From English teacher to dev in 9 month: A self-taught developer journey
Nadia Zhuk shares how to build a career as a self-taught programmer successfully. She learned to program all by herself and changed her career from being an English teacher to a full-stack developer. We also talk about: - teaching yourself programming - starting your developer career as a self-taught developer - getting your foot into tech - changing your career by teaching yourself how to program - moving countries and taking chances for a better life - how feature flags are used at Intercom - how mentoring, pair programming, code reviews, and also the concept of a buddy can help you ramp up your coding career.
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About Nadia Zhuk
Nadia is a software engineer at Intercom, and was previously working at Zendesk. Before, Nadia was an English teacher, and journalist, until she decided to learn programming and enter the tech world.
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