remember the pain: lessons learned from teaching myself to code
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Remember the PainLessons Learned From Teaching Myself To
Code
Neha Batra@nerdneha
The Journey
Energy AnalystRecurse Center
1st Software Job
Engineer at Pivotal Labs
2 years
3 months
9 months
10 months and counting
2nd Software Job
13 months
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Evolving my skillset needed time, energy, nurturing, and love.
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Evolving my skillset needed time, energy, nurturing, and love. And tears. lots of tears.
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Nurturing my code baby
0 months 3 months 6 months 9 months
Wooo!!!
Learning so much!!
First Trimester:
Dream Land
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Nurturing my code baby
0 months 3 months 6 months 9 months
Second Trimester:
PanicNo really, what HAVE I done????
WTF….
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Nurturing my code baby
0 months 3 months 6 months 9 months
Third Trimester:Groove
OMG! It’s really happening!
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Emerging into the tech world was terrifying.
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Emerging into Tech
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Emerging into Tech
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Emerging into Tech
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We were all newborns in tech once!
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Get in touch with your inner child
Discuss:What was it like starting your first job in tech/gaming?Share a memorable failure.
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Embrace the painWho are the children in your world?
What can we do to help?
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The challenges of a 4 year-old are drastically different from those of a 2 year-old
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We’re still children
Learning every day
Curiosity
Questioning is a good thing
Imagine the future
We’re still children
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What I wish I had heard more often“It’s not that you’re dumb, it’s that you don’t know it yet”
Your failures and facepalms
“It looks like you’re trying to do X! I did something similar, would you like to see what I did?”
Do you want to work through this together?
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1.Doing something for the first time is terrifying
2.Remembering the pain is a good thing
3.Channel your memories to help others @nerdneha
Remember the PainLessons Learned From Teaching Myself To
Code
Neha Batra@nerdneha
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