User Stories

He's a full-time lawyer with limited free time and a strong urge to build his project. So he learned Django from scratch by tackling one problem at a time.

He was a national athlete, then a Cordon Bleu chef, now he's creating an app to help non-native English speakers improve their writing skills.

After 17 years of running marketing companies and building websites to help businesses grow, Justin Handley, President and Founder of Web Mission Control, needed help with building an app with a technology he wasn’t too familiar with. What started out from just needing to consult an expert, the...

Keivan is a 17-year-old high school student from New York who was first introduced to programming when he was in sixth grade. Since then, he has expanded his skills and has already developed several apps including an Apple App Store Top 100 Free Sports Game, Tap2Row, which has users in over 80...

As a developer with 20 years of experience, Aaron made the tough switch from Oracle proprietary software to a modern web stack a few years ago. He stumbled upon Codementor when he needed help badly in a short amount of time, and he lacked the understanding of even what to search for. To Aaron,...

Tony is a novice Android developer looking to find a job in the field. He decided he wanted a career change about a year ago, and had always wanted to learn to program. He fell in love with the Android platform, and having a little Java experience already, he enrolled in an online bootcamp for …

Khary Reynolds is a WordPress developer who provides a variety of web solutions for companies including custom themes & plugin development. Although he’s well-versed in a variety of programming languages and frameworks, he considers his technical skills secondary to the value he offers...

David is soon to turning 47 and has tried his hand at many different kinds of work. He started out as an elementary school teacher, but has spent the last seven years or so as an EKG monitor reader in a hospital. About two years ago, David had an idea for an app which he …

Tovah Kirkman has been involved with IT support for about 15 years and has always wanted to move over to the development side. As a hobby he has been working with Ruby/Rails for the past few years and thought it would be a great time to change his career. Most of his knowledge about programming …

2 years ago the term ‘coding’ was unfamiliar to Jenny. She first heard about it while exploring the internet, looking for ideas for work she could do from home. She then discovered Team Treehouse and did their 2-week free trial. It interested her, so she kept going with their courses. She also...