Our guest today is Mehul Mohan, founder and CEO of Codedamn, which he started right after engineering college, to turn his passion for coding into a business. Mehul’s interactive approach to teaching coding within a web browser won him early funding from Antler, an international VC firm. Going forward, Mehul wants to build a platform that can automatically suggest jobs to people learning on Codedamn, based on their current levels of proficiency.

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(00:40) Introduction to The Daily Tech Conversation

(00:52) Our guest today — Mehul Mohan, founder and CEO of Codedamn

(02:00) Coding — a passion from school days, a blog and a YouTube channel called Codedamn

(10:52) Codedamn’s early days — a lot of videos on coding

(12:09) Codedamn today — an affordable way to learn coding in an interactive environment within a browser itself

(14;54) Getting traction for Codedamn — tens of thousands of users and adding more every day

(16:33) The target customers — for now, college students typically in their third and fourth year of college

(18:01) What are the pre-requisites for someone to take some coding courses on CodeDamn

(19:11) Innovations in Codedamn that makes it a user-friendly and effective platform to learn coding on

(21:06) Codedamn Playgrounds

(24:13) Integrated development environment, or IDE, is a fancy way of describing a software package used for coding

(26:08) Advances in web technologies and cloud computing that enable many more features today

(28:16) A snapshot of how Codedamn was selected by Antler, the mentoring and funding offered

(31:18) Plans ahead over the next 12-18 months

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