Launch School Podcast
Displaying Episode 11 - 20 of 31 in total of Launch School Podcast with the tag “programming”.
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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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S4E8: Capstone Salary Reflections
December 19th, 2022 | Season 4 | 27 mins 51 secs
capstone, launch school, programming, salaries, software engineer
In this episode Chris and Karis discuss the latest Capstone Salaries page update. Chris shares important data to look out for on the new salaries page, and provides advice when comparing other career-launching programs out there on the market. This discussion is to be used as a companion guide to the salaries page, and is especially helpful for those looking to have more clarity on Capstone. The episode finishes with some announcements and upcoming events.
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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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S4E3: The Story of Launch School
May 5th, 2022 | Season 4 | 2 hrs 3 mins
how to learn, launch school, programming
In this episode Launch School Student Felicia interviews Chris as he shares the origin story of how Launch School came to be. He also offers his unique perspective on how Launch School approaches learning, coding education and software engineering. The show includes several new announcements that students should be aware of.
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S4E2: Latest News, Interviews and Catch-up with Mandy
April 14th, 2022 | Season 4 | 1 hr 12 mins
how to learn, launch school, programming
This episode Karis and Chris discuss the all the latest Launch School interviews and presentations. Karis also catches up with the co-host from last season Mandy who now works at Mozilla. Finally they leave you with a number of new announcements that students should be aware of.