![#86: ”‘It‘s Never Too Late!‘ A Mother‘s Pursuit of Code‘ with Chinenye Ikpa | Educative Sessions]()
November 22, 2021
Chinenye Ikpa was a wife and mother of four children when she realized she needed to challenge herself further, and she was particularly curious about a career as a software developer. However, many in her community said that her timing to pursue a career was a bit too late, and that she should "leave it for the younger ones" and focus on her family. Now she's training at the Decagon Institute and is an award-winning Edpresso Contributor.
Watch the YouTube HERE:
https://youtu.be/pVVW0By09rM
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Chinenye Ikpa is a software developer in training who is hands-on and excited at the potential opportunities to provide effective and efficient software solutions to real-life problems. She is an author with
educative.io. She loves to spend her time with family and at other times, enjoys demystifying complex topics and sharpening her analytical skills.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 86: "'It's Never Too Late!' A Mother's Pursuit of Code' with Chinenye Ikpa | Educative Sessions
![#85: ”Balancing That ‘Feeling‘ with Data-Driven Career Decisions” with Rose Punkunus of Sudozi | Educative Sessions]()
November 15, 2021
Rose Zhong Punkunus has had an eclectic career over the years: software developer in finance, pursuing a PhD in economics, founding a girls’ entrepreneurial non-profit, and data scientist for some major Silicon Valley companies. The one thing that has guided her decision-making: paying attention to that feeling that “something” could work better. But how does Rose reconcile that “feeling” with her data-driven training? We discuss that and more in this episode of Educative Sessions.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/4EjXC6qm5pc
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Rose Punkunus is the Founder and CEO of Sudozi, a software platform to help finance teams collaborate with business partners on procurement and budgets. Previously Rose was CFO at ScaleFactor, VP Finance at Fundbox, and Regional CFO for the US & Canada business at Uber. Rose has an undergraduate degree in Economics from MIT and MBA from UCLA Anderson.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 85: "Balancing That 'Feeling' with Data-Driven Career Decisions" with Rose Punkunus of Sudozi | Educative Sessions
![#84: ”Saving My Bioinformatics Career During the Pandemic” with Ethel Klu | Educative Sessions]()
November 8, 2021
At university, Ethel Klu worked on a project in bioinformatics with zero experience in programming, and she struggled to interpret the different letters and symbols on her screen. However, her project was shut down at the onset of the pandemic in early 2020. Unsure of what to do next, Ethel Klu discovered a Machine Learning program organized by Yielding Accomplished African Women and seized the opportunity to resume her passion of bioinformatics again.
Watch the YouTube HERE:
https://youtu.be/VL8c8qSCiJg
ABOUT OUR GUEST
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 84: "Saving My Bioinformatics Career During the Pandemic" with Ethel Klu | Educative Sessions
![#83: ”A ‘Moneyball‘ Approach to Hiring Tech Talent” with Neeraj Kashyap of Moonstream.io | Educative Sessions]()
November 1, 2021
After arriving in Silicon Valley with a background in mathematics, Neeraj Kashyap has managed several technology teams and developed a knack for a certain type of candidate. This talk with go into detail about what Neeraj looks for in a "Moneyball" algorithmic way, and that often times it's good to focus on the "unpredictable."
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/Z1ujaZ4qcDQ
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Neeraj Kashyap is a mathematician by training. During his career he built blockchain technology for healthcare applications. He worked at Google (the Tensorflow and Cloud AI teams). He has been a blockhead since 2015, with a focus on building software to connect blockchains to centralized services as well as to other blockchains. He's now a maintainer of Moonstream.to, which is a free and open-source tool for blockchain analytics.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 83: ”A 'Moneyball' Approach to Hiring Tech Talent” with Neeraj Kashyap of Moonstream.io | Educative Sessions
![#82: ”Sacrificing My Engineering Career … to Code” with Obinna Asiegbulam | Educative Sessions]()
October 25, 2021
Obinna Asiegbulam knew he had to attend university and become a successful mechanical engineer and support his four siblings and widowed mother, all of whom sacrificed their own opportunities to help him succeed. However, Obinna fell quickly out of love with drafting and wanted to do something new. Seeing the potential of the Nigerian tech sector and the creative potential of coding, Obinna had to make a sacrifice of his own.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/xqEVvTQEhjg
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Obinna is a 28-year-old software developer from Nigeria. He is the fourth of five children of a widowed mother. Despite his poor background, he did everything possible to acquire a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. Although his upbringing was plagued by the untimely death of his father, followed by prolonged hardship, he remained passionate about education. His attentiveness to details and positive can-do attitude have kept him afloat and made him standout.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 82: "Sacrificing My Engineering Career ... to Code" with Obinna Asiegbulam | Educative Sessions
![#81: ”From the Academy to the Valley” with Davit Buniatyan of Activeloop.ai | Educative Sessions]()
October 18, 2021
At an early age, Davit Buniatyan was poised for a stellar career in academia. However, for some reason, he refused the call to jump into tech entrepreneurship after his PhD advisor at Princeton left to pursue a new calling. Eventually, Davit got the call to pursue his own startup idea as well. Check out David's story from the academy to the Valley.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/YZxspGOqWzU
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Before Davit Buniatyan started his PhD at Princeton at the age of 21, he was featured by TechCrunch at the age of 18. During his time at Princeton, he worked on a lot of fun stuff, such as making Alexa more human (which got him featured in CNet). Also, he reconstructed neurons inside mouse brains, which made him think of a radically more efficient way to handle data for machine learning. This idea got him into Y Combinator, where he started https://www.activeloop.ai/, a YC company.
