Turing School Podcast
Weekly updates and interviews regarding Turing School of Software and design and the greater web development community as a whole.
Shaun's story. A fun conversation with Shaun as he talks about his life as a musician, bootcamp grad, and now full time developer. Hosted by Jeannie Evans and edited by Grayson Palmer.
Aurora's story. Forever educator tells how she found software engineering and continues to teach as she grows her career. Hosted by Jeannie Evans and edited by Grayson Palmer.
Seth's story. Artist, mixologist, DJ, and software engineer, Seth, tells us about his journey to becoming an engineer. Hosted by Jeannie Evans and edited by Grayson Palmer.
Chris' story. Taking skillsets from his time as an Air Force medic, this father tells his story and what the first half of his Turing journey has been like. Hosted by Jeannie Evans and edited by Grayson Palmer.
Aaron's story. From international development to software development. Hosted by Jeannie.
Current Turing students: Jessica Erickson, Jamison Ordway, Alexander Rau, Ashton K. Bailey, Kevin Simpson and Ruth Brand sit down at a communal table to discuss various topics relating to life and the experience of being at Turing, as well as how to handle the various struggles to achieve success.
Topics include:
- Feelings on achieving the end of a Mod at Turing
- The Daily Struggle
- Balancing the Turing Workload
- Life outside of Turing
Also, Drake Bott and Tim Garrity give the low-down on the McPosse at Turing!
Lastly, a big thank you to graduating Turing Podcast member and host: Jamison Ordway!
This episode was recorded and produced by Nick Lindeberg, @NickLindyCodes on Twitter.
Intro/Outro music credit:
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In this special episode of the Turing Podcast, we welcome our new hosts-- Kevin Simpson and Alex Rau from 1806 Front End!
Join us as we dive into some conversations about the day-to-day life at Turing School. Alex Rau will be talking with Sarah Schnall, Student Success Coordinator, to learn more about how Turing aims to support new students before and during Module 1.
Ruth Brand shares about the new extracurricular group, Turing Choir! Research shows that singing with others improves overall health and happiness and decreases stress levels.
Finally, Kevin Simpson will interview Aram Anderson. Aram is a Full Stack Developer at Captain U, and a graduate of Turing Back End program. Find out what students can expect upon graduating from the program.
This episode was recorded and produced by Nick Lindeberg, @NickLindyCodes on Twitter.
Intro/Outro music credit:
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Richard RosaSerrano and Jamison Ordway talk about reviving the Turing podcast for some new episodes, what it's like to be a new student at Turing, and the new format for upcoming cohorts' "Success at Turing" class.
Richard RosaSerrano on twitter: @rosathedev
Jamison Ordway on twitter: @jamisonordway
Megan Arellano on twitter: @classydanger
Justin Troyke on twitter: @j2thjt
Intro and Outro music credit:
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Jeff sits down with Christie to discuss her move from practicing lawyer to software developer.
Ian Douglas joins host Victoria Vasys for a remote episode- live at Stream (GetStream.io)! Ian is Developer Relations Lead at Stream & Turing's very own career coach mentor. Ian has been working with Turing students for about 3 years, helping to refine resumés, mentoring, conducting mock interviews & now even training Turing graduates to run their own mock interviews. We discuss effective resumé writing, what to expect in the mock interview process, what to do if you freeze-up during an interview, why white-boarding as an interview standard should die, networking, how to know if a company is right for you, and much more.
Thanks to Ian for hosting us at Stream, taking the time to chat, and gifting us some sweet swag (see Victoria for a free shirt before they run out!). And thanks to Kevin MacLeod of Icompetech for the lovely tunes he shares royalty-free.
Enjoy the show & as always, leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. Cheers.
Your host Victoria Vasys (1701 Back-end Mod 4) chats with some very special guests, Emily Freeman (1508 Back-end Graduate, developer advocate, public speaker, engineer at Kickbox.io), & Rick Rein (rubyist, CTO of Operation Code https://operationcode.org/) share their experience interviewing, ideas about mentorship, and tips on how to make the most out of your career as a new developer.
Thanks again to our fabulous guests & their patience with our publication as we transition. And thanks to Kevin MacLeod of Icompetech for the lovely tunes he shares royalty-free.
Enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. We look forward to your feedback! Cheers.
Turing grads Sonia Gupta (1606 Back-end) and Jesse Spevack (1606 Back-end) share their advice on how to make the most out of Turing and how to successfully secure a job. Enjoy the show & feel free to tweet us @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks to Kevin MacLeod for sharing his music for our intro & outro jingles & thanks for listening!
Your hosts Victoria Vasys (1701 Back-end Engineering Mod 3) and Travis Gregory (1701 Front-end Engineering Mod 3) talk with Turing grads Ali Schlereth (1608 Back-end) and Matt Kaufman (1608 Front-end) about life after Turing, what their job search was like, and what they are doing in their new found careers. Enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. We look forward to your feedback and thanks for listening!
