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Joining Saron today is Michelle Glauser, CEO & Founder of Techtonica. Ever since joining the industry as a software engineer, Michelle recognized the glaring lack of diversity within the world of tech, which is why she's dedicated herself to addressing this issue. Techtonica is a nonprofit that provides tuition-free tech training with laptops, living stipends, and job placement or search support to women and non-binary adults with low incomes. Michelle shares insights she's gained through her coding journey and advice for those looking to start their path today.

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• Women Who Code
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• Feedback Framework
• I Look Like An Engineer
• Class Straddling
• Tech Gap
• Python
• JavaScript
• Hackbright

Michelle Glauser is the founder and CEO of Techtonica, a nonprofit that offers low-income women and non-binary adults free tech training, along with living and childcare stipends, then places them in positions at sponsoring companies that are ready to support more diverse teams. She learned to code at Hackbright Academy in 2012 and became a software engineer, where she quickly realized that the industry was severely lacking diversity. Michelle is also the lead organizer for PyLadiesSF, and in 2015, she spearheaded the #ILookLikeAnEngineer ad campaign.

Leslie Hitchcock started her career writing white papers on information security. Now, she organizes some of the largest hackathons and tech events in the world for TechCrunch. She shares her tips on how new developers can make the most out of a hackathon, what types of coding projects people work on, and how she helps make hackathons more inclusive.

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• Alexandra Jordan
• Titstare
• TechCrunch Disrupt
• TechCrunch
• Ford Sync
• Black Girls Code
• TechCrunch Include
• Stuxnet virus
• Codeland, our CodeNewbie conference
• Codeland Conf
• Codeland 2019

Leslie is a senior executive at TechCrunch, producing the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference and Hackathon. Leslie also writes for TechCrunch and maintains her own blog reviewing startups and tech products at Leslie Just Joined. She is very widely networked in tech, in Silicon Valley, Israel, and Europe, and has deep insight into startups, investment, and PR. TechCrunch is the leading publication about tech and startups, and building on this TechCrunch Disrupt is a leading global tech conference.

In this episode, we talk about how to transition into development after over a decade in your field, with Christine Fletcher, UI/UX developer/designer at capSpire. Christine talks about experiencing burnout working as a nurse and deciding to take the leap to learn to code, what her experience was going the bootcamp route to learn, and how she landed her first coding job.

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• capSpire
• HTML
• freeCodeCamp
• Lambda
• JavaScript
• Edabit
• Flexbox

Christine Fletcher is a full-stack software engineer incorporating JAMstack technologies in her web applications. She is proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node, and Python.

In this episode, we talk about the evolution of freeCodeCamp with the teacher who founded freeCodeCamp, Quincy Larson. Quincy talks about creating the online learning resource he wished he had when he transitioned mid-career into tech, how freeCodeCamp has grown over time in community and content, and what the future of freeCodeCamp holds.

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• freeCodeCamp
• Visual Basic
• Head First Programming
• Project Euler
• JavaScript
• Rust
• Visual Studio Code
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• WordPress
• Python
• Django
• Node.js
• COBOL
• HTML
• CSS
• Git
• Linux
• C
• Learn to Code RPG – A Visual Novel Video Game Where you Learn Computer Science Concepts
• Web3
• Jupyter Notebook
• The Coding Bootcamp Handbook: Immersive Engineering Programs Explained

Quincy Larson is a JavaScript developer and the teacher who founded Free Code Camp.

In this episode, we talk about how to learn data science and machine learning, with Jay Feng, co-founder and head of data science at Interview Query. Jay talks about how data science got him back into development after some bad coding experiences, how the different tools for machine learning and data science work together, and if machine learning is really as difficult as it sounds.

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• Kaggle
• Inflection
• Jobr
• Monster
• Nextdoor
• Python
• R
• SQL
• Apache Spark
• Coursera
• Dataquest
• DataCamp

Jay is a data scientist and co-founder of Interview Query. He's worked in data for five years before starting his own business working on getting more data scientist enthusiasts into the industry.