CodeNewbie

You probably know her as rockbot, the username that captures her passion for robotics. In this episode, developer Raquel Velez shares that passion with us and gives us a beginner-friendly walkthrough of how a robot works.

Corinne Warnshuis sat in a Girl Develop It workshop to learn to code. Her love for the community and her community-building skills propelled her from coding newbie to Executive Director of Girl Develop It.

At a time when people are lining up to get accepted by a programming bootcamp, Jeff Casimir decided to start one that is non-profit. We talk about why he decided to make the Turing School non-profit and how it approaches its programming curriculum.

Gokul Krishnan started the first makerspace in a children's hospital. We talk about the benefits of making in the context of being in a hospital, how he approaches learning, and what kinds of tech projects these kids have made.

She was trained to be a web developer. But months after graduating from bootcamp, she's at Makerbot, helping build the software that their 3D printers need to do their job. It's an interesting change and we what some of the challenges are.

Matt Richardson, evangelist for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, talks to us about what the Raspberry Pi is, discuss some beginner friendly projects, and chat about a cool bike-based hardware project he made.

Julia Grace talks to us about Tindie, the hardware marketplace where creators and hardware enthusiasts come together to share their goods. We talk about the challenges of building a hardware platform and the different problems these makers are solving.

When Sara Chipps sat in a conference and watched a speaker use JavaScript to interact with a smoke detector, she was entranced. She left with a bag of LEDs, and a new love for hardware that led to her ultimately starting her hardware company Jewliebots.

Developer Sarah Frisk uses her incredible drawing skills to teach coding tools and concepts like git through her comic, Monster Markup Manual. We talk about how art and code come together, and how monsters can do a great job of learning to code.

In our first live broadcast of the podcast, we brought on developers Scott Hanselman and Tiffany Peon to chat about hot topics in the CodeNewbie community. We talked about finding a dev job, code mentorship, and more.