Pete Codes

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

‌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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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