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In this special Father's Day episode, the dads of Camp Chaos grab the mic! We're sitting down with our husbands to talk about the early days of our relationships, what surprised them most about us as moms, and the legacy they hope to pass on to our kids. From diaper fails to dad goals, they're opening up about love, fatherhood, and the beautiful (and hilarious) chaos of raising tiny humans together. You'll laugh, you might tear up—and you'll definitely see a whole new side of the men behind the scenes. Sponsor: function health.com/campchaos - For a free Long Live Moms book zbiotics.com/camp - Code:CAMP for 15% off any first time purchase. Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this heartfelt episode of Camp Chaos, we sit down with Avery Lind, who lost her mother to cancer at just two years old. What began as an unimaginable loss has since blossomed into a mission of healing and hope. Alongside her friend Sophia, Avery co-founded Lemons to Lemonade—a grief camp and foundation dedicated to supporting children who have lost a parent, sibling or loved one. With their next camp coming up this June, Avery shares how grief shaped her, how community helped her find her voice, and how she's now helping others do the same. This conversation is a powerful reminder that even in the deepest sorrow, something beautiful can grow. Learn more and support the mission at https://lemonstolemonadefoundation.com Sponsor: function health.com/campchaos - For a free Long Live Moms book zbiotics.com/camp - Code:CAMP for 15% off any first time purchase. Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're celebrating ONE YEAR of Camp Chaos! In this special anniversary episode, Taylor and Kyndra reflect on 12 months of podcasting, parenting, and pure chaos. We're sharing our favorite guests, our most intimidating interviews, the biggest lessons we've learned about ourselves (and each other), and how this podcast has grown into something more meaningful than we ever imagined. Plus, we're giving you a sneak peek into what's coming in Year 2 — from dream guests to exciting new content and community-building plans. Whether you're a day-one listener or just joining the chaos, this episode is packed with heart, laughs, and behind-the-scenes stories you won't want to miss. Sponsor: function health.com/campchaos - For a free Long Live Moms book zbiotics.com/camp - Code:CAMP for 15% off any first time purchase. Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, Taylor and Kyndra get real about the other side of mom friendships—the side that doesn't always get posted. From feeling left out to the sting of seeing things on social media, unspoken competitiveness, and the quiet comparisons we all sometimes make, this conversation is an honest look at the emotional rollercoaster of navigating female friendships in motherhood. Vulnerable, relatable, and necessary—we're going there. Sponsor: https://aquatruwater.com CODE: CAMP - to get 20% off any AquaTru Purifier Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this powerful and emotional episode, we sit down with Lisa Jones, who shares the unimaginable experience of losing both of her parents within 24 hours of each other. We talk about the shock, the pain, and the long, winding road of grief. Lisa opens up about what it's like to lose the two people who raised you, how she's navigating the heartbreak, and the many ways she continues to honor their legacy through treasured recipes, storytelling, and keeping their memory alive in her everyday life. This conversation is especially close to home for Kyndra, who also recently lost her father suddenly. The episode is raw, emotional, and deeply personal as both women reflect on the heartbreak of parental loss, the club no one wants to be part of, but one we all inevitably face. Together, they explore what it means to carry grief with grace, how it reshapes identity, and how love lives on in the ways we remember. Sponsor: https://aquatruwater.com CODE: CAMP - to get 20% off any AquaTru Purifier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The first Monday of May never disappoints—and you know Kyndra and Taylor are here for all the Met Gala madness. In this episode, we dive into our favorite (and least favorite) looks, break down this year's theme, and share why Met Monday is basically a holiday in our world. From red carpet royalty to the most chaotic couture, we're serving opinions with a side of sass. Fashion lovers, this one's for you. Sponsor: function health.com/campchaos - For a free Long Live Moms book zbiotics.com/camp - Code:CAMP for 15% off any first time purchase. Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special Mother's Day episode, Taylor and Kyndra sit down with the women who raised them—their moms! From the early days of motherhood to raising strong-willed daughters, we get a sweet and hilarious glimpse into their journeys. We chat about what it's like watching us become moms, how our relationships have evolved, and the joy (and chaos) of their new roles as grandmothers. It's funny, heartfelt, and full of those little moments that remind us why we love our moms so much. Sponsor: function health.com/campchaos - For a free Long Live Moms book zbiotics.com/camp - Code:CAMP for 15% off any first time purchase. Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In honor of C-Section Awareness Month, Kyndra and Taylor get real about everything you actuallyneed to know when it comes to having a C-section. From the moment you enter the hospital to the reality of C-section recovery, they break down the full surgical birth process—step by step. They share what they wish they'd known beforehand, what to expect in the operating room, how to mentally prepare, and the emotional and physical aftermath of this major surgery. If you're an expecting mom preparing for a scheduled C-section or facing an emergency C-section, this episode is your go-to guide. Raw, honest, and packed with insight, this is the real talk they couldn't find online—but wish they did. Sponsor: http://airdoctorpro.com - Code: CAMP to get up to $300 off! http://zbiotics.com/camp - to get 15% off any first purchase. Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode Summary: In this honest and much-needed pillow talk, we open up about the deep, sometimes uncomfortable truth—moms need a break. We dive into the guilt that creeps in when we crave time away from our kids and why asking for help shouldn't feel like weakness. From the difference between paid help and the often-complicated dynamics of relying on family, to the healing power of just one night away, we unpack it all. This episode is a reminder that stepping away doesn't make you a bad mom—it makes you human. Sponsor: https://aquatruwater.com CODE: CAMP - to get 20% off any AquaTru Purifier Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this powerful and eye-opening episode, we sit down with estate planning attorney Kate Hinton to talk about the conversations no parent wants to have—but absolutely needs to. From guardianship nominations to wills and trusts, Kate walks us through the essentials of estate planning with clarity, compassion, and real-life advice. We cover the tough questions, the what-ifs, and how to prepare for the unexpected so our children are always protected. It's a must-listen for any parent looking for peace of mind and practical (and free!) legal insight. Sponsor: https://aquatruwater.com CODE: CAMP - to get %20 off any AquaTru Purifier Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode Summary: In this episode of Camp Chaos, we're diving into all things beauty, maintenance, and wellness—because moms deserve to feel their best, too! From our daily routines to our monthly must-dos, we're breaking down the fitness, self-care, and beauty treatments that help us stay put together, inside and out. We're getting real about the importance of self-care as moms, why investing in ourselves isn't vanity—it's confidence, energy, and well-being. We cover everything from workouts and skincare to supplements, injections, and our go-to beauty appointments that keep us feeling our best. If you've ever wondered how to prioritize yourself in the chaos of motherhood, this episode is your permission slip. Tune in for real talk, zero guilt, and all the beauty and wellness tips we swear by! Sponsor: https://www.oneskin.co/ CODE: campchaos - to get 15% off https://airdoctorpro.com/ CODE: CAMP - to get $300 off Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Camp Chaos, we sit down with Alex Spitz, founder and owner of New Mom School, to talk about the power of community, connection, and support in motherhood. Alex has reimagined the traditional Mommy & Me experience, creating a modern space where new moms can find friendship, guidance, and a deep sense of belonging during one of the most transformative seasons of life. We dive into the importance of finding your village, the shared challenges of postpartum life, and why being surrounded by moms navigating the same changes can make all the difference. Alex also opens up about her personal journey raising a neurodivergent child, shedding light on the gaps in our systems, the struggles parents face in education and advocacy, and how we can better support these families. If you're a new mom searching for your people, or a parent navigating the world of neurodivergence, this conversation is a must-listen. Tune in for raw honesty, expert insight, and a reminder that you are never alone in motherhood. Sponsor: https://www.oneskin.co/ CODE: campchaos - to get 15% off https://airdoctorpro.com/ CODE: CAMP - to get $300 off Follow us on Instagram: Camp Chaos Taylor Kyndra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ruffa Carreon is Co-Founder at Uplift Code Camp.Uplift Code Camp is offering programming bootcamps and self-paced courses with mentorship to those who want to upskill or shift into a tech career. Uplift Code Camp also partners with companies to provide tech talent training as well as matching. They offer bootcamps and courses on full stack web development, frontend development, and Java development.Stack Up Podcast is a series where we dive deeper into how startups apply business strategies to become profitable.IN THIS EPISODE | 01:19 Ano nga ba ang Uplift Code Camp? | 02:40 What are important updates since our last interview? | 07:08 How did you develop the business model along the years? | 36:32 What business strategies do you apply to increase revenues? | 51:01 How do you get clients? | 54:51 What are your thoughts on bootstrapping versus getting investors? | 57:35 What are future plans of the company? | 01:01:00 How can listeners find more information?UPLIFT CODE CAMP | Website: https://upliftcodecamp.com | Facebook: https://facebook.com/upliftcodecampTHIS EPISODE IS CO-PRODUCED BY:SPROUT SOLUTIONS | Website: https://sprout.ph | Sprout Payroll Starter: https://bit.ly/SproutPayrollStarterAPEIRON | Website: https://apeirongrp.com | Facebook: https://facebook.com/apeirongrpTWALA | Website: https://twala.io | Facebook: https://facebook.com/twalaioSYMPH | Website: https://symph.co | Facebook: https://facebook.com/SymphCoAIMHI | Website: https://aimhi.ai | Facebook: https://facebook.com/aimhiconstructionCHECK OUT OUR PARTNERS | Ask Lex PH Academy: https://asklexph.com (Get 5% discount on e-learning courses! Code: ALPHAXSUP) | Hyperstacks: https://hyperstacksinc.com | OneCFO: https://onecfoph.co (Get 10% discount on CFO services! Code: ONECFOXSUP) | UNAWA: https://unawa.asia | SkoolTek: https://skooltek.co | Better Support: https://bettersupport.io (They are offering a referral program for anyone who can bring in new BPO clients! Send us a message to know more) | Britana: https://britanaerp.com | Wunderbrand: https://wunderbrand.com | Fail Coach: https://fail.coach | Drive Manila: https://facebook.com/drivemanilaph | EastPoint Business Outsourcing Services: https://facebook.com/eastpointoutsourcing | Doon: https://doon.ph | Hier Business Solutions: https://hierpayroll.com | DVCode Technologies: https://dvcode.tech | Mata Technologies: https://mata.ph | Smile: https://getsmileapi.com | Mommyki Super Pet App: https://mommyki.com | Ignite Careers: https://ignitecareers.ph LookingFour Buy & Sell Online: https://lookingfour.com | NutriCoach: https://nutricoach.com | Digest PH: https://digest.ph (Get 10% discount on legal services! Code: DIGESTXSUP) | Contakt RFID Business Cards: https://contakt-ph.com (Get 10% discount on RFID Business Cards! Code: CONTAKTXSUP) | Uplift Code Camp: https://upliftcodecamp.com (Get 5% discount on bootcamps and courses! Code: UPLIFTSTARTUPPH) | Wasteless PH | Tech Tribe | YEY | Board Prep | DOHE Philippines | EdFolio | HiveRooms | Kazam | CodeChum | Jur.ph | Big Giant Games | Agile Data Solutions - Hustle PH | Pahatid PH | Founders Launchpad | Pareto Consulting | SeriousMDSTART UP PODCAST PH | YouTube: https://youtube.com/startuppodcastph | Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6BObuPvMfoZzdlJeb1XXVa | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/start-up-podcast/id1576462394 | Facebook: https://facebook.com/startuppodcastph | Patreon: https://patreon.com/StartUpPodcastPH | Website: https://phstartup.online
Imagine this: You're fresh into government contracting, stepping into a small business as a new managing partner. The stakes are high. Not only are you navigating a whole new market, but you also have the pressure of enabling a company's growth on your shoulders. Sound overwhelming? You bet! But it's also where the magic happens.And here's the exciting part: it's not just about surviving those early hurdles. It's about thriving in them—supporting growth of a company through new territory, quickly driving success, and building something with untapped potential. This is more than just a story of business management; it's about creating breakthroughs that have a lasting impact. So, whether you're an entrepreneur, a business leader, or just curious about how innovation can change the game, we're about to dive into the insights that can help you lead boldly and think differently. Are you ready to lead boldly? Let's get into it!Guest Bio:Seni Aguiar is the Chief Operating Officer at Digital Charter, Inc. (DCIT), where she has played a pivotal role in securing Prime contracts and driving operational excellence for nearly three years. A PMP-certified professional with over a decade of experience in government contracting and IT services, Seni is recognized for her versatile leadership across business operations, HR, business development, and marketing. She is known for streamlining processes and fostering innovation within the organization.Seni was honored as a DCA Power Woman in GovCon for her contributions to the industry and has shared her expertise at events such as DevOps Days and CodeCamp, where she highlights networking strategies and the power of LinkedIn in advancing professional careers. As a lead organizer for the DevOps Days Tampa Bay Conference for three consecutive years, she has helped bring together tech leaders and enthusiasts from across the country.Outside of work, Seni is an avid reader and is taking professional voice lessons to perfect her car karaoke skills. She and her husband live in Florida with their three energetic boys, whose activities—ranging from sunrise surf sessions and soccer tournaments to band performances—keep them constantly on the move. With her unique blend of professional and personal accomplishments, Seni is a leader who inspires those around her by balancing career success with a vibrant, family-focused life.Call(s) to Action:Help spread the word about Unveiled: GovCon Stories: https://shows.acast.com/unveiled-govcon-storiesDo you want to be a guest or recommend a topic that you would like to learn or hear about on the podcast? Let us know through our guest feedback and registration form.Links:Digital Charter Website: https://digitalcharter.com/ Digital Charter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalcharter Seni Aguiar Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seniaguiar/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We are thrilled to announce the third session of our new Incubator Program. If you have a business idea that involves a web or mobile app, we encourage you to apply to our eight-week program. We'll help you validate your market opportunity, experiment with messaging and product ideas, and move forward with confidence toward an MVP. Learn more and apply at tbot.io/incubator. We look forward to seeing your application in our inbox! Quincy Larson is the founder of freeCodeCamp.org, which helps people learn to code for free by creating thousands of videos, articles, and interactive coding lessons–all freely available to the public. Quincy shares his journey from transitioning from teaching into software development, how freeCodeCamp was born out of his desire to make educational systems more efficient through coding, and discusses the early challenges of bootstrapping the platform, and how it has now grown into a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Quincy and hosts Victoria and Will, discuss the platform's technical architecture, especially their global server distribution and decision to rely on volunteer-led translation efforts rather than machines to ensure both the quality and human touch of their educational content. He also talks about the state of free and low-cost degree programs, the student loan crisis, and the ongoing debate between traditional computer science degrees and coding bootcamps. Free Code Campi (https://www.freecodecamp.org/) Follow Free Code Camp on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/school/free-code-camp/) or X (https://twitter.com/freeCodeCamp). Follow Quincy Larson on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/quincylarson/) or X (https://twitter.com/ossia). Follow thoughtbot on X (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: WILL: This is the Giant Robot Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Will Larry. VICTORIA: And I'm your other host, Victoria Guido. And with me today is Quincy Larson, Host of the freeCodeCamp Podcast, Teacher, and Founder of freecodecamp.org, a community of people around the world who are learning to code together. Quincy, thank you for joining us. QUINCY: Yeah, thanks for having me, Will and Victoria. VICTORIA: Yeah, thank you for being here. So, I understand that you made a big shift personally for yourself from California to Texas. How has that been for your family and for, you know, as a founder who is running a nonprofit? QUINCY: Yeah, things are going great. It was a big move. We had some kids, and it was difficult to find, like, a good place to live in California that didn't cost, like, millions of dollars [laughter]. And so, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, we were living in East Bay. I grew up here in Texas and Oklahoma. And I was like, well, maybe we could go back to the southwest, and so we did that. And we were able to come back and comfortably purchase a home here in Plano, Texas. We were able to find one that was, like, really close to a really good public school system. And so, every morning, I'm able to walk my kids to school. And I'd say that Texas has been a great change from California, where I lived for seven or eight years over there. And I love California. Texas has a lot of great things about it, too. It is a little bit hotter than California. It doesn't quite have California's Mediterranean climate, but it's been great here. I like it. And I would say if people are thinking about moving to Texas from California, there are definitely some really good spots of Texas that I think they'll feel really comfortable in. WILL: That's awesome, yeah. I'm originally from Louisiana. So, you're bringing back, like, memories of me growing up, always going to Texas and stuff. And I know exactly where Plano is, so that's amazing. How has it been with your kids? Because we were talking, and you said your kid recently started school. How's that been? QUINCY: Yeah, so my daughter started school a couple of years ago, and she just turned eight. And my son he's turning six this weekend. He just started kindergarten. We were having him take classes at the YMCA some pre-school. And he went