These stories show people who, with grit and determination, taught themselves how to code and landed software jobs or started tech companies. I hope you will be as inspired as I was when reading about them.

  1. From prison to programmer, one woman's journey to recovery.
  2. Car salesman to self-taught developer.
  3. Investment banker turned backpacker, lands a job as a software engineer.
  4. Jobless biology major learns to code.
  5. Entreprenuer learns to code and built digital product.

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