Kari Tarr — San Francisco. Coming from a Finance/Accounting background, Kari Tarr gave herself one year to get a programming job. Her motivation & hard work made her a Software Developer at Airbnb. #codecademy William Ha — Los Angeles. William Ha went from lawyer to iOS Developer after a start on Codecademy. #codecademy Nick McElligott — Melbourne, Australia. Nick used Codecademy and Meetups to become a full stack developer. #codecademy Ash Robinson — Stoke-on-Trent, UK. Ash Robinson started Codecademy to learn to make templates on his own for his eBay store. He ended finding his passion and a successful career in programming. #codecademy Sam Fellig — New York. From a non-technical guy with an idea to building one the Time’s Top 50 site of 2013. #codecademy Liz Beigle-Bryant— Seattle. Liz Beigle-Bryant was laid off from her job in November 2012. After a couple of months’ hard work she now is a Sharepoint Content Editor. #codecademy Jonathan Suter — Vancouver. Jonathan never wanted to become a programmer, he wanted to learn to solve problems. With Code Year, he got the skills to do that. Now he’s building an app to simplify doing your taxes. #codecademy Jennifer Ch’ng — Boulder. After exploring the music industry, Jenni decided coding was her real passion. After working her way to Codecademy she became a Front End Developer at a SaaS startup. #codecademy Dilys Sun — San Francisco. Dissatisfied with her job, Dilys quit and began learning to code. She’s now COO at a stealth mode international company. #codecademy David Bauer — Basel, Switzerland. From journalist to Founder of Instacurate.com #codecademy

11. Ryan Hanna — Washington D.C. From Network Administrator to Founder of Sworkit.com a fitness app with 4 million downloads. #codecademy

12. Martha Chumo — Kenya. Martha Chumo is no ordinary 18-year old. In one summer she taught herself to code and got a job as a RoR Developer. #codecademy

13. Courteney Ervin — New York. An Event Planning & Volunteer Manager to, now, a Developer at CodeMontage, Courteney Ervin taught herself to code. She did it in her spare time, finding hours late at night and on weekends to grow her skills. And in that time, she went to her first hackathon, made her first open source contribution, taught others to code, and finally found herself in a full-time role as a developer. #codenewbie

14. Aimee Knight — Baltimore. She used to be a professional figure skater. And a few years ago, she decided to hang up her skates and trade them in for some code. Software developer Aimee Knight tells us what it was like to transition into tech, how she got her first dev job as an Application Software Engineer at Message Systems. #codenewbie

15. LaToya Allen — Chicago. 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. #codenewbie

16. Felicia O’Garro — New York. 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. #codenewbie

17. Joe Dayvie — Las Vegas. Graduating college with a degree in Radiation Therapy but found his passion in web development. #treehouse

18. Joe Kaufman — Garnet Valley, PA. While the average app store developer might make under $10K a year from his or her apps, Joe Kaufman has managed to generate millions of downloads on iOS and Android of his hit Lost City and Secret of Grisly Manor apps, generating massive revenue and making him a self-made millionaire.

19. Josh Kemp taught himself how to code and get hired as a junior developer in 9 months, all while working full time as a Blacksmith/Farrier, with 2 kids and a wife.

20. Binh Nguyen — Los Angeles. In this interview, Binh Nguyen discusses how he made the transition from a career as a microbiologist to becoming a web developer for HTML Fusion, a web development company based out of Los Angeles.

21. Iris Glasson — From Dietician to Software Developer (in a VERY short time)

22. Rahul Bansal, Founder and CEO of rtCamp #techandproject

23. Paul Maloney — Liverpool, England.(Graphic designer > freelance web designer) #techandproject

24. Harish Chouhan, (Architecture > Founder of Dreams Media) #techandproject

25. Phil Thompson, freelance web designer from Manchester, England #techandproject

26. Amber Weinberg, freelance web developer based in London, England #techandproject

27. Michael Martin from Pro Blog Design #techandproject

28. Katharine Bairwell, Front-end Developer/Designer #techandproject

29. Matt Hodder, freelance web designer from Prince Edward Island, Canada #techandproject

30. Arthur Kay, currently working as Solutions Engineer for Sencha Inc. #techandproject

31. Joey Nguyen — Austin (Advertising > Senior Front End Developer) #aftercollege

32. Jennifer Gilbert (Copy Editor > Software Engineer@Aruba Networks) #aftercollege

33. Jennifer Wong (Civil Engineer > Front End Developer) #learntocodewith.me

34. Laurence Bradford (Economics > Front End Developer) #learntocodewith.me

35. Ciara Burkett (Literature > Meteor.js Developer) #learntocodewith.me

36. Jennifer Dewalt (Artist > Developer, ‘180 websites in 18 days’ Project, Founder@Zube) #learntocodewith.me

37. Przemek Mroczek (Sociology > RoR Developer)

38. Yunha Kim (Investment Banker > App Developer, Co-founder@Locket)

39. Julian Shapiro (Student > Developer, Creator of Velocity.js )

40. Mike Harris (Banking > Developer)

41. Pippin Williamson (Linguistics > PHP Developer)

42. Megan Marsh (Researcher > Developer@Sauce Labs) #udacity

43. Dawoon Choi (Professional Golfer > Front End Developer) #udacity

44. Ayesha Ilyas (Banking > Front End Developer) #udacity

45. Cynthia O’Donnell (Law/Stay-at-home mom > Front End Developer) #udacity

46. Ben Halperin (Mechanical Engineer > Web Developer) #udacity

47. Hayden Lee (Mechanical Engineer > Web Developer) #udacity

48. David Bytto — Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree

49. Lewis Cowper — Forklift Driver to Developer in 9 Months (video below)