Self-taught developer, speaker, and community builder Pauline Narvas discusses time management techniques, productivity, health and wellness and the role they in tech. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Flatiron School Backblaze...
Co-founder of Dev.to Jess Lee discusses why tech is a great career choice for introverts and extroverts, and how introverts and extroverts can learn from each other. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Flatiron School Backblaze...
Former blacksmith and farrier Josh Kemp talks about the obstacles he overcame on his way to becoming a developer (in just 9 months and 2 days). See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Flatiron School Backblaze...
Career coach and founder of Career Rehab, Kanika Tolver, shares her advice for transitioning into tech later in life. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Flatiron School Backblaze
Rebecca Lima - the founder of Lieu - chats about how to overcome imposter syndrome and self-doubt when working in tech or in an environment where you're different to most people. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Flatiron School Backblaze...
Interview Cake founder Parker Phinney discusses why you should build programming projects, how to come up with ideas, and how to use your projects to land a job in tech. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode’s sponsors: Xojo Fullstack Academy...
Former data scientist and CEO of Edlitera, Claudia Virlanuta, teaches us how to stay motivated to learn to code and overcome any obstacles in our way. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode’s sponsors: Xojo Fullstack Academy...
Writer and teacher David Clinton explains how to figure out which programming language to learn, the best way to learn it, and how many languages you should learn at once. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode’s sponsors: Xojo Fullstack Academy...
Team Treehouse's Chief Product Officer Londa Quisling talks us through the different kinds of tech jobs found within organizations. We also chat about how coding skills can help people in a “middle skill job”, and how to future-proof yourself in the world of tech. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode’s sponsors: Xojo Fullstack Academy...
Eileen Ho became a software engineer at LinkedIn after working as a math teacher for almost a decade. She discusses the fears she had about her new career, common stereotypes about working in tech, and what to consider before pursuing a career in tech. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode’s sponsors: Xojo Fullstack Academy...
What’s changed at Learn to Code With Me since season 4 of the podcast and what’s coming up in season 5.
As the fourth season of the Learn to Code With Me podcast draws to a close, I share a few updates about the future of the podcast and Learn to Code With Me as a whole. If you’re going to miss the show, here are a few things you can do: Sign up to get regular emails from me about exclusive discounts, my favorite tech tools, and my latest blog posts. Follow Learn to Code With Me on Facebook . Follow me on Twitter . Join my free Facebook group, Newbie Coder Warehouse . Leave a review of the show to...
Ashu Desai is the founder of Make School , a computer science college in Silicon Valley that trains students for careers in software development. After a childhood in Singapore and Hong Kong, Ashu moved to Silicon Valley at age 10, where he was bitten by the tech bug. He has been building apps since age 16 after getting involved in the computer science program at his high school and self-teaching coding languages. Ashu attended college for a year, but didn't find the focus practical enough, and ...
Elvis Chidera is a software developer who grew up in a rural part of Nigeria and taught himself how to code on a Nokia phone. When he was only 11 years old, Elvis became curious about how websites were built and wanted to download games on his Nokia phone. That curiosity led him to coding tutorials, and he began using a simple notepad app to code. Eventually he was able to save up enough for a laptop and begin freelancing, but before that, he managed to develop microedition apps using only his p...
Chris Castiglione is the co-founder and CEO of One Month, a professor at Columbia University Business School, and a bitcoin and cryptocurrency enthusiast. The classes Chris teaches focus on coding, digital literacy, and cryptocurrency. He also hosts a podcast and has written for several online publications, and is passionate about using education to inspire positive change in the world. During his twenties, before founding One Month, Chris traveled the world working as a digital nomad, building ...
Mike Tombor is learning to code while working full time at a health insurance company. He also has two kids and a fiancé. Mike’s goal is to become a full-stack web developer and designer. As he learns, he shares his journey in Medium blog posts and at community meetups to help others balance their own life demands with their goals. Learning to code while working full time (and raising kids) is no easy feat. In our conversation, Mike shares how he balances work, coding, and family. He also explai...
David Yang is the co-founder and lead instructor at Fullstack Academy , and has 17 years of programming experience. The summer after graduating high school, David became the youngest software engineering intern to ever be accepted at Ernst and Young, and went on to earn bachelor's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering. Before founding Fullstack, he worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Yahoo, among other companies, and taught at Columbia University as an adjunct profess...
David Venturi is a former chemical engineer who began pursuing a tech career in 2015 and found a passion in data. Recently, David used online resources to create a personalized data science master's program , to help others learn data analysis in a well-structured way. The program encompasses courses from top institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, and focuses on topics like machine learning, software engineering, and back-end development. David also works at Udacity, where he creates...
