Learning to code

How I went from journalist to software engineer 

Jan 2009 - Dec 2014

ABC News

Nov 2013 

My first line of code

rails new railsgirls

2014

Learning in my spare time

Jan - Apr 2015

Web development immersive course

Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
My first developer job

Sep 2016 - now
#Twitter

Being a junior dev...

Key findings

The top four emotions felt by junior developers were excited, overwhelmed, frustration and fear 

What next

Get involved in the community

- meetups

- hackathons

- mentoring

- teaching

- study groups

- camps

Keep coding

- hacker rank

- code school

- coursera 

- pluralsight 

- codecademy

- the odin project

Ask for help

- twitter

- stack overflow

Git commit

- put your work on github

Blog

- medium

- build your own?

- lucybain.com/blog/

- hey.georgie.nu/

Embrace the journey

- jsjabber podcast

Questions