Join Activeloop’s community to connect with fellow engineers and data scientists: ►► https://slack.activeloop.ai
Visit Activeloop’s website: ►► https://www.activeloop.ai/
Listen to the Human in the Loop podcast to learn about what’s new in machine learning: ►►https://www.activeloop.ai/podcasts/
Check out Hub, an open-source library maintained by Activeloop: ►► https://github.com/activeloopai/Hub
Visit Educative to start your journey into code ►► https://educative.ioDon't forget to subscribe to Educative Sessions on YouTube! ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 81: "From the Academy to the Valley" with Davit Buniatyan of Activeloop.ai | Educative Sessions
![#80: ”Mindset Over Matter: How I Learned to Learn Code” with Ngbede Alike | Educative Sessions]()
October 11, 2021
Ngbede Alike came from humble beginnings before he attended university, studied chemical engineering, and eventually became a software engineer. However, he believes the problem with learning tech for people like him is not entirely a question of access. For him, much of it has to do with acquiring the right "mindset" to code.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/srV_lhfvlVc
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Ngbede Alike is a Java Engineer Trainee at Decagon and an award-winning contributor to the Edpresso platform at Educative. He would introduce himself as a dreamer. He hopes someday to work at Google, working on applications for billions of people and having an impact on the world through technology.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 80: "Mindset Over Matter: How I Learned to Learn Code" with Ngbede Alike | Educative Sessions
![#79: ”A CTO Always Pays His Technical Debt” with Brian Leonard of Grouparoo | Educative Sessions]()
October 4, 2021
Before Brian Leonard became the CEO of Grouparoo, he was the CTO of TaskRabbit, once faced with the difficult choice of abandoning aspects of their business that actually made money and had community support. Watch as we discuss how he and his team navigated their way out of this "technical debt."
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/B8X9pnlcd3I
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Brian Leonard is the CEO and co-founder of Grouparoo, the open source customer data framework that makes it 10x easier to integrate customer data with cloud-based tools. Before that, he was CTO and technical co-founder of TaskRabbit, a pioneer in the gig economy.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 79: "A CTO Always Pays His Technical Debt" with Brian Leonard of Grouparoo | Educative Sessions
![#78: ”I Brought a Drumset to a Python Meetup” with Boris Zalkin | Educative Sessions]()
September 27, 2021
At the Python Meetup group in Munich, Germany, one of the organizers heard Boris Zalkin could drum. "What if you brought your drum kit to our next Meetup? What's the worst that could happen?" Even though he empathizes with the ears and experiential expectations of other Meetup attendees, Boris came to play. Check out the rest of this story.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/0ovigV5WpB0
ABOUT OUR GUEST
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 78: "I Brought a Drumset to a Python Meetup" with Boris Zalkin | Educative Sessions
![#77: ”Learning Code by Giving Back” with Chibuike Nwachukwu of Spleet Africa | Educative Sessions]()
September 20, 2021
When Chibuike Nwachukwu began his programming journey in college, it was really difficult for him to find his path. From his ever-changing interests to lack of mentorship and guidance, its a surprise he stayed focused. Now that he's matured, he sees to it that no junior coder he encounters has to go through the many avoidable hassles he went through.
