In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Wilkins. Jessica is an entrepreneur, accomplished musician, and software developer.

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Quincy's bass intro. If you can guess this 1970 classic bass line say so in the comments.
0:01:00 Our discussion of Jessica's upbringing by a school teacher and single mom, and her journey into classical music
1:07:00 Jessica Learns to code and builds a profitable sheet music e-commerce business
1:35:00 Jessica's decision to go all in on software development
1:44:00 Contract work and thoughts on what caused recent tech layoffs

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Links:

One of Jessica's articles - 40 JavaScript Projects for Beginners – Easy Ideas to Get Started Coding JS: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/jav...

The Black Excellence Music Project, Jessica's first React project: https://blackexcellencemusicproject.com/

Danny Thompson freeCodeCamp Podcast interview: https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com/site/...

Danny's LinkedIn course that Quincy mentions:   / main-visuals-on-your-profile  

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