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Ep. 34 - Newbie Story: LaToya Allen (LaToya Allen)

CodeNewbie

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Tech News, Technology

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For our first Newbie Story, we talk to LaToya Allen, junior software engineer at Avant, a fast-growing Chicago startup. She tells us how she went from bartending to becoming an apprentice, and got her first full-time engineering job in just three weeks.

Transcript

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I'm your host, Aran, and before we kick off the show, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsors.

0:49.4

So we've had some pretty great people on the show so far.

0:52.5

We've had Zed Shaw, Raquel vellas tiffany bell but

0:56.3

they're pretty well established developers and we wanted to bring you more stories of code newbies

1:00.7

people who've made recent transitions into a technical career and here to tell you her story i'm excited

1:07.1

to have on the show letoya allen she is a junior software engineer at Avant, a Chicago startup.

1:13.0

Latoya, you want to say hi? Hello. So tell us what first inspires you to be a software engineer?

1:21.3

So one day, I was hanging out on my couch and I was bored because my yoga class got canceled and I needed something to do.

1:30.3

So, you know, when you're bored and you just kind of surf the internet, how you can get into these little nooks and crannies of the web.

1:37.3

So I found Codecademy, which I'm sure many of your code newbie listeners are familiar with.

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