Launch School Podcast
Displaying Episode 11 - 20 of 20 in total of Launch School Podcast with the tag “coding”.
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S5E6: Julia Martin - The Journey from JS101 to Databricks
January 22nd, 2024 | Season 5 | 52 mins 24 secs
capstone, coding, data, databricks, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Chris interviews Julia Martin, a Capstone graduate and software engineer working at Databricks. She shares her journey from quitting her job to study at Launch School full-time, to her day-to-day now at a large tech company.
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S5E5: Student Spotlight - Imposter Syndrome and Recovering From a 'Not Yet', with Trisha
January 8th, 2024 | Season 5 | 35 mins 28 secs
coding, community, education, imposter syndrome, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Brandi interviews Trisha about receiving a 'Not Yet' on the first assessment in Launch School and how she changed her habits after.
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S5E4: Jon Kulton - From Software Engineering to SRE
December 25th, 2023 | Season 5 | 57 mins 59 secs
capstone, coding, data, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Chris interviews Jon Kulton in this episode. Jon completed Capstone at the end of 2019 and landed his first role during the beginning of the COVID pandemic. He has since transitioned to working for Datadog, a public company that provides monitoring and security services for cloud applications.
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S5E3: Student Resources - The SPOT & GatherTown
December 11th, 2023 | Season 5 | 54 mins 30 secs
coding, community, education, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Chris has a conversation with JD and Daniel about The SPOT community and GatherTown, two resources available to Launch School students.
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S5E2: Student Spotlight - ADHD and Parenthood with Benjamin
November 27th, 2023 | Season 5 | 37 mins 34 secs
adhd, coding, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, neurodivergent, parenting, programming, software engineering, tech
In episode two, Brandi interviews Benjamin Walker, a current student juggling parenthood and ADHD after stepping away from a career in education.
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S5E1: Ginni Pinckert - Ancient Greek to AI
November 13th, 2023 | Season 5 | 1 hr 8 mins
ai, capstone, coding, education, engineer, engineering, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
Chris and Ginni chat about Ginni's experiences through Launch School and Capstone, as well as how her new job as a software engineer at Sudowrite is going.
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S5E0: Welcome to Season 5!
November 10th, 2023 | Season 5 | 1 min 12 secs
coding, launch school, learn to program, software engineering
A quick introduction to this season with a peek at what's to come.
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S4E7 Bytes: Biggest Takeaways This Year
December 7th, 2022 | Season 4 | 30 mins 13 secs
coding, launch school, mastery, programming, software engineering, tech
In this bytes episode Karis asks Chris and the Launch School community "What was some of their biggest takeaways this year at Launch School?" After the students and staff share their takeways, Karis closes the episode with some Launch School announcements and upcoming events.
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S4E6: Programming Essentials Workshops Q&A and Catchup with UK Capstone Graduate Kelvin
September 28th, 2022 | Season 4 | 56 mins 25 secs
coding, launch school, learn to program, software engineering
In this episode Chris and Karis conduct a Q&A session about Launch School's new Programming Essentials Workshops, what they are why new programmers would want to attend. Karis then catches up with Launch School Alumnus Kelvin, who shares his experiences as a UK Capstone student and what it's like working as a software engineer based in the UK. The episode comes to a close with some Launch School announcements and upcoming events.
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S4E5: Transforming at Launch School
August 22nd, 2022 | Season 4 | 1 hr 19 mins
coding, isa, launch school, software engineering, transformation
In this episode Chris and Karis discuss a recent inspirational talk given by Core graduate student Jake. Chris answers some additional Launch School-related questions including how ISAs work. Karis interviews Capstone graduate and Launch School Alumna Catherine, who shares what life has been like as a software engineer a year and a half on from her studies at Launch School. The episode ends with a few announcements about the latest events.