Jul 11, 2025
On this week's episode of the
podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Braydon
Coyer. He's a software engineer who started building mobile apps in
high school – one of which even out-sold Angry Birds for a few
days. He dropped out of his computer science degree program once he
landed his first web developer job and never went back.
We talk about:
- Mobile app development VS web app development
- Strategies for applying for developer roles
- How useful is a CS degree really?
- Sane ways to integrate AI into your developer workflows
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Braydon's awesome custom website:
https://www.braydoncoyer.dev/
- Fruit Ninja game development documentary:
- Raycast tool Braydon uses to automate prpcesses on his Mac:
https://www.raycast.com/
- Tana note taking tool Braydon uses: https://tana.inc/