from doing that for the first few hours of the day, and then we'd pick him up and bring him home and eat lunch with him and everything. And now he's got to go to school from, like, 7:00 a.m. to, like, 3:00 p.m. And he's been freaking out, like, "Why is school so long? Oh my goodness, I'm so tired all the time," [laughs]. So, he didn't realize that school would be as involved a process. He was all excited. But now he's complaining about, like, just the sheer length of school. But meanwhile, my wife and I we're just, like, celebrating because we actually have some time around the house where we can get work done without having kids running around causing chaos [laughs]. So yeah, I think he's adapting. He's making friends. We're doing playdates and stuff, and he's having fun. It's just a transition, you know. But it is nice because before, I would walk my daughter to school, and that was a very quick, 10-minute round trip, and then I'd walk my son to school. And that was, like, an hour round trip because we walked all the way to the YMCA. And I would do that to kind of toughen him up and get him walking a lot. It was a huge chunk of time. And now I can just grab both, one [inaudible 4:04] hand in each hand, and walk them to school, and drop them off, and be done with it and get back to work. So, it's definitely nice having both at the same school. VICTORIA: I love the work-life balance and that you were able to find and live somewhere that's affordable and has enough space for your family. And I wonder if we can draw a connection there between achieving that kind of lifestyle and learning to code, and what the mission of freeCodeCamp is for you, and what that means to people and changing careers. QUINCY: Absolutely. So, my background is in teaching. And I was a teacher and a school director at schools here in the U.S. and over in China. And that involved me being on campus, like working directly with my admin staff, with my instructional staff, and working directly with students. So, working remotely was kind of, like, a foreign concept way back in, like, 2010 or so 2011 when I started my transition into working as a software developer. But being able to work remotely has been a real game changer for me. And also, you can imagine, like, being a developer, you can command much larger compensation, and you have a lot more career options than being a teacher or a school director. So, it's given me a lot of agency in what I wanted to do. Even before, you know, starting freeCodeCamp, when I was working as a software developer and doing freelance work and stuff, I was able to do everything remotely. And that just gave me a ton of flexibility. So, the way that I learned to code personally was I wanted to help our school be more efficient. A lot of our teachers, a lot of our admin they were spending all day kind of chained to their desk entering information into computers for compliance reasons, to be able to produce great reports, to be able to produce attendance reports, immigration documents, all those things. And I just thought, like, is there a way that maybe I could automate some of this? And I didn't know anything about programming. I was about 31 years old. I was just sitting at my desk, and I just started kind of, like, Googling around and learning some very basic programming. And with that, over the course of a few months, I was really able to transform how the school ran. And we, like, won an award. And, like, a whole bunch of the students were, like, having a great time because they were spending so much more time with their teachers. And they were like, "Hey..." like, telling all their friends and family to transfer into the school. So, it was a massive success. And I thought, wow, if one person who doesn't even really know that much about programming can effect such a change with just a little bit of programming skills, imagine what I could do if I actually learned to code properly, so [chuckles] I did that. I spent about nine months going to hackathons every weekend, and reading a lot of books, and using a lot of open courses online, like from MIT, from Stanford, and I kind of taught myself to code for free. And then, I was able to get a job as a developer at a mid-size tech startup in California. And from there, I just learned more and more, and it was amazing. And it was an amazing transformation for me personally. And I thought, well, I want to help other people be able to do this because I know so many people out there would like to be working in a field where they have more conversation, a higher degree of control. They get to do creative work instead of, you know, tedious work. As a developer, you're constantly doing new stuff because code is infinitely reproducible. So, you could always just go back to code you've previously written if you needed to solve the same problem again. So, you're always in this kind of learning mindset. You're always in this problem-solving mindset. And it's really thrilling. It's just great, impactful work. So, I wanted to help more people be able to do that, hence starting a bunch of different projects that people didn't care about and then eventually starting a project that people did care about, which is freeCodeCamp. And since then, just kind of leading this project in trying to help as many people as possible learn to code. WILL: So, I was looking at your website. And I didn't even realize this until I was doing more research for the podcast, but you have over 10,000 tutorials, and they're in different categories. I saw you just recently released one on finance, which I actually bookmarked it because I'm going to go through it and look at it. You help more than a million people every day. So, how was it when you first started out? Like, how was, I guess, you could say, the grind? How was it in those early days? QUINCY: I'm a big advocate of, you know, for work-life balance, but, like, I kind of, like, exclude founders from that. I really do think that if you're trying to get something started, you're going to have to work really hard and probably way beyond what would be reasonable for a person who's getting a salary or working at an existing company if you're trying to get things started. So, I mean, it was, like, 100-hour weeks, maybe 120 some weeks [laughs]. I would sleep and just wake up and get to my desk and try to, like, put out fires, fix the server, improve the codebase, respond to learners in the community who had feedback, deal with support issues. Like, I was basically doing everything myself. And gradually, we were able to, like, build out the team over a long period of time. But really, the first few years was me self-financing everything with just my teacher savings. I spent, like, $150,000 of my own money just trying to keep freeCodeCamp going. For the first couple of years, we got tax-exempt status from the IRS. When that finally happened, I was like, great, like, let's go out and see if we can get some people to donate. So, we started asking people who were using freeCodeCamp if they'd be willing to donate $3 a month and eventually $5 a month, and we were able to support the organization through that. Really, it's just like a grassroots donor-supported effort. And then, we've been able to get some grants from Linux Foundation, and From Google, from Microsoft, from a whole lot of other big tech companies, and from some other nonprofits in the space. But mostly, it's just been, like, individual donors donating $5. And if you get enough people doing that, you get, like, a budget where you can actually pay for, you know, we have more than 100 servers around the world serving freeCodeCamp in, like, six different languages. We have, you know, all these other, like, initiatives. Like, we've got Code Radio, where you can go listen to Lo-fi while you're coding. And there are servers all over the world. And you can change the bit rate to suit whatever data you have and everything. Like, we wanted to just offer a whole lot of different services. We have mobile apps now. We've got an iOS and an Android app for freeCodeCamp. And then, of course, we've got the podcasts. We've got four podcasts: one in English, which I host, and then we've got one in Spanish, one in Portuguese, and one in Chinese. VICTORIA: Yeah, I absolutely want to ask you more about your podcasts. But first, I wanted to hear–can you tell me a little more about the decision to be 501(c)(3) or a nonprofit status? And were you always firm in that decision? Do people question it? And what was the real reasoning and commitment to that formation? QUINCY: I guess I would consider myself an idealist. Like, I genuinely believe that most educational endeavors should be, you know, nonprofit. They should be driven by either governments or by charities. I'm always kind of skeptical when there's, like, some late-night TV commercial, like, "Viewer, we'll help you get our degree," and it's from, like, a private for-profit university, something like that. So, I was like, in education...and I don't think everything in society needs to be that way, but I do think, like, education and, to an extent, healthcare these should be led by charities. Like, you know, the Red Cross, or, like, Doctors Without Borders, or churches, you know, own many of the universities, many of the hospital systems in the United States. I think that's a good thing. I think it's a very good thing that it's not just, you know, private profit-maximizing, market incentive-bound organizations that are doing all the stuff in education and in healthcare. I wanted to try to create something that, like, a lot of other people would see and say, "Oh wow, this charity can actually survive. It can sustain itself without raising a bunch of VC, without going public," or any of those things that a for-profit entity would do. And, again, I just want to emphasize, like, I don't think that iPhones should be made [chuckles] by nonprofits or anything like that. I'm just saying, like, for the purpose of actually educating people, the incentives are not necessarily aligned when you're trying to get money from...especially when you're talking about people that 60% of people on earth live off less than $10 a day. Those people should be spending their money on food. They should be spending their money on shelter. They should be spending their money on family. They should not be spending money on online courses, in my humble opinion. Like, online courses should be freely available to those people. So, to some extent, freeCodeCamp, we want to make sure that everybody everywhere in the world has access to first-rate learning resources on math, programming, computer science, regardless of their ability to pay. So, that's kind of, like, the ideal logical [inaudible 12:19], I guess, of freeCodeCamp. We kind of live that. Like, we're really serious. We will never pay, well, anything on freeCodeCamp. We won't account email gate anything. We are, I guess, absolutist in the sense that we want all of freeCodeCamp's learning resources to be free for everyone. Because of that, it made sense to like, incorporate as a 501 (c)(3) public charity. And so, we're tax-exempt. And people who donate to freeCodeCamp they can, you know, deduct it from their U.S. taxes. If a large company or even a small startup...we've had lots of startups like New Relic, like Retool, we've had Postman, Hostinger, a whole lot of different startups and mid-sized tech companies, Pulumi, Appsmith, they've all given us these grants that we can use to develop courses. So, we can often develop courses incorporating those resources. But that's tax-exempt, right? They can deduct that from their U.S. taxes. So, it's a big incentive for other people to partner with us and for people to donate funds to us. And it allows us to have the interests aligned in the sense that only people who have, you know, free cash flow or who have disposable income those are the people that are supporting freeCodeCamp. For the people that are, you know, single parents or that are taking care of their aging relatives, or are already working two jobs, or are completely unemployed and don't have any funds to speak of that are using the public library computer to access freeCodeCamp, right? Or using freeCodeCamp on a $50 prepaid phone from Walmart or something like that, right? Like those people can still use freeCodeCamp, and we can have the people who do have resources subsidize everyone else. WILL: Wow. I absolutely love that because...and I wish freeCodeCamp was around whenever I was in, like, high school and, you know, the early 2000s because we just didn't have the resources because I grew up in a small town in Louisiana. And this could have been so beneficial to that community because, like you said, we didn't have the resources–someone to teach coding there. There was no developers around that town that I was in. So, I really appreciate that you're doing this for everyone. And I know for me even...so, when I reached out to you, I did it because I was excited because I've used freeCodeCamp so many times, so many times to learn just in my journey to become a senior developer. Like, freeCodeCamp was one of the resources that I used because, one, it was free. But it wasn't...I think sometimes you can get free resources, and it's not great quality almost. Like, it's almost like you're more confused than before. But with freeCodeCamp, it was very, very amazing quality. And it was very clear on what I was learning. Honestly, thank you for helping me grow as a developer, just, honestly, thank you for that. QUINCY: Absolutely, Will. I feel honored to have helped you. And, yes, we want to help all the kids who are growing up in rural Louisiana or...I'm from, you know, Oklahoma City, not, like, the biggest, most prosperous city in the United States. Like, I want to help all of my friends who growing up who were eating meals provided by the state school system or my older friends who are on disability. Like, I want to make sure that they have resources, too. And in the process of doing that, it's a privilege to also serve all the working software engineers like you out there who just need, like, a reference resource or, like, oh, I've heard about Bun JS or Tailwind CSS. Or something like, I'm going to watch this three-hour course where I'm going to learn how to do Flutter. Like, freeCodeCamp has a 37-hour Flutter course. So, we've got, like, all these courses on using OpenAI APIs and things like that, too, right? So, it's not just for beginners, but we definitely want to, like, first and foremost, we want to serve people who we're kind of, like, the resource of last resort for, if you want to think of it that way. Like, only freeCodeCamp can help these people. Sure, they can probably use some other free courses on YouTube. And there are lots of other blogs that publish good tutorials and stuff. But freeCodeCamp is like an organized effort, specifically to help those people in need. And just kind of a side benefit of it is that you know, more established, experienced devs like you also get kind of, like, some benefit out of it as well. WILL: Whenever you were a developer, and you decided to start freeCodeCamp, how many years of experience did you have? And how did you overcome impostor syndrome, not only as a developer but as a founder? Because I feel like just overcoming it as a developer is hard, but you were also, you know, like you said, you know, handling everything for freeCodeCamp. So, how did you do that? And kind of tell us about that experience. QUINCY: Yeah. So, I didn't really know what I was doing. I think most founders probably don't know what they're doing. And I think that's totally fine because you can learn while you're doing. And we live in the United States, which is a country that kind of rewards experimentation and does not punish failure as much as a lot of other cultures does. Even if you try really hard, you're going to learn a tremendous amount, and you're going to try your next project. And that's what I did. I tried...I launched several educational, like, open learning resource-type projects, and none of them made any dent at all [laughs] in the proverbial universe. Like, nobody cared. Like, I would go and, like, I'd be talking to people. And I'd be explaining, like, "Oh, this solves this problem that you have." And you could kind of tell, like, people would sign in one time just to be polite, but then they'd never sign in again. So, it was very tricky to get traction. And I read a bunch of books. And I went to a lot of founder-focused meetups in San Francisco Bay Area. I had, like, moved out to San Francisco, specifically to try to, like, kind of make up for my deficit, the fact that I didn't know anybody because I was from Oklahoma City. I didn't know anybody in tech. And I didn't have, like, a fancy, you know, pedigree from, like, Harvard, or Wharton, or something like that, right? Like, I went to, like, a state university, and I studied English, right? And [chuckles] so, I didn't even have, like, a CS degree or anything like that. So, I definitely felt like an impostor. I just had to kind of, like, power through that and be okay with that. And it's something a little bit easier for me to do because, you know, I'm a White guy with glasses and a beard. And, like, nobody's walking up saying, "Are you sure you're a developer?" Or like, "Are you in marketing?" You know, like, the typical kind of, like, slight that they may say to somebody who doesn't necessarily look like me. And so I didn't have to deal with any of that nonsense, but there was still a lot of just self-doubt that I had to power through. And I think that was a big advantage for me. It was just, like, I was kind of, like, at war with myself and my own confidence. In fact, I found the software development community, and especially the open-source community, to be incredibly uplifting and empowering. And, like, they want to see you win. They want you to sit down and build a really cool project over the weekend and in the hackathon and present it. And, you know, they want you to learn. They know that you know, everybody is going to learn at a different rate and that a lot of people are going to get discouraged and leave tech and just go back to working in whatever field they were working in before. And that's totally cool. But I do feel that they're there to support you and to encourage you. And there are lots of different events. There are lots of different communities. I recently listened to the founder of Women Who Code, who was on this very podcast [laughs], Giant Robots Smashing Into Giant Robots, the greatest podcast name of all time. And, you know, there are people out there that are working very hard to make it easier for folks to get into tech. I think that that has been a huge part. Even before freeCodeCamp, you know, there were Harvard professors–Stanford professors putting their entire coursework for free online. You could go to, like, different tech events around California, for example, where I was when I was learning to code. And there'd just be tons of people that were eager to, like, learn more about you and to welcome you. And there would be, you know, recruiters that would talk to you and say, "Well, you may not be ready yet, but, like, let's talk in six months," right? And so, there was kind of, like, that spirit of you're going to get there. It's just going to take a lot of time. Nobody was telling me, "Oh, learning to code is easy," [chuckles] because it's not easy. There were lots of people that were, like, "Learning to code is hard. But you've got this. Just stick with it. If I could be of help, let me know," people who would pair program with me to help me, like, improve my chops, people who would volunteer to, like, look at my projects and give design feedback, all those kinds of things. And I think you're going to find all those things on the web. You're going to find those things in the open-source community. freeCodeCamp has a forum where people volunteer their time and energy to help build one another up and help one another get unstuck on whatever projects they're working on, give feedback on projects. And so, I think, to a large extent, the very giving nature, I almost want to say, like, selfless nature, of the global software developer community that is what saved me. And that's what enabled me to transition