Nov 14, 2025

Dr. David J. Malan teaches computer science at Harvard. Over the past decade, millions of people have taken his CS50 course both in person and online. He joins us to talk about:

1. Why he still recommends learning the C programming language in 2026
2. How he intentionally nerfs hist student's coding editors and LLMs to...

Nov 7, 2025

Abbey Perini taught herself programming at age 27 while working as an admin at an engineering recruitment agency. She has worked extensively with large legacy codebases and taught best practices to developers internationally.

We talk about:
- How to hit the ground running with a large legacy codebase
- How to get...

Oct 31, 2025

Patrick Hartley is a self-taught developer with nearly a decade of software engineering experience. When he was 21 he had to dropped out of college to provide for his family. He taught himself programming while working at a thrift store.

After building his own apps and freelancing, he became the founding engineer at...

Oct 24, 2025

Eric Carlson is a self-taught software engineer at Cisco. In his early 20s, he worked his way up to manager at the busiest Dominos Pizza in Canada. He eventually went to college and studied liberal arts, then worked as a teacher for two decades before teaching himself programming using freeCodeCamp. 

He got his first...

Oct 17, 2025

Kaleb Garner is a software engineer working at a medical technology app company. He got a scholarship to play baseball at a state university, but a serious knee injury ended his career and he dropped out.

After moving back in with his parents and working at an optometry office, he decided to teach himself programming....