Monthly Archives: December 2015

Ep. 68 – Too Late To Be Awesome (Chanelle Henry)

December 28, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

Chanelle Henry wanted to be awesome. She saw people selling companies and building inspiring products and wondered if it was too late for her to be that awesome. That question inspired a Medium blog post that ended up getting a lot of attention, and getting her invites to speak on that very topic. She tells us how that post helped her reach her awesome, and the changes she made in her life to get there.

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Muted Nation (Chanelle)
Four Hour Workweek Podcast (Chanelle)
DevPressed (Chanelle)
Product Hunt (Chanelle)
The Dip (Saron)
Zen Pencils and Shonda Rhimes (Saron)
12 Resolutions for a Programmer (Saron)

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Ep. 67 – Android Developer (Annyce Davis)

December 21, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

Annyce Davis became an Android developer by building an Android app. She took some time to hack away at a prototype, showed it to her boss, and was put in charge of building The Washington Posts’s first Android app. She talks about how she went from Java to Android, what she thinks of iOS, and how important community has been to helping her level up and become a senior software engineer at The Washington Post.

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The Platinum Rule (Saron)
Technically Speaking (Annyce)
Android Dialogs (Annyce)
Fragmented Podcast (Annyce)
Washington Post – The Year In Graphics (Saron)
Sitepoint’s The 12 Best Android Tutorials for First-Time App Developers (Saron)
Android’s Developer Training Guide (Saron)

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Ep. 66 – Laboratoria (Mariana Costa)

December 14, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

Mariana Costa started Laboratoria to help young women in Lima, Peru get coding skills and improve their lives. A year and a half in, she’s launched this five-month program serving low-income women in four cities, and she’s just getting started. She talks to us about the challenges of working with this demographic, how it feels to see them transform into developers, and how family support is a key part of their program’s success.

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Teaching As Leadership (Mariana)
Lean Startup (Mariana)
Code Girl Documentary (Mariana)
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Ep. 65 – Art and Code (Dan Shiffman)

December 7, 2015Podcastcodenewbie

Dan Shiffman doesn’t like titles. As an open source contributor, author, and professor, it might be because he has so many to pick from. In this conversation, we touch on all three, focusing on his work with Processing, a software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, why he loves working with beginners, and how code can be an expressive and powerful artistic medium.