into this field, even as a teacher in his 30s. VICTORIA: It's interesting you say that. Because I feel as someone who hires engineers and developers, I love people who have teaching backgrounds because it means they're five-star communicators [laughs]. And I think that you know, in your job, when you're pairing with other developers, or you're talking to clients, in our case, that communicating what you're working on and how you're thinking about something is, like, 50% of the job [laughs]. For freeCodeCamp, I saw you have 40,000 people have found jobs after completing courses on there. I hope you feel like you've really, like, established some success here already. But what's on the horizon? What are you looking forward to in the next six months or six years with freeCodeCamp? QUINCY: Yeah, I'll be happy to answer that. But I want to emphasize what you just said: communication is, like, half the job. That's something that thoughtbot has gotten really early on. And I'll tell you that thoughtbot Playbook was incredibly helpful for me as a software developer and also early on for freeCodeCamp's team. And I think a lot of teams make use of that open resource. So, thank you for continuing to maintain that and kind of drive home that communication really is...like, meetings are essential [chuckles]. And it's not always just, like, leave me alone and let me go back to my cubicle and code. You know, I like to quote the old joke that, you know, weeks of coding can save you hours of meetings because I really do believe that communication is core. So, to answer your question about where freeCodeCamp is headed in terms of what kind of impact we'd like to have, I feel like we're just getting started. I feel like pretty much every Fortune 500 company wants to become a tech company in some way or another. Everybody is pushing things to the software layer because software is infinitely reproducible. It's so much easier to maintain software or fix things in production. Like, you realize, oh, there's a big problem. Like, we don't have to recall all the cars back to the dealerships to go and open up the hood and fix this, you know, mechanical defect. If we're controlling all these things at the software layer, right? We can potentially just deploy a fix and tell people like, "Hey, version update [chuckles], you know, download this security patch," or whatever, right? So, there are so many different things that you can do with software. I feel like the potential growth of the field of software and the number of software developers that the world will ultimately need...currently, we've got maybe 30 or 40 million developers on earth that are professional paid-to-code people. But I think that number is going to increase dramatically over the next 50 years or so. And I'll go ahead and address the elephant in the room [laughs] because pretty much everybody asks me this question like, "Don't you think that, like, tools like large language models like GPT-4 and things are going to obviate the need for so many developers?" And I think they're going to make individual developers more productive. But if you think about what code is, it's really extremely explicit directions for how to do something, whether you're using, you know, machine code, or you're using a scripting language like Python, or you're using English, and you're talking directly to the computer like you would on Star Trek. Essentially, you have to have a really deep understanding of the problem. And you need to know exactly what needs to be done in exactly what sequence. You may not need to manipulate bytecode like you would back in the '70s. But you are going to need to understand the fundamental problems, and you're going to need to be able to address it. So, I'm optimistic that the number of developers is going to continue to grow. The developers are going to continue to command more and more, I guess, respect in society. And they're going to continue to have more and more agency in what they want to do with their careers and have more and more options and, ultimately, be able to command higher compensation, be able to work remotely if they'd like. Developers will continue to be able to ascend through corporate hierarchies and become, you know, vice presidents or even executives like the CEO, right? If you look at a lot of the big tech companies, the CEO is a developer. And I think that that will continue. And the computer science degrees will continue to be extremely valuable. So, what is freeCodeCamp working on now that we think will further help people? Well, we're working on a free four-year computer science degree, a Bachelor in computer science, and there's also an associate in mathematics that we're developing. And those are going to be a progression of 40 university-level courses that have labs and have a substantial block of lectures that you'll watch. And then, we'll also have final examinations and everything. And we're developing that curriculum. We've got one of the courses live, and we're developing the second one, and eventually, we'll have all 40. It'll take till the 2030s. But we're going to have those. And then, once we have some longitudinal data about graduates and their success rates and everything, we are going to apply for the accreditation process, and we're going to get accredited as a university, right? Like, you can go through that process. Not a lot of organizations do that; not a lot of new universities are coming about in the 2020s. But it is something that can be done. And we've done a great deal of research, talked to a bunch of accreditors, talked to a bunch of university admins who go through the accreditation process. We think we can do it. So, again, very long-term goal. But when you're a 501(c)(3) public charity, you don't have to worry about freeCodeCamp getting acquired or all the things that would traditionally happen with, like, a for-profit company. You have a lot more leeway to plan really far. And you've got, like, this really broad mandate in terms of what you want to accomplish. And even if, you know, creating a university degree program in the 2030s would not be a profitable endeavor that, like, a rational shareholder value-maximizing corporation would embark upon, it is the sort of project that, you know, a charity like freeCodeCamp could do. So, we're going to do it. MID-ROLL AD: When starting a new project, we understand that you want to make the right choices in technology, features, and investment but that you don't have all year to do extended research. 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Were there any technical architecture decisions that you had to make along the way? And how did those decisions end up turning out? QUINCY: Absolutely. So, one of the things we did was we located servers all around the world. We're multi-cloud, and we've got servers in different data centers in, like, Singapore, Europe, Latin America, and we're trying to reduce latency for everybody. Another thing that we've done is, you know, we don't use, like, Google Translate to just translate all our different pages into however many languages are currently available on Google Translate; I think it's, like, more than 100. We actually have a big localization effort that's led primarily by volunteers. We have some staff that oversee some of the translation. And essentially, we have a whole bunch of people working at translate.freecodecamp.org and translating the curriculum, translating the tutorials into major world languages. Most prominently would be Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Ukrainian. Like, all these different world languages, there's, like, a freeCodeCamp version for those, and you can go into the menu, and you can choose it. And it's actually, like, hand-translated by native speakers of that language who are developers. So, that's been another extremely, you know, time-intensive effort by the community. But we believe that, you know, the quality of the translations is really important. And we want that kind of human touch. We don't want kind of weird artifacts and typos that would be associated with machine translation. And we want to make sure that each of the challenges...because they're extremely tersely worded, again, communication is so important. If you go through the freeCodeCamp curriculum, we try to use as few words as absolutely necessary to effectively communicate what the task the learner needs to accomplish is, and we try to, just in time, teach them concepts. We don't want to present them with a big wall of text. Read this 20-page PDF to understand how, you know, CSS, you know, borders work or something like that. No, we're teaching, like, kind of, like, just in time, like, okay, let's write this line of code. Okay, great, the test passed. Let's go to this next one. This test isn't passing. Here is some contextual-specific hints as to why your code is not passing, why you're not able to advance, right? And we do projects [inaudible 30:30] to learn where we break everything down into steps. So, that's a lot of instructions that need to be very carefully translated into these different world languages to truly make freeCodeCamp accessible to everyone, regardless of whether they happen to be fortunate enough to grow up speaking English at a native level, right? I would say that's our main consideration is, like, the localization effort but also just having servers everywhere and doing everything we can to comply with, like, all the different data rules and privacy rules and everything of all these different countries. It's a lot of work, but in my humble opinion, it's worth it. WILL: I had, like, a two-part question because I wanted to loop back around. When you're talking about the free bachelor's program, one, does anything like that exist where you can get a bachelor-level program, and it's free? And then the second part is, how many countries are you in? QUINCY: Yeah, so currently, lots of governments in Europe, for example, will offer free degrees that are kind of subsidized by the state. There may be some other kind of degree equivalent programs that are offered that are subsidized by corporations. For example, if you work at Starbucks, I think you can get a degree from Arizona State University. And that's a great benefit that Starbucks offers to people. Arizona State University, of course, being one of the biggest public universities in the United States in terms of enrollment. As far as free degrees, though, in the United States, there's nothing like that where, like, literally anyone can just go and get a degree for free without needing to enroll, without needing to pay any sort of fees. There are tuition-free programs, but they still charge you fees for, like, taking exams and things like that. What I like to call ultra-low-cost degree providers–there's Western Governors University, and there's University of the People. And both of these are accredited institutions that you can go, and you can get a degree for, you know, $5,000, $10,000, $15,000. And it's a full-blown four-year degree. Now, that is amazing. I applaud those efforts. I've enjoyed talking to the folks at those different schools. I think the next step is to go truly free. There's nothing blocking you at all. You don't have to be banked. You don't have to have a credit card. You don't have to have any money. You can still get this degree. That's what we're chasing. And I think we'll get there, but it's just a lot of work. WILL: So, it's blowing my mind. It's just blowing me away because, like, you know, we talk about the student loan crisis, I would say. The impact if...when—I'm not going to say if—when you do this, the impact that can have on there, have you thought about that? And kind of, if you have, what has been your thoughts around that? QUINCY: Yeah, so there are $1.7 trillion in outstanding student loans in the United States. That's money that individual people, most of whom don't make a ton of money, right? Like, many of those people didn't actually finish the degree that they incurred the debt to pursue. Many of them had to drop out for a variety of different reasons or defer. Maybe they'll eventually finish those degrees. But as you can see from, like, the macroeconomic, educational, like, labor market data, like, having a partial degree doesn't make a big difference in terms of your earning power. You really need to finish the degree to be able to realize the benefits of having spent all that time studying, and a lot of people haven't. So, yes, there are, like, a lot of people out there that went to medical school, for example, and they're working as physicians. And they are going to eventually be able to pay that off because they're doctors, and they're commanding a great compensation, right? And they've got tons of career options. But if you studied English like I did and you incurred a whole lot of student debt, it could take a very long time for you to make enough money as a teacher, or as, like, a grant writer, or working at a newspaper, or something like that. Like, it can take you years to pay it off. And, in the meantime, it's just continuing to accumulate interest in your, you know, you might be a very diligent person who pays their student loan bill every single month, and yet, you could see that amount, the total amount that you owe continuing to grow despite this. That's just the nature of the time value of money and the nature of debt. And I thank my lucky stars that I went to school back in, like, 2000. Like, my tuition was $1,000 a semester, right? I mean, it's incredible. But that was, like, at a state school, like, a public university in the middle of Oklahoma. And it's not, like, a university you've heard of. It's basically, like, the cheapest possible option. I think community colleges can make a huge dent. I always implore people to think more about community colleges. I've talked with so many people on the freeCodeCamp podcast who were able to leverage community colleges and then transition into a, you know, research university, like a state school, and finish up their degree there. But they saved, like, basically half their money because they were paying almost nothing to attend the community college. And in California especially, the community colleges are just ridiculously worth it. Like, you're paying a few hundred dollars a course. I mean, it's just incredible value. So, I think the community college system is going to play a big role. But my hope is that, you know, freeCodeCamp can thrive. And it'll take us years for people to realize because if you go on, like, Google Ads and you try to run a Google Ad for, like, any sort of educational-related topic, anything related to higher education, it's, like, hundreds of dollars per click because there are all these for-profit universities that make a tremendous amount of money from getting people who just came back from serving in the military and getting, like, huge chunks of their GI Bill, or getting, like, all these federal subsidies, any number of things. Or basically just tricking families into paying huge amounts of money when they could have attended a much more sensible public university, you know, a private nonprofit university that doesn't charge an arm and a leg. So, I think that we are going to have an impact. I just want to say that I don't think that this is a panacea. It's going to take many years for freeCodeCamp to be adopted by a whole lot of people. It will take a long time for employers to look at the freeCodeCamp degree and say, "Oh, this is comparable to a computer science degree from..." say, Ohio State, or UT Austin, or something like that, right? Like, it's going to be a long time before we can get that level of buy-in. I don't want anybody listening to say, "Oh, I'd love to get a computer science degree. I'm just going to hold out and get the degree from freeCodeCamp." Like, my humble advice would be: go to a community college, then go to a state school. Get that four-year computer science degree. It is worth its weight in gold. But you don't want to accumulate a lot of debt. Just try to like, minimize your debt in the meantime. And, hopefully, over time, you know, the free model will prove out, and it'll just be a whole bunch of alumni supporting freeCodeCamp. And that's the dream is that, like, you know, Michael Bloomberg gave a billion dollars to Johns Hopkins University, a billion dollars. Like, Johns Hopkins never needs to charge tuition again with a billion dollars. They can just basically operate their institution off the interest from that, right? And lots of institutions...like, Harvard has, I don't know, like, 60-plus billion dollars in their endowment, right? So, the idea would be freeCodeCamp continues to get this, you know, huge alumni network of people who are doing great and who went to freeCodeCamp and who basically donate back in. And then, we can essentially have the deep pockets subsidizing everybody else who's just at the beginning of their careers who don't have a lot of earning power. You know, when I was a teenager, when I was in my 20s, I worked at convenience stores. I worked at Taco Bell. I did all kinds of, like, literally showing up at 6:00 a.m. to mop the grocery store-type jobs, right? And that is not a path to being able to afford an education in 2023. University tuition is out of control. It's, like, ridiculously high. It's grown way faster than inflation for decades. So, what can we do to alleviate that pressure? In my humble opinion, we just need to come up with free options and support ultra-low-cost options that are already out there. VICTORIA: I was going to ask, but you might have already answered this question somewhat. But I get this question a lot for people who are interested in getting into tech, whether they should get a computer science degree or go to a bootcamp. And I think you've mentioned all the positive things about getting a degree. I'm curious if, in your degree program, you would also tailor it more to what people might expect in a modern tech market and industry in their first job. QUINCY: Yeah. So, the way that we're developing our degree program is we essentially did, like, an analysis of the top 20 computer science programs in the United States: Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, all those schools that you would think of as being, like, really good computer science programs. And we basically drew a best-fit line through all their course offerings and looked at all their textbooks and everything that they cover. And, essentially, we're teaching a composite of those top 20 programs. Now, there are some things that, surprisingly, those programs don't offer, such as a course on ethics. It's something like 13% of those degree programs require an ethics course. And I think every developer should take a developer ethics course, or at least some sort of philosophy course to, like, understand what does it mean to be a good person? [laughs] Like, what is, you know, an anti-pattern? What is Blackhat user experiences? [laughs] I'm like, when should I, like, raise my hand during a meeting to say like, "Hey, should we really be doing this?" You know. So, ethics–security courses–I was surprised that not very many of those degree programs offer a course in information security, which I believe should be required. So, I'm kind of editorializing a little bit on top of what the composite says. But I feel very strongly that, you know, our degree program needs to have those courses. But in general, it's just everything that everybody else is teaching. And yes, like, a coding bootcamp...I've written a lot about coding bootcamps. I wrote, like, a Coding Bootcamp Handbook, which you can just Google, like, "Coding bootcamp book" or something like that, probably then you can find it. But, essentially like, those programs are usually private. Even if it's at a big, public university, it's often run by a big, private for-profit bootcamp chain. I don't want to say, like, all bootcamps are a bad deal, but buyer beware [laughs]. Frankly, I don't think that you can learn everything you need to know to be a software engineer within the compressed timelines that a lot of those bootcamps are operating under. There's a reason it takes four years to get a computer science degree because: there's a tremendous amount of math, programming, computer