The freeCodeCamp Podcast

Quincy Larson interviews The Changelog team about the history of their legendary open source podcast. Then they interview Quincy about the future of freeCodeCamp.

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. We discuss tackling imposter syndrome, applying for jobs, learning to code and having realistic expectations, and how to handle criticism, among many other things.

On today's episode of the podcast, Abbey chats with software engineer Jackson Bates. Jackson used to be a high school English teacher, but gradually taught himself to code and landed a pretty sweet gig as a React dev, partly by chance. Today he works part time as a developer, part time as a stay at home dad, and volunteers his time with various open source projects.

Jeff Meyerson talks about competitive poker working at Amazon, and starting Software Engineering Daily. He shares how he got into tech, become an entrepreneur, and the many lessons he learned along the way.

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 talks about Y Combinator, growing up in Atlanta, and more.

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, and how he stays focused through it all.

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 her company, her favorite moments from events she's produced, and how to break into the design market.

In this week's podcast episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with Harry Wolff, an engineering manager at MongoDB. Harry has been in the world of tech for over a decade, holding jobs in various startups before ending up at Mongo. You'll learn about his journey into management, how to start a meetup, and dos and don't for migrating from legacy codebases.

This week, Abbey chats with former elementary school music teacher Briana Swift about her transition into tech. Briana loved teaching, but needed a change, so she started teaching herself to code. After taking some free online courses and earning freeCodeCamp's full-stack certification, she landed a job at GitHub. In this episode, you'll learn how she got there.

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 had a good marketing job, but wanted more from his work. So he started freelancing on the side. Two years later, he went out on his own full time. And in this episode, he shares what has made him successful and his advice for aspiring freelancers.

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 majored in English in college, spent time in the army, and eventually found her way back to tech. She discusses hiring practices, job hunting, and work life-balance.

On this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with London-based software engineer Linh about how she left the field of biochemical engineering, taught herself to code, struggled to get her first dev job, and now gets to work at LEGO.

On this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with Princiya about how she changed careers, moved to Berlin, and worked her way up to a lead role. Four years ago, Princiya left her life in India and moved to Berlin for a job. Today she's working at a startup, speaks at conferences worldwide, and mentors young developers at her company.

On this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with front-end developer Joe Previte who lives and works in Arizona. Joe shares the story of how he made the tough decision to leave grad school, how he discovered coding, and how he stays motivated and continues to learn.

CS50 is the most popular course at Harvard, and hundreds of thousands of people have taken the free online version of the course as well. In this interview, David Malan and Colton Ogden share tips for how to effectively learn computer science.