On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Lane Wagner. He's a software engineer, prolific contributor to freeCodeCamp, and founder of the Boot.dev online learning platform.
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We talk about:
- Lane's thoughts on college and computer science degrees
- Back end development and why it resonnates with him
- Why he's so enthusiastic about the Go Programming Language
- What Lane's learned about how people learn
Quincy mentions the number of engineers graduating every year from Indian and Chinese universities (including computer science majors, which is usually the most popular engineering degree). It's hard to find exact numbers but...
- India: more than 1 million engineering graduates / year
- China: more than 1 million engineering graduates / year
- US: only about 200,000 engineering graduates / year
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Lane's 4-hour course on how to get a job as a developer: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-a-developer-job/
- Lane's 5-hour HTTP Networking course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/http-networking-protocol-course/
- Lane's SQL for Web Developers course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/sql-for-web-devs/
- Lane's freely available books published through freeCodeCamp Press: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/author/wagslane/
- Khan Academy founder's talk on mastery learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTRxRO5SRA
- The Zone of Proxmial Development education concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development
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