science, engineering knowledge that you need to cultivate. And you can absolutely get a developer job without a computer science degree. I don't have a computer science degree [chuckles], and I worked as a software engineer, right? And I know plenty of people who are doing that that didn't even go to college, right? People who were truckers or people who were doing construction work who just sat down and hit the books really hard and came out the other side being able to work as a software developer. But it is going to be vastly easier for you if you do have a computer science degree. Now, if you're in your 30s, if you've got kids, if you've got a whole lot of other obligations, should you go back to school? Maybe not. And so, it's not cut and dry, like, oh, just drop whatever you're doing and go back to...The situation is going to be nuanced. If you've already got a job working as a developer, should you go back and get a CS degree? Probably not. Maybe you can get your employer to pay for you to go to, like, a CS master's program, for example. There are a lot of really good online master's degree programs. Like, Georgia Tech has a master's in computer science that is very affordable, and it's very good. Georgia Tech is one of the best computer science programs in the United States. So, definitely, like, everybody's situation is going to be different. And there's no blanket advice. I would just be very wary of, like, anybody who's talking to you who wants your money [laughs]. freeCodeCamp will never want your money for anything. Like, we would love to have your donation long after you're a successful developer. You turn around and, like, send the elevator back down by donating to freeCodeCamp. But just be skeptical and, like, do your research and don't buy into, like, the marketing speak about, like, being able to get a job immediately. "Oh, it's easy. Anybody can learn to code." Like, I do believe any sufficiently motivated person can learn to code. But I also believe that it's a process that can take years, especially if you're doing the safe thing and continuing to work your day job while you learn these skills over a much longer period of time. I don't believe learning in a compressed kind of bootcamp...like, if you think about, you know, bootcamp in the military, like, this is, like, you're getting shipped away, and you're doing nothing but, like, learning these skills and everything like that. And I don't think that that's right for programming, personally [laughs]. I think there's a reason why many of these programs have gone from 9 weeks to 12 weeks to 6 months. Some of them might be, like, an entire year now. It's because it's them kind of admitting that, like, oh, there's quite a bit to learn here, and it's going to take some time. And there's diminishing returns to learning a whole bunch of hours in a day. I think you'll make much better gains studying programming 1 hour a day for 365 days than you'll make studying, you know, 8 hours a day for, like, two months or something like that if that makes sense. I'm not sure if the math works out there. But my point is, it's totally fine, and it's actually quite optimal to just work your day job, take care of your kids, spend time with your parents, you know, do all those things, hang out with friends and have a social life, all those things in addition to just having programming be one of those things you're working on in the background with your mornings or your evenings. WILL: Tell us a little bit about your podcast. Yeah, tell us kind of what's the purpose of it and just the history of it. QUINCY: Yeah. Well, I learned from the best. So, I'm a longtime listener of this podcast, of course. My friend, Saron Yitbarek, hosts CodeNewbie, which is an excellent podcast, the Changelog, which is an open-source podcast. I've had a great time interviewing the Changelog hosts and being on their show several times. So, I basically just learned as much as I could, and then I just went out and started interviewing people. And so, I've interviewed a lot of devs. I've interviewed people that are, like, learning to code driving Uber. I've interviewed the founder of Stack Overflow [chuckles], Jeff Atwood. I'm going to interview the founder of Trello in a few weeks when I'm back out in New York City. And I do my interviews in person. I just have my mobile studio. When I'm in San Francisco–when I'm in New York, I just go around and do a bunch of interviews and kind of bank them, and then I edit them myself and publish them. And the goal is just to give people exposure to developers. What are developers thinking? What are developers talking about? What do developers care about? And I try to hit, like, a very broad range of developers, try to talk to as many women as possible and, you know, striving for, like, 50% representation or better on the podcast. And I talk to a lot of people from different countries, although that's a little harder to do when you're recording in person. I may break down and do some over Zencastr, which is a tool we used in the past. I just like the spontaneity and the fun of meeting with people in person. But yeah, it's just like, if you are looking for, like, long-form, some of these are, like, two-and-a-half-hour long discussions, where we really delve into people's backstory and, like, what inspired them to become a developer, what they're learning along the way, how they feel about different aspects of software development. Like, for example, earlier, Will, you mentioned impostor syndrome, which is something I think virtually everybody struggles with in some capacity, you know, the freeCodeCamp podcast, tune in [chuckles] and subscribe. And if you have any feedback for me, I'd love to hear it. I'm still learning. I'm doing my best as a podcast host. And I'm constantly learning about tech as it evolves, as new tools come out, as new practices are pioneered. There's entire new technologies, like large language models, that actually work. And, I mean, we've had those since, like, the '60s, like, language models and stuff, but, like, only recently have they become incredibly impressive, exploring these tools and exploring a lot of the people behind them. VICTORIA: Okay, great. Do you have any questions for me or Will? QUINCY: Yeah. What inspired you all to get involved in tech, in...I don't know if somebody...did somebody at thoughtbot actually approach you and say, "Hey, we want you to run this"? Or was it something where like, "I'd love to run this"? Like, because podcasting is not easy. You're putting yourself out there. You're saying things that are recorded forever [laughs]. And so, if you say something really naive or silly or something like that, that's kind of always there, right? It takes a certain amount of bravery to do this. What got you into hosting this podcast? VICTORIA: For me, I mean, if I go way back before getting into tech, my mom she got her undergraduate degree in horticulture to become a florist, and then realized she couldn't make any money off that and went back to school for computer science. And so, she taught me how to use a computer really early on. And when I was in school, I had started in architecture, and then I wanted to change into business intelligence. But I didn't want to apply to the business school, so I got a degree in economics and a job at the IT help desk. And then from there, I was able to kind of transition into tech as a teacher, which was oddly enough...my first job in tech was training a 400-person program how to do, like, version management, and peer reviews [laughs], and timekeeping. And the reason I got the job is a friend from rock climbing introduced me, and he's like, they're like, "Oh, well, you train people how to rock climb. You can train people how to, like, do this stuff." [laughs] I'm like, oh, okay, that sounds great. But anyways, I worked my way up into project management and ended up getting my masters in IT. And when I came to thoughtbot, I had just moved to California, and I wanted to rebuild my network. I had a big network in D.C., organizing meetups and DevOps D.C., Women Who Code, teaching people, and communicating. And I ran a very small podcast there with a friend. So, when I joined thoughtbot, a podcast was a great way to just meet different people, expand my network, give people something to talk to me about when I go to events [laughs] that's not just, like, let me sell you some DevOps work. For me, it's been really fun to just reach out to people that we admire in the community and hear their story, and a little bit about them, and what advice they have for themselves or for other people. And, usually, that ends up benefiting me as well. So, it's been very fun for me. QUINCY: So, your less conventional path into tech combined with your own experience doing podcasting, it sounds like you were a natural choice for hosting a podcast. VICTORIA: Right. And I think I said before we started the show I didn't realize that it was such a well-loved and long-running podcast [laughs] [inaudible 49:01]. But I think we've really come into our own a little bit with hosting, and it's been super fun to work with Will and Chad on it as well. QUINCY: Awesome. And, Will, what's your story, man? How did you get onto the coveted Giant Robots Smashing into Giant Robots podcast? WILL: I actually went to college for sports medicine, and I was on track to go to med school, but my senior year...which I wish I would have had this conversation with myself a lot earlier, didn't have to do the hard work that I did at undergraduate. But my senior year, I was like, why am I really going to med school? And, honestly, it was more for the money, for the...yeah, more for the money. I just wanted to get paid a lot of money. I was like, yeah, that's not going to sustain me. I need to just pivot. So, I pivoted–started working at some nonprofits. And I ended up losing my job and got another job at Buckle, the clothing store, which was not a great fit for me. It helped me provide, but that's just not who I am. I'm not a fashion icon [laughs]. And then I changed to a travel agency insurance company, which it paid the bills. I wasn't passionate about it at all, and it paid the bills. And I was still struggling from losing my job. It was the first time that I lost my job. And my spouse came to me one day and is like, "All right, we're going to have the serious talk." And we almost flipped roles because that's usually who I am. I'm like, "All right, let's have a real talk. Let's get down to it." But I was just in a bad place. And she was like, "All right, we have to change because we can't keep going down this path." So, she was like, "If you had a choice to do anything, what would you want to do?" And I was like, "Well, probably something with computers and coding because I never had that opportunity when I was growing up because of the small town." And she looked at me, and she's like, "Go sign up right now." And I was like, okay, I'm going to sign up. When you mentioned that you made a transition in your 30s, I was around my 30s when I made the transition into coding. And so, it was a big transition. It was a big pivot for me because I'm having to learn, almost like I'm in college again, which was eight years ago. And so, it was just tough, and it wasn't new. So, that's how I got into coding. How I got on the podcast: I think I was talking to Chad and my direct report. I was just talking to them about challenging myself, and so it was multiple things. But, like, writing blog posts that was actually very challenging to me. I still don't like to write. It's not my favorite thing. Give me math or something like that or science; that's where I feel at home. But whenever, you know, you talk about writing and stuff, I can do it, and I'm decent at it. But it's not something that I feel comfortable in. The same thing with the podcast. The reason why I got on here is because I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and I wanted to grow. And I also wanted to get a chance to talk to people who's making a difference–who's impacting the world. So, like, this conversation today is like, yes, this is why I wanted to be a part of this podcast. So yeah, that's how I got started in tech and on the podcast. QUINCY: Awesome, Will. I'm thrilled that you went ahead and persevered and got into tech. It doesn't sound like it was a straight line, and it rarely is for people. But I'm always excited to meet somebody who learned to code in their 30s who stuck with it and is prospering as a result. So, congratulations to you. WILL: Thank you. VICTORIA: I'm still learning. I haven't quite got [inaudible 52:42] "Hello, worlds," multiple times [laughs]. But I don't really code every day for my job. I just kind of need to know what stuff is to be able to talk to people and in that way as a managing director. So, I appreciate Will bringing that backstory to this episode in particular. What else? Any other final takeaway that you'd like to leave our listeners with? QUINCY: I just want to thank you all for continuing to host this podcast, thoughtbot for operating the excellent Playbook, which, for anybody listening who is unfamiliar with, you should check it out. Again, it's just chock full of institutional wisdom accumulated over the years. And I hope everybody out there who's thinking about taking the plunge and learning coding or software development, or even, like, a semi-technical area of being in the software development process of learning visual design, learning how to do user experience research, any number of the different roles in tech, I hope you'll go for it. And I hope you will be as undaunted as you can. And just know that freeCodeCamp and the freeCodeCamp community we are in your corner. If you need to learn something, there's a very good chance that we have some tutorials written by thoughtful teachers who want people like you to come forward and like, read these resources and use it. There's a saying: like, the thing that programmers want the most is to have their code running in production somewhere. And, as a teacher, the thing you want the most is for you to have students, for you to have learning resources out there that are making a positive difference. So, again, I just count my blessings every day that I'm able to be involved in this community. I hope anyone listening who wants to transition into tech or to become even more technical gets involved in the freeCodeCamp community as well. We welcome you. WILL: Are there any opportunities? I know we talked about donations. So, for one, where can they go if they want to donate? And then also, like, you know, if developers want to get to be a part of the open-source network you have, is that possible? And how can they do that? QUINCY: Absolutely. So, if you want to donate to freeCodeCamp, just go to donate.freecodecamp.org. And you can become, like, a $5 a month donor, if you'd like. If you want to give a larger amount, I've got this article; just Google "How to Donate to freeCodeCamp." And I've written this detailed guide to, like, all the different ways like mailing checks. We had a gentleman who passed away and left a whole lot of money for freeCodeCamp in his will. So, those kinds of legacy gifts are definitely something. We've had people donate stock, like, any number of different things. I will bend over backwards to make sure that we can receive your donation, and we can give you a tax receipt so you can deduct it from your taxes as well if you'd like. And then, for contributing to freeCodeCamp, of course, we're an open-source project, and we welcome your code contributions. We have spent a great deal of time trying to make freeCodeCamp as hospitable as possible for both new developers who want to get involved and more senior developers who just want to do some, like, 20%-time type contributing to open-source projects: contribute.freecodecamp.org. So, again, donate.freecodecamp.org and contribute.freecodecamp.org. Those will take you where you need to go. VICTORIA: Wonderful. Thank you so much again, Quincy, for joining us. And you can subscribe to the show and find notes along with a complete transcript for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. And you can find me on Twitter @victori_ousg. WILL: And you could find me on Twitter @will23larry. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks for listening. See you next time. ANNOUNCER: This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot, your expert strategy, design, development, and product management partner. We bring digital products from idea to success and teach you how because we care. Learn more at thoughtbot.com. Special Guest: Quincy Larson.
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Cluey CEO Mark Rohald speaks with Proactive at the ASX Small and Mid-Cap Conference September 2022. Cluey is an Australian-based education technology company that provides personalised face-to-face online tutoring to school students. In addition, Cluey delivers co-curricular online, holiday camps and after school programs in Australia and the United Kingdom through wholly-owned subsidiary Code Camp. #Cluey #onlinetutors #asx #proactiveaustralia#CodeCamp
Have you fully taken advantage of all that your Showit site has to offer? Maybe you've found the code snippets offered for your website, but aren't quite sure how to use them. Well, you're in luck, because Jordan and Chelsey Barhorst of Black Tie Design Co have created the resource you need—Showit Code Camp. In today's episode, Jordan and Chelsey join me to share the reason behind launching this program for Showit users in order to help them learn the basics of coding to make better use of the features their website has to offer! The Branded by Bernel Podcast is brought to you by Bernel Westbrook, lead designer and founder of Branded by Bernel, a design studio dedicated to building strong brands and Showit websites for creative entrepreneurs. Make sure you've hit that follow or subscribe button on your favorite podcast player to get notified each week as we air new episodes! Review the full show notes and transcript at brandedbybernel.com/category/podcast Mentioned in This Episode: Showit Showit Code Camp The One Thing by Gary Keller Connect with Jordan & Chelsey blacktiedesign.co @blacktiedesignco Showit Code Camp Connect with Bernel brandedbybernel.com instagram.com/brandedbybernel
Ruffa Carreon is a Co-Founder at Uplift Code Camp. JC Azcarraga is a Teaching Professional at Uplift Code Camp.Uplift Code Camp is a Philippine coding boot camp teaching full-stack web application development and short weekend seminars.Uplift Code Camp has run boot camps and short courses through the years, helping their graduates land successful jobs. Know more about how they teach beginner-friendly coding to ANYONE, how they design the programs, the curriculum, and the learning process at Uplift Code Camp, the vision to upskill Filipinos in coding and problem-solving, and why coding?In this episode:00:37 Ano ang Uplift Code Camp?01:15 Ano nga ba ang full-stack? ;)03:19 Why is coding important?05:30 How do you teach in Uplift Code Camp?12:08 Sino ang mga nag-aaral sa Uplift Code Camp?15:55 What are the stories behind starting up Uplift Code Camp?21:01 How did Uplift Code Camp grow over the years?23:50 Do you think the majority of Filipinos should know how to code?25:47 If people want to learn at Uplift Code Camp, how can they get more information?UPLIFT CODE CAMPWebsite: www.upliftcodecamp.com/Facebook: www.facebook.com/upliftcodecampSTART UP PODCASTYouTube: www.youtube.com/c/StartUpPodcastPHSpotify: open.spotify.com/show/6BObuPvMfoZzdlJeb1XXVaApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/start-up-podcast/id1576462394Facebook: www.facebook.com/startuppodcastphPatreon: www.patreon.com/StartUpPodcastPHBuy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/startuppodcastCREDITSIntro and outro thanks to Terence Boydon: wyrmpres.wordpress.comThis episode is edited by the team at: tasharivera.com
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Meet Sharmi Albrechtsen, founder of SmartGurlz & SmartBuddies who is making STEM fun for boys and girls. Good Housekeeping named their Code Camp the best available for children today and Sharmi turned down an offer on SharkTank! She talk with Loralyn Mears about alternative to VC funding.
