#32 Quincy Larson (Founder and educator, freeCodeCamp) - The value of free education and building communities

Episode : Quincy Larson Today we had the pleasure of talking to Quincy Larson - Founder and educator at " freeCodeCamp ", where you can learn to code completely for free. Quincy started out as a teacher and a developer, driven by the 'pay it forward' mentality, and helping others to succeed. He also has a background in journalism, which had him passionate about writing and creating content, to share it openly with the world. Also, freeCodeCamp is an open source community, which is empowered by positive energy and empathy, has more than a million users and learners around the globe and also, it runs Medium’s largest technical publication . If you write about development, design, or data science — and are looking for an audience — this is a good place to get published and 'borrow' an audience of more than 1 million users. In this episode, Quincy shared his insights on focusing passionately on one field, building communities and free education to everyone, on a scale that impacts the world massively even 20 years from now. This is the seventh episode of the third season of the Hacking UI podcast - 'Scaling a Career'. In this season we have 10 amazing guests for you, who are leaders and influencers from a variety of different backgrounds. Design managers, development leaders, entrepreneurs and product geniuses that we admire, and we'll be sharing a new episode every Thursday. Please support our amazing sponsors Invision: This episode is brought to you by Invision , an amazing product design platform that you probably already know about. The education team over at Invision created a magnificent source of quality learning material for product designers. On DesignBetter.Co you’ll find interviews with dozens of leading designers from companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook, Slack and more. Discover the design practices that they use that will help you to transform your organization and create better products. Also, you can

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#32 Quincy Larson (Founder and educator, freeCodeCamp) - The value of free education and building communities is an episode from The Hacking UI Podcast by Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner.

This episode is 55:17 long.

This episode was published on Mar 8, 2018.

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