How to become a developer in your 30s with Anjana Vakil [Podcast #162]
Curriculum for the course How to become a developer in your 30s with Anjana Vakil [Podcast #162] On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Anjana Vakil who left academia to learn to code. She got her first developer job in her 30s. She was an English teacher who studied computational linguistics, and found building software to be more fun than actual research. She's worked at ton of tech companies and has freelance clients. She shares some excellent tips on learning new skills and avoiding burnout. We talk about: - How Anjana taught herself to code in her 30s - Being an American dev working in Europe - Stress, burnout, and how she gets by - How skills from your previous non-developer career can help differentiate you as a developer Support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio. Wix Studio provides developers tools to rapidly build websites with everything out-of-the-box, then extend, replace, and break boundaries wi...