In our session, Chibuike tells us how helping others helped him become a better coder and also help him find himself along the way.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/Q7J5qrcPyns
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Chibuike Nwachukwu is a self-educated software engineer and technical Writer. He is a passionate problem solver, who enjoys constant learning and knowledge sharing. When not coding, you would find him playing games or forming new partnerships.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 77: "Learning Code by Giving Back" with Chibuike Nwachukwu of Spleet Africa | Educative Sessions
![#76: ”Making a Bilingual C++ Blog a Success” with Rainer Grimm of Modernes C++ | Educative Sessions]()
September 13, 2021
Rainer Grimm loves to teach and explain modern C++. Consequently, he has written a few books, a few courses, and videos about modern C++. Most C++ developer know Rainer because he is the author of the blog Modernes C++ (https://www.modernescpp.com/) that started as a German blog. Both blogs are more than five years old have about 1000 posts and in average 100,000 readers a week.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/hvGmHu0QVJs
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Rainer Grimm has worked as a software architect, and team lead. In 2002, he created company-intern meetings for further education and started to give trainings. Rainer loves to write articles. He publish weekly on his English blog and the German blog. Since 2016 he is an independent instructor for C++ and Python. Rainer published several books in various languages to modern C++ and concurrency, in particular. Due to his profession, Rainer always searches for the best way to teach modern C++.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 76: "Making a Bilingual C++ Blog a Success" with Rainer Grimm of Modernes C++| Educative Sessions
![#75: “From ‘D’ to PhD in STEM” with Marsha Tufft of Putney Designs | Educative Sessions]()
September 6, 2021
Marsha Tufft got her first D ever in physics – electricity and magnetism–sophomore year, and later went on to complete a Ph.D. in engineering. But that D rocked her world. She didn’t know if she had what it took to continue in engineering. When the rubber hit the road, it was the hobbies and creative design projects she did as a kid that provided the resilience and grit to stay the course.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/LPXGQvo4G60
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Marsha Tufft earned a BS in mechanical engineering, MS in aerospace engineering, and Ph.D. in materials engineering. Since retiring from GE Aviation, her passion is getting kids engaged in STEM fields through her stories and STEM experiments. She's been active with GE volunteers, Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, and also offers school visits in the Greater Cincinnati area. You can learn more at her website, www.putneydesigns.com!
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 75: "From 'D' to PhD in STEM" with Marsha Tufft of Putney Designs | Educative Sessions
![#74: “‘Timing’ in Building a Hardware Design Startup” with Kevin Mako | Educative Sessions]()
August 30, 2021
Kevin started Mako Design + Invent in high school, then incorporated in University where Kevin was section class president at the Ivey Business School (Harvard's sister school). He then studied overseas at Hong Kong University for supply chain management & manufacturing. He then went full time at Mako Design + Invent in 2007 after nervously turning down the pick of the litter job offers. Still, to today, Mako Design has no debt, no financing, and no shareholders - a true grassroots organic startup story.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/vWmo1Xxu36A
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Kevin Mako is the world’s leading expert on hardware startups. Founder of MAKO Design + Invent (makodesign.com), the pioneer firm for providing world-class end-to-end physical consumer product development tailored to inventors, product startups, & small manufacturers. Masters of Engineering lecturer, sits on a number of entrepreneurship & education boards, and holds the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award designation. Host of The Product Startup Podcast, the hardware development industry’s leading podcast.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode #74: "'Timing' in Building a Hardware Design Startup" with Kevin Mako | Educative Sessions
![#73: “From Engineer to Manager (and Back)” with Thibaut LaBarre of AngelList | Educative Sessions]()
August 23, 2021
Thibaut LaBarre joined Amazon as an intern where he built Heartbeat, a Natural Language Processing tool that combines millions of data points from disparate feedback sources like product reviews, customer contacts, social media, and provides this information to worldwide product teams. Thibaut grew the team from my internship project to an organization of 20 engineers, transitioning into a manager role. After 7 years at Amazon, he made the jump back to a builder role at a startup.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/fPTdz-c2MN4
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Thibaut LaBarre moved from France to Seattle 10 years ago to study computational linguistics at the University of Washington. He spent 7 years at Amazon in various software engineering roles. At the start of 2020, he made the jump to the startup world. On the side, he volunteers for Techstars Startup Weekend and is a long time organizer of the annual Startup Weekend Education series at the Seattle Public Library.
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 73: "From Engineer to Manager (and Back)" with Thibaut LaBarre of AngelList | Educative Sessions
![#72: “Stumbling into Dev Management” with James Stanier of Shopify | Educative Sessions]()
August 16, 2021
Dr. James Stanier never intended to become a manager, let alone a Director or VP. He certainly never intended to publish a book about it either! Dr. Stanier shares his story from doing a Ph.D. to failing to get an academic job to joining a start-up which grew rapidly through numerous venture capital investment rounds. After reading lots of books on management in the "business" world, he applied what he knew to help shape the Engineering department at Brandwatch and now Shopify.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/ud3yST_f0qQ
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. James Stanier is (soon to be) Director of Engineering @ Shopify, and before that was SVP Engineering at Brandwatch. He runs theengineeringmanager.com and has published Become An Effective Software Engineering Manager with Pragmatic Programmers, which will soon be a course on Educative. There's another book on remote working in the works too.
