How to learn programming and CS in the AI hype era – interview with prof Mark Mahoney [Podcast #215]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Mark Mahoney. He worked as a dev before becoming a computer science professor. He's taught computer science for 23 years at Carthage College, a 180-year-old US university. He's also taught thousands of developers through his free programming courses built on top of his own open source course platform, Playback Press. We talk about: - Why learning programming the hard way is still the right way - How to not deskill yourself when programming with LLM tools - And why now is a great time to study computer science Support for this podcast comes from the 10,113 kind …