A podcast interview with Mark Mahoney, a CS professor with 23 years of teaching experience at Carthage College and creator of the open source Playback Press course platform. The conversation covers why learning programming the hard way remains valuable in the AI era, how to avoid deskilling yourself when using LLM coding tools, and why now is still a great time to study computer science. Community news includes a new freeCodeCamp course on AI-assisted development covering tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, an AI literacy course for beginners, a JavaScript QR code generator tutorial, and a responsive web design bootcamp announcement.
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