Meet Sharmi Albrechtsen, founder of SmartGurlz & SmartBuddies who is making STEM fun for boys and girls. Good Housekeeping named their Code Camp the best available for children today and Sharmi turned down an offer on SharkTank! She talk with Loralyn Mears about alternative to VC funding.
Meet: Allen Ko is a data science manager working at States Title, where he's leading the company's efforts to automate document processing and parsing. He has a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and loves to spend his free time hiking and wandering in the outdoors. What you'll learn: Transitioning to the data industry via Metis Stepping up to a manager role More integration with the product team If you have any questions for Allen, please feel free to reach out to him via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenwko/
In your career, are you coffee or are you Starbucks? In today’s world, you can not afford to be a commodity worker. You must have a premium personal brand that makes you stand out from the crowd. A key component defining your brand attributes and then “supersizing” them so they are words that are uniquely you and ownable. Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Shawni Chen, joining the show from Shanghai, China. Shawni is a partner at PwC with 20+ years of IT application implementation and management experience in the US and China. She is a big advocate for diversity and equality in the workplace and was recently named by Forbes China as one of the Top 50 women technologists in China. Guest Bio Shawni is a partner at PwC. She has 20+ years of IT application implementation and management experience in US and China. She is responsible for running a 1200+ members Acceleration Center in Shanghai China. Her team is providing service to 10 different countries. As the automation and innovation leader for Acceleration Centers, she is digitizing the project deliveries and providing cost effective and value-added services to her clients. Shawni is a big advocate for creating a diverse and equal work environment. She created Women in Technology program at the Shanghai center that sponsors initiatives such as Code Camp, HeForShe, LadiesWhoTech events in the local market. In 2020, she was nominated by Forbes China as one of the Top 50 women technologists in China. Links To learn more about Lead With Your Brand and the Career Breakthrough Mentoring program , please visit : https://www.leadwithyourbrand.com To book Jayzen for a speaking engagement or workshop at your company, visit : https://www.jayzenpatria.com Please connect on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayzenpatria
My favorite sentence from a "That's interesting" perspective is: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" . With the flurry of patches for one CVE, I can only imagine someone at Microsoft is saying "Patch patch Patch patch patch patch Patch patch", to the same effect..NET Core 3.1.7 has been releasedRelease NotesThe big news here is another major CVE has been patched, this time against ASP.NET Core. CVE-2020-1597 which is a Denial of Service vulnerability that targets how ASP.NET handles unauthenticated web requests.In typical CVE fashion there isn't a released proof of concept; so while it's unknown if there are any exploits in the wild, you should upgrade and patch your ASP.NET Core installations immediately.Also released in .NET Core 3.1.7 is a change to how .NET Core applications are built; ASP.NET Core applications no longer generate a dylib on Mac, rather they generate a DLL; this is due to the new notarization requirements starting in Mac OS Catalina.If you're running an Ubuntu image based on version 19.10; be advised that it has now fallen out of support for .NET Core. It's a brave new world folks where Microsoft takes a hatchet to OSes older than a year. Keep in mind Windows 7 just fell out of support, so you know what side their bread is buttered on.Also included is a new .NET Core SDK update: 3.1.107.NET Core 2.1.21 has been releasedThis is also a release that fixes the CVE for .NET Core 2.1; which is Microsoft's LTS supported version of .NET Core 2Visual Studio 16.7.1 has been released;Besides some IDE bugs fixed; the big news here is this also is listed as a product to update under CVE-2020-1597.Visual Studio 2017 15.9.26 has been released:Same for the CVE-2020-1597.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotesAlso if anyone is wondering whether your release cycle is complicated, the Visual Studio team is supporting no less than three different versions of VS 2019 version 16.x in production. 16.0.17, 16.4.12, and 16.7.1.Please reach out to someone at the Visual Studio team and ask them if they're feeling ok.An overview of Statiq with Dave GlickCecil Phillip sat down with David Glick to talk about Statiq; a static site generation framework for .NET Core. I'm just getting into statiq (I want to use it to host the web version of these newsletters and make the generation process less... manual) and this is a great video to watch if you want to learn about Statiq.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43oQTRZqK9gJetbrains announces release 2020.02 for Jetbrains resharperThe 2020.2 versions of JetBrains .NET tools and extensions are herehttps://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnewhttps://www.jetbrains.com/rider/whatsnewand licensing changes:https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2020/07/15/licensing-update-net-tools/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RkbFltUmpaREF5TW1KaiIsInQiOiJGRTJMdEFFaDYybUNRWkVaeVpRY3lBTTQzczI3ODVCd1luNlpWSkxTR0xVeUZXaTNpMWpaTlpENEpEQkw2WEJuTjd1MDlRMjZ0YmRyWG5cLys0cFVUTmZVTkdXNGE0TnR1RWhpN1wvMzRHVlFiMEMzRG03RENDa0dYQWhKRCt2N2VGIn0%3DThere's another shoe to drop here somewhere, and I don't know what it is. I'm looking for it though, and when I find it I'll let you know. Between "Let's make things easy for our customers" and "licensing changes that increase revenue", I hope this action is at the center of that venn diagram.NoVA Code CampNoVA does not stand for that fictional paramilitary unit in Short Circuit, although more's the pity. It stands for "Northern Virginia" which by all rights and politics should be its own state. Anyway, normally they have an in-person code camp; and that's not conducive due to the Virus That Shall Not Be Named, so here we have a virtual code camp. If you've got a talk you're working on, or you just want to hear some great talks; you should sign up for this event. It's free. I'm pitching a talk on Event Driven Systems, and I hope it's accepted (if the NoVA CodeCamp staff happen to read this; lemme know where to send the bribe).https://sessionize.com/northern-va-codecamp-fall-2020/Microsoft ranks #3 on OSS contributions:https://twitter.com/gortok/status/1293566607986491394?s=20I will give Microsoft credit here: 10 years ago they were nobody in the world of Open Source software. Literally not even on the radar.That said, I've got some problems with this ranking. Yuu know the guy on youtube that sits in the forest and builds a house from first principles? It's pretty neat. Anyway, Microsoft is that guy, github is youtube, and we're the people who can watch but can't really force him to build a castle from first principles. Although there's a youtube channel for that too. Anyway, we're spectators. Microsoft pays the salaries of the .NET Maintainers (all of whom are Microsoft employees), and the .NET foundation's Executive director (And treasurer), are Microsoft employees. This isn't altruistic code contribution to OSS, this is "Watch us build our product on github and give us a cookie for doing that". You don't get a cookie for that. At least not a chocolate chip one. You can have an Oatmeal raisin cookie for that.Microsoft is the benevolent dictator for .NET, at a time when benevolent dictatorship for Open Source is on its way out. Microsoft releases site that touts its OSSI guess they're just displaying their own set of cookies at this point?Guidance for developing with Entity Framework in ASP.NET Core Blazor has been released:If this sort of thing doesn't jazz you, I don't know what to say to you. I mean, using Blazor *is* still experimental, and EF Core is getting there; but if you enjoy being on the bleeding edge, at least now you have some great documentation to help you.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/blazor-server-ef-core?view=aspnetcore-3.1Transcript (To come, powered by Otter.ai)George Stocker 0:00 Hi, I'm George Stocker, and this is last weekend dotnet for the week ending 15 August 2020 dotnet core 3.1 point seven has been released. The big news here is another CVE has been patched this time against ASP. NET Core CVE is CVE dash 2020 dash 1597, which is a denial of service vulnerability that targets how ASP net handles unauthenticated web requests. In typical CVE fashion, there isn't a released proof of concept. So while it's unknown if there are any exploits in the wild, you should upgrade and patch your ASP. NET Core installations immediately. also released in dotnet. Core 3.1 point seven is a change to how dotnet core applications are built on Mac OS. ASP. NET Core applications no longer generate a DI lib on Mac. Rather they generate a DLL This is due to the new notarisation requirements. Get Started in Mac OS Catalina if you're running an Ubuntu image based on version 1910 Be advised this now had fallen out of support for dotnet core. It's a brave new world folks where Microsoft takes a hatchet OSS older than a year. Keep in mind windows seven just fell out of support so you know what side their bread is buttered on. Also included in this update is a new dotnet core SDK update to 3.1 point 107 dotnet core 2.1 point two one has been released. This is this this also fixes the issue with CVE dash 2020 dash 1597 for dotnet core 2.1 which is Microsoft's LTS supported version of dotnet core two, also for the CVE Visual Studio 16 point 7.1 and 15 point 9.26 and 16.4 point 12 have been released. And all of these Deal with CVE dash 2020 dash 1597. I feel like I'm saying that too much. Now the big notice for me here was that the Visual Studio Team supports three versions of Visual Studio in production. Right now. They're supporting 16 dot o dot 1716 dot four dot 12 and 16 dot seven dot one. please reach out to someone at the Visual Studio Team and make sure they're okay. Dave Glick gave us an overview on YouTube of his static website framework called static with a que si so Philip sat down with him on YouTube. And they go over what static is, what it does, and how to use it. It's a good watch and I'm thinking of using it for this newsletter, the website version of this newsletter, and you should give it a look to JetBrains announces release 2020 dot zero to four JetBrains resharper and writer. They also the big thing here for them is they announced licensing changes. They say they've simplified the model for licensing There is another sheet of drop here somewhere. And I don't know what it is. I'm looking for it though. And when I find it, I'll let you know, between, let's make things easy for our customers and licensing changes that increase revenue. I really hope this action is at the center of that Venn diagram. Now for resharper, there's a number of changes they've made. The one that I find the most intriguing is they've changed their unit test runner, so that the same process works on Visual Studio for dotnet core and dotnet framework. Nova Code Camp is going to be on 26, September 2020. This is going to be a virtual event. Now Nova does not stand for that fictional paramilitary unit in short circuit, although more as a pity. It stands for Northern Virginia, which by all rights in politics should be its own state. Anyway, normally, it's an in person Code Camp, and that's not conducive due to the virus that shall not be named. So we're having a virtual Code Camp. If you got to talk you're working on or you just want to hear Some great talks, you should sign up for this event. It's free. I'm pitching a talk on event driven systems. And I hope it's accepted. By the way, if you work for the Nova Code Camp, and you happen to hear this, let me know where to send the bribe. Microsoft ranks number three on open source software contributions. Now, I will give Microsoft credit here 10 years ago, they were nobody in the world of open source software. They weren't even on the radar. Literally. That's it. I do have some problems with this ranking. There's a guy on YouTube that sits in the forest and builds a house from first principles. It's pretty neat to watch. Anyway, Microsoft is that guy in GitHub is YouTube. And we're the people who can watch but can't really force him to build a castle from first principles, although there's probably a YouTube virgin channel for that, too. Anyway, what I'm saying here is we're spectators. Microsoft pays the salaries of the dotnet maintainers, all of whom are Microsoft employees. And the dotnet Foundation's executive director and treasure are Microsoft employees. This isn't some altruistic code contribution to the open source software community. This is watch us build our product on GitHub and give us a cookie for doing that. By the way, they own GitHub. Now you don't get a cookie for that, at least not a chocolate chip one. You can have an oatmeal raisin cookie for that though. Microsoft is the benevolent dictator for dotnet. at a time, when benevolent dictatorship for open source software is on its way out. They also released a site touting their own OSS software, you can go to this site and see what Microsoft releases under an open source live license. I guess at this point, they're just displaying their own cookies. Guidance for developing with Entity Framework in ASP. NET Core has been released. Now if this sort of thing doesn't jazz you I don't know what to say. I mean, documentation for bleeding edge systems like blazer and like Entity Framework core is hard to come by. and Microsoft is doing a really good job here of producing documentation that's useful to those of us that want to use blazer and any framework core. Now given that blazer really is still active. Fair mental and Entity Framework core is getting there. I don't think there are people that are going to use it in production. But either way, it's really nice that Microsoft is paying attention to the documentation. And that's it for what happened last week in dotnet. I'm George Stocker, and I help teams double their productivity through test driven development. If your team wants to go home at 5pm not worried about late breaking bugs at night that wake you up and upset your customers. Reach out at www.doubleyourproductivitity.io.Transcribed by https://otter.ai
Our guest this week is one of the co-founders of an international venture all about teaching the younger generation to code. Hayley Markham is co-founder and COO of Code Camp, which to date has reached 90,000 children with their holiday and after school camps, and online programs, in Australia and also the UK. Hayley co-founded Code Camp seven years ago and as you’ll hear this hard working pragmatist and efficiency queen got started in the business when her third child was just two weeks old! Little did she know what she was getting herself into then but there’s no doubting Hayley is an unflappable master at juggling life and building a startup.Code Camp was named one of Smart Company’s top three, fastest growing businesses in Australia in 2018 with 510% revenue growth. It was also nominated as a Deloitte ‘Fast 50 Rising Star’ in 2019 and Hayley herself is a recent winner of Australian Mumpreneur of the Year. In this episode you’ll hear: How Hayley found her forte and niche in people leadership and operations after years of trial and error in different jobs not knowing what she wanted to do,The career advice she has for others who aren’t sure what their dream role looks like, How Code Camp overcame the challenges involved with scaling the business,And the one thing Hayley credits with helping her juggle running a business and having a busy family life.So if you’re looking for inspiration on how to tackle the challenges and juggles in your life, then you’ll love this episode with the unflappable and humble Hayley Markham. Interesting LinksCodeCamp websiteHayley on LinkedIn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Small Biz Matters – a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it.with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner.Date: 19 May 2020 Incubators, accelerators, startup hubs. They seem to be popping up all over the place. Some are independant and others available through university programs. So what exactly are they and how do they give businesses the edge when starting out? Are they just for the techpreneurs who innovate in the digital world, or are other industries and sectors involved too? Today on the program we are joined by the CEO of Fishburners, Nicole O’Brien. Fishburners is a not for profit enterprise dedicated to “making the hardest thing you’ve ever done easier by providing the best facilities, resources, education, support and community of like-minded people to connect with and learn from.” Welcome to the show Nicole. Topics we’ll be covering: Why are startups so important to building a better Australia? How do you define a startup - is it a matter of being young or at the beginning of your small business journey? Why is Community central to startup success? How do organisations like Fishburners nourish a community with such a diverse range of startups in their community? What is the future of communities in Australia, post pandemic? (How do they differ from co-working spaces?) What are your top tips for continuing to collaborate & network when the face-to-face option is no longer there? What makes Fishburners different? What do we have to look forward to coming out of Australian startups over the next 5 years? To find out more go to their website: https://fishburners.org/ Nicole O’Brien BIO Nicole is a social enterprise leader with a passion for improving lives and communities. As CEO of Fishburners, Australia’s largest startup community and coworking space, Nicole leads a space for aspiring tech entrepreneurs to learn and communicate. The community has grown to more than 850 members and 400 startups, across its offices in Sydney, and Brisbane and Fishburners virtual platform. Fishburners works closely with partnerships including Google for Startups, Jobs for NSW, Brisbane City Council, UTS, Optus and Chartered Accountants ANZ. High-profile alumni include: Koala, GoCatch, DesignCrowd, Code Camp, Tinybeans, Madpaws, Jayride, GradConnection and Hyper Anna. Nicole’s career working with social enterprises in the not for profit sector began in 1989 at the Australian Conservation Foundation where she positively impacted on growing green consumerism whilst building the ACF’s revenue base. A trip to Asia followed with the opportunity to work on an Australian Aid project in Cambodia working with the Khmer Journalists association as a business Development Advisor to support the establishment of a free press. An exciting and optimistic time following the first Democratic elections in Cambodia and there was a lot to achieve, this led to work with the United Nations Development Program as a Communications Consultant and the Shandwick Group as a PR Executive working for the Cambodian Government. Back in Australia Nicole worked for Team Publications, a start up with a new approach to organisational learning where she was charged with taking a range of management coaching tools to market. This was followed by a role as Marketing Manager for the women’s and youth titles. Following this period in publishing, Nicole’s passion for making a difference took over and she spent the next 10 years transforming the social enterprises of YWCA NSW and repositioning the organisation to be recognised for the critical support it provided to women and their families. More recently, Nicole has been using her well-honed leadership, governance, financial, people, marketing and entrepreneurial skills to ensure that ACON Health continues to be the leading health promotion organisation providing opportunities for its community to live their healthiest lives. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education and Social Policy, Post Graduate in Marketing, Masters of Business Administration and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is mother to 15 year old Isabella and 9 year old Lachlan.
