Alex Booker
Host of The Scrimba Podcast
Appears in 170 Episodes
The road from intern to Senior Developer with Darin Doria from Wistia
Darin started his developer career as an intern. Now he works as a Senior Engineer at Wistia! This his advice for new programmers considering an internship or junior ...
Intentional Career Building with Kent C. Dodds
Kent has authored 180 blog posts, created courses on React and unit teseting, hosted podcasts like JavaScript Air and Angular Air. He's also given countless talks and ...
How to make your own luck with Shawn Wang (Swyx) from Temporal
Shawn (Swyx) Wang joins us to discuss his book, The Coding Career Handbook. In this episode, you'll learn principles, strategies, and actionable tactics that will help...
Get started freelancing on Upwork with no experience
When you don't have a CompSci degree, you have to get creative 👀! Scrimba student Ehtisham found freelance work on UpWork by doing the work without permission. Next, h...
Communication skills for developers with Dylan Israel from Amazon
If you want to become a successful developer in 2021, communication skills are more important than you might think. In this episode, Dylan Israel from Amazon talks abo...
Karan didn't meet all the requirements - they hired him anyway
Karan found a job asking for 2+ years of profesional experience, but Karan was quite new to web dev 😬 Equipped with a stunning portfolio and active GitHub profile, Ka...
How these six self-taught developers got jobs
Pete has interviewed hundreds of self-taught developers for his website, NoCSDegree. In this episode, he shares his top 6 stories that YOU Can learn from to make money...
How to get a job at Google with Jack Franklin from Google
Jack is a twenty-something Front End Engineer at Google. In this episode, you will learn from his experience as he traveled an ambitious and twisty career path that, u...
DoorDash driver turned full-time developer
David tried DoorDash part-time while he learned to code on Scrimba. He is also a successful landscaping business owner. If you think these experiences wouldn't help Da...
Becoming a six-figure freelancer with Gary Simon
In this episode, YOU will learn how to become a freelance designer or developer in 2021 💸 Gary is a designer, developer, and Scrimba teacher who once grew his freelanc...
The future of Scrimba with Per Borgen
What is the story behind Scrimba and where did the name "Scrimba" come from anyway?
An interview with CSS evangelist Kevin Powell
Kevin is the teacher behind Scrimba's ✨ epic ✨ 15 hour Responsive Web Design Bootcamp. You may also know him from his HTML & CSS Crash Course. Leanne from Scrimba (@Ry...
How new developers can turn rejection into opportunity
Anne learned frontend web development and became a full-time Junior Developer in only 5 months. In this episode, learn how Anne was fearless in the face of rejection (...
Fending off recruiters after #100DaysOfCode
Alejandro built a bunch inspiring projects which got him a LOT of attention from recruiters. In this episode, learn Alejandro's top tips to stand out (without a compu...
From noob to developer in 7 months
In September 2020 Paul decided to learn to code and stumbled upon Scrimba. Just 7 months later he got an entry-level job in Tokyo 🎉
How Justin got his first developer job at 33
After 163 junior #developer job applications, Justin Lowen turned the table. In this episode, learn how Justin got recruiters to come to HIM instead.
How 16 year-old prodigy programmer Josh went viral
Ironically Josh went viral with a game called COVID INVADERS 👾. It had thousands of player, which earned the attention of local news stations.
Benedicte was about to quit when she got a call...
In this episode, Benedicte shares how to become invincible to rejection and what to do when a job requires "2 years minimum experience" or a degree 🙄
How to go from bus driver to frontend developer
After working as a bus driver for 5 years, Nico landed his first professional frontend development job showing us all it's never too late to be the change you want to ...
Proven advice to secure your first developer job
Meet AustÄ—ja KazlauskytÄ— - new mom, law graduate, and "mom-and-pop" entrepreneur turned front-end developer. This is the gutsy story about how AustÄ—ja found her passio...
