Tuple co-creator Spencer Dixon talks learning to code without a degree Spencer shares his tips for newbies, explains how he got into coding without a degree and discusses what his work at screen sharing app Tuple involves. Spencer and his two co-founders at Tuple
Ali Spittel talks learning to code without a Computer Science degree It's a real pleasure to share an interview I did with Ali Spittel! Ali is a great example of a successful developer who didn't need a CS degree to get jobs and be
This self-taught developer shares learning code and job hunting tips Dan Comand is a Canadian self-taught web developer who made the switch from working in sales and marketing to coding after attending a bootcamp. Dan has also launched the VoiceJobs website due to
Tobi attended Rithm School and now works at Pinterest Tobi Ogunnaike is a Software Engineer at Pinterest but he didn't take the traditional CS degree route to this job. Instead, he attended Rithm School, a 16 week coding bootcamp in San Francisco
This Ukrainian self-taught dev makes the best Mac translation apps Alex Chernikov grew up in a Soviet-style city in the east of Ukraine, now war-torn. He taught himself code and now makes a successful living making apps. You can check out his excellent
This self-taught developer talks learning code and becoming an entrepreneur and a Youtuber Jyrone Parker is a developer, entrepreneur and Youtuber who caught my attention recently. I talked to Jyrone about what drives him to succeed. He has been coding from a young age and taught
How this Biochemist from Algeria got a job by doing #100daysofcode I follow lots of newbie coders on Twitter and it's great to see people get hired after lots of hard work learning to code! I reached out to one such self-taught developer, Lily
This Commando Dev learned to code on a warship without internet I get a ton of emails from people wanting to be interviewed here which is great! One email recently leaped to my attention though. Ben Ford explained that while serving in the British
The 16 year old maker of KanbanMail talks learning to code by doing Ethan is the teenage developer behind a really cool web app, KanbanMail, which was #3 Product of the Week on Product Hunt when it was launched last year. If you like Trello or
dropout JPMorgan Chase hired this self-taught developer who is a high school dropout After this site went top of Hacker News I received an email from Ahmad Rusdi saying that he was a 21 year old self-taught web developer working at JPMorgan Chase who had dropped
This self-taught developer is now a VP of Engineering helping charities fundraise Richard O'Reilly contacted me after this website topped Hacker News on its launch. He was enthusiastic about the purpose of No CS Degree and told me was a self-taught developer and had risen
From zero coding to a job at Google in six months Today I'm sharing an interview with an ex-Google Software Engineer who was able to get a job there after coding for just six months. Clément Mihailescu shares his advice on learning to code
Javascript Wes Bos talks how he learned to code I'm honored to have the one and only Wes Bos today dropping pearls of wisdom on his coding journey. One of the most popular teachers of JavaScript in the world, Wes has captured
This mom of four learned to code and changed her career path Today I'm fortunate to share an interview I had with Bekah Hawrot Weigel who is a mom who wanted to make a career change and so attending a coding bootcamp. Now she is
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
