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
- 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