#110 AI Engineering with Scrimba CEO & Engineer Per Borgen
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Per Borgen about AI engineering and interactive developer education. Per is the co-founder and CEO of Scrimba and is a software engineer.
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Links we talk about during the interview:
Per's HTML + CSS course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-html-and-css-from-the-ceo-of-scrimba/
Per's JavaScript course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/full-javascript-course-for-beginners/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of Free Co-Camp each week. |
| 0:19.3 | We're talking to developers, entrepreneurs, and ambitious people who are getting into tech. |
| 0:26.0 | And today, we are thrilled to welcome Per Borgian. |
| 0:31.5 | Great to be here. |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.1 | And we are so excited to have you here. |
| 0:36.9 | Of course, Per is the founder of Scrimba. |
| 0:39.5 | He is a software engineer turned tech founder who's gone through like Y Combinator |
| 0:45.3 | runs a very popular website that teaches coding. |
| 0:49.4 | We've published many of those courses on the Free Code Camp YouTube channel. And I'm just thrilled to sit down and |
| 0:56.7 | talk with you because we've never had you on the podcast yet after more than 100 episodes. |
| 1:01.7 | So it feels like a bit of an omission. Yeah. Also, just note that I'm recovering from like a pretty |
| 1:08.7 | serious cough that had me like completely debilitated for like a week. So if I have a coughing fit or anything, just note that I'm recovering from like a pretty serious cough that had me like completely debilitated for like a week. |
| 1:12.3 | So if I have a coughing fit or anything, just know that I'm fine. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm just echoes of my previous illness. |
| 1:19.3 | But, um, Pear, where you are? |
| 1:21.9 | Are you over in Oslo right now? |
| 1:25.6 | Yes, we are based here out of Oslo where the the founding team is from, and where, yeah, we all live. |
| 1:32.6 | Awesome. |
| 1:33.2 | Well, I'm very interested as an American in, you know, I'm from Scandinavia. |
| 1:39.5 | Originally, my family came over from Sweden, which I know is different for Norway. |
| 1:43.0 | But I'm always very interested |
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