Launch School Podcast
We found 10 episodes of Launch School Podcast with the tag “education”.
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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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S3E4: John and Adam Isom -- Skipping College, CS Degree vs Launch School, and Making Six Figures Together
August 13th, 2021 | Season 3 | 57 mins 43 secs
education, programming
John and Adam talk about their journeys working together through Launch School, and their experiences working through a CS degree. John also talks about his decision to skip college to attend Launch School.
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S2E10: Conference on Study Habits by The Social Network with Liz, Jesse, and Katarina
February 14th, 2021 | Season 2 | 1 hr 19 secs
education, learn to code, learning, programming
In this episode, I caught up with Liz, Jesse, and Katarina to chat about another peer-led community group at Launch School called "The Social Network" and the recent conference they put on focused on study habits.
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S2E9: Student Panel Discussion
November 18th, 2020 | Season 2 | 1 hr 1 min
education, programming
This is a slightly different episode in that it’s a recording of a webinar we did a few weeks ago about our Deferred Payment Program. Now why would we include a webinar in the podcast? Well, the reason is because this webinar is actually a panel of Launch School students and the conversation is mostly about their journey through Launch School, so I thought it’d be suitable for the podcast.
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S2E8: Community Learning at The Spot with Leena, Rodney, and Christian
October 31st, 2020 | Season 2 | 44 mins 19 secs
education, learn to code, learning to code, programming
In this episode, I caught up with Leena, Rodney, and Christian who started a peer-based study group within the Launch School community called SPOT, which stands for Study, Practice, Overlearn, and Teach. This is, arguably, one of the most important topics for us as a mastery-based learning program.