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