 5 years, taking it from 75,000 subscribers all the way up to 9 million. Beau started out working as a Special Education teacher at a Michigan...
12.15.2023
#107 Kylie Ying on MIT, CERN, Figure Skating, and Poker AI
I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of freeCodeCamp.org. And each week, I'm bringing you insight from developers, entrepreneurs, and ambitious people who are getting into tech. Today I'm joined by Kylie Ying. She's a software engineer and a teacher at...
12.08.2023
#106 The History of Online Courses with Class Central Founder Dhawal Shah
Dhawal Shah is creator of Class Central, a popular search engine for online courses. Dhawal talk about the history of online courses and the Massive Open Online Course revolution of the early 2010s. We also talk about his childhood growing...
11.24.2023
#105 Hardware Engineering with Bruno Haid
I interview Bruno Haid. He's a software engineer and tech founder from Austria. We talk about growing up in the European countryside, his early passion for computers, and ultimately his move to San Francisco, where he's founded several tech companies....
11.17.2023
#104 Data Visualization with Dr. Curran Kelleher
Today I'm joined by Dr. Curran Kelleher. He's a data visualization expert and has taught a number of in-depth data visualization courses on freeCodeCamp's YouTube channel. We talk about what it's like to get a Ph.D. under one of the...
11.10.2023
#103 From MIT to Startup Land with Arian Agrawal
On this week's podcast, I meet with Arian Agrawal in New York City to talk about her journey into tech startups. Arian grew up in New York and studied at MIT. She worked in finance for a few years, then...
11.03.2023
#102 Founder of Trello and Stack Overflow Joel Spolsky
Today I'm joined by Joel Spolsky. He's co-founder of Trello and Stack Overflow, and author of the iconic developer blog Joel on Software. I hung out with Joel in his New York City home to discuss his 4-decade-long career as...
10.27.2023
#101 Overcoming 3 Layoffs with Senior Dev Kevin Miller
Today I'm joined by Kevin Miller. He's a senior developer and host of the Coder Conversations YouTube channel. Kevin studied accounting in Texas and worked overnight for 7 years at hotels, making only $11 an hour. But his knowledge...
10.20.2023
#100 Full Audiobook: How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job by Quincy Larson
This is it – my full FREE 2023 book in audiobook format. How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job. Written, read, edited, mixed, and mastered by me, Quincy Larson. The text version of the book (also free):...
09.29.2023
#99 Game Development and AI with Lynn Zheng
Today I'm joined by Lynn Zheng. She's a software engineer at freeCodeCamp and at Salesforce. Lynn grew up in Shenzhen, China – the computer hardware capital of the world. Both of her parents were engineers. And from an early...
09.22.2023
#98 How to Run a Tech Conference with Ben Dunphy
Ben Dunphy studied international relations and had a short career in finance. Among other things, he co-authored a bill that eventually got passed in his state of New Hampshire. But Ben saw the writing on the wall – that...
09.15.2023
#97 Disney Data Scientist Eric Leung on Math, Medicine, and Learning to Code
Eric Leung grew up in Oklahoma and learned a lot of math in high school. His friends wanted to go to medical school and he originally planned to join them. But instead he got interested in the emerging field of...
09.08.2023
#96 Learning to Code in your 30s with Patrick San Juan
Today I'm joined by Patrick San Juan, a software engineer who first learned to code in his 30s. I've known Patrick since the early days of freeCodeCamp. He has always been a positive, supportive force within the community. Patrick...
09.01.2023
#95 Automate Your Job Then Keep Climbing with Malindi Colyer
Today I'm joined by Malindi Colyer. Among her many skills, she's a Python developer and AI engineer. Malindi grew up on a farm in rural Kansas, in the middle of the US. She trained to become a diplomat, and volunteered...
08.25.2023
#94 Killing Cancer with Machine Learning feat. Dr. Amit Deshwar
#94 Killing Cancer with Machine Learning with Dr. Amit Deshwar Today I'm joined by Dr. Amit Deshwar. He uses machine learning to discover new drugs to cure various diseases including cancer. He's a scientist who works in the growing...
08.18.2023
#93 Stack Overflow Co-founder Jeff Atwood on Developers and Communities
Today I'm talking with programmer legend Jeff Atwood. Jeff co-founded Stack Overflow with Joel Spolsky back in 2008. And software development has never been the same. Jeff also co-founded Discourse, a beloved forum tool used by Apple, Roblox, and of...
08.11.2023
#92 From Rock Climbing to Software Engineering with Sean Smith
Today I'm talking with Sean Smith, one of freeCodeCamp's earliest graduates. Sean's also a prolific open source contributor, having helped develop freeCodeCamp's original React curriculum. Sean grew up in Tenessee and was an avid outdoorsman and rock climber. He went...
08.03.2023
#91 Laid off from FAANG to Winning AI Hackathons with Sasha Sheng
Today I'm talking with Sasha Sheng. She's a software engineer who worked at Yahoo and at Facebook. During her 9 years working at big tech companies in San Francisco, she worked on mobile apps and AI systems. Sasha grew up...