Don't forget to subscribe to Educative Sessions on YouTube! ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 72: "Stumbling into Dev Management" with James Stanier of Shopify | Educative Sessions
![#71: “I Bought a School Bus to Learn Code” with Roxanne Agerone of Salesforce | Educative Sessions]()
August 9, 2021
Roxanne Agerone went from working in chemistry to working in software over the course of the year. After being accepted into a prestigious coding program Seattle, Roxanne sold everything she owned, bought a school bus, packed it full of everything that was left, and drove across the country. It has been four years of software development, and she loves it. (No, Roxanne doesn't still live in a bus, but it was a great adventure and so worth it.)
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/u9RspXeuZj4
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Roxanne Agerone is a software engineer with a passion for solving problems and creating new software. Previously, she worked as a laboratory technician for Sanesco International before moving to Seattle to participate in the Ada Developers Academy coding program. Roxanne landed a job with Tableau and now works for Salesforce.
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 71: "I Bought a School Bus to Learn Code" with Roxanne Agerone of Salesforce | Educative Sessions
![#70: “Accidentally Into Code” with Daphnie Ozioma of Flexisaf | Educative Sessions]()
August 2, 2021
Daphnie Ozioma graduated from university in Nigeria with a focus on microbiology in 2018, but after graduation, she decided to attend a coding bootcamp instead and become a program manager. When she got there, Daphnie discovered there was no PM tutor, so she opted for web development where she learned the basics of HTML and CSS. For her mandatory National Youth Service Corps in November 2019. Daphnie applied as a developer to Flexisaf (an EduTech company) for her service year and she got retained as a junior developer afterwards.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/HwwbvtniogI
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Daphnie Ozioma is a junior front-end developer, a technical writer, and an advocate for readable codes. She is a responsible foodie, a fitness enthusiast (health is wealth), and loves to travel. Asides from tech, Daphnie stays on top of information in the health sector, especially in medicinal drugs and bacteriology. Her mantra for life is "Love the life you live, live the life you love."
Don't forget to subscribe to Educative Sessions on YouTube! ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 70: "Accidentally Into Code" with Daphnie Ozioma of Flexisaf | Educative Sessions
![#69: “A Marine’s Giant Leap into Code” with Chris Zichko of ZichKoding | Educative Sessions]()
July 26, 2021
When he was seven years old, Chris Zichko dreamed of going to the Moon. Eighteen years later, every decision Chris made had revolved around that dream, including joining the Marine Corps and his more recent pursuit of software development. Chris now wants to make robots to automate every chore in his life, but he still hopes of achieving the overall astronomic dreams.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/x0yF09Rdlis
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Chris Zichko is from the sticks of a small town: Crossville, TN. He decided to join the Marine Corps in 2015. While in the Marine Corps Reserves as a Combat Engineer, he was able to travel the country. After dropping out of college studying physics to move to Florida, Chris wanted to make something more out of his life. He now works on projects through his company Zichkoding. You can follow his work at @zkoding.
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 69: "A Marine's Giant Leap into Code" with Chris Zichko of ZichKoding | Educative Sessions
![#68: “User Experience Done Right” with Alix Han, Veteran UX Designer | Educative Sessions]()
July 19, 2021
Imagine working in a world where everyone thinks of themselves as design critics and don't understand what you do as a user experience designer. UX design isn't just about making the logo bigger and things prettier. Through many years of experience, Alix Han (@alixito) is seasoned in fostering a user-centered culture and partnering with developers in order to create purposeful product that people actually want.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/EUXA5GRpYw0
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Alix Han has been a user experience design professional her entire career working for tech startups or startups within corporations. She has designed and launched v1s of: Zillow, AWS Marketplace, Microsoft OfficeLive Workspace, Qumulo, and more. She is an inventor on 5 utility patents for real-time interactive data visualization. To learn more about Alix, check out http://www.alixhan.com.
Don't forget to subscribe to Educative Sessions on YouTube! ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 68: "User Experience Done Right" with Alix Han, Veteran UX Designer | Educative Sessions
![#67: “Running a Game Studio” with Jakub Kasztalski of Unbound Creations | Educative Sessions]()
July 12, 2021
Jakub Kasztalski joins Educative Sessions to talk about his experiences managing and self-publishing a small indie game studio. This Session will cover the our timeline, the pros/cons of self-publishing, as well as some common pitfalls. This talk is aimed at newer developers considering working with a publisher vs. self-publishing as well as developer managers interested in the world of gaming design and development.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/x0yF09Rdlis
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Jakub Kasztalski (@koobazaur) is a Polish guy and a traveler. He lived all over world working on games, freelance writing, and even cinematography. He studied humanities and ethnic conflict, all of which inspire his creative works. He founded "Unbound Creations" in 2013, best known for their "Headliner" series of games where you play as a news editor and shape public opinion in a genetically modified society. What Jakub finds fascinating about games is that they are the one art form entirely based on interactivity.
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Episode 67: "Running a Game Studio" with Jakub Kasztalski of Unbound Creations | Educative Sessions
