Episodes
I chatted to Per Borgen, the CEO of Scrimba, an online platform for learning to code.
Published 02/08/22
Published 02/08/22
Today's interview is with Caitlyn Greffly. She used to work in sales for a beer company but was burned out and wanted a change of career. So she started exploring programming and signed up to a coding bootcamp. Now she is a developer at the financial website Motley Fool.
Published 01/28/22
Enyel Sequeira successfully changed career by learning to code. He went from being a teacher, unhappy with the routine, to becoming a developer.
Published 01/05/22
I talked to Ric Lavers about learning to code, consulting and working as a Software Engineer.
Published 11/11/21
I talked to Ade about learning to code and switching into tech after working in a call-centre. This episode is sponsored by Boolean.
Published 09/29/21
An interview with entrepreneur and self-taught developer Arvid Kahl. We go over why you don't need a degree to be successful as a developer, his tips for building a business without VC funding, how to promote products in a community the right way and the importance of building an audience. We also talk about his ebooks Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur.
Published 08/17/21
An interview with self-taught developer Tom Hirst on pricing freelance projects, learning to code and the future of Wordpress as a headless CMS.
Published 08/11/21
I'm excited to share an interview with Austen Allred, the founder/ CEO of Lambda School, one of the most famous and innovative coding bootcamps. Austen was kind enough to talk for an hour about how he learned to code, how Lambda School works, what's broken with the US college system and his own journey as an entrepreneur.
Published 07/28/21
I chatted to the Transistor FM co-founder on learning to code as a marketer, what skating and coding have in common, tips for beginners and how to choose the right market for your business.
Published 07/20/21
An interview for No CS Degree with Dennis Ivy, a self-taught developer who specialises in Django, a Python framework. We go into how Dennis learned to code without a college education, sold a website to his employer and common beginner developer mistakes.
Published 06/24/21
Pauline Narvas joins me for an interview on YouTube about being a self-taught web developer, getting hired and learning DevOps.
Published 06/23/21
An interview with Alex Chernikov, a self-taught developer from Ukraine, whose company is now making $18k/m a month. Learn how Alex learned to code without a CS degree and built up a successful business with his friend without any VC funding.
Published 05/28/21
An interview with Kenneth, a self-taught developer from Texas. Kenneth has also made over $10,000 teaching developers how to learn Vim and is now helping other developers monetize their knowledge with his Slip product.
Published 05/10/21