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How to Crush Your Live Coding Interview

Mastering Live Coding Does the idea of coding on a whiteboard, away from your IDE, in front of a seasoned programmer leave you shaking in your boots?..

Placement Profile: Hakim in Kansas City

A Sense of Purpose Paving the Way After moving from Ethiopia, Hakim held several positions that didn't accurately reflect his experience of..

Finding the Ability to Transform: Shawn from St. Louis

No Limit to Reinvention: A Web Developer is Born After having several different careers, ranging from serving in the United States Army to working in..

Following a Passion: Jiho in Kansas City

How did you hear about LaunchCode? A year before hearing about LaunchCode, I took some online courses on data science. I managed to get through some..

Cashier to Coder: Gail in St. Louis

Moving Out of a Job and Into a Career A year ago, I was a supermarket cashier with a bachelor's degree in English. Today I'm a programmer for Express..

Learning Something New: Carly in St. Louis

A Simple Challenge Turned into a Career You often hear that programmers are drawn to coding because it comes naturally to them. LaunchCoder Carly..

Candidate Profile: Learn About Bill

Learning How To Learn What path led you to LaunchCode? I graduated at the end of 2016 from Portland State University studying Graphic Design. My core..

Rethinking Problem Solving: Katy in St. Louis

Finding the Right Time for Takeoff Katy first heard about LaunchCode from an announcement for the first CS50x course at the Central Library in St...

Launched & Landed: Shaun

From Vet & Journalist to Student to Apprentice to HIRED!   Tell us a little bit about your background. I'm an Air Force veteran with a bachelor's..

Coding As ... Art?

Make All. The. Things. At first glance, it may be hard to find the relationship between coding and art — the dominant tech culture and perceived..