An interview with Lydia Hallie about how she learned coding Lydia Hallie grabbed my attention a couple of years ago with her article on Medium about already being a professional web developer aged 19 years old. She was obviously doing great a year
From sleeping in a car in Silicon Valley to owning a development agency Michael Aubry wanted to get out off his hometown in Illinois and work in Silicon Valley. So he drove across the country and arrived in Palo Alto with $300 in his back pocket,
This self-taught CTO talks hiring developers with no CS degree Self-taught programmer Alex Kremer heads up a developer team at eBacon, a payroll SAAS company, which is almost exclusively comprised of programmers who don't have a CS degree either. I talked to Alex
Being a location-independent developer without a CS degree Sander is a Dutch self-taught programmer who works from wherever he likes. He has been able to go out and snowboard in the morning before coming back and starting work. He also makes
Ex-bootcamp developer now teaches the course Matt Studdert runs the excellent Frontend Mentor website, which helps newbie coders learn to make websites by making real projects instead of doing endless tutorials. I have used it myself! Matt went from
Falling down and getting back up with the help of code Cher Scarlett is a Senior Software Engineer at Webflow who taught herself to code and ended up turning her life around. Prior to Webflow she built a successful career working at companies such
From coding newbie to Front End Developer in 9 months A few months ago I went to a coding meetup in Edinburgh, Scotland where I live and met Josh Carvel, who at the time said he was taking some time out to learn
Uber From broke English teacher abroad to Uber Software Engineer in 8 months I get a lot of emails from people wanting to be interviewed about how they got into web development without a CS degree. One that leaped out to me was from Aaron Pietsch
How the 20 year old co-creator of PixelSnap and CleanShot learned to code This week I had the pleasure of talking to Luke Oslizlo, a maker who grabbed a lot of people’s attention (and money) by co-creating Mac OS design apps like PixelSnap which allows
From Server to Developer in - how Tae'lur Alexis did it A developer on Twitter caught my attention recently with a post about going from a minimum wage job to being a web developer. Tae'lur Alexis was determined to improve her situation and taught
I interviewed a self-taught developer who bought a house with cash After this website got top of Hacker News I received 30 emails in one day from self-taught developers. One from Patryk Pawlowski immediately caught my eye as he has earned enough from working
This Brazilian teenager is a self-taught coder who travels the world Lenilson is a young Brazilian web developer who at the tender age of 18 is already travelling the world while working remotely. I chatted to him about dropping out of school, learning to
analytics How this developer made a privacy analytics web app without a CS degree I was happy to interview Adriaan van Rossum, who makes Simple Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics tool which doesn't track the personal data of people visiting your website. I use Simple Analytics for this
UI Pauline Narvas talks learning to code without a Computer Science degree I was happy to interview Pauline Narvas about learning programming, teaching girls to code and being a techie in a small English city. Pauline has captured my attention on Twitter as someone that
How BetaList and WIP founder Marc Köhlbrugge learned to code with no degree It is a great pleasure to interview someone who makes products you love! Marc Köhlbrugge makes WIP, which I use on a daily basis and is an invaluable resource for indie founders as
How Anne-Laure Le Cunff learned coding in six months and won the Product Hunt Makers Festival I had the pleasure of asking Anne-Laure some questions about her learning style, her mindfulness Chrome extension, and producing Maker Mag. It was fun to hear more about how she fits all this
The Kanye dating site maker explains learning to code with no CS degree In 2018 Harry Dry went viral with his Kanye West fans dating website. I interviewed Harry to find how he taught himself to code, tips for newbie coders, how he builds under pressure
Digital Nomad Steph Smith talks learning coding while working full-time I had a chat with Steph about using the Product Hunt API to win the Inclusion Prize last year, how she has learned coding while being a digital nomad and her productivity tips.
How this YC Hackathon developer learned programming without a CS degree This time I talked to exciting entrepreneur Derek Pankaew about his approach to learning code with no CS degree, building plugins and his experience at the Y Combinator Hackathon, in which he finished
This 22 year old self-taught PHP developer earns $15k a month and lives in an Austrian farmhouse I had a chat with Richard 'Pretzel Hands' Blechinger about earning a high income at a young age, advice he has for people with no CS degree and how he learned coding. It