07.27.2023
#90 Shawn "Swyx" Wang: from Dev to AI Founder
Today I'm joined by Shawn Wang, AKA Swyx. I first interviewed Shawn in 2019. Back then, Shawn had quit his $350k a year finance job and taught himself to code using freeCodeCamp. He was working as a full stack engineer....
07.21.2023
#89 Megan Kaczanowski: From Finance to Cybersecurity
Today I'm interviewing a long-time friend and role model of mine, Megan Kaczanowski. We met up in Brooklyn to talk about her journey into information security. She studied economics at University of Michigan before working in finance in New York...
07.14.2023
#88 Brian Douglas: Open Source and Sending the Elevator Back Down
today I'm joined by Brian Douglas. He's a software engineer who's worked at tech companies like GitHub and Netlify. And now he's an entrepreur runs his own startup – OpenSauced.pizza. Brian grew up in a small town in Florida, and...
07.13.2023
#87 Sarah Shook: Mom, Developer, Agency Founder
Today I'm joined by Sarah Shook is a software engineer who started out as a recruiter, then started learning system administration on the job at a school. She didn't finish university. She learned to code on the job, from studying...
07.12.2023
#86 We're Back! Danny Thompson's Journey from Chicken Fryer to Software Engineer
Welcome back to the freeCodeCamp Podcast. I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of freeCodeCamp.org. And I'm bringing you insight from developers, entrepreneurs, and ambitious people getting into tech. It's been 4 years since we published a podcast episode. It's good...
11.21.2019
#85 10 Years of The Changelog + 5 years of freeCodeCamp
In this special crossover episode, we celebrate 10 years of The Changelog. It's the home of the biggest podcast focused on open source, and a favorite of freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson. This 4-hour episode is actually 2 interviews: 1. For...
10.21.2019
Ep. 84: From photography student to successful freelancer and content creator with Jessica Chan
This week, for the last podcast episode of 2019, Abbey chatted with freelancer and content creator Jessica Chan - known as CoderCoder on social media - about how she got into tech and started her educational website and YouTube channel....
10.14.2019
Ep. 83: From high school english teacher to software engineer at a machine learning company
On today's episode of the podcast, Abbey chats with software engineer Jackson Bates who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Jackson used to be a high school English teacher, but gradually taught himself to code and landed a...
10.07.2019
Ep. 82: From Poker to Amazon Engineer to Host of Software Engineering Daily with Jeff Meyerson
Quincy interviews Jeff Meyerson, the creator and host of the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Jeff grew up in Texas, played competitive poker, and ultimately worked as a software engineer at Amazon. We talk about how he got into tech, how...
09.30.2019
Ep. 81: How Ruben Harris Used the Power of Stories to Break Into Startups
In this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Quincy Larson interviews Ruben Harris, who runs Career Karma, a social network for people interested in attending coding bootcamp. He also hosts the Breaking into Startups Podcast. Ruben just finished Y...
09.16.2019
Ep. 80: How to get a job, stay focused, and create quality content - advice from a senior software engineer
On this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey interviews senior software engineer and prolific content creator Ohans Emmanuel. They discuss how he got into tech, how he ended up in Berlin, what goes into writing a book,...
09.09.2019
Ep. 79: How to design tech event experiences so everybody wins
On this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with UX designer and musician Andi Galpern about how she creates engaging and unique experiences in the tech world. Andi shares stories about past jobs, how she started...
08.26.2019
Ep. 78: From early stage startups to manager at MongoDB
In this week's podcast episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with Harry Wolff, an engineering manager at MongoDB in New York City. Harry has been in the world of tech for over a decade, holding jobs in various startups...
08.19.2019
Ep. 77: How a former music teacher taught herself to code and landed a job at GitHub
This week, I got to chat with Briana Swift, who used to teach music to elementary school children. She loved teaching and loved her job, but realized it wasn't what she wanted to do for the rest of...
08.12.2019
Ep. 76: How to become a successful freelancer
In this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with software developer and freelancer Kyle Prinsloo who lives and works in South Africa. Kyle knew from a young age that he wanted to pursue a career in...
08.05.2019
Ep. 75: How an army vet went from English major to full-stack developer
In this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with software developer and army veteran Jami Gibbs about her journey into tech. Jami was born and raised in the Chicago area, and her first encounter with programming was...

