A deep dive into the life of Tony, a recent Make School alumni who grew up in Romania, before spending the last part of high school in Oregon, and then in turn arriving in San Francisco to attend Make School.

Tony shares many memories of what it was like to overcome thyself and develop new ways of living on your own - please take a listen! It will provide you with another perspective on the realities of life at Make School>

Connect with Tony on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-cioara/

Episode Outline:

RESOURCES:

Hope this helps! - Zain Raza

Make School has helped transform me from the inside out, but it did not come with struggle. In this podcast, Zain Raza shares his personal experiences in throughout his junior year at Make School, in which he questioned himself in three of the following areas:

1. Physical Lifestyle

2. Emotional Well-Being, and the Response to Fear

3. Spiritual Conscience

Enjoy! If you find the episode valuable, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. 

Thanks so much Makers, I wish you a blessed week - Zain

A deep dive into personal development, based on the renown book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People  (1989), by Stephen R. Covey. Guest starring Aleia Knight, a rising senior at Make School in the Data Science concentration. 

Connect with Aleia:

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleiaknight/

Personal Website: makeschool.com/portfolio/Aleia-Knight 

Blog: medium.com/@aleia.knight 

Email: [email protected]

Buy the Book (not affiliated): https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Anniversary/dp/1511317299

iOS engineer Matthew Harrilal was a quiet, unassuming young man when he first heard about Make School from his older brother. The New York City native is now an alumni of the program, and comes on the podcast today to share his reflections on what it was like to grow up in Spanish Harlem, and mistakes that are made by Make School students as they seek jobs, among other things.

If you're interested in how an introverted kid from a multi-cultural background and a big heart becomes a software engineer, then I believe this episode will be of value to you!

Connect with Matthew on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewharrilal/

Additional Resources on Support Vector Machines

Walkthrough Example by Alice Zhao: https://youtu.be/N1vOgolbjSc

Explanation by Siraj Raval: https://youtu.be/g8D5YL6cOSE

Make School's SVM Lesson, in DS 2.1: https://github.com/Make-School-Courses/DS-2.1-Machine-Learning/blob/master/Lessons/SupportVectorMachine.md

Sklearn Documentation: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html

Make School's Tutorial on Machine Learning Classifiers: https://www.makeschool.com/academy/track/ds-2-1-classification-tutorial

Tensorflow Crash Course by Free Code Camp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/massive-tensorflow-2-0-free-course/

Google Machine Learning Crash Course: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES on Traction (2015), by Gabriel Weinberg: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01705KMG4/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_C3XIEb3HY92XE

Gabriel Weinberg speaks with Eric Ries, the author of The Lean Startup (2011) and The Startup Way (2017): https://youtu.be/woPMw-mkpDM

Gabriel Weinberg Speaks at Startup Grind: https://youtu.be/8q3F4UT0NSA

SKIP AHEAD to 11:55 for the actual interview with Joel to begin! 

QUESTION TO THE AUDIENCE

Listen to the end to hear Joel's Question of the Week. If you would like to reach out to Joel with your answer (or otherwise), please use the following: 

Joel's Email: [email protected] 

Joel's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/i-am-joel-yawili/

Correction:

In this episode I mention Joel as having a certificate in workplace harassment. Precisely, it is an Emtrain Certificate titled Preventing Workplace Harassment.  To check you can see it on his Linkedin profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/i-am-joel-yawili/