On this week’s episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Sam Crombie. He’s a software engineer and prolific open source contributor to freeCodeCamp. He abandon his job at Microsoft, got into Y Combinator, and is currently in startup pivot hell trying to decide how to use the half million he raised.
We talk about:
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How useful are AI coding tools, really?
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Tips for getting new users to care about your projects
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What’s its really like running a Y-Combinator-funded tech startup
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Tips for getting into an Ivy League computer science degree program
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
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Sam’s course on how to audit university courses: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-audit-a-class-university-course/
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College Compendium, a univeristy course auditing tool Sam built with fellow freeCodeCamp podcast alum Seth Goldin: https://collegecompendium.org/
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