Alex Booker
Host of The Scrimba Podcast
Appears in 171 Episodes
Nadia Zhuk: Anybody Can Code, and Your Background Doesn't Define You
Meet Nadia Zhuk 🇧🇾! Nadia made a switch to coding from journalism at the age of 25. That decision has got her moving countries not once, but twice! Nowadays, she lives...
Do the Projects You Find Fun and Take Time To Process Rejection: Actor-Turned-Developer Ollie Church
Meet Ollie Church 🇬🇧! Ollie started out as an actor. He took up coding as a hobby during a lockdown and made a puzzle game partially inspired by an escape room where h...
Be a Librarian, Not an Encyclopedia of Code: How To Learn (and Teach) Better, With Guil Hernandez
Meet Guil Hernandez 🇺🇸! You've heard of a learning curve, but what about the forgetting curve? Don't worry, Guil can help you not get overwhelmed. He is a developer an...
Scrimba Community Hero Yin Chu: Be Consistent, Play the Long Game, and Help Others
Meet Yin Chu Rijnaard 🇳🇱! Yin Chu is a new developer who landed a job offer after only seven months of learning to code! In the meantime, he also became a Scrimba Comm...
How to Become Good at Networking, with Recruiter-turned-developer Cameron Blackwood
Meet Cameron 🇬🇧! Cameron is a full-stack software engineer, podcaster, and co-founder of The Coder Career. But before learning to code, he studied business - and worke...
Hurry Up, but Slowly: How Ansub Knew When To Go Back to Basics and Relearn Web Development From Scratch
Meet Ansub Khan 🇮🇳! Ansub has always been drawn to front-end development, but he took a couple of detours: he studied computer science and tried to learn C, C++, and P...
Shannon Brown: There's a human side of recruiting, and here's how to get onto it!
Meet Shannon Brown 🇺🇸! Shannon is an experienced tech recruiter, and in this interview, she will teach you how to get your foot in the door even if you're coming from ...
Career Change on Maternity Leave: How Kynnedy Learned To Code, Became a Code Reviewer, and Landed Her First Developer Job
Meet Kynnedy 🇺🇸! She recently made history as the first student who found a job through Scrimba's Discord! She originally wanted to be an air traffic controller, but e...
How not to struggle with CSS, with Kevin Powell
Meet Kevin Powell 🇨🇦! Kevin is a CSS Evangelist and educator. He makes weekly YouTube videos, streams on twitch, writes articles, and teaches courses. His mission is t...
Career Change in Just a Year: How Anthony Hacked His Productivity and Got Hired Ten Minutes After an Interview!
Meet Anthony 🇳🇱! Anthony worked as a Guest Experience Teamleader at the Sea Life aquarium in Scheveningen, where he got his feet wet in the world of the web by helping...
How to make your LinkedIn profile standout according to a LinkedIn expert
Meet Austin Henline 🇺🇸! Austin works at LinkedIn and has reviewed more than 1200 LinkedIn profiles. In this episode, Austin teaches you how to make your LinkedIn profi...
From Doctor to Developer
Meet Jefferson Tang 🇦🇺! Being a doctor is one of the most prestigious jobs out there, but Jefferson's coding itch would not go away! Enoramoured with web3 and the unli...
An expert guide to technical interviews with Ian Douglas from Postman
Meet Ian Douglas 🇺🇸🇨🇦! Ian has been in the industry for 26 years and in this episode, imparts his wisdom about how stand out then succeed at technical interviews to you.
How Ineza stood out with a "why you should hire me" video
After completing #100DaysOfCode and building a beautiful portfolio, Ineza got his foot in the door by recording a charming "why you should hire me" video.
How to become a successful Junior Developer with Scott Hanselman from Microsoft
Meet Scott Hanselman 🇺🇸! Scott has been coding for 30 years, blogging for 20, and podcasting for 16. In this episode, Scott reflects on his career to share the most im...
How LinkedIn helped Buse become a Junior Dev in London
Meet Buse Hizarci 🇹🇷🇬🇧! She just got her first Junior Developer role in London.It’s one of the most competitive tech cities in the world, yet the recruiter came to her...
Why nobody hires junior developers anymore according to an engineering manager
Gregory made an alarming observation: While the industry is going nuts for experienced senior developers, it would seem no one is really hiring junior developers. Why...
How Robert got his first developer job at 33
Meet Robert Corrado 🇺🇸! Rob tried to become a coder several times, but as a business owner and Dad, it was hard to carve out time and really make it stick! It was duri...
How to Actually Use a Web Developer Roadmap: Mike Karan on Better Learning and Must-Have Skills for Junior Developers
Mike is a successful web development business owner and a co-host of the HTML All The Things podcast. He joins us to share his best advice about following roadmaps!
How to market yourself as a developer (according to a marketer turned developer!)
Meet Stefi Rosca 🇷🇴🇪🇸. When Stefi applied to work Adevinta, they ignored her! It was only through her perseverance (following up and connecting with people in the comp...