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The phrase “release to production” conjures a very specific set of thoughts and even emotions for folks who live, breath, and work with technology. Some of those thoughts and feelings are positive, while others are fraught with conflict. At the same time, those of us who are active in our religious community experience a different kind of “release to production” - releasing our children to the production environment of our faiths, whether that is teaching abroad, missionary work, or adult religious education that takes our young adult across the globe. And like our IT-based production release experiences, we watch our kids transition into chaotic systems, where parental observability is minimal even as the probability of encountering unknown-unknown error types grows. In this episode, Leon and Josh to look at what our IT discipline can teach us about how to make this phase of the parental production cycle easier. Listen or read the transcript below. Leon: 00:00 Welcome to our podcast where we talk about the interesting, frustrating and inspiring experiences we have as people with strongly held religious views working in corporate IT. We're not here to preach or teach you our religion. We're here to explore ways we make our career as IT professionals mesh or at least not conflict with our religious life. This is Technically Religious. Josh: 00:21 The phrase release to production causes a very specific set of thoughts and even emotions for folks who live, breathe and work with technology. Some of those thoughts and feelings are positive while others are fraught with conflict. At the same time, those of us who are active in our religious community experience a different kind of release to production. Releasing our children to the production environment of our faiths, whether that is teaching abroad missionary work or adult religious education that takes our young adults across the globe and like our it based production release experiences. We watch our kids transition and to chaotic systems, where parental observability is minimal, even as the probability of encountering unknown, unknown error types grows. In this episode, we're going to look at what our IT discipline can teach us about how to make this phase of parental production cycle easier. I'm Josh Biggley and the other voice you're going to hear on this episode is Leon Adato. Leon: 01:19 Hello everyone. Josh: 01:20 Hey Leon. Um, so as we always start our podcasts, uh, let's do a little shameless self promotion if you don't mind. Leon: 01:27 I, I never mind shameless anything and self-promotion either. So, uh, I'm Leon Adato as you said, I'm a Head Geek at SolarWinds. Uh, you can find me on the Twitters @LeonAdator. I also blog and pontificate on my website www.adatosystems.com. And my particular religious worldview is Orthodox Jewish. Leon: 01:52 Fantastic. And for those who are new to our podcast, I'm Josh Biggley. I'm a Senior Engineer of Enterprise Monitoring. You can find me on the twitters, um, @jbiggley. You can find my faith transitions community at www.faithtransitions.ca, where you will be redirected to our Facebook group. Um, I am currently a post Mormon transitioning into being an ex Mormon. That's where we start. So, uh, Leon, we've both had some, uh, some challenges, um, that I think have precipitated where we're at with this particular episode. Leon: 02:28 Yes. Josh: 02:28 Um, and as we were having the discussion, I was thinking I do love poetry. Uh, I mean, uh, it's a wonderful thing. I, I found a poem by Robert Burns is from 1786, uh, entitled "To a Mouse". And I, I'd love to, I'd love to have someone else read a portion of that because you know, the, to get the Robert Burns from 1786 just right, uh, is important. So let's listen to that now before we begin. Poetry Reading: 03:00 [Thick Scottish Brogue accent]. Poetry Reading: 03:00 But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! New Speaker: 03:17 All right. So I love that particular, uh, part of the poem, you know, this, uh, Robert Burns wrote this poem, um, after plowing a field. And, uh, as he was going along, he noticed that he tore up the, the den, uh, of a mouse and, and that caused him to reflect on it and write this poem. And for us, we have these, these plans that we lay out, we, and we spend so much time invested in them and then the chaos of the world grabs a hold of them and tears apart. Leon: 03:53 Right. And there's a few things I like about this that first of all, the poetry is, is heart stopping. It's just amazing. And, um, but I also like the fact that Robert Burns was plowing his field. He was doing a very normal sort of work-based activity and yet he was also bringing his other, I'll use the word higher, I don't mean it in any sort of, you know, uh, value statement way, but he was using a more thoughtful part of himself to it. You know, how many people are mowing lawn or you know, just walking through, you know, a cut through and they knock over it, you know, a nest of some kind or whatever and it's like, yeah, whatever, and you know, move on. But here, this really obviously caused him some real introspection. And I think that that is a wonderful analog to, uh, what we do as people with a religious, moral or ethical point of view as we go through our it lives is that we, we don't divorce one from the other. And that sometimes moments within our regular work day lives cause us this, this reflection. I think it's important to, to clarify that when we talk about releasing to production, you know, tongue in cheek, because we're talking about our kids. This isn't just, you know, kids going off to college or getting a job or growing up, although it is those things. But it's particular to folks who live a, who live in a faith-based lifestyle. Um, you know, there's some very specific things that I think our kids do that kids from a more secular background don't. For example, uh, you know, my kids went to either yeshiva or seminary after high school, you know, or going to go, or in the process of going. And you'll hear more about that later. Um, you know, that's, uh, one or two or three years of purely religious education, not indoctrination. It's, you know, real deep dive into the, um, philosophy, theology, you know, asking a lot of questions, challenging the thinking that they'd grown up with learning the rest of the story kind of stuff. And there's also, you know, depending on your faith, there's mission work, there's a student exchange programs, there's teaching abroad, there's, you know, gap year programs, all of which send our kids away. But not, again, not in the way that I think at least I think of a secular experience, what my secular experience was, which was you graduated from high school, you went to college, uh, or maybe a trade school or whatever it is, and you got a job and, and you had your life. But that's not really what we're talking about. We're talking about really releasing to a different kind of production system. Josh: 06:38 You know, and it's interesting, I find that a lot of people are starting to embrace this. Maybe alternative -- is that the right word for it? New Speaker: 06:47 It is. Yeah. It's another option that I think wasn't considered by our parents when we were growing up. If you happen to be of a certain age. Josh: 06:56 Yeah. When my daughter graduated from high school last year, she was not the only person in her graduating class who was taking a gap year and who was doing something during that gap year. Going to work during gap here, you hear about that a lot, but taking that gap here and doing what my daughter did, which was go to Haiti, um, during the, you know, period of civil unrest that was going on, that was, that was interesting. Leon: 07:28 My son... Leon: 07:30 It might have been interesting for her, but I'm sure it was interesting in a whole different way for you and your wife. Josh: 07:35 It was uh, uh, we should talk about that in the future. It was a, it was a very, yes. Interesting is a good word for it. You know, and my son is a, is my son is on a mission right now. He comes home in a couple of weeks, which we're super excited about, but I, a bunch of kids took, took a year off, you know, one went to France, one went to Brazil as part of the Rotary Exchange program. So I, I'm courageous. I'm, I'm excited for this future generation in my graduating class, which wasn't nearly as large as my daughters. I think I had 45 or 50 kids in my graduating class, but I was the only one who was going off to do something other than go to college or university or go to work. So I, it is, it is a very unique thing that we have because of our faith. There's a problem here though, and I, I, I do want to talk about this. So, you know, having grown up, um, having grown up Mormon, in fact, we just had some friends, uh, some friends, uh, uh, family members of friends, I guess is the right way to put it. Who stopped by unexpectedly and they said, "Oh, by the way, we know your son Noah, you know. We're from Utah. Here's how we know Noah. We met him while he was there." And so we got to talking about their family and they said to us, "Well, our son is, is and has just proposed to his, his girlfriend, they're going to get married." Well, when you're a Mormon, you know that at 18 you become eligible to go on a mission. And so we said, oh, he didn't serve a mission. Now this, this couple doesn't know that we're no longer practicing Mormons. And you could just, you could see that just that flicker of disappointment in their eyes because, uh, there's that. "Yeah, we're from Utah and we know that our kids are supposed to go." So Leon, let's talk about what happens when, when we spend our entire lives trying to launch our children with their support... Leon: 09:36 right. Josh: 09:37 ...into, into a specific path and the T-minus plan fails. Leon: 09:43 Right. And, and I liked your phrasing. You know that it's a launch plan and T-Minus, and you know, remember that the, the astronauts in the capsule are not unwilling participants in this. They're, they're just as engaged in trajectory and speed and velocity. They may not be the final arbiter of some of those things, but they are absolutely involved in those plans in our kids. While they may not be the, the final arbiter of how they get where they're going or how quickly they get where they're going or whatever, they're active participants in helping plot the course. Um, so I like, I just liked the phrasing. I think that's really good. And Yeah, let's talk about when things don't go. So, I think that if things don't go as planned, uh, the first question, at least that I'm thinking is, "Did I, you know, was this a failure on my part to plan at all, you know, correctly, appropriately? What did I miss?" I, I think that that's, as a parent maybe sometimes your first go to what, what did I do wrong? You know? Josh: 10:46 I think that makes you a good parent. Leon: 10:49 Oh, really? Good. Really good. I know, New Speaker: 10:57 No doubt. Leon: 10:58 Um, yeah, but if that is the one criteria that the self doubt, then absolutely I have, I have piles and piles of good parenting. Yeah. Josh: 11:09 Well, and I think that's important though when we look at our, when we look at our children and we try to ask ourselves, why didn't things go to plan? We immediately look at ourselves mostly because we can, we can change ourselves. We can't change our children. We can sit them down and we can lecture them for hours on end, but about 15 minutes and they're just going to stop listening. You know? I... New Speaker: 11:35 If you get that much, that's where. Josh: 11:36 I was. I was hoping for a good day. Uh, yeah. I, I love the phrase "Analysis Paralysis". It's something that I hear an awful lot at work, especially as we're using all the Buzz Word Bingo, key phrases, right? Agile and DevOps. And I've heard a new one the other day DevSecOps and I'm like, now we're just making upwards. It's great. Leon: 11:59 If you're playing along at home. Right? And you haven't downloaded the beat. You can download the Bingo card from TechnicallyReligious.com. Josh: 12:06 Um, but I, I think that we can get to that point where we look at sort of the look at our lives and the lives of our children. We expect them to do with some very rigid things. Josh: 12:15 And when they don't, w things start to fall apart. We doubt ourselves. We doubt our children. To me, that feels a disingenuous to the art of raising children. Going back to, you know, to the Bible, right? Cain and Abel, uh, you know, Adam and eve have these two kids can enable, you know, great kids grew up while together. And then, you know, one day Cain kills Abel. Did, did Adam and Eve, you know, did they see that coming? Or they're like, "What do we do wrong?" Leon: 12:42 Right. Josh: 12:45 "Geez, maybe we shouldn't have left the garden!?!" Uh, you know, Leon: 12:49 [Laughter] Maybe that, yeah, that was, that was an unplanned, that was, that was its own, you know, production, early release to production issue. Yep. Leon: 12:57 Um, here's... Josh: 12:58 That's what happens when, when Alpha goes to prod, although it worked out really well, so... Leon: 13:03 Yeah, well, it can, but it also can not. Um, and there's even, there's even a question there, just if we're going to invoke Cain and Able that, that, um, Cain may not have understood. Look, Abel was the first person to die at all. He may not have understood that killing was a thing. Um, and in the original Hebrew, uh, the precursor to that moment is they were out in the fields and Cain said to Abel "And Cain rose up and slew Abel" There's, there's a missing, there's no texts there. Now as, uh, a person with two brothers. I can tell you with absolute certainty that I know I have a good, I could make some good guesses about what Cain said to Abel, that would cause Cain to lash out. You know, it caused that conflict to occur. Um, however, we don't have textual, uh, textual evidence of it. But the point is, is that, um, again, that probably wasn't, uh, Adam and Chava, to use the Hebrew names. Um, wasn't their plan for, uh, what their kids were gonna grow up to be or to do. Um, Josh: 14:27 What, what about, what about the attributes of our children though? Leon: 14:30 Yeah. Josh: 14:30 I mean, oftentimes we look at our kids and we want to see the very best than them, but if our kids don't follow our plan, and I will admit, I am one of those kids that did not follow my parent's plan. In fact, uh, after I got home from Las Vegas, I explicitly things to, uh, I want to say to make my parents upset. But when my parents said, don't do, I, I went ahead and did it. So when they said, hey, you know, you shouldn't get married at 21, I was like, no, I'm getting married at 21. Hey, you shouldn't go. You know, you should not go to a school, um, to do that. Oh yeah, no, I'm going to go to school and I'm going to work full time. Uh, I mean, we're going to tell the story a little later, but it's just, does that mean that word? Well, what does that mean about our kids? What, what does that mean about me? I'm, I'm gonna lay it down on the couch now. And you can tell me. Leon: 15:24 Right. So I think there's a, there's two aspects of that. First of all, um, I think as parents we also put way too much stock in this moment. This is the formative moment. If I don't get this right as a parent, it's all downhill from there. Leon, she's going into kindergarten. I know, but it's everything hinges on her getting into the right kindergarten and her learning her abcs, she was slow to walk. You know, we have to make up for that! I think she's gonna do play time just fine. You know, I, I think that sometimes we, we forget that, you know, as much as we have recovered from, you know, setbacks and failures, both big and small and our lives, our kids are going to also, and, uh, there's, you know, and the hard part is because we're sort of passive observers of it, there's a quote, um, Elizabeth Stone said it, uh, "Making the decision to have a child. It is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." And I think that sums up not just the experience of parenting for, for some folks, but also the, the level of pressure that I think that we, we feel we put upon ourselves that, you know, again, that kindergarten moment has to be perfect because it's my heart there that you're dealing with. But the fact is is that our kids are far more resilient than an internal organ. Um, usually, mostly mostly, at least I choose. So that's the first piece. I think the second piece is they are often more capable than we recognize because when we see them, we see the totality of our experience with, with them from their first moments until this moment. And we, we experience all of those at the same time. So it's hard to remember that the person standing before you now is a relatively capable near adult depending on how old they are, who is tougher than most of the times we give them credit for being simply because we're also seeing them in diapers as we are watching them drive away in the car. Um, so I think, I think those two things are always at work in the head of a, in the head of a parent as there again, quote unquote launching their child. Um, I think there's another though that that comes up, at least for me, when things don't go according to plan, which is, you know, I begin to wonder after I've doubted myself, I begin to doubt my kid. Does it mean that they weren't committed, that they gave up too easily? Um, you know, nobody wants a snowflake millennial for a child. Uh, even if our children millennial, we certainly don't want them to be un-resilient. Um, or worse, we worry that maybe they're not taking it seriously or even worse than that, that their being utterly dismissive and disrespectful to our effort. Not to mention our money. Like, yeah, whatever, you know, they're sending me halfway across the world, but I can always come back. It's no big deal. They got, they can cover it. Josh: 18:33 Right, right, they've got the platinum card. Right. Leon: 18:35 Right, right. It's just money. So you know, and you've spent months, you know, trying to get the, you know, doing the school paperwork and doing the, like you've done all that stuff and all of a sudden it doesn't, doesn't go as you expected it to. And you know, there's a lot of those feelings that sort of swirl around. Josh: 18:55 Yeah. I, I do want to address something about kindergarten. So my daughter is starting university this week in kindergarten. So in Ontario there was junior kindergarten. She was three and a half when she started because her birthday is later in the year. She almost got kicked out of kindergarten because she would not talk and she refused to leave her little cubby where she hung her coat. She would sit in that and would not