Best CS50 Podcasts (2026)

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#202 How to get promoted as a dev without becoming a manager – Staff Engineer Santosh Yadav interview 1:04:47

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Today Quincy Larson interviews Santosh Yadav. The son of a textile worker, he grew up inner-city Mumbai and studied hard to get into university. From there he's worked as a software engineer for 16 years. Along the way, he's picked up every distinction imaginable including Google Developer Expert, GitHub Star, and Microsoft MVP. Santosh shares tips…

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#201 The "AI is going to replace devs" hype is over – 22-year developer veteran Jason Lengstorf 1:08:25

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Today Quincy Larson interviews Jason Lengstorf. He's a college dropout who taught himself programming while building websites for his emo band. 22 years later he's worked as a developer at IBM, Netlify, run his own dev consultancy, and he now runs CodeTV making reality TV shows for developers. We talk about: - How many CEOs over-estimated the impac…

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#200 How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha 1:08:48

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Today Quincy Larson interviews Kunal Kushwaha. He's a software engineer and prolific computer science teacher on YouTube. He failed the JEE, the Indian Engineering Entrance Exam, TWICE. But he persevered. He did 4 years of university but attended ZERO lectures. Instead he built his own learning path by contributed to open source projects and using …

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#199 Tips from a serial career changer with GitHub's Andrea Griffiths 1:14:12

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Today Quincy Larson interviews Andrea Griffiths, who taught herself programming using freeCodeCamp while working in construction. She moved to the US from Colombia when she was 17, and within 6 months she joined the US Army. She ran a chain of gyms before landing a support role at a tech company, then ascending to Product Manager and ultimately Dev…

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#198 When NOT to use AI in your hackathon project with MLH winners Cindy Cui and Alison Co 1:03:35

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Today Quincy Larson interviews Alison Co and Cindy Cui, two university students who won the NW Hacks hackathon with their tool that helps people who are losing their vision learn to read Braille. He met them when GitHub invited them to their big San Francisco conference, GitHub Universe to present their project. Alison Co is a software engineer who…

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#197 Harvard CS50 prof David J. Malan on why you should take your time learning programming 1:17:06

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Dr. David J. Malan teaches computer science at Harvard. Over the past decade, millions of people have taken his CS50 course both in person and online. He joins us to talk about: 1. Why he still recommends learning the C programming language in 2026 2. How he intentionally nerfs hist student's coding editors and LLMs to help them learn fundamentals …

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#196 Applying into the void with recruiter admin Abbey Perini 1:08:55

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Abbey Perini taught herself programming at age 27 while working as an admin at an engineering recruitment agency. She has worked extensively with large legacy codebases and taught best practices to developers internationally. We talk about: - How to hit the ground running with a large legacy codebase - How to get employers to remember you and actua…

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#195 He Turned Down a FAANG Dev Job to Keep Working Remotely with Patrick Hartley 50:49

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Patrick Hartley is a self-taught developer with nearly a decade of software engineering experience. When he was 21 he had to dropped out of college to provide for his family. He taught himself programming while working at a thrift store. After building his own apps and freelancing, he became the founding engineer at startup that got acquired, and h…

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#194 First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson 1:10:52

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Eric Carlson is a self-taught software engineer at Cisco. In his early 20s, he worked his way up to manager at the busiest Dominos Pizza in Canada. He eventually went to college and studied liberal arts, then worked as a teacher for two decades before teaching himself programming using freeCodeCamp. He got his first developer job at age 45 by using…

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#193 From injured athlete to software engineer with Kaleb Garner 1:13:08

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Kaleb Garner is a software engineer working at a medical technology app company. He got a scholarship to play baseball at a state university, but a serious knee injury ended his career and he dropped out. After moving back in with his parents and working at an optometry office, he decided to teach himself programming. He used freeCodeCamp and 100De…

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#192 Evan You – From Art School Kid to Open Source Legend 1:20:45

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Evan You is the creator of the popular Vue JavaScript library for front end development and the Vite JavaScript build tool that a lot of devs use as a boilerplate for their new projects. He's a self-taught developer based in Singapore. He shares tips for: - Getting involved in open source - Leading open source projects and attracting sponsors - And…

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#191 From manufacturing worker to first developer job at age 43 with Thomas Gooch 58:55

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He's a self-taught software engineer who got his first developer job at age 43. He spent decades working in manufacturing while raising his kids, before using freeCodeCamp to learn programming. He was able to translate his JavaScript skills into working on enterprise Java apps, and now works at a semiconductor company. We talk about: What working 1…

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#190 Lone Wolf Dev turned Open Source Super Contributor Tom Mondloch 38:19

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Tom Mondloch quit programming after he finished community college. After a few years of odd jobs, he decided to get back into programming and discovered freeCodeCamp. He was just learning his own way, and didn't think freeCodeCamp's linear curriculum would be worth his time. But he stuck with it, got good, and ultimately started contributing to our…

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#202 How to get promoted as a dev without becoming a manager – Staff Engineer Santosh Yadav interview 1:04:47

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#201 The "AI is going to replace devs" hype is over – 22-year developer veteran Jason Lengstorf 1:08:25

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#200 How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha 1:08:48

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#199 Tips from a serial career changer with GitHub's Andrea Griffiths 1:14:12

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#198 When NOT to use AI in your hackathon project with MLH winners Cindy Cui and Alison Co 1:03:35

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#197 Harvard CS50 prof David J. Malan on why you should take your time learning programming 1:17:06

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#196 Applying into the void with recruiter admin Abbey Perini 1:08:55

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#195 He Turned Down a FAANG Dev Job to Keep Working Remotely with Patrick Hartley 50:49

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#194 First dev job at 45 – Interview with self-taught freeCodeCamp grad Eric Carlson 1:10:52

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#193 From injured athlete to software engineer with Kaleb Garner 1:13:08

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#192 Evan You – From Art School Kid to Open Source Legend 1:20:45

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#191 From manufacturing worker to first developer job at age 43 with Thomas Gooch 58:55

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#190 Lone Wolf Dev turned Open Source Super Contributor Tom Mondloch 38:19