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    100 Days of Code Success Stories

    100 Days of Code: Nabendu Biswas on Motivating Students—and Himself

    January 9, 2022 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing folks who have recently participated in the #100DaysOfCode challenge. Today we’re talking to Nabendu Biswas. Nabendu has been working in the software industry for the past 16 years, and he has a decade of experience in building professional websites and front-end applications. He started his career with a government research lab. He then worked at a startup and top investment bank. His previous job was in Innominds as associate architect. In September 2021 he became a full-time JavaScript teacher and founder at TWD. He teaches JavaScript, React.js, and complete web-app development to various corporations, startups, and individuals. You can connect with him…

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    100 Days of Code: Disney Web Producer Katie Reynolds on Self-Reliance

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    This post is part of a series interviewing folks who have recently participated in the #100DaysOfCode challenge. Today we’re talking to Katie Reynolds, a web producer for Disney. Katie has worked in web content management for over a decade, but she never needed to know much coding besides very basic HTML. In her current role, she does most of her work in a no-code content management system (CMS). After her company furloughed her for a few months during the pandemic, Katie realized that she felt like she didn’t have any real technical skills in the event that she needed to find a new job. That motivated her to kick-start her…

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    100 Days of Code: From Ambulance Driver to Dev With the Coding Paramedic

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    This post is part of a series interviewing folks who have recently participated in the #100DaysOfCode challenge. Today, we’re talking to Elias Rostad, who goes by the alias @CodingParamedic on Twitter. Why the Coding Paramedic? Because he worked as a paramedic for 10 years before turning to code. Elias’ work as a paramedic ranged from big cities to small towns to a ship in the Pacific Ocean for two months to AirMed on a helicopter. As a paramedic, Elias was getting burned out, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. His wife noticed how much he enjoyed playing with the Grasshopper learn-to-code app and suggested he explore programming further. So, Elias bought…

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