participate. And the school called us and said, hey, like maybe this isn't the right thing for her. Maybe, maybe she shouldn't be at school right now. This, this is the girl who hopped on a plane and flew to Haiti. This is the girl who when they said, we might have to send you home from Haiti because you know, there's civil unrest. There is literally writing in the streets. It was like, no, no, no, I'm not going. And now she's headed off to university and I would have never imagined it. So yes, my daughter was a snowflake in junior kindergarten. I get it. Leon: 20:04 [laughing] Josh: 20:06 ...because they don't stay that way. New Speaker: 20:07 Yeah. And psychologists will call that a telescoping. When you look at your three year old who's eating paste and saying, oh, it's never gonna. And it's like, no, don't telescope. It's okay. The fact that they do it now doesn't mean that they're always doing it. Or as another great parenting educator, Barbara Coloroso said, um, "I've never yet seen a high school senior walk down the graduation aisle with the shoes on the wrong feet unless it was on purpose." You don't need to tell your kids to put the shoes on the right feet. They can figure that part out for themselves. Josh: 20:40 I, I, so I have, I have another story. If you know when you have lots of children. I have four. When you have lots of children, you have lots stories. Yes. I have a son who suffers from the, how did we put it? "Anything is possible when you don't know what you're doing"-itis. Leon: 20:59 Right. I've worked for managers who suffer from it also. So it's a fairly common uh, affliction. Josh: 21:04 Yeah. It, it's, it's surprising and to, to be fair, part of the, the beauty of youth is that you have no sweet clue what you can't do because you've never tried to do it. But some times the things that you're trying to do are so wonderfully outlandish that you probably should not do them. I...in my own life, I wanted to be a lawyer. In fact, I still would love to be a lawyer. That whole going to school for four years and then having to go to law school for two or three years and then having to article for another three or four years just does not appeal to me. I go figure, I kind of like making money, uh, and, and eating. Leon: 21:50 I was going to say, it's not the money part, it's the eating steady part you become kind of addicted to. Josh: 21:56 I have. I have, yeah. My, my waistline can attest to that. So all, all through high school I was planning on being a lawyer. So I got to my, my senior year and in Ontario at the time. You went to grade 13 which was a college, a university prep year. So as I'm entering my, my university prep here, my guidance counselor calls me in and says, Hey, you know Josh, I'm looking at your, your transcript, you've got all the IT courses that we offer and you know, what do you plan on doing? I said, well, I'm going to be a lawyer. So good, but if that doesn't work out, maybe I'll do IT. And he said, well, you know, you really need to take math. I said, no, no, no. I got all the math credits I need. I, as I look, I know I'm going to be a lawyer. I would not be on this podcast if I was a lawyer. Leon: 22:53 True. True. As much as I, as much as I have, I enjoy our friendship. It wouldn't be that it wouldn't be Technically Religious anymore. Josh: 23:00 That's right. Yeah. It would just be awkward at that point. So I mean, I did it the hard way. I, I didn't take math. I'm also, although I like math now, I did not like math in high school. I was a little hesitant to admit to liking math, but I do like math and I really struggled. I mean, I wanted to be in IT as my backup plan. I didn't realize it was going to become my primary plan, but I really hated math and I hated the math learning experience. Leon: 23:35 Sure. So I just want to, I want to frame some of this, you know, talking about your son and, um, you know, his belief that he can do anything, even if he doesn't have sort of the basic background, I think is a good analog to you wanting to be in IT and not liking math. But I think that lots of folks who are in it come at it from different directions. We know that. And, uh, math can be a challenge. And I think that there's sort of three ways that you can look at addressing it. Like, how do we address problems in IT? So there's sort of the, the easy way, which is to learn everything about that problem. Right. I know that sounds like the hard way, but learning it upfront is actually the easy way. Whether you're going to a vendor course or you're taking a training class or whatever it is, learning it, you know, from start to finish in that order is the easy way. The hardware is actually learning as you go, you know, and trying to do at school of hard knocks and you know, crashing it and rebuilding it and crashing and rebuilding it and you know, not knowing what you don't know and finding out six months later that you actually spec'ed the systems incorrectly and you have to go back to your director and ask for more money because you did it wrong the first time or whatever. Like all that, that is the hard way to go. I think there's a, there's a smart way to go, which is using tools to compensate for our gaps and knowing that, having humility to know when to use those. So, uh, you know, for example, uh, I'm, I'm, I like networking and I am fairly good at networking, but like Cisco Nexus devices are a whole other class of networking that was not there when I initially got my CCNA and Routing and Switching and, uh, trying to manage your monitor those devices is really challenging. But there's, there are tools that can show me what's wrong with a Nexus installation so that I can get past those gaps in knowledge and skill and experience without the hard knocks and without having to take, you know, three months of classes just to get up to speed on it. Josh: 25:47 Hmm. Interesting. Uh, I, I am also afraid of, uh, of the Nexus. It, it, to me, I see one of those large spaghetti, horrible monsters with a billion arms. And that's all I can think of when I think of an axis. Leon: 26:01 Right. It's the not invisible flying spaghetti monster. Yep. Josh: 26:04 Not Invisible at all. It's actually kind of horrifying. Uh, so if, if we were to then like, maybe modify this for people like me. Yep. Um, how would I handle this today? What would the advice be to Josh from 1995-ish? Leon: 26:24 Yeah. Right. Josh: 26:25 Oh Dang. I'm old. ...from 1995-ish. Leon: 26:30 [Laughter]. Josh: 26:30 And explain how, how I can be successful in it. Um, even though I didn't like math. Leon: 26:38 Okay. So I think that, um, again, easy way, hard way, smart way. The easy to go learn it. Now, part of the problem is that you didn't have the math credits in high school to get into a school immediately that had it, you know, like you couldn't have hacked the coursework. Um, but you know, in America we have, you know, community colleges, sort of those smaller local colleges that are easier to get into. And a great way to get a leg up on stuff is just to take a community college set of community college courses one or two years and get into it and get those skills up and then transition to a more, um, challenging school where you're gonna get the depth experience. Josh: 27:21 Oh, nice. Yeah. So, and in Canada we call those a two and two. Right? So you do a two year of college and the Canada college is different than university and then there is a matriculation agreement where you can get into usually third year, um, provided that you successfully completed the coursework in the first two years. Leon: 27:40 Right. So that's, that would be the easy way. The hard way would be not to go to college at all and not to get any training, but just to open your own IT business and uh, learn as you go, you know, break things as you go and probably fail that business and then you get into IT. Having had all that wonderful painful experience, that would be the hard way. Right? Josh: 28:06 Yeah. I, I did it kind of that way. I mean, I didn't start a business, but I got married at 21 had an instant family, was, my wife was pregnant a month later I went to school, worked midnights, um, and then got a job working 60 hours a week while trying to get my MCSE. Is that hard? Leon: 28:24 Okay. That's, there's hard and then there's heart failure. Josh: 28:28 Okay. Leon: 28:28 And that's, yeah. Josh: 28:30 Okay. Heart, heart failure. It is then! Leon: 28:31 One order of myocardial infarction please. Coming up! Yeah. So yeah, that's, that would have been the really hard way. Um, and some of us do that and I think that there's, again, the smart way that in between way, which is, um, as much as we say that IT requires math, it doesn't require all math. It requires a very specific set of math that if you take a little bit of time to understand the area of IT you want to get into, then you can focus on just learning the math you need for that area. Right. Josh: 29:09 I'm a, I'm a big fan of that model. I wish that my 18 year old self could have a discussion with my 40 (ahem!) year old self and I could say, look, you can do this now. I get it when I was 18, things like Khan Academy or, uh, you know, Code Camp didn't exist. But wow, kids today, if, if you know the thing that you want, the thing that gets you really excited about math and it's not going and taking trigonometry then learn the math that gets you geeked. For me it's statistics. I really love stats. Leon: 29:46 Right. And I think that that's another thing that, um, you know, the difference between non young adult, our non young adult kids is that, you know, what are they gonna have to do this Algebra?!? Because it's ninth grade curriculum and you're going to do it. I don't have another answer. This, this is stupid. I'm never gonna use it. Can't argue for or against that, but it's still in a curriculum and you're going to do it like that is the parenting conversation. But with our young adults, we can say, look, if you love this thing, if you love doing this thing, whether it's it or business or whatever, there's going to be math involved. But you just have to learn that. But if you love this thing, you're going to love the math that goes along with it. And if you don't love it, at least you're going to tolerate it. So being monitoring Geeks, both you and I, you know, math is also not my strong suit. It's not something that I naturally gravitate toward the way that some of the other voices we have on the show, like Doug, you know, Doug Johnson who really does love math, you know, that's, that's a different, that's a different thing that love of pure math. But I really enjoy the math that I get to do when I'm scripting, when I'm pulling statistics out of devices for monitoring, when I'm building new visualizations. That math really gets me going because I know what I'm doing with it because it has an application. Um, so that's, you know, that's what we can say to our adult or young adult kids is even if you think you don't like it from school, "Uhhh, it really bad!" The fact is that you will like it because it's part of the thing that you're telling me that you like, Leon: 31:25 We know you can't listen to our podcast all day. So out of respect for your time, we've broken this particular conversation up, come back next week and we'll continue our conversation. Doug Johnson: 31:34 Thanks for making time for us this week to hear more of technically religious visit our website, technically religious.com where you can find our other episodes, leave us ideas for future discussions and connect to us on social media. Leon: 31:47 Test in dev?! Not me! I test in prod!! What can possibly go wrong? Josh: 31:54 Narrator: Apparently, a lot. Nobody was surprised.
In this short but sweet episode, I reveal the status of my Code Camp NYC 2019 presentation submission. Tune in to find out the status! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maria-campbell/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/maria-campbell/support
In this episode, I reveal the status of my goal to delete images dynamically uploaded via multer s3 to AWS Simple Storage Service (aka S3), the title of my proposed presentation to Code Camp 2019, and if not accepted, how other conferences or meetups interested in the topic can contact me. To view the transcript/post of this podcast, please visit Multer S3 and AWS S3 on interglobalmedianetwork.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maria-campbell/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/maria-campbell/support
Kainos provides digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better. Their clients are predominantly in the Public, Healthcare and Financial Services sectors, and include well-known global organizations and large government departments. However, when I looked a little closer Kainos, I discovered that they are consistently recognized as one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. The company is also passionate about giving something back to the communities that they live and work in. When I learned that Kainos’s latest expansion will be coming to Birmingham’s iconic Alpha Tower and that they are aligning with West Midlands Mayor Andy Street’s economic strategy, I felt compelled to find out more about their plans and the ambitious target for the region to create 29,000 digital and creative jobs by 2030. I invited Russell Sloan, Digital Services Director at Kainos onto my daily tech podcast to learn more about their work with West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street and plans to help Birmingham to become a global digital leader. From entry-level to experienced tech professionals, Kainos has been working to identify local talent across the whole spectrum, and for the coming year has sights set on hires with experience working in data, product, design, and engineering. Kainos has fostered strong relationships with local universities and schools as it builds the next generation of digital talent, with more than a quarter of its 80 Birmingham hires having graduated from local universities. A number of the students hired were identified through the Kainos Academy – a training and recruitment program offering a range of courses and work placement opportunities, which has helped over 5,000 people since its launch. We also discuss how also want to build on the success of their regular A.I.Camp and CodeCamp events to develop even stronger relationships with leading universities, local schools, government departments, and other businesses.
On Friday, May 10th radio host Mika Gadsden sat down with the founder of The Red Sunflower, Jessica Patterson, to discuss her upcoming Computer Coding Summer Camp for kids starting in June of 2019. For more information about the camp and The Red Sunflower, visit: theredsunflower.com/code-camp/ Tune into Mic'd Up on Ohm weekly, every Friday at 4 P.M. on 96.3 FM Ohm Radio or stream the show online: www.ohmradio963.org. Previous Content From C.A.N.: The Conjure Sessions Video: youtu.be/I4TnJnadZ-w New to the Pod, check out this previous episode: bit.ly/1ConjuredMic Please Favorite, Share, Rate and Subscribe! We run on love & community support: bit.ly/SupportCAN , $mikagadsden on CashApp Get exclusive content by supporting this podcast via Patreon: patreon.com/ChsActNet Follow the Charleston Activist Network on Social Media: FB: @charlestonactivistnetwork IG: @charlestonactivistnetwork Twitter: @ChsActNet Email Mika: Tamika@charlestonactivistnetwork.com Website: www.charlestonactivistnetwork.com
Infusing intelligence into apps, bots and websites used to be neigh on impossible but with Azure's Cognitive Services it's become dead simple; a revolution in the making that TechBash co-founder Andy Schwam and MTC Techology Architect Rich Ross explain.----more---- Andy Schwam is a Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP (since 2010) and ASP Insider. He is an experienced speaker, trainer, blogger, and conference organizer. As AVP Enterprise Architecture, he is responsible for moving the IT department forward through the use of new technology, best practices, DevOps and the Cloud. Additionally, Andy is a founding board member and organizer of TechBash, an annual conference for developers. He has been creating software applications since 1999. Rich Ross is Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Philadelphia. He spends much of his time talking to customers about their challenges, architecting Azure solutions and building innovative applications to showcase technologies. Rich has more than 25 years of business and IT experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. He is a contributor to many local user groups including Philly.net and TriState SharePoint. Rich also helps to organize and run Philly .net Code Camp, a bi-annual event for developers and businesses in the Mid-Atlantic area. Once you're done listening to the episode be sure to check out the following links, too: http://www.schwammysays.net/ https://techbash.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewschwam/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwrHPf4oI1_UydigJQxuj3g https://www.youtube.com/phillydotnet https://github.com/schwammy The episode also features PSAs from three of our favorite kid-focused technology organizations MakeCode, Kodable and Code.org. Be sure to give 'em some love (they do a great job!) PLEASE VISIT http://azureability.com for show notes and additional episodes. Also, if you like (or even hate!) what we're doing, please take the time to share your comments and suggestions either by the Podbean App (see links, below), email (lberman@microsoft.com) or Twitter (@azureability). CREDITS: Louis Berman (Host); Andy Schwam and Rich Ross (Guests); Gretchen Huebner (Kodable PSA), Simon Hillvo (MakeCode PSA); Megan Hochstatter (Code.org PSA); Vincent Tone / PremiumBeat (Music); Heather Walsh (Intro/Outro); Louis Berman (Engineer); East Coast Studio (Editing) TRANSCRIPT: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/1c5a0342-11e8-4e1d-b656-d0bf35b80614/videos/8d33c86f45/ (be sure to turn "Closed Captioning" to "English"; icon in lower right-hand corner of "video" window)
Open Codes II. Die Welt als Datenfeld | Workshop [17.10.2018 - 18.10.2018] Was hat Code mit Kunst und Musik zu tun? Können bereits Kinder programmieren? Wie kreativ kann die Arbeit mit Minicomputern oder Robotern sein? Antworten auf diese Fragen gibt es beim Code Camp – eine Kooperation der ZKM | Museumskommunikation und der Initiative Code Your Life. Das Code Camp bringt Kinder und Jugendliche mit unterschiedlichem Hintergrund zusammen und ermöglicht es ihnen, digitale Kunst in heterogenen Lerngruppen zusammen zu programmieren. Zwei Tage lang wurde die Ausstellung "Open Codes. Die Welt als Datenfeld" zur Drehscheibe für alle, die das Programmieren entdecken wollen.
