Jo Overlines created 30 apps, totally 30 million downloads over the past ten years. Hes taken his success as an app creator and built a business around it, launching a consultancy that helps individuals and businesses build successful products. He shares his lessons learned in created successful apps, his thoughts on how apps have evolved over the years, and whether or not theres still room for the independent app maker. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Pascal CodeNewbie "...
Mar 06, 2017•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast The dream is to learn to code for a few months and get a job right away. But reality comes with a few more twists and turns, as Paola discovered on her way to landing her current software engineering position at BuzzFeed. She was an assitant looking for a better career when she rediscovered code. But getting that better careeer involved attending two bootcamps, doing an internship, and job searching for a year before landing her full-time iOS role. She shares the ups and downs of becoming a deve...
Feb 27, 2017•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rapi wasnt very politically engaged until his husband told him about Bernie Sanders, and soon after, Rapi was hooked. He joined the Coders for Sanders group and created the Bernie Map, an open source project that would become valuable for future movements. Rapi shares how he transferred the energy from the Coders for Sanders community to create the Progressive Coders Network, how he thinks about open source contributors as members instead of sources of free labor, and why open source is a powerf...
Feb 19, 2017•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast When Evan read an article about the rate of suicide among veterans returning from war, it broke his heart. So he decided to turn that heart break into advocacy. He read about and researched the experiences of vets and created a game designed to share theirs stories with the world. Evan tells us about his process, why games have a special power to create empathy and activate, and what he hopes for the future of games with a purpose. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) AU Game ...
Feb 13, 2017•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ray Acevedo was a mechanic, a full-time job he held while he learned to code part-time at the Coalition for Queens. In this specially produced segment, Ray shares his coding journey, how he came close to quitting altogether, how his brother got him through, and how being a mechanic helped him learned to code. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Coalition for Queens Access Code Techstars Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Feb 06, 2017•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mary became a programmer in the late 1960s, back when coding was barbaric, as she put it. She takes us through her nearly 40 years of working with computers, starting with the era of punch cards. She shares the joy of using a terminal for the first time, her determination to stay technical even as she climbed the corporate ladder, and how the tools of coding have shifted the programmers job description. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Margaret Hamilton awarded Presidentia...
Jan 30, 2017•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shubheksha shares her experience contributing to open source, why it took her two years to contribute in a meaningful way, and how working on open source has boosted her confidence and sharpened her skills. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) CS50 Mozilla IRC Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Jan 23, 2017•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Before becoming a developer, Laura had a number of job titles, including music blogger, DJ, and maid. But it was a Rails Girls workshop that brought her back to the world of web that she fell in love with many years ago. Now, as a manger at the Travis Foundation, she gets to help introduce other women to tech through the Rails Girls Summer of Code, one of the many initiatives she runs. She tells us more about what its like to be a scholar in the program, the power of doing meaningful work on ope...
Jan 16, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bill Sourour was twenty-one when he was asked to build a website for a pharmaceutical company. It was a quiz that asked users to select symptoms so that it could recommend a drug as a possible solution. But for almost every option the user selected, the quiz would recommend the same drug. It didnt feel right, but when Bill later heard that a side effect of the drug was depression and a young woman who had taken that drug had committed suicide, it felt very, very wrong. Bill tells us the story of...
Jan 09, 2017•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast If youre hoping to get your first tech job and you havent heard of TechHire, this episode is for you. We talk to Tess, the managing director of TechHire, about working with employer and learning partners to place 100K people in tech jobs by 2020. She talks about the realities of finding a job in tech at the salary you want, what technologys increasing demand for talent means for job seekers, and what every codenewbie can do to maximize their chances of launching their tech career. Show Links Par...
Jan 02, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Kallaway was working as a full-time developer, but it wasnt enough. He wanted a way to try new technologies and grow his coding skills outside of work. So he created #100DaysofCode, the hashtag-based challenge thats helped him incorporate coding into his daily routine. He talks about how he designed the challenge, the number of people whove joined him, and the updates hes making for 2017. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Quincy Aimee Knight's CodeNewbie interview Code...
Dec 26, 2016•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ish Shabazz recently released Stamp Pack, the iOS app that gave him his biggest launch yet. He talks about the iterative process of building and selling an app, whats its like to create a whole app category in the App Store, and why being an independent iOS developer is getting harder and harder. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Stickers for iMessage Stamp Pack Grammar Snob Heidi Helen Firebase UI Collection View Stanford's iOS Course Impostor Syndrome episode Codeland Con...
Dec 19, 2016•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast George Moore drove trucks for years. But he knew he wanted to do more with his life, and his wife encouraged him to go back to school, finish his degree, and pursue the tech career hed started long ago. So he did. He started at help desk, and slowly climbed his way up to his current role, as master software engineer. He shares his incredible journey filled with uncertainties and perseverance, and how its shaped him as a developer and a person. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (spons...
Dec 12, 2016•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part II of our interview, Ashe Dryden talks about how the harassment shes experienced has made her worry about the safety of people around her and influenced her decision to move to the woods. She tells us about the incident that made her angry enough to start working on diversity advocacy, how her work has changed her perception of the internet, and what we can all do to be advocates in the workplace. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Christina Morillo Model View Cultur...
Dec 05, 2016•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Diversity in tech is a big topic. In our conversation with Ashe Dryden, programmer, organizer and diversity consultant, we unpack the many questions, misconceptions, and realities of diversity in our industry. In part I of our interview, Ashe gives us a diversity primer, explains why this topic is so important, and tells us how shes crafted a conference based on inclusion called AlterConf. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Kronda Christina Morillo Model View Culture AlterCo...
