#144 How to Become a Street Smart Developer – From Dropout to Selling his Company w/ Dennis Ivy 5a658

04/10/2024

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Dennis Ivy,...

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Dennis Ivy, a software engineer and prolific freelancer. He dropped out of college at 18 and taught himself how to build websites. He started his first agency, built and sold products, and eventually started teaching his skills on YouTube.
We talk about:
- Growing up in an immigrant family of 13 kids - Dropping out of school and working construction before learning to code - Figuring out how to get web development clients through trial and error - Selling his codebase to his employer $61,000 and using it to fund his journey into teaching Python
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro?
Also, I want to thank the 10,443 kind people who our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can them and our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- The Bussard Ramjet theoretical spacecraft Quincy mentions as an analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
- Dennis Ivy's React + Appwrite course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-sticky-notes-app-with-react-and-appwrite/
- Dennis Ivy's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/dennisivy
- Dennis Ivy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dennisivy11

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