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You may have heard of quality assurance and testing, but what's quality engineering? Intuit engineer, Rocio Montes, guides us through the world of quality, and shares why she's so passionate about this piece of the product development process. She also shares her own journey of being a quality engineer and how you can get started on the same career path. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Mocha (JavaScript testing framework) Chai (BDD/TDD assertion library) Design for Delight RSpec Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Rocio MontesRocio Montes is a Staff Software Engineer at Intuit. She leads the automation and quality strategy for the consumer open platform team. Outside of Intuit, she is on the leadership team of San Diego's “Girl Develop It” and the Co-founder of “Emar”, a small business whose mission is to connect small businesses in the US who have tech needs with software engineering interns in Peru.

Suz Hinton introduces us to the world of open source hardware. She shares interesting projects, both artistic and functional, and breaks down the steps it takes to create a hardware product. She also tells us what it's like to livestream her coding projects on her Twitch channel, and why she keeps doing it even though it can be scary and uncomfortable. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Arduino Raspberry Pi Adafruit Suz's Twitch channel Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Suz HintonSuz Hinton is an open source maintainer of several popular JavaScript hardware libraries. She works on open source live every Sunday morning, streaming her work via the website Twitch. Suz is passionate about developer education, accessibility, IoT, and the NYC subway.

Kevin Scott is the first CTO of Microsoft in almost twenty years. But what does the chief technology officer at such a large tech company do? He tells us all about his day-to-day, how he ended up at Microsoft, and shares his thoughts on the value of computer science degrees. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) LEAP Apprenticeship at Microsoft Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott (podcast) Microsoft Build (conference) Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Kevin ScottKevin Scott is executive vice president and the chief technology officer for Microsoft. His 20-year career in technology spans both academia and industry as researcher, engineer and leader at companies such as LinkedIn, AdMob and Google.

Angela Andrews hosted her first coding workshop at her dining room table. Since then, she's hosted a number of coding workshops, sharing her technical skills and introducing other codenewbies to new tech topics. She shares how she puts on these workshops and how being a newbie herself has helped her be a better teacher. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Vim Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodePen VM World Girl Develop It Philadelphia WordPress Philly WordPress Meetup Geocities Head First Series (books) Hypervisor Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Angela AndrewsAngela Andrews is a systems administrator where she specializes in Linux, Windows, and VMware. She's active in her local coding community where she dabbles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, PHP, SQL, AWS and WordPress development. In her spare time she's always learning new technologies, blogs, and teaches group fitness.

Michael started his career as a glass blower, creating lighting for movies and tv shows. But after cutbacks at work, he decided it was time to look into other careers, and revisited his childhood love of computers. He shares how he taught himself to code, and the one-year job search that landed him the developer job he has today. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) freeCodeCamp Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Michael PimentelMichael is a self taught software developer that is passionate about learning and teaching all things software.

Kathryn's participated in dozens of hackathons as a student, and even when things didn't go well, she kept going back. Kathryn shares all the ways hackathons have helped her in her professional coding career, what the real benefits are (spoiler alert: it's not the thing you're hacking on), and how you can get the benefits of a hackathon even if you're not a student. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) MHacks8 "Hackathons" CodeNewbie Podcast episode blondiebytes YouTube channel Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Kathryn HodgeKathryn Hodge works as a software developer at a large media company. Some of her most recent projects include building virtual and augmented reality experiences using C# and Unity as well as creating applications for the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant in Node.js and JavaScript. She also runs the blondiebytes YouTube channel, where she posts programming tutorials every Wednesday.

Whether you're a new developer or an experienced developer, you probably don't enjoy the technical interview process. It's long, hard, and, often times, not even related to the actual job you're interviewing for. So how do you make the most of this notoriously difficult process? We talk to Parker Phinney, creator of Interview Cake, on what to expect in an interview and what to do when you feel like you don't know what you're doing. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Interview Cake Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Parker PhinneyParker thinks data structures and algorithms seem much more complicated than they are, because people are bad at explaining them. That's why he started Interview Cake, a coding interview prep tool that makes this stuff easy.

Launch Code is a non-profit that helps you launch your tech career through apprenticeships. But what's it like to be a coding apprentice? Kasey, one of their graduates, shares her experiences as an apprentice and how she successfully navigated the tech industry and landed her first job. Chris, their VP of Education, talks about what companies are looking for when hiring a code newbie and how you can increase your chances of getting your first tech job even without a traditional CS background. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Launch Code Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Kasey Oglesby Kasey is a software developer based in St Louis, MO. After 20 years of job-hopping, she found LaunchCode's education and job placement programs, which helped propel her into her dream job in development.Chris BayChris Bay is Vice President of Education at LaunchCode, where he helps build and run LaunchCode’s education programs. He holds an MA in Math, and has worked in the tech and nonprofit sectors for 10 years.

A big part of the developer culture is sharing knowledge, writing blog posts, and posting code. You show your passion for coding by putting your work out there, but how do you show that passion if you can't publish your work? What if your job requires you to keep your work private? What if being quiet is part of being safe online? We talk to Seán Hanson about what it means to be a quiet developer and how passion doesn't always have to be loud. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Dark Matter Developers Seán's talk "On Quiet Developers" Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Seán HansonSeán is a queer neurodivergent Brooklyn-based developer with an incredibly underwhelming history of open source contributions. Outside of work, he's likely to be seen playing Javanese Gamelan, helping out in support groups, and baking fancy cakes.

Amir Rajan is CEO of RubyMotion, a tool that helps you turn your ruby code base into an iOS app. He shares his own app building experience, and what developers should know when turning their project into a mobile app. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Metaprogramming A Dark Room RubyMotion Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Amir RajanIndie game developer and stewart of RubyMotion.