First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson [Podcast #194]

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First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson [Podcast #194]

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Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of free codecamp.org. And today we're talking with Eric Carlson, a self-taught developer and Free Code Camp grad who got his first software engineering job at age 45. First, some community news. Free Code Camp just published a course on how to build your own model co... Read More

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