If you'd have told me 5 years ago that I'd WILLINGLY get involved with public speaking, I'd have laughed my ass off. For the longest time, I avoided, procrastinated, and generally flopped through required presentation material for school. So what happened? Well, I'm more than happy to tell you in the episode. 🙃 Let's just say that incredible things happen when you find something in life that you truly love and find exciting. Asking for a presentation on anything else just don't hit the same.

Part 3 of 4, Nicole dissects the Web Developer Roadmap's Back-End section, bringing valuable context to the steps recommended for students seeking a career using Back-End technologies. The Web Developer Roadmap by Kamran Ahmed (@kamranahmedse) has become a powerful resource for new self-taught web developers—especially those looking to change careers. But, what do all of these terms even mean? Why are they important? What happens if you don't know them? What do you need to know in order to...

The Web Developer Roadmap by Kamran Ahmed (@kamranahmedse) has become a powerful resource for new self-taught web developers—especially those looking to change careers. Having a guide for your education certainly helps! And we're going to dissect it in its entirety, pulling apart what each of these sections actually mean. Be sure to catch the rest of the series!

The Web Developer Roadmap by Kamran Ahmed (@kamranahmedse) has become a powerful resource for new self-taught web developers—especially those looking to change careers. Having a guide for your education certainly helps! But, what do all of these terms even mean? Why are they important? What happens if you don't know them? In the first week of a 4-part series, Nicole dissects the first section of the Web Developer Roadmap (labeled "Required for any path"), explaining: The problems that each...

In this episode, you'll learn about problem solving, and how you can approach code challenges using a 7-step approach that will give you enough information to confidently solve your problems. For show notes and links, visit the La Vie en Code Podcast episode page at http://www.lavieencode.net/29.

Host Nicole Archambault learned to code in 2015 with Treehouse, one of the most popular video-based web development e-Learning platforms. Hear more about why she chose Treehouse over other platforms, how she got the most out of Treehouse's videos and community, and her own personal advice for leveraging Treehouse to land your first web development job. For show notes, Tweetables, and links mentioned in the episode, check out the episode page.

Self-taught software developer and cloud computing enthusiast Andrew Cook helps web developers understand why projects are so important to their career, and how they can get started building their own! I first met Andrew through CodeNewbie chats on Wednesday nights—my favorite night of the week—and we got to chatting about his work. I was really fascinated by a few aspects of his story. First, he had made this career transition from the medical industry to software development. I'm always...

I just love getting to know fellow students from diverse backgrounds, who taught themselves web development! This week's episode is a Self-Taught Student Talk with fellow self-taught web developer Kalalau Cantrell (or "Kal", for short). Kal entered the web development industry from a background in sound engineering, and teaching physics (!). I met him after reading his awesome article on the freeCodeCamp Medium page, "From Sound Engineer to Software Engineer—Why I'm Learning to Code". In...

The number of online spaces for people of color in the tech industry is low, and they are few and far between. These communities are desperately needed for underrepresented groups to tell their stories and share their experiences in this industry, which tend to be very different from those of majority groups. Join Nicole for a chat with Michael Berhane, co-founder of People of Color in Tech (POCiT), a rapidly-growing website and community featuring... people of color in tech!