Vidya Srinivasan is an engineer, speaker, and singer, who works as a program manager at Microsoft and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science. When she's not on the job, Vidya stays busy with tech-related volunteering and activities. She loves to hack-for-good, and has won multiple awards at the Microsoft One Week hackathons. She has been part of the Grace Hopper Conference leadership since 2014 and regularly speaks about tech at various conferences and presentations. Vidya is ...
Allan Leinwand is the CTO at ServiceNow . Over his career, he has built a reputation for managing the world’s most demanding clouds. In his role at ServiceNow, Allan is personally responsible for overseeing all technical aspects and guiding the long-term technology strategy for the company. He is involved in building and running the ServiceNow Enterprise Cloud--the second largest enterprise cloud computing environment on the planet. During college, Allan knew he wanted to be involved in tech, th...
Lillian Pierson is a freelance data scientist for SMEs and entrepreneurs, as well as a trainer, speaker, and coach for people who want to get into data science and analytics. Before she got into data science, Lillian worked in engineering. However, her interest in the tech space began early: she started teaching herself basic code in sixth grade, and always enjoyed working with data. When she decided on a career change, data science was the natural choice. Lillian is also the author of Data Scie...
Bill Sourour is the founder of DevMastery.com , the founder and president of technology consulting firm Arcnovus, and a frequent consultant for the Canadian government. Through DevMastery, Bill offers a weekly newsletter full of tips and resources to help developers program better and advance their careers. Bill has 20 years of experience as a programmer and architect, which he uses to help both individual developers and large organizations as a teacher and consultant. Bill's secondary passion w...
Bridget Kromhout is a DevOps professional with a passion for giving back to her community. In her professional working life so far, Bridget spent 15 years as an operations engineer, and now works at Microsoft as a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate. Her spare time is full of tech-related and volunteer activities: she leads the worldwide conference organization Devopsdays , runs community tech events in her home city of Minneapolis, co-hosts the Arrested DevOps podcast , and frequently participat...
Fernando Hidalgo is a self-taught data scientist who went from being a teacher’s assistant to a data scientist in just one-and-a-half years. After studying economics in school, Fernando held a variety of jobs, unsure of what he wanted to do. One day, he started researching data science, and it captured his interest. Using trial and error, a bunch of online platforms, and a data science bootcamp, Fernando completely transformed his career path. Now, Fernando works as a data scientist at Discovery...
Josh Doody is a salary negotiation coach and author who helps software developers receive more job offers and negotiate higher salaries. In addition to helping clients one-on-one, Josh wrote the book Fearless Salary Negotiation , which includes his best strategies and tactics for getting paid what you're worth. The principles in this book can be used by anyone, not just software developers! Our conversation covers how Josh got inspired to pursue the art of negotiation, how to stand out during th...
By day, Christine Chapman works as a software engineer at Audible, where she's been ever since leaving her previous role as a full-stack Android developer at Amazon. But her love of tech doesn't stop when she leaves the office: Christine is also passionate about giving back and spreading computer science literacy to her community. Some of Christine's favorite organizations to get involved with are ones that make an effort to increase diversity in the tech world, like Black Girls Code , Girl Deve...
Neel Mehta is a co-author of "Swipe to Unlock: The Non-Coder's Guide to Technology and the Business Strategy Behind It." At time of this interview Neel is a senior at Harvard, studying computer science, and has held internships at Microsoft, Khan Academy, and the U.S. census bureau. One of Neel's greatest passions is using technology for social good. He started by launching an education app with a quarter-million users while he was still in high school. More recently, he founded a civic technolo...
Ben Collins is a spreadsheet developer, data consultant, and data analytics instructor. He blogs and creates courses at BenLCollins.com , focusing on how to work with data using Google Sheets, Apps Script, and Data Studio. Ben has taught workshops on data analysis, as well as doing freelance and consulting work. Prior to striking out on his own, he spent seven years as a forensic accountant focusing on data analysis. In this episode, we talk about what a data analyst does, how Ben taught himself...
In just one year, Madison Kanna transitioned careers from fashion model to software engineer. She is now a fullstack developer at Conversio , and in her spare time blogs about development and life at MadisonKanna.com . Madison has also created a Udemy course, JavaScript For Beginners. Listen to the episode for the story of Madison's journey from homeschooler to college dropout to fashion model to frontend and then fullstack developer. Along the way, she shares thoughts on productivity, working r...
In today’s episode I talk with Alice Zhao, a senior data scientist at Metis. We talk about her background in analytics, the importance of storytelling in data science, and her advice for anyone who wants to get into data science. See the full show notes on the Learn to Code With Me website . Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Fullstack Academy Xojo...
