From Fashion to Software Engineer with Alison Yoon [Podcast #130]
On this week's section of nan podcast, freeCodeCamp laminitis Quincy Larson interviews Alison Yoon. She's a Software Engineer who started disconnected successful manner creation and taught herself to codification utilizing freeCodeCamp. We talk about: - What it's for illustration to activity successful fashion. "You're surrounded by exhausted, unhappy people." - How she utilized freeCodeCamp and nan 100DaysOfCode situation to study to codification and commencement her package improvement career - How she learned English and really to activity connected engineering teams successful nan UK. - How she's starring nan Korean translator effort for nan freeCodeCamp community, pinch 10,000s of group now reference Korean articles each month Can you conjecture what opus I'm playing connected my bass during nan intro? It's from a 1985 song. Also, I want to convey nan 9,779 benignant group who support our kindness each month, and who make this podcast possible. You tin subordinate them and support our ngo at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate Links we talk astir during our conversation: - freeCodeCamp's Korean edition, including Quincy's "Learn to codification and get a developer job" book translated into Korean: https://www.freecodecamp.org/korean/news/learn-to-code-book/ - Alison connected Twitter: https://twitter.com/aliyooncreative - Devil Wears Prada trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZOZwUQKu3E Chapters 0:00:00 Introduction and Background 0:10:41 Transitioning from Fashion to Tech 0:33:49 Transitioning to nan UK and Finding a Job 0:45:06 Working astatine Octopus Energy and Kraken Technologies 0:52:02 From Graphic Design to Web Development 0:58:26 The Benefits of Pair Programming 1:21:51 Making Programming Resources Accessible done Translation