Sponsored How Donna learned to code remotely with Flatiron School, quit her waitress job and become a developer Today's interview is with Donna Amos, who learned to code remotely with Flatiron School from her home in Georgia. She was able to quit her job working as a server
How Peter Elbaum tripled his salary by learning to code Peter Elbaum wrote to me to tell me about he had changed career from teaching Spanish to Web Development. He was actually able to triple his salary in the process
This Director of Software Engineering talks learning to code without a Computer Science degree Joe Stetch is a professional Software Developer who has made the Compelling Python course to help coders learn this in-demand backend language. I talked to him about learning to code,
Learning to code with no CS degree and making $55k a month Arvid Kahl is a self-taught developer who co-created Feedback Panda, a tool for online English teachers. Along with his partner, he grew the business to $55,000 a month before
Sponsored How Paulina changed career to data science after attending Flatiron School Today’s interview is with Paulina Zheng who changed career by studying Data Science at Flatiron School in New York. After attending the bootcamp she was able to get a
How this Australian developer got hired by Deloitte with no CS degree Ric Lavers is an Australian programmer who got a job at Deloitte despite not having a CS degree. In this wideranging interview Ric discusses how he got into coding, his
This self-taught developer talks learning to code and getting a remote job Sean Walsh is a self-taught developer who dropped out of a coding bootcamp. Nonetheless, he was able to persevere with learning to code and managed to get a remote job
Getting out of debt by learning to code (without a CS degree) Anthony O'Neill was a designer working at a small company, occasionally touching code. He became more interested in programming and after doing some online courses he snagged a job as
This Toronto self-taught Google contractor talks learning code Faisal Abid has been a contractor at Google, a CTO and also works on his own side projects. But he doesn't have a CS degree - he taught himself to
Youtuber Dennis Ivy learned coding and sold a website for $40k Dennis Ivy was a marketer who learned coding on the job. He then sold the website to his employer for $40k. Today he runs a growing Youtube channel teaching others
How the founder of Gumroad and Pinterest employee #2 learned to code Sahil Lavingia shouldn't need any introduction but here's one for people at the back! He was hired as the second employee of Pinterest aged 18 and promptly dropped out of
This Liberal Arts Major changed career path to software development Austin Grandt is a Software Developer based in the Midwest. He works as a programmer in the education sector while making projects like Financial Toolbelt, which provides easy to use
How this SAAS founder learned to code by building companies himself Tadas Labudis is a self-taught developer and the maker behind the customer analytics SAAS business Prodsight. Tadas studied Business at university and learned to code in order to be able
From firefighter to web developer (via nursing) - how Lee did it Lee Warrick started a Computer Science degree but switched major when the class didn't actually teach him anything about making websites. He then worked as a firefighter and a nurse
How Lucie got her first Frontend Developer job without a CS degree Today's interview is with Lucie Vrsovska, a developer working in Prague. Lucie taught herself to code before doing a bootcamp where she was talent spotted by a speech recognition sofware
How this self taught Software Engineer in India learned to code In this interview Bilal shares his tips on learning to code, getting hired and dealing with issues like imposter syndrome. Bilal is a self-taught developer who harnessed his natural curiousity
How this teenage app maker with 10 million users taught himself coding Sven van der Zee is the maker behind the extremely successful android app Sticker Studio. The app has 10 million users and Sven is still a teenager! Sticker Studio has
CSS How this self taught developer made $70,000 whilst travelling Guilherme Rizzo is the self-taught founder of CSS Scan which lets you easily inspect the CSS of a webpage and click and copy it for your own project. He's made
This self-taught Software Engineer teaches coding from Costa Rica Christina is a self-taught developer and in this interview she talks about getting into programming, her tips for beginners and how she teaches new coders. Thanks to remote working though
From tutus to tech - Kara Luton is a Software Engineer with no CS degree Kara Luton is a former ballerina who now works in software development. I chatted to her about making big career changes, how she learned to code, her tips for getting
From dentist in India to developer in Berlin - how Meghna did it I chatted to Meghna about her experience learning to code, her advice for beginners and how she got hired without a Computer Science qualification. Meghna now works as a web
This self-taught dev will help you find if your website name is free I'm a huge fan of Peter Thaleikis's Startup Name Check website! It lets you enter a name for a website and it tell you whether the .com, .co or .io
Sponsored Debora Piu talks learning to code at Makers and getting hired as a dev Today's interview is with Debora Piu, who made a career change from hospitality to web development after learning to code at Makers, a 12 week software developer bootcamp based in
Letitia talks about teaching herself coding and getting hired as a dev Letitia Tyrrell is a self-taught developer from Manchester in the UK who recently got her first programming job. Here she talks about what resources she used to learn to code
Sponsored This Holberton School graduate went from being a dancer to a developer Today's interview is with Laura Roudge, a former dancer who attended Holberton School, learned to code and now works as a developer with Deezer in Paris. At Holberton School Laura
