MRS 045: Catherine Meyers
Ruby Rogues
English - May 23, 2018 10:00 - 31 minutes - 30.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsHow To Education News Tech News ruby ruby on rails rails programming technology developer development careers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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!
Links:
Ruby Rogues Episode 354
Codeacademy
Team Treehouse
Code School
Flatiron School
Ruby
Red Antler
@CCMeyers324
CatherineMeyers.com
Picks:
Charles
Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
S.W.E.A.T. Pledge
Catherine
Schubert - Unfinished Symphony No. 8
GeoGuessr
Sharing the Work by Myra Strober