The freeCodeCamp Podcast

On this episode of the freeCodeCamp.org podcast, Abbey chats with Lauren Mayers, a web developer working in Ottowa, Canada. Lauren's from Australia, used to be a registered nurse, and recently moved to Canada and started pursuing her new dream of working in tech She loves the open source community, and had learned many things along her journey, which we'll hear about in this episode.

On today's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with  Tracy Lee, a prolific speaker, founder, JavaScript advocate, and open-source enthusiast. Tracy is a Google Developer Expert and the founder of This Dot. She organizes numerous meetups, runs the Modern Web podcast, and is on the RxJS core team.

Zubin Pratap is a corporate lawyer who taught himself to code using freeCodeCamp.org and other learning resources. Zubin worked as a developer in Melbourne, Australia. And now he is tinkering with startups. Zubin is a lover of hackathons and competed in freeCodeCamp's first hackathon at GitHub headquarters last November. Follow Zubin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZubinPratap Follow Quincy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ossia

Abbey and Quincy talk about the freeCodeCamp podcast itself, and the new weekly episodes starting on Monday.

Abbey Rennemeyer interviews Erica Peterson, the founder of Moms Can: Code and Science Tots, and Founder Gym alumna.  This year, Erica was a SXSW accelerator pitch finalist, Project Entrepreneur finalist, and StartUp of the Year semi-finalist. She talks about how she got into tech, why she became a founder, and why being a mom who codes is so awesome.

Quincy Larson interviews Sacha Greif, who's a designer, developer, and prolific open source project creator. Sacha created the Vulcan.js framework, the Sidebar.io daily design newsletter, State of JavaScript survey, and wrote the book "Discover Meteor."

Quincy Larson interviews Lyle Troxell, who's a senior software engineer at Netflix. Lyle has hosted his own technology radio show for the past 18 years, and now he hosts the official Netflix podcast, too. He also built Steve Wozniak's personal website.

On today's episode, Quincy Larson interviews Ali Spittel. She's a Washington DC-based developer and artist. She also runs the Zen of Programming website and teaches web development.

On today's episode, Quincy Larson interviews Laurence Bradford. She's the creator the LearnToCodeWith.me blog and podcast, and the Newbie Coder Warehouse Facebook group.

In this episode, Quincy Larson interviews Alexander Kallaway, the creator of the #100DaysOfCode challenge. They discuss the challenge itself, how Alex and his wife moved from Russia to Canada to advance their careers, and how Alex got his first developer job. You'll also learn how he keeps himself so fired up day-to-day.

Dylan is a software engineer, YouTuber, and creator of several programming courses. Quincy talks to him about how he dropped out of college, drove from California to Florida, and hustled to get his first developer job. On top of that, you'll learn how he was able to leverage a few job offers to get a massive raise at his current company. 

Are you trying to get a jump-start on your tech career while you're still in school? Have you found that perfect internship - or job - but you're not sure how to approach it? If so, this is the resource for you. Michael discusses how to craft your résumé, how to prepare for interviews, and much more.

In this interview, Simple Programmr's John Sonmez talks to Quincy Larson about how he got into programming, and how he transformed himself from being shy and somewhat lazy into the kind of person who can run marathons and publish YouTube videos almost every day. 

As a software engineer, it's your responsibility to write a good design doc so that your team knows how to solve the problem you're addressing. But what makes a design doc good, what should you include, and how should you write it? Angela shares all her tips so you can make your design docs as effective and helpful as possible.

Everyone makes mistakes, especially when they're first learning a new skill or tool. If you've just entered the world of programming, chances are you'll make your fair share of mistakes, too. In this episode, Jack discusses some of the missteps he's taken early on in his career, and how you can learn from them and avoid them.