44 min

From English teacher to dev in 9 month: A self-taught developer journey Software Engineering Unlocked

    • Technology

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.

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.

44 min

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