MRS 055: Nadia Odunayo

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Nadia Odunayo

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Nadia Odunayo. Nadia was previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 264 and she used to have her own podcast called Ruby Book Club. She first got into programming because when she was in college she launched a creative writing publication and she was frustrated that she had to keep asking others for help. This was when she started researching coding and how it all worked so that she could put her ideas into action. They talk about Ruby being the first programming language she learned, the importance of learning both the frontend and the backend, her desire to run her own thing, her need to find a company that would support her learning, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby Rogues Episode 264
Ruby Book Club
How did you first get into programming?
Hated having to ask other for help
Studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University
Code First: Girls
Have you done much with your degree?
Her first talk as a junior Ruby developer
Economics is about how people behave
Was Ruby your first programming language?
Learning HTML, CSS and the Ruby and Rails
Frontend VS backend
How long was the program?
Learning Ruby first and the pros to that
Sinatra
Do you feel like the boot camp prepared you to be a full-time Ruby developer?
Wanting to run her own thing
Doing these courses only scratches the surface
How did you find a company that supported your learning?
Pivotal Labs
TDD and pairing
When she joined Pivotal VS now
What are you doing currently?
And much, much more!

Links:

Ruby Rogues Episode 264
Ruby Book Club
Code First: Girls
Ruby
Rails
Sinatra
Pivotal Labs
@nodunayo
nadiaodunayo.com
Nadia’s GitHub

Sponsors:

FreshBooks
Loot Crate

Picks:

Charles

Being willing to get some help
Kiwi Crate

Nadia

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Evolution of Trust
Work Life Podcast