Monthly Archives: November 2015

Ep. 64 – Write Speak Code (Rebecca Miller Webster)

November 30, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

Rebecca Miller Webster created Write Speak Code for herself. She wanted a space that would encourage her to write more, speak more, and contribute to open source more. And in the process of creating that space for others, she grew herself, both as a person and a developer. In this interview, she talks about her experience putting on this conference and how it’s helped many others take bigger steps in their coding journeys.

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Lafayette Somewhat United States (Rebecca)
I C Stars (Rebecca)
Blue 1647 (Rebecca)
Speaking.io (Saron)
11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation (Saron)

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Ep. 63 – Free Code Camp (Quincy Larson)

November 23, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

He’s only been coding for four years. But thirteen months ago, Quincy Larson launched one of the most beloved learn-to-code resources in the CodeNewbie community, Free Code Camp. We deep dive into his own learning journey, what he’s learned from helping hundreds of thousands of campers learn to code, and why Free Code Camp will forever be free.

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Free Code Camp Medium Blog (Saron)
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Clementine JS (Quincy)
Alfred App (Quincy)

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Ep. 62 – Hello Ruby (Linda Liukas)

November 16, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

Linda Liukas identifies more with being a children’s author than a developer. That might be because she’s spent a good amount of time helping others learn to code than actually coding herself. She used to work for Codecademy, started Rails Girls, and most recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book introducing programming to children. The campaign blew past it’s $10K goal, and reached over $380K. Linda talks to us about drawing and writing the book, Hello Ruby, and what she’s learned about the coding journey as she helps kids start their own.

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The Eames Office: Computer Glossary (Linda)
Explorable Explanations (Linda)
Sesame Street: G is for Growing (free excerpt) (Linda)
Sesame Street: G is for Growing (Linda)
Jewelbots (Saron)
Scratch (Saron)

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Ep. 61 – Brianna and Brianna’s Mother (Brianna Fugate & Ronique Richburg)

November 9, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

When she goes to events, she no longer writes her own name on her name tag. Instead, she writes “Brianna’s Mother”. Ronique, the proud single-mother of a coder talks to us about how she supports and advocates for her daughter, and what it’s been like to see her only child take advantage of the many tech opportunities she’s come by. Brianna tells us how she switched from being pre-med to computer science, and got over the intimidation of sitting next to kids who’d discovered coding long before she knew what programming was all about. She tells us her inspiring stories of working at the White House under US CTO Megan Smith, and coding alongside Googlers, all as a college undergrad.

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Teaching My 13 Year Old to Code (Saron)
Office of Science and Technology Policy (Saron)
Coder Dojo (Saron)

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Ep. 60 – Impostor Syndrome (Alicia Liu)

November 2, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

Software Engineer Alicia Liu has thought a lot about Impostor Syndrome. In fact, she’s written three blog posts, one each year for the past three years, that have illustrated her own relationship with the term and its relevance in the tech community. We dissect those three blog posts and discuss the role of Impostor Syndrome in different parts of a programmer’s journey.