On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews James Q Quick. He's a developer, speaker, and teacher.

James grew up in Memphis. He was an athlete who played violin, and knew nothing about computer science but chose it as his college major. Since then, he's not only worked as a dev at Microsoft, FedEx and many tech startups. And he's given more than 100 talks at conferences about technical topics.

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We talk about:

  • How coding a Harry Potter Trivia app launched James' developer career

  • Getting laid off then getting back onto the bike

  • How to go about getting a first developer job

  • How to make a name for yourself through conference talks and creating tutorials

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

James's website: https://www.jamesqquick.com/

Jevon's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox