From drop out to backpacker to self taught developer with Dominick Monaco Podcast, 183

On this week s episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Dominick Monaco. He dropped out college to hike the Appalachian Trail, a 2, 200 mile backpacking route across the US. After working in nature conservation for 3 years, he taught himself how to program and now works as a developer. We talk about: Life working as a Yogi Bearstyle forest ranger in training Close brushes with death in the wilderness and how it affects you Learning programming for a grand total of 15 How surrounding yourself with other ambitious learners can help you learn programming faster Support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio. Wix Studio provides developers tools to rapidly build websites with everything outofthebox, then extend, replace, and break boundar. .., freeCodeCamp 20250815 16emGGguIo