It Takes a Village to Make a Programmer
summary
Career-change narrative compresses one year from first Hello world to two junior developer job offers in one year; starts on HTML and CSS via General Assembly and Rails Girls, joins Hackership, and builds a Ruby web app without frameworks including a user authentication system (works). Community impact is concrete: paid-for conference ticket, pair‑programming mentors, and Indiegogo funding in 24 hours; outcome is hired and moving onto native JavaScript work.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:40My story
- 0:58Moving to Germany
- 1:12Office Job
- 1:41First Hackathon
- 4:00First Ruby Conference
- 6:02First Rails Girls Workshop
- 7:14Learning with Franxx
- 8:35Hackership
- 10:28News
- 12:40Encouragement
- 13:50Expose
- 14:27Resources
- 15:23Excuses
- 15:53Conference
- 16:35Mentorship
- 17:45Safe Spaces
- 18:48Courage
- 19:34Shoutout
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