The Freecodecamp Podcast

He's a self-taught software engineer who got his first developer job at age 43. He spent decades working in manufacturing while raising his kids, before using freeCodeCamp to learn programming. He was able to translate his JavaScript skills into working on enterprise Java apps, and now works at a semiconductor company. We talk about: What working 12 hour manufacturing shifts is really like Why he preferred freeCodeCamp's free curriculum over the paid courses that he tried When to use AI code generation and when to do it yourself Having faith in your ability to ultimately get a developer job Play snake in your browser's address bar [open source repo - links to the game itself]: https://github.com/epidemian/snake  Song of the week: Return of the Space Cowboy by Jamiroquai 1994 https://youtu.be/OPkjnRIdQXQ News items: 1. Learn how to code your own LLM from scratch with Python with this free 6 hour course. freeCodeCamp just published an in-depth Python course that will walk you through training your own Large L