Ep. 3 - Code Couple (Felicia O'Garro, Jamal O'Garro)
After just two months of teaching themselves to code, Felicia and Jamal O'Garro got paid to build and fix other people's websites. Soon after that, they started Code Crew, the community that's taught over 2,000 people how to code in just a year and half.
After just two months of teaching themselves to code, Felicia and Jamal O'Garro got paid to build and fix other people's websites. And soon after that, they started Code Crew, the community that's taught over two thousand people how to code in just a year and half. We talk about what it's like to work as a couple, how they discovered tech, and how they used their coding passion to build a thriving community of learners.
Show Links
- Digital Ocean (sponsor)
- MongoDB (sponsor)
- Heroku (sponsor)
- TwilioQuest (sponsor)
- MIT Open Courseware
- Girl Develop It
- Michael Hartl
- Chris Pine’s Learn To Program
- Hacker News
- Reddit (Learn Programming)
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Felicia O'Garro
Felicia O’Garro is a web developer who was motivated by articles on the importance of learning how to code and decided to teach herself while working full-time. She is also a mentor and instructor.
Jamal O'Garro
Jamal O'Garro is a former finance guy turned hacker that loves entrepreneurship and NYC startup culture. He has worked for several well funded startups and has taught at several web development schools in New York City.