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freeCodeCamp Podcast episodes:

#124 AI is Overrated – Why ThePrimeagen Ripped Out GitHub Copilot Out From His Code Editor

#123 How to Become a Pro Designer in 2024 with Gary Simon [DesignCourse Founder]

#122 From Construction Worker to Teaching MILLIONS of Developers with John Smilga

#121 Ben Awad is a GameDev Who Sleeps 9 Hours EVERY NIGHT to be Productive

#120 CTO Andrew Brown Passed Dozens of Cloud Certification Exams

#119 CSS Artist Kass Moreno talks Art and Code

#118 Indie Game Dev Jabrils talks about AI, Anime, and How to Build Games

#117 Learning How to Learn with 100Devs Founder Leon Noel

#116 She wrote code you use every day – GitHub dev and Electron JS pioneer Jessica Lord

#115 From 36-year-old Mom to Developer with Phoebe Voong-Fadel

#114 From Microsoft Engineer to CTO – Quincy interviews Meme Queen Cassidoo (Cassidy Williams)

#113 AI and the Future of Education with Seth Goldin

#112 What it's like working at ChatGPT Creator Open AI – My Interview with Logan Kilpatrick

#111 How the Insane Pressure of Working in Classical Music Prepared Jessica Wilkins for Tech

#110 AI Engineering with Scrimba CEO & Engineer Per Borgen

#109 Oh My Zsh Creator and Planet Argon CEO Robby Russell

#108: Running the Biggest Programming Channel on YouTube with freeCodeCamp's Beau Carnes

#107 Kylie Ying on MIT, CERN, Figure Skating, and Poker AI

#106 The History of Online Courses with Class Central Founder Dhawal Shah

#105 Hardware Engineering with Bruno Haid

#104 Data Visualization with Dr. Curran Kelleher

#103 From MIT to Startup Land with Arian Agrawal

#102 Founder of Trello and Stack Overflow Joel Spolsky

#101 Overcoming 3 Layoffs with Senior Dev Kevin Miller

#100 Full Audiobook: How to Learn to Code and Get a Developer Job by Quincy Larson

#99 Game Development and AI with Lynn Zheng

#98 How to Run a Tech Conference with Ben Dunphy

#97 Disney Data Scientist Eric Leung on Math, Medicine, and Learning to Code

#96 Learning to Code in your 30s with Patrick San Juan

#95 Automate Your Job Then Keep Climbing with Malindi Colyer

#94 Killing Cancer with Machine Learning feat. Dr. Amit Deshwar

#93 Stack Overflow Co-founder Jeff Atwood on Developers and Communities

#92 From Rock Climbing to Software Engineering with Sean Smith

#91 Laid off from FAANG to Winning AI Hackathons with Sasha Sheng

#90 Shawn "Swyx" Wang: from Dev to AI Founder

#89 Megan Kaczanowski: From Finance to Cybersecurity

#88 Brian Douglas: Open Source and Sending the Elevator Back Down

#87 Sarah Shook: Mom, Developer, Agency Founder

#86 We're Back! Danny Thompson's Journey from Chicken Fryer to Software Engineer

#85 10 Years of The Changelog + 5 years of freeCodeCamp

Ep. 84: From photography student to successful freelancer and content creator with Jessica Chan

Ep. 83: From high school english teacher to software engineer at a machine learning company

Ep. 82: From Poker to Amazon Engineer to Host of Software Engineering Daily with Jeff Meyerson

Ep. 81: How Ruben Harris Used the Power of Stories to Break Into Startups

Ep. 80: How to get a job, stay focused, and create quality content - advice from a senior software engineer

Ep. 79: How to design tech event experiences so everybody wins

Ep. 78: From early stage startups to manager at MongoDB

Ep. 77: How a former music teacher taught herself to code and landed a job at GitHub

Ep. 76: How to become a successful freelancer

Ep. 75: How an army vet went from English major to full-stack developer

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