This week freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Phoebe Voong-Fadel about her childhood as a refugee.
Phoebe worked from age 12 at her parent's Chinese take-out restaurant. She was able to study history at the London School of Economics, before working in higher ed.
She left her job to raise two kids due to the high cost of childcare in the UK, and spent years self-studying coding before becoming a software developer at age 36.
I recorded this podcast live and I haven't edited it at all. I want to capture the feel of a real live conversation, with all the human quirks that entails. As with all my podcast episodes, I start by performing a classic bass line. Can you guess what song this bass line is from? It's from 1989.
Phoebe has earned multiple certifications from freeCodeCamp, and also published a number of articles on our publication.
How Phoebe went from stay-at-home mom to Front End Web Developer at age 36: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-went-from-stay-at-home-mum-to-front-end-web-developer-39724046692a/
Phoebe's review of Harvard CS50: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cs50-course-review/
The BBC Take-away Kids documentary, which Phoebe said is what her childhood was like, working from age 12: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-47007812
Pheobe's website, with her portfolio and links to her socials: https://www.thecodinghamster.com/
You can watch a video version of my interview with Phoebe here: https://youtu.be/WomQr-jRO1c
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