In der folgenden Aufzeichnung der PEPE digital:masters aus dem Jahr 2018 spricht Florian Schwarz mit seinen Interviewgästen Nancy Mönch von der Sparda-Bank Berlin und Martin Pluschke von CodeCamp:N darüber, wie es Banken und Versicherer schaffen können, sich durch digitale Innovationen zu revolutionieren. Wie wichtig es ist, den digitalen Wandel nicht zu verpassen und die junge Zielgruppe durch kreative und ansprechende Produkte zu begeistern, wird ebenso diskutiert, wie die Frage nach der Umsetzbarkeit innovativer Ideen.
Florin Cardasim is a software architect, an Agile coach, a corporate trainer, and a community and corporate speaker. He is also founder of CodeCamp Romania, an initiative for young software developers in Romania and Moldova. In this episode, Florin and Richard discuss Florin's trial-and-error style of speaking. Using this style taught him the importance of understanding the audience, and that it is important to speak regularly so that you do not end up back at square one: afraid of speaking. Florin discusses how small things—like the time of day at which you are speaking—can impact the reception of your speech. He also explains why he prefers speaking to smaller groups and tells us that it's okay to have a preference like this. He also describes the excitement and stress of finalizing a series of 12 conferences for CodeCamp, and where this conference's future is headed! Learn more about Florin here. To get a weekly dose of public speaking tips, information, videos of great talks, conference news, book reviews and more, sign up to the Voxgig newsletter. View all show notes, links, and more brilliant public speaking resources at voxgig.com. If you like what you hear on Fireside with Voxgig, don't be shy―tell everyone! Use #firesidewithvoxgig on your social media.
Florin Cardasim is a software architect, an Agile coach, a corporate trainer, and a community and corporate speaker. He is also founder of CodeCamp Romania, an initiative for young software developers in Romania and Moldova. In this episode, Florin and Richard discuss Florin’s trial-and-error style of speaking. Using this style taught him the importance of understanding the audience, and that it is important to speak regularly so that you do not end up back at square one: afraid of speaking. Florin discusses how small things—like the time of day at which you are speaking—can impact the reception of your speech. He also explains why he prefers speaking to smaller groups and tells us that it’s okay to have a preference like this. He also describes the excitement and stress of finalizing a series of 12 conferences for CodeCamp, and where this conference’s future is headed! Learn more about Florin here. To get a weekly dose of public speaking tips, information, videos of great talks, conference news, book reviews and more, sign up to the Voxgig newsletter. View all show notes, links, and more brilliant public speaking resources at voxgig.com. If you like what you hear on Fireside with Voxgig, don’t be shy―tell everyone! Use #firesidewithvoxgig on your social media.
In episodul din aceasta saptamana vorbim despre situatia actuala a pietei de munca in Romania si cum va poate ajuta un brand de angajator. Link-uri de interes pentru topic: - https://subsign.co/stories/employer-branding-technical-sector/ Ne mai auzim la CodeCamp si ITDays in Iasi si Cluj: https://codecamp.ro/ https://www.itdays.ro/ Ne poti urmari si aici: subsign.co/ www.facebook.com/subsign/ www.instagram.com/subsign/ twitter.com/subsignco medium.com/@subsign www.linkedin.com/company/subsign www.youtube.com/user/subsign
*Medientage-Chef will Rundfunkbeitrag auch für private Anbieter öffnen * Der Gastgeber der Medientage München, Siegfried Schneider, hat eine Reform des Rundfunkbeitrags zugunsten privater Anbieter vorgeschlagen. Schließlich seien auch private TV-Sender dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet, viele junge Menschen schauten klassisches Fernsehen bei den Privaten. Im Hörfunk seien viele öffentlich-rechtliche Angebote nicht von privaten zu unterscheiden. Das Motto der Medientage lautet: "Media, Trust, Machines – Vertrauen in der neuen Mediengesellschaft". *Mozilla will die Mixed-Reality-Entwicklung nach vorne bringen* Nachdem Mozilla 2017 hauptsächlich Virtual-Reality-Konzepte unterstützt hat, will die Non-Profit-Organisation nun die Entwicklung von Mixed-Reality-Konzepten mit einem dezidierten Programm fördern. Der Fokus soll zunächst auf einer verbesserten Zusammenarbeit von Geräten, Headsets und Frameworks liegen, damit Entwickler bessere Chancen haben, die Konzepte im Webbereich umzusetzen. *Informatikerin fordert Digitalisierung als Grundschulstoff* Kleine Kinder mit Smartphones: Viele Erwachsene denken "geht gar nicht", andere wiederum sehen das durchaus positiv. nach Ansicht der Rostocker Informatik-professorin Alke Martens sollten schon Grundschulen die fortschreitende Digitalisierung im Alltag im Lehrplan mehr berücksichtigen. "Dabei geht es nicht um einen Fortschrittsglauben, sondern um das frühe Erlernen von zugrundeliegenden Mechanismen und auch Möglichkeiten, sich dagegen zu wehren", betont Martens. *Ausstellung "Open Codes": Coding zum Anschauen und Mitmachen* Co-Workings Spaces, Exponate zur Digitalisierung, Free Drinks, Snacks und freier Eintritt: Das Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe will derzeit mit dem Ausstellungsprojekt "Open Codes" das Museum neu erfinden. Die 120 Exponate zeigen aktuelle künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Positionen. Üppig fällt auch das Begleitprogramm aus: die Formate reichen von ScienceSlam, CodeCamp, Workshops und Vorträgen bis zu Symposien, Hackathon und Meetups. Diese und alle weiteren aktuellen Nachrichten finden sie auf heise.de
Free code camp’s Oklahoma City Branch is doing a lot to help coding students train and fill programming jobs.
On todays episode we discuss the recent closures of dev bootcamps and their effects on the software development industry as a whole. “My impression of bootcamps is overwhelmingly positive, because it got me to where I am today” - Emma Castor, Software Engineer at Zeal Article Featured: http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Dev-Bootcamp-couldn-t-tough-out-industry-11297909.php Supplement Reading: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-07-20-another-major-coding-bootcamp-iron-yard-announces-closure http://www.postandcourier.com/business/greenville-based-code-school-the-iron-yard-to-shut-down/article_3d009f9c-6d80-11e7-b277-67124d213d08.html http://windowsitpro.com/software-development/dev-bootcamp-coding-school-closing-after-5-years Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! Brought to you by Zeal
This week on The Mentor with Mark Bouris, we talk to two businesses at opposite ends of the education spectrum. First up is Pete Neill from Code Camp, which runs workshops teaching primary school kids how to make their own iPhone apps. And second is Selena Mazuran, founder of FBI Fashion College teaching the ins and outs of the fashion business. Join the Facebook Group. Follow Mark Bouris on Instagram, LinkedIn & YouTube. Want to grow your business and stay ahead of the pack? Access Mark Bouris' Masterclasses. Got a question or comment for Mark? Send an email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Coming from a nontraditional background as an educator living in China for years, Quincy combined his passion for education and technology to launch Free Code Camp, an open-source community that helps people learn how to code and practice their coding skills by building projects for nonprofits. Quincy has indeed built a massive network of “campers” with close to a million developers learning how to code around the world. Free Code Camp has helped over 5,000 people find their first engineering jobs and 6,000 developers level up by getting better jobs. Being a prolific writer that he is, Quincy is also the editor of freeCodeCamp, Medium’s largest technical publication read by 100,000 people every day.
Join Quincy Larson, Founder of Free Code Camp and Berkeley Martinez, CTO of Free Code Camp for a discussion on the ‘self study together' approach that has grown their community to over 350,000 monthly active users.
Join Quincy Larson, Founder of Free Code Camp and Berkeley Martinez, CTO of Free Code Camp for a discussion on the ‘self study together’ approach that has grown their community to over 350,000 monthly active users. The post Ep. #10, Inside Free Code Camp’s Self Study Program appeared first on Heavybit.
Gloria Kimbwala runs Square's 1-week immersive bootcamp for Talented Women, called Code Camp. She currently working on her Master’s in Computer Sciences with an concentration in Software Engineering. She actively mentors other minorities, women, and under-represented communities in tech. In today's episode, we learn about what pivotal moments led Gloria to the career she has today. There are so few black women in tech, and she has managed to succeed even when those around her may have disagreed with her career track. We discuss so much, including: - Creating a workplace that nurtures diversity and inclusion - Urgency and priority for diversity and inclusion STARTS AT THE TOP - Making a difference when it comes to improving diversity in tech (particularly in underserved communities) - The crucial role of being a door opener for other women and minorities. - How has being a mom changes your worldview and priorities as a woman in tech - Imposter Syndrome - What do you do when you see a woman struggling with imposter syndrome? - How to help other women struggling with imposter syndrome - Going vegan! - Politics in our current society People can find Gloria online at: Instagram: gkimbwala Twitter: gkimbwala
Free Code Camp is an online learning platform that takes people from knowing nothing about code to having enough knowledge to build software for a living. We have already done a show with Quincy Larson, the founder of Free Code Camp, in which we discussed his motivation for starting the organization. The economics of running The post Architecture of Free Code Camp with Berkeley Martinez appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Interested in learning to code for free? Brian gets the scoop from Kailee Gray of Fargo's Free Code Camp group. Hear Kailee's journey to free coding and involvement at this week's Tech Tailgate 2016. All this and more on another special G3 Podcast - Tech Tailgate Edition. Game on! Be sure to stop out at Tech Tailgate 2016 on Thursday, September 8, 2016 from 5-8pm at Fargo Brewing Company's Brews on Broadway. Join Free Code Camp Fargo at https://www.facebook.com/groups/free.code.camp.fargo/. Find out more at http://techtailgate.com.
03:10 - Quincy Larson Introduction Twitter GitHub 03:20 - Free Code Camp @FreeCodeCamp 04:47 - Quincy’s Background 06:43 - Curriculum and Non-Profit Projects 09:47 - Keeping the Curriculum Updated 10:30 - Enrollment; Starting & Finishing 12:20 - Resources for Learning Gitter 15:39 - Funding 16:06 - Working Through a Self-Paced System vs Structure 17:17 - Nonprofits 19:51 - Learning to Work on Non-Greenfield Code 21:47 - Getting Hired After the Program 23:21 - Marketing and Media Medium: Free Code Camp Camper News Twitch.tv: freecodecamp 26:07 - Sustaining Living While Running This Program 27:31 - The Future of Free Code Camp Free Code Camp Wiki 28:34 - Long-term Sustainability 29:44 - Hypothetical Monetization and Contribution 33:51 - Coding as a form of art or function? 36:55 - Partnerships Project Management Institute 37:53 - Making Free Code Camp More Effective 39:18 - Criticism? 40:29 - Curriculum Development and Evolution 43:02 - Is Free Code Camp for everybody? Read, Search, Ask 46:09 - The Community 51:07 - Getting Involved in Free Code Camp Free Code Camp Volunteer Quiz Picks Our Greatest Fear — Marianne Williamson (AJ) The Rabbit Joint - The Legend of Zelda (AJ) Nintendo (Twilight Princess HD Soundtrack) (AJ) Steve Wozniak: The early days @ TEDxBerkeley (AJ) Favor of the Pharaoh (Joe) The Goldbergs (Joe) The Best Podcast Rap (Chuck) Word Swag (Chuck) Cecily Carver: Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code (Quincy) Code for the Kingdom (Aimee) diff-so-fancy (Aimee)
03:10 - Quincy Larson Introduction Twitter GitHub 03:20 - Free Code Camp @FreeCodeCamp 04:47 - Quincy’s Background 06:43 - Curriculum and Non-Profit Projects 09:47 - Keeping the Curriculum Updated 10:30 - Enrollment; Starting & Finishing 12:20 - Resources for Learning Gitter 15:39 - Funding 16:06 - Working Through a Self-Paced System vs Structure 17:17 - Nonprofits 19:51 - Learning to Work on Non-Greenfield Code 21:47 - Getting Hired After the Program 23:21 - Marketing and Media Medium: Free Code Camp Camper News Twitch.tv: freecodecamp 26:07 - Sustaining Living While Running This Program 27:31 - The Future of Free Code Camp Free Code Camp Wiki 28:34 - Long-term Sustainability 29:44 - Hypothetical Monetization and Contribution 33:51 - Coding as a form of art or function? 36:55 - Partnerships Project Management Institute 37:53 - Making Free Code Camp More Effective 39:18 - Criticism? 40:29 - Curriculum Development and Evolution 43:02 - Is Free Code Camp for everybody? Read, Search, Ask 46:09 - The Community 51:07 - Getting Involved in Free Code Camp Free Code Camp Volunteer Quiz Picks Our Greatest Fear — Marianne Williamson (AJ) The Rabbit Joint - The Legend of Zelda (AJ) Nintendo (Twilight Princess HD Soundtrack) (AJ) Steve Wozniak: The early days @ TEDxBerkeley (AJ) Favor of the Pharaoh (Joe) The Goldbergs (Joe) The Best Podcast Rap (Chuck) Word Swag (Chuck) Cecily Carver: Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code (Quincy) Code for the Kingdom (Aimee) diff-so-fancy (Aimee)
03:10 - Quincy Larson Introduction Twitter GitHub 03:20 - Free Code Camp @FreeCodeCamp 04:47 - Quincy’s Background 06:43 - Curriculum and Non-Profit Projects 09:47 - Keeping the Curriculum Updated 10:30 - Enrollment; Starting & Finishing 12:20 - Resources for Learning Gitter 15:39 - Funding 16:06 - Working Through a Self-Paced System vs Structure 17:17 - Nonprofits 19:51 - Learning to Work on Non-Greenfield Code 21:47 - Getting Hired After the Program 23:21 - Marketing and Media Medium: Free Code Camp Camper News Twitch.tv: freecodecamp 26:07 - Sustaining Living While Running This Program 27:31 - The Future of Free Code Camp Free Code Camp Wiki 28:34 - Long-term Sustainability 29:44 - Hypothetical Monetization and Contribution 33:51 - Coding as a form of art or function? 36:55 - Partnerships Project Management Institute 37:53 - Making Free Code Camp More Effective 39:18 - Criticism? 40:29 - Curriculum Development and Evolution 43:02 - Is Free Code Camp for everybody? Read, Search, Ask 46:09 - The Community 51:07 - Getting Involved in Free Code Camp Free Code Camp Volunteer Quiz Picks Our Greatest Fear — Marianne Williamson (AJ) The Rabbit Joint - The Legend of Zelda (AJ) Nintendo (Twilight Princess HD Soundtrack) (AJ) Steve Wozniak: The early days @ TEDxBerkeley (AJ) Favor of the Pharaoh (Joe) The Goldbergs (Joe) The Best Podcast Rap (Chuck) Word Swag (Chuck) Cecily Carver: Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code (Quincy) Code for the Kingdom (Aimee) diff-so-fancy (Aimee)
He’s only been coding for four years. But thirteen months ago, Quincy Larson launched one of the most beloved learn-to-code resources in the CodeNewbie community, Free Code Camp. We deep dive into his own learning journey, what he’s learned from helping hundreds of thousands of campers learn to code, and why Free Code Camp will forever be free. Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) TwilioQuest (sponsor) MOOC Project Euler Node NPM Odin Project Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
“Free Code Camp is my effort to correct the extremely inefficient and circuitous way I learned to code. I’m committing my career and the rest of my life towards making this process as efficient and painless as possible.” Continue reading… The post Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
“Free Code Camp is my effort to correct the extremely inefficient and circuitous way I learned to code. I’m committing my career and the rest of my life towards making this process as efficient and painless as possible.” Continue reading… The post Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Josh Knowles (Rails Expert Freelancer - joshknowles.com) gave a 2 part presentation on Ruby on Rails at the Desert Code Camp last week. The audience pulled in approx. 100 code monkeys. His slides from Code Camp can be found at http://joshknowles.com/2007/9/18/desert-code-camp
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