Nov 28, 2016•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Terri Burns didnt start off as a computer science major, but she ended up not only graduating with a CS degree but running one of the largest student tech organizations in the country. She tells us what its like to be a computer science major, the projects and topics shes covered in school, and the value of that degree in the real world. If youve been curious about the elusive CS degree, take a listen to this awesome, behind-the-scene conversation and see what its all about. Show Links Partner w...
Nov 21, 2016•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick is an Innovation Accountant, a mash-up of data, analytics, coding, running experiments, and explaining to leadership how its all going. He talks about what its like to build NPR One, the listening app created by NPR, a decades-old, non-profit media company, what hes learned from the data about the way people listen to podcasts, and what technical skills he uses on the job. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Radiolab MySQL Firebase Remote Config Desk.com NPR Google Analy...
Nov 14, 2016•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Leslie Hitchcock started her career writing white papers on information security. Now, she organizes some of the largest hackathons and tech events in the world for TechCrunch. She shares her tips on how new developers can make the most out of a hackathon, what types of coding projects people work on, and how she helps make hackathons more inclusive. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) GroupMe Alexandra Jordan Titstare TechCrunch Disrupt TechCrunch Ford Sync Black Girls Code ...
Nov 07, 2016•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part two of our interview with comedian Baratunde Thurston, we talk about how he brought together product development and comedy to create entertaining apps in his recent role at the Daily Show, how he uses coding and technology as tools in the many unique positions hes held, and how we should balance our coding responsibility with the simple goal of having fun. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Twilio Collabora hierarchical decomposition David Malan USDS Source Forge Ac...
Oct 31, 2016•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Baratunde Thurstons made a career of combining tech, comedy, and politics. From launching Comedy Hack Day to his recent role as the Daily Shows first Supervising Producer for Digital Expansion, hes found innovative ways to use code as a tool for satire, entertainment, and activism. In part I of our interview, he tells us why he started as a computer science major but ended with a philosophy degree instead, how he sees satirical apps as technologys art-form, and how projects like Comedy Hack Day ...
Oct 24, 2016•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Emily Karungi went to university for software engineering, but when she walked into class and had no idea what the students were talking about, she started to doubt about whether or not she belonged. She tells us how she tackled that intimidation, what its like to build software in her country of Uganda, and how she uses her skills and love of mentorship to help others learn to code. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Django Con US Django Girls Django Girls Kampala Code Scho...
Oct 17, 2016•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dara Oke graduated with four tech internships under her belt. Shes worked at Intel, Microsoft, and Twitter building features in languages she hadnt studied and on topics she hadnt yet covered in school. But now as a program manager at Microsoft, she looks back at those internships as an essential part of her success and education. We talk about the day-to-day of a tech internship, how she found her place at these powerful tech companies, and how codenewbies everywhere can find their own opportun...
Oct 03, 2016•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lorraine Hutter watched her son Bobby go to a bootcamp and learn to code. She saw him come home happy and excited, and she wanted to feel that same fire. So months later, she signed up for a coding program, and her son ended up as her teachers assistant. Lorraine and Bobby talk about what its like to watch each other grow as coders, how learning to code has affected their relationship, and what theyve learned so far as junior developers. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Ru...
Sep 26, 2016•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast We continue our conversation with developer Julia Nguyen on her mental health journey, how it's affected her life as a programmer, and what unique product decisions she has to make for "if me," her mental health open source project. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) if me HIPAA Vim Neopets Evanescence University of Waterloo ThoughtWorks Emacs Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Sep 19, 2016•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Julia Nguyen was diagnosed with OCD when she was in high school. It took a long time for her to talk about it, but soon she was writing and giving talks on mental health. Shes even created an open source project to help those dealing with mental illness. In this incredibly open and honest interview, she talks about her own struggles with mental health and how she hopes to help others through her open source project, if me. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) OCD Neopets if me...
Sep 12, 2016•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever heard of a scrum master and wondered what that was? Anjuan Simmons, certified scrum master and project manager, breaks it down for us in this highly informative interview. He explains the practical applications of agile, the different tools and processes used to apply its key principles, and how you can apply the agile philosophy to your learn-to-code journey. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Manifesto for agile software development Principle 2: Welcome Chang...
Sep 05, 2016•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Carina C. Zona helps us understand algorithms, both what they are and how they are used. She walks us through fascinating examples of how they've been used in technology over the years, exploring the benefits and unintended consequences they've had along the way, and how we as developers can boost those benefits and decrease those unintended consequences. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm Schemas for the Real World Cracking the Coding...
Aug 29, 2016•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast A lot can happen in a year. For high school biology teacher Aurelian Sennett, that time was spent writing his first program that launched his tech business to help schools solve scheduling problems. Long-time listener and codenewbie, Aurelian tells us how he started learning to code, how he built his education app, and what it's like to have thousands of people pay for and use the first product he's ever built. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) AJAX Github VPN Ep. 20 - Acce...
Aug 22, 2016•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jacob Kaplan-Moss is often credited for co-creating Django, one of the most popular web frameworks written in python. But thats not exactly true. Hes also given credit for being an amazing developer. But thats not very accurate either. Jacob tells us the true story of Djangos creation, why he calls himself a mediocre programmer, and unpacks the concept of the talent myth. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Saron's Vlog Channel The Difference MySQL Django Found Fellowship Pro...
Aug 15, 2016•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast For our special 100th episode, CodeNewbie founder gets interviewed by her husband, Rob Frelow, on creating CodeNewbie, her own coding journey, and shares info on upcoming projects for CodeNewbie. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) New York Tech Meetup CodeNewbie Gina Trapani on CodeNewbie Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
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