#127 How to Outsmart AI as a Developer with Dr. Chuck
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Dr. Chuck. He's a software engineer and Computer Science professor at University of Michigan, which has one of the top-ranked CS programs in the world.
Dr. Charles "Chuck" Severance is also creator of many popular free learning resources like his Python for Everyone and C for Everyone, which millions of students have taken over the past decade.
We talk about:
- What seperates a Master Programmer from an average developer, and how to become one
- Dr. Chuck's mission to make programming knowledge freely available
- The fundamental shortcomings of how Computer Science is currently taught at universities – even elite universities like the one he's a professor at
- Dr. Chuck's theories on recent tech layoffs and what he thinks the near future holds
- Dr. Chuck's love of racing $2,500 "lemon" cars that he revives from the junk yard, and flying planes
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1973 song.
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Dr. Chuck's latest freeCodeCamp course on C programming: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/complete-c-programming-course-from-dr-chuck/
- Dr. Chuck's Python for Everyone freeCodeCamp Course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-for-everybody/
- Kylie Ying's popular Machine Learning for Everyone course inspired by Dr. Chuck: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/machine-learning-for-everybody/
- Dr. Chuck's website with his free interactive coursework: https://online.dr-chuck.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the CS has kind of been lazy in their curriculum because it doesn't matter what they teach because, you know, they teach, you know, 80% of it is a waste and 20% of it is good. |
| 0:10.2 | And then I think you and I could teach the 20% without the 80% and the the |
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| 0:35.6 | and Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of FreecodeCamp.org. |
| 0:48.6 | Each week we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people in tech. |
| 0:52.9 | This week, we are talking to Dr. Chuck, Dr. Charles Severance, computer science professor |
| 1:00.0 | at University of Michigan, one of the top computer science programs in the world. |
| 1:06.0 | Dr. Chuck has created many free learning resources over the years, including his Python for Everyone |
| 1:14.9 | course, extremely popular. |
| 1:16.6 | He's created courses on C programming language, Django web development framework, so many |
| 1:21.5 | different things. |
| 1:22.3 | And he's made them freely available for learners. |
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