We talk with, Noel Rappin, about different types of tests, walk through an example of how you can approach something with tests first, and talk about why test-driven development can be a great tool for planning and organizing your code.

If you're looking for solid, newbie-friendly guides to tech, Lauren Orsini's got you covered. As a tech journalist for ReadWrite, she's written some CodeNewbie favorites, including a great explanation of git and GIthub. We talk about her writing process, how she tackles a new piece of technology and learns it well enough to write about it, and why she calls herself an "amateur" programmer and needs to stop.

If you're looking for solid, newbie-friendly guides to tech, Lauren Orsini's got you covered. We talk about her writing process, how she tackles a new piece of technology and learns it well enough to write about it.

We talk with Tina Lee about the challenges of being a mom learning to code, how organizers can make their tech events more mom-friendly, and how to make coding more accessible to all mothers.

We talk to Andrew Nestbitt about how code newbies can get started in making open source contributions, why getting involved in open source is a great idea, and how to get over the intimidation you might feel at making your first pull request.

Katrina talks to us about building her platform to help people become better programmers, how she went from being a secretary to studying biology to being a programmer, and how code newbies can make the most of exercism.io

Building a web product was a lot harder in 2006 than it is now. Poornima Vijayashanker tells us what it was like to code back in those days as founding engineer at Mint.

William Jeffries, creater of the Heat Seak app, tells us how the technology works, how he built the app as he was learning to code himself, and about the mindset that helped him get through the doubts many newbies face.

Ciara Burkett, Meteor developer and teacher, tells us about organizing tech meetups, why she loves the beginner-friendly, javascript framework, and shares some of her own struggles learning to code.

Rachel Nabors started as a cartoonist. Now a cartoonist, developer, and speaker, she tells us about her transition into programming, how to tell stories with code, and what it means to be an interaction developer.