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S3:E8 - How to learn to code when you have no time and money (Colleen Schnettler)

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4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Colleen is a military spouse, mother of three, and taught herself how to code over a number of years. She tells us how she did it, and how you can do it too.

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0:00.0

Oh, that's my prime delivery.

0:01.6

What, already?

0:02.7

Only one thing can match the buzz of Prime's fast delivery.

0:06.2

And that's the buzz of Prime's entertainment.

0:09.0

What are we watching?

0:09.7

Heads of state, that new action comedy with Idris Elber as the Prime Minister,

0:13.3

John Sina as the president, and Prianka Chopra Jonas,

0:15.9

as their only hope.

0:17.0

It looks like a blast.

0:18.2

From fast delivery to explosive entertainment, it's on Prime. For only

0:23.0

899 a month, join now. Content includes limited ads, subscription, or to renews. For more information,

0:28.2

go to amazon.com.ukau.U.K. slash prime. Welcome to the Codenovie podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

0:44.0

I'm your host, Saron, and today we're talking about learning to code.

0:50.4

We've all heard the story of quitting your job, spending three months learning to code,

0:55.0

and immediately getting a six-figure salary.

0:57.0

If that's what happened to you, that's awesome.

0:59.0

But for the rest of us, it's a bit more complicated.

1:02.0

My name is Colleen Schnettler, and I'm a freelance Ruby on Rails developer.

1:06.0

She's a military spouse, mother of three, and taught herself how to code over a few years. She tells us how she

1:12.4

did it and how you can do it too after this. So I'm so excited to talk to you because you submitted a talk

1:23.8

to codeland, and you are speaking at cod land so people get to also meet you in real

1:28.2

life after hearing this episode. And your abstract was so fascinating because we have a lot of

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