RR 354: Music, Musicians, and Programmers with Catherine Meyers
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses music, musicians, and programmers with Catherine Meyers. Catherine is a software engineer at Mavenlink in San Francisco and is a co-organizer of a meet-up called Women Level Up. Before getting into coding, she was actually an opera singer. They talk a lot about why she decided to change her career and how she came to be a successful coder after being a singer for many years.
Special Guests:
Catherine Meyers
Catherine Meyers
Show Notes
Panel:
- Charles Max Wood
- Dave Kimura
- Eric Berry
- David Richards
Special Guests: Catherine Meyers
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses music, musicians, and programmers with Catherine Meyers. Catherine is a software engineer at Mavenlink in San Francisco and is a co-organizer of a meet-up called Women Level Up. Before getting into coding, she was actually an opera singer. They talk a lot about why she decided to change her career and how she came to be a successful coder after being a singer for many years.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- Check out React Dev Summit
- Catherine intro
- Previously an opera singer
- How did you decide to get into programming?
- Who she performed for and where she performed
- Her friends suggested she start coding
- Tips to help those not interested in coding give it a chance
- Coding is like solving a puzzle
- Coding boot camps to facilitate a career change
- HTML
- Flatiron School
- The importance of resilience
- Ruby Conf
- The ability to communicate with many different typed of people
- Patterns
- Do musicians have an advantage as a developer?
- Patterns in Rails
- How can music make you a better coder?
- Your brain as a musician
- Is there a correlation with brain activity and listening to music?
- Different music affects different people
- And much, much more!
Links:
- React Dev Summit
- Mavenlink
- Women Level Up
- Flatiron School
- Ruby Conf
- Rails
- Ruby Hack Conference
- @CCMeyers324
- CatherineMeyers.com
Picks:
Charles
- The Greatest Showman
- React Round Up
- React Dev Summit
- Views on Vue
- Elixir Podcast coming soon
Dave
David
Catherine
- Public School Music Education
- Base.cs
- Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
Special Guest: Catherine Meyers.
RR 354: Music, Musicians, and Programmers with Catherine Meyers
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