Abby Perini taught herself programming at the age of 27 while working as an admin at an engineering recruitment agency. He 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 code base
How to get employers to remember you and actually respond to you
How did he adapt to his ADHD diagnosis and stay focused and coded?
How does his approach to weaving and cosplay as a dev
Watch the podcast on freecodecamp.org YouTube channel Or listen on your favorite podcast app.
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FreecodeCamp just published a new course taught by legendary Harvard computer science professor Dr. David J. Mullan. This comprehensive cybersecurity for beginners course will teach you how to secure accounts, databases, and entire software systems. Dr. Malan also shares tons of practical tips for securing your privacy in an increasingly hostile world. (8 hour YouTube course):
FreeCodeCamp also published a guide to passing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam. Beau Cornes teaches this course, which will walk you through key DevOps concepts. You’ll start by setting up your K8S practice environment. Then you will bootstrap the multi-node cluster and your control plane. You’ll learn about Helm, high-availability autoscaling, cordons, and more. (2 hour YouTube course):
Learn how to build high-performance mobile apps using Google’s open-source Flutter framework. Free CodeCamp uses Flutter for our Android and iPhone apps, and it’s much easier than maintaining two separate app codebases. This fluffy handbook will teach you how to efficiently lay out your apps with minimal widget reconstruction. You’ll learn state management techniques, asynchronous patterns, and image caching best practices. You’ll also learn how to use isolation and lazy loading to make your apps really fast. (full length brochure):
Learn serverless architecture using C# .NET and Azure cloud. This jam-packed course will teach you common microservice patterns, Onion architecture, IoT functions and more. (5 hour YouTube course):
If you want to listen to luffy music in the background while you work with less data consumption (64KBPS or 128KBPS) than YouTube and no ads, FreeCodeCamp has you covered:
Song of the Week is Marvin Gaye’s “A Funky Space Lives,” released on New Year’s Day 1978. Tons of funky solos, a laid-back drum groove, and Marvin working in some James Brown-style vocal interludes.
The FreeCodeCamp community is hard at work on many improvements to our core curriculum. You should support our charity’s mission, and by extension the entire open source ecosystem that our learning resources rely on: