May 30, 2025
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder
Quincy Larson interviews Joe Attardi. He's a software engineer and
prolific author of programming books.
We talk about:
How software development has changed over the past 21 years
Tips for suriving AI's sweeping changes to the field
The evolving role of Computer Science degrees
Why people should still read O'Reilly style programming books on
dead trees
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Joe's freeCodeCamp books and tutorials:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/author/joeattardi/
Joe's website: https://joeattardi.com/
Joe's Web API Cookbook: https://www.webapis.info/
Joe's open source projects on GitHub:
https://github.com/joeattardi
What Joe's desk looks like:
https://x.com/JoeAttardi/status/1849819837360480658
Some games Joe's recently played:
https://backloggd.com/u/jattardi/games?page=1