<p>For our first Newbie Story, we talk to LaToya Allen, junior software engineer at Avant, a fast-growing Chicago startup. She tells us how she went from bartending to becoming an apprentice, and got her first full-time engineering job in just three weeks.</p> <h4>Show Links</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://dev.to/advertise">Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie!</a> (sponsor) </li> <li><a href="http://www.1871.com/">1871</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/WomanDevelopers/">Chicago Women Developers</a></li> <li><a href="https://8thlight.com/">8th Light</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/suesunmi">Sue Kim</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/dougbradbury">Doug Bradbarry</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax">Minimax algorithm</a></li> <li><a href="http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/repository.html">Repository Pattern</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/098478280X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=098478280X&linkCode=as2&tag=coden-20&linkId=G4VTA6CIP33O4FJJ">Cracking The Interview Code</a></li> <li><a href="http://twitter.com/mikeebert">Mike Ebert</a></li> <li><a href="https://cnewbie.io/2GhU03r">Codeland Conf</a></li> <li><a href="https://cnewbie.io/2Q5oA26">Codeland 2019</a></li> </ul><h4>LaToya Allen</h4><p>LaToya is a junior software engineer at Avant where she helps to detect and deter fraud.  She is also a co-organizer of Chicago Ruby Hack Night, Windy City Rails organizer, and Girl Develop It volunteer.  If you meet her, you should offer her tacos.</p>

Ep. 35 - Stellar (David Mazières)

The CodeNewbie podcast was born from CodeNewbie, an organization which fosters a supportive, international community of people learning to code. Each season, host Saron Yitbarek delivers stories and interviews from people of diverse backgrounds and expertise about their coding journeys, as well as beginner friendly discussions about the tech you should know about.