Launch School Podcast
We found 10 episodes of Launch School Podcast with the tag “education”.
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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.
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S2E7: Sunny Beatteay on Landing a Dream Job and Getting Promoted
July 23rd, 2020 | Season 2 | 1 hr 8 mins
education, programming
Sunny talks about his job as a Senior Software Engineer at Digital Ocean, how he got there, and how he got promoted so quickly.
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S2E5: Nick Calibey on landing a six-figure remote Software Engineer role
April 18th, 2020 | Season 2 | 47 mins 42 secs
education, programming
In this episode I got a chance to speak with Nick Calibey, a Capstone graduate and software engineer at TimescaleDB. We talked about how he went from getting his Masters in Theological Studies to now working on Cloud Infrastructure making 6 figures all working remotely from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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S2E4: Gabe, Arthur, and Ben on the importance of studying together and community
March 28th, 2020 | Season 2 | 44 mins 59 secs
education, learning to code, programming
Gabe, Ben, and Arthur share their story about how they, as a group, are supporting and helping each other through the Core Curriculum and the importance of community.