On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Gary Simon, a developer and designer who started DesignCourse 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.
You can watch the interview on YouTube:
Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. You can also listen to the podcast below, right in your browser:
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:
Gary's Learn UI Fundamentals course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ui-design-fundamentals-with-this-free-one-hour-course/
Gary's freeCodeCamp live stream series: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/design-course/
Gary's tool for memorizing the Guitar fretboard and it's 49 notes: https://fretastic.com/
Gary's Retrowave Guitar music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDc2OvReYh0
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Gary Simon, a developer and designer who started DesignCourse 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.
You can watch the interview on YouTube:
Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. You can also listen to the podcast below, right in your browser:
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:
Gary's Learn UI Fundamentals course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-ui-design-fundamentals-with-this-free-one-hour-course/
Gary's freeCodeCamp live stream series: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/design-course/
Gary's tool for memorizing the Guitar fretboard and it's 49 notes: https://fretastic.com/
Gary's Retrowave Guitar music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDc2OvReYh0