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On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Gary Simon, a developer and designer who started DesignCourse.com and has published several courses on freeCodeCamp.org over the years.
We talk about:
- Growing up in rural Ohio, marrying young, and staying out there despite his success as a developer and entrepreneur.
- Early client work, and how he designed thousands of logos for clients before becoming an all-out web developer.
- Using his skills to help his wife start her own lactation consultant business online
- Gary's guitar shredding chops.
I recorded this podcast live and I haven't edited it at all. I want to capture the feel of a real live conversation, with all the human quirks that entails.
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1995s Nintendo game.
Be sure to follow The freeCodeCamp podcast in your favorite podcast app. And share this podcast with a friend. Let's inspire more folks to learn to code and build careers for themselves in tech.
Also, I want to thank the 9,331 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during the interview:
- Gary's Learn UI Fundamentals course on freeCodeCamp: freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ui-design-fundamentals-with-this-free-one-hour-course
- Gary's freeCodeCamp live stream series: freecodecamp.org/news/design-course
- Gary's tool for memorizing the Guitar fretboard and it's 49 notes: fretastic.com
- Gary's Retrowave Guitar music video: youtube.com/watch?v=yDc2OvReYh0
🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters:
👾 davthecoder
👾 jedi-or-sith
👾 南宮千影
👾 Agustín Kussrow
👾 Nattira Maneerat
👾 Heather Wcislo
👾 Serhiy Kalinets
👾 Justin Hual
👾 Otis Morgan
👾 Oscar Rahnama
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Learn to code for free and get a developer job: freecodecamp.org
Read hundreds of articles on programming: freecodecamp.org/news
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Gary Simon, a developer and designer who started DesignCourse.com and has published several courses on freeCodeCamp.org over the years.
We talk about:
- Growing up in rural Ohio, marrying young, and staying out there despite his success as a developer and entrepreneur.
- Early client work, and how he designed thousands of logos for clients before becoming an all-out web developer.
- Using his skills to help his wife start her own lactation consultant business online
- Gary's guitar shredding chops.
I recorded this podcast live and I haven't edited it at all. I want to capture the feel of a real live conversation, with all the human quirks that entails.
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1995s Nintendo game.
Be sure to follow The freeCodeCamp podcast in your favorite podcast app. And share this podcast with a friend. Let's inspire more folks to learn to code and build careers for themselves in tech.
Also, I want to thank the 9,331 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during the interview:
- Gary's Learn UI Fundamentals course on freeCodeCamp: freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ui-design-fundamentals-with-this-free-one-hour-course
- Gary's freeCodeCamp live stream series: freecodecamp.org/news/design-course
- Gary's tool for memorizing the Guitar fretboard and it's 49 notes: fretastic.com
- Gary's Retrowave Guitar music video: youtube.com/watch?v=yDc2OvReYh0
🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters:
👾 davthecoder
👾 jedi-or-sith
👾 南宮千影
👾 Agustín Kussrow
👾 Nattira Maneerat
👾 Heather Wcislo
👾 Serhiy Kalinets
👾 Justin Hual
👾 Otis Morgan
👾 Oscar Rahnama
--
Learn to code for free and get a developer job: freecodecamp.org
Read hundreds of articles on programming: freecodecamp.org/news
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On this weeks episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Gary Simon, a developer and designer who started DesignCourse.com and has published several courses on freeCodeCamp.org over the years.
We talk about:
- Growing up in rural Ohio, marrying young, and staying out there despite his success as a developer and entrepreneur.
- Early client work, and how he designed thousands of logos for clients before becoming an all-out web developer.
- Using his skills to help his wife start her own lactation consultant business online
- Garys guitar shredding chops.
I recorded this podcast live and I havent edited it at all. I want to capture the feel of a real live conversation, with all the human quirks that entails.
Can you guess what song Im playing on my bass during the intro? Its from a 1995s Nintendo game.
Be sure to follow The freeCodeCamp podcast in your favorite podcast app. And share this podcast with a friend. Lets inspire more folks to learn to code and build careers for themselves in tech.
Also, I want to thank the 9,331 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during the interview:
- Garys Learn UI Fundamentals course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ui-design-fundamentals-with-this-free-one-hour-course/
- Garys freeCodeCamp live stream series: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/design-course/
- Garys tool for memorizing the Guitar fretboard and its 49 notes: https://fretastic.com/
- Garys Retrowave Guitar music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDc2OvReYh0
🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters:
👾 davthecoder
👾 jedi-or-sith
👾 南宮千影
👾 Agustín Kussrow
👾 Nattira Maneerat
👾 Heather Wcislo
👾 Serhiy Kalinets
👾 Justin Hual
👾 Otis Morgan
👾 Oscar Rahnama
Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org
Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news")
