Programming Throwdown, Episode 89, From Combat to Code with the Jerome Hardaway.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everyone. As Patrick said,

we have Jerome with us. Jerome is a, you know, combat veteran, and he's, you know, started his career out, you know, in the military, and then after that has moved on, and we'll kind of, you know,

listen about his story and also the amazing work he's doing with a group called VetsuCode.

And along the way, you know, he'll be able to tell a lot of us something which I know a lot

of people out there are interested in, which is how do we sort of retool, you know, maybe we've done, you know, one career for five years, ten years, 30 years,

and we just get this passion to, you know, get into software development, get into engineering.

You know, how do we go about realizing, you know, that dream?

And that's what we have, Jerome here here to talk about today uh roger at

hey guys how you doing it's a very uh very good day and like awesome to meet you i so thank you for having

cool so why don't you start by kind of walking us through um you know did you go in kind of uh

through a university to school did you go in kind of through university to school?

Did you go from high school to the military?

What was that transition like?

How about military to civilian, civilian to coder?

Like, kind of walk us through that whole story.

Roger that.

It's kind of like military to veteran. Like you're never like back to civilian and you're just like, hey, you're a civilian, military, veteran and then while being a veteran, you're a programmer.

Ah, I see. Okay.

Yeah. So when I was civilian, back in my younger years, sports score and some years ago, when I was a week last.

I ended up going straight into the Air Force from high school.

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