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RR 354: Music, Musicians, and Programmers with Catherine Meyers

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Panel:

  • Charles Max Wood
  • Dave Kimura
  • Eric Berry
  • David Richards

    • Special Guests: Catherine Meyers

    In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses music, musicians, and programmers with Catherine Meyers. Catherine is a software engineer at Mavenlink in San Francisco and is a co-organizer of a meet-up called Women Level Up. Before getting into coding, she was actually an opera singer. They talk a lot about why she decided to change her career and how she came to be a successful coder after being a singer for many years.

    In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

    • Check out React Dev Summit
    • Catherine intro
    • Previously an opera singer
    • How did you decide to get into programming?
    • Who she performed for and where she performed
    • Her friends suggested she start coding
    • Tips to help those not interested in coding give it a chance
    • Coding is like solving a puzzle
    • Coding boot camps to facilitate a career change
    • HTML
    • Flatiron School
    • The importance of resilience
    • Ruby Conf
    • The ability to communicate with many different typed of people
    • Patterns
    • Do musicians have an advantage as a developer?
    • Patterns in Rails
    • How can music make you a better coder?
    • Your brain as a musician
    • Is there a correlation with brain activity and listening to music?
    • Different music affects different people
    • And much, much more!

      • Links:

      • React Dev Summit
      • Mavenlink
      • Women Level Up
      • Flatiron School
      • Ruby Conf
      • Rails
      • Ruby Hack Conference
      • @CCMeyers324
      • CatherineMeyers.com

        • Picks:

        Charles

        • The Greatest Showman
        • React Round Up
        • React Dev Summit
        • Views on Vue
        • Elixir Podcast coming soon

          • Dave

          • Heat Shrink Tubing
          • Heat Gun
          • Eric
          • Pastel de Nata
          • The Expanse
          • Consensys

            • David

            • Marconi Union – Weightless
            • Wintergatan - Marble Machine

              • Catherine

              • Public School Music Education
              • Base.cs
              • Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
                • ...more
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