Welcome to the Code Movie podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey

in terms of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Aron, and today we're talking about going from convict to coder with Rick

Walter, software developer at Kina Healthcare Technology.

And I kept thinking, I can't do this because I have attention deficit disorder of bad.

I'm not going to be able to sit here and stare at the screen.

I'm more of an active person.

I have a felony.

And so I feel like I didn't believe that it would happen.

Rick talks about being sent to prison for murder as a teen, deciding to learn to code while being locked up, and what it takes to land that first job with a felony on your record. After this.

Thanks so much for being here. Oh, thanks for having me.

So, Rick, your coding journey has been a relatively new one.

Tell us about your background and what led you to becoming a developer.

I learned about it while I was incarcerated.

I went to prison when I was a teenage.

I was really young.

And right before I got out, someone had sent me some stuff on coding and I read some

things about the demand for it. And at the time, I was worried about not having a skill,

having been incarcerated for a long time. So I started learning in there. We had access to a few

things. It wasn't exactly official. I basically started a few years before I was released in 2016.

The very end of 16 is when I was released. So I started around 14.

Why did you go to prison?

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