Launch School Podcast
Displaying Episode 21 - 28 of 28 in total of Launch School Podcast with the tag “education”.
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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.
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S2E3: Sasha Prodan - 3 year journey to software engineering
March 9th, 2020 | Season 2 | 55 mins 10 secs
education, programming
I catch up with Sasha Prodan, who describes her multi-year journey to her high-paying software engineering role. Sasha arrived in the US as an immigrant, worked retail jobs to support herself, and spent 3 years completing her transition to a software engineering role in San Francisco.
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S2E2: Julius Zerwick on path to Software Engineer at DigitalOcean, writing a book, and comparing coding bootcamps
February 7th, 2020 | Season 2 | 48 mins 27 secs
education, programming
Capstone graduate and frequent Launch School Tech Talk speaker, Julius Zerwick comes on the podcast to chat about his Software Engineer job at DigitalOcean, software salaries in NYC, the importance of soft skills, pros/cons of coding bootcamp vs Launch School, and his upcoming book Make Sense of Distributed Systems from Manning.
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S2E1: Tannr Allard - $120k job first, college after
January 19th, 2020 | Season 2 | 42 mins 41 secs
education, programming
In this first episode of Season 2 of the Launch School podcast, I chat with Capstone graduate Tannr Allard about his reflections on going from leaving college to a $120K job to working in blockchain development.