Your hosts Victoria Vasys (Back-end Engineering Mod 3) and Travis Gregory (1701 Front-end Engineering Mod 3) talk with some of the new Mod 2 Front/Back end students about their experience thus far at Turing, current projects, and experiences good and bad. Our guests Evan Miller (Mod 2 Front-end), Aaron Olson (Mod 2 Back-end), and Joel Lindow (Mod 2 Back-end) tell us a little about themselves and what brought them to Turing.
We have been facing some recording snaffoos, so please forgive us that the audio quality isn't outstanding quite yet; we're working on transitioning to some better practices :)
Other than that, enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast or shoot us an email at turingpodcast@gmail.com. We look forward to your feedback! Thanks!
Last night, your hosts Victoria Vasys & Travis Gregory chatted with David Knott of Mod 4 Back-end and Dylan Avery, Elijah Williams, and Mike Limberg of Mod 4 Front-end. They touched on everything from what is a web app to reminiscing on the old smells from one of the former locations, the "Blakement", to the excitement of implementing all kinds of brand-new technologies in their capstones! Three cheers for graduating y'all!
Your hosts Victoria Vasys (1701 Back-end Engineering Mod 2) and Travis Gregory (1701 Front-end Engineering Mod 2) chat with guests Amara Lovato (1611 BEE) and Kyle Zucker (1611 FEE) about the joys of Mod 3, including details about their current personal projects and the power of ReactJS, Express, Ruby on Rails, and implementing APIs. Enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast and/or with a good 'ol email turingpodcast@gmail.com. We just re-started this podcast & would love to know your thoughts! Thanks!
Your hosts Victoria Vasys (1701 Back-end Engineering Mod 2) and Travis Gregory (1701 Front-end Engineering Mod 2) walk through some of the Turing lingo & give a little overview of current projects for each "mod." Then our guests Jack Pincus (1701 BEE) and Laura Turk (1701 FEE) chat about where they've come from, what's happenin' in Mod 2, some of their favorite technologies and other good tidbits. Enjoy the show & leave some feedback on Twitter @turingpodcast and/or with a good 'ol email turingpodcast@gmail.com. We just re-started this podcast & would love to know your thoughts! Thanks!
A Q&A about out our two curriculums to help students decide which route is best for them.
Nick stops by to talk about the job hunt and Turing life in general. Hit him up on Slack or Twitter at @nickynonaps.
Nick stops by to talk about the job hunt and Turing life in general. Hit him up on Slack or Twitter at @nickynonaps.
We sat down to chat with Ben Pepper, Turing student and Tesla employee, to recap his Friday talk and follow-up on some of the topics he mentioned.
If you are interested in what students are up to outside of the Turing Curriculum, have a listen to this episode of the Turing Podcast where we check in with the posse leads for Pahlka and Bezos.
If you are interested in what students are up to outside of the Turing Curriculum, have a listen to this episode of the Turing Podcast where we check in with the posse leads for Miyamoto and Armstrong.
Steve Kinney, director of the Front End Engineering program drops in to talk about what it's all about.
Brennan, the creator and host of the Turing podcast records his last episode. Brennan gives his inside look into Turing as well as what he will be up to now.
From going to school for Architecture to writing one of the notoriously hardest projects at Turing, Horace didn't take a super direct path to Turing (as seems to be the case for a lot of our instructors). He tells us about how he fell into this job, and what plans he has (or doesn't have) after climbing out of the basement.
Instructor and Co-Director of Academics, Rachel Warbelow, sits down for a round-table with a couple podcast newbies to talk about her time at Turing, and her story of finding out what coding is (via google).
Lia was too busy doing job stuff last week, and we're OK with that. She came back to talk a little bit more about how the job search is going for students, and what you need to know and do when you get a job offer of your very own.
Executive Director Jeff Casimir updates us on what's going on with Turing as a whole. Finances, enrollment, the new program, and a whole new basement of our own!
Lia is a fresh face here at Turing, and a shining light for job hunters. In this first part of a two-part series Lia talks about her past, what she's doing here at Turing, and how you can help her help you.
Julian and Kimi sit down with Brennan to talk about The Jungle that is module three and some of the struggles and successes involved. They are also pairing up on the final mod 3 project and getting a chance to work with a real company. They'll talk about what NREL is looking for, and how they are trying to deliver a real world solution.
"New" instructor, Nate Allen, talks about what appealed to him and drew him to Turing. He also talks about his real world experience, and calms some of Brennan's fears about sitting in front of a laptop 12 hours a day for the rest of his life.
Brennan Holtzclaw talks to Beth Sebian this week about Gear-Up sessions at Turing. Why would a tech school take an hour out of the week to talk about social justice issues? Beth has taken a bigger role in getting students involved, and gives us her thoughts on the issue.
Brennan Holtzclaw talks to Matt P. and J. Slota about what it's like to repeat a module at Turing. We change locations in the middle of the podcast, and at first you may think it sounds better,but then the background voices kick in, and Horace's furious keyboard skills make a special appearance.
Turing's Executive Director, Jeff Casimir, talks to Brennan Holtzclaw about a complaint recently lodged against the school, and then dives deeper into what he'd like to see as far as social changes in the tech community.
Jorge Tellez talks to Brennan Holtzclaw about the recent change to the tuition guarantee at Turing. Jorge talks about what this might mean for the future of the school, and incoming students.
