CodeNewbie

Plenty of organizations work to help vets. What vet Jerome Hardaway noticed about these organizations is that they were mostly reactive. They responded to problems but few prevented them. So Jerome decided to create a non-profit to teach vets how to code.

Mark Nadal was a front end developer looking for a better database. So he built his own. He walks us through the different types of databases, the limitations you might run into as you use them, and why he decided to build his own graph database.

Chris loves writing tutorials for beginners, and he gets to do it for Mozilla. We talk about the different parts of good technical writing and how he manages to maintain that beginner mindset.

Anna Lee spent years as a researcher. Going from a world of pharmaceutical science to being a front end web developer was definitely a leap, one she successfully made after quitting her job and doing an online course.

One of the most popular questions for Newbies is, “How do you get a coding job?” In this episode, we talk with Chuck, podcaster of several very popular tech shows, on the journey of not just coding but landing a coding job.

Paul Ford didn’t expect his article on coding to go big. But almost a year later, the Bloomberg issue dedicated to “What is code?” is still completely sold out. This episode we dig into the major topics covered in that long and highly entertaining piece.

Coraline wears the Social Justice Warrior title proudly. We talk to Coraline about what it means to be a social justice warrior, how she’s dealt with the trolling and harassment that comes with it, and how she stays above it and continues to fight.

Kristen has spent a lot of time creating just the right spaces for making. We talk about what makes a good makerspace, what the behind-the-scenes of one looks like, and how she leveraged her liberal arts degrees to make the tech world more accessible.

For our second episode of March Is For Makers, Mike talks to us about how he transforms complex technical information into accessible stories, how he got started making, and how the maker movement has changed over the years.

In our first episode for March Is For Makers, our month-long celebration of everything making, we dig into the differences of software and hardware, and how Emily's software background gave her an interesting perspective on her laser-cutting experience.