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MRS 045: Catherine Meyers

Guests :

Catherine Meyers

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : May 23, 2018

Duration : 31 Minutes

Show Notes

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Catherine Meyers

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Catherine Meyers. Catherine first got into programming after a significant career change from being an opera singer to being a developer. Friends of hers suggested that she begin a programming career and she hasn’t looked back since. They talk about boot camps, such as Flatiron School, the importance of life-long learning, how she got into Ruby, and why she loves the language so much.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby Rogues Episode 354
Newest member on the Ruby Rogues Panel
How did you first get into programming?
Relatively new to programming
Career change from opera singer to programmer
Didn’t grow up thinking she would be a programmer
Friends pushed her to programming
Taught herself HTML
Used Codeacademy, Team Treehouse, and Code School
Boot camps
Rejected from Flatiron School originally
Not everyone gets into code the same way, and that’s okay
Coding takes hard work
No successful programming career is automatic
The importance of life-long learning
How did you get into Ruby?
Ruby is such a fun and great language to start with
High-level language
Full-stack developer
Red Antler
Bias towards front-end development
2 types of front-end development
Talk to people of different backgrounds
And much, much more!

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MRS 045: Catherine Meyers

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