Journey to Software Development and Personal Growth

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kass Moreno, a Senior Front End Developer and CSS Artist.

Kass started learning coding at age 28 and has since built a reputation as one of the most skilled artists who work with CSS.

We talk about:

• Her childhood in Mexico and in Texas
• Making the hard decision to drop out of architecture school
• Her dreadful years working as a salesperson
• Learning from freeCodeCamp and doing the 100DaysOfCode challenge
• Getting freelance clients and expanding her skills
• Her rapid career growth as a developer

Can you guess what bass line I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's a 1982 pop classic.

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Links we talk about during the interview:

Kass's portfolio of CSS art

Bruno Simon's 3D interactive portfolio using Threejs. Drive an RC car around knock things down.

1-Dimensional PacMan game that I mentions. (Be careful – it's addictive)