Monthly Archives: May 2015

Ep. 37 – From Skates To Code (Aimee Knight)

May 25, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

She used to be a professional figure skater. And a few years ago, she decided to hang up her skates and trade them in for some code. Software developer Aimee Knight tells us what it was like to transition into tech, how she got her first dev job, and how being a professional athlete has affected her coding journey.

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Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) (Aimee)
Headspace (Aimee)
(Super)Power Management (Aimee)
Sparkpost (Aimee)
OOP vs. Functational Programming (Saron)
Elevator.js (Saron)
Wat (Saron)

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Ep. 36 – Creating jQuery (John Resig)

May 18, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

John Resig, creator of jQuery, talks about what it was like to build the most popular javascript library and then walk away from it five years later to follow his passion for education. We unpack what it’s like to maintain such a popular toolkit, how he feels about books, how he takes on his own learning, and why he made the Women Who Code twitter list.

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Board Game Geek (John)
Khan Academy Art History (John)
Machine Learning Udacity Course (John)
Digital Humanities (John)
Writing Code Every Day (John)
Khan Academy Computer Science Curriculum (John)
Light Kinetics In A Loop (Saron)
Processing (Saron)
#girlswithtoys (Saron)
Sal Kahn’s TED Talk “Let’s use video to reinvent education” (Saron)
Sponsored Shoutout: Digital Ocean promo code “CodeNewbie” for $10 credit (Saron)
Sponsored Shoutout: Learnable $1 For CodeNewbie (Saron)

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Ep. 35 – Stellar (David Mazières)

May 11, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

David Mazières, Chief Scientist at Stellar, talks to us about his work at the Stellar foundation building software to expand financial access. We also talk about how he uses temporary email addresses to ward off spammers, how he started coding in the fourth grade, and why he doesn’t think you need a computer science degree to make an impact in tech.

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Stellar (David)
Emacs lisp (David)
Notmuch Mail (David)
Bitcoin: How does Bitcoin work? (Saron)
Adventures in Galactic Consensus (Saron)
Sponsored Shoutout: Digital Ocean promo code “CodeNewbie” for $10 credit (Saron)
Sponsored Shoutout: Learnable $1 For CodeNewbie (Saron)

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Ep. 34 – Newbie Story: LaToya Allen

May 4, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

>For our first Newbie Story, we talk to LaToya Allen, junior software engineer at Avant, a fast-growing Chicago startup. She tells us how she went from bartending to becoming an apprentice, and got her first full-time engineering job in just three weeks.