This week we were joined by Dee Gill. Dee transitioned her career from finance to software engineering in part via a dev bootcamp, so we talk about the many different ways to learn web development and programming.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

25:50 #HOTDRAMA Feedback

29:02 Revisiting the Brendan Eich situation

Q & A:

34:00 I’ve been doing front end dev work for a little while on my own, and now I’m ready to join a team. Do you have any suggestions for me regarding the interview process?

37:47 What do you guys think about online learning resources like Codacademy and Treehouse?

45:58 Should I go to college to learn web development? What about programming bootcamps?

52:23 How do you keep tabs on all the things you care about and stay passionate?

Sponsors:

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Show Links:

Dee Gill on Twitter

Survey Monkey

Hackbrite Academy

Treehouse

Codacademy

CodeSchool

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