Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 271 | Saron Yitbarek - High Riser
Guest:
Saron Yitbarek talks with Dave Rael about support, podcasting, learning, and taking care of yourself
Saron Yitbarek is a developer and founder of CodeNewbie, the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. Most recently, she worked at Microsoft managing a new tech training program called Tech Jobs Academy. You can catch her interviewing incredible people in tech on the CodeNewbie Podcast (new episodes every Monday. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app). She's a frequent speaker, and if you wanna talk code, story-telling, or community-building, please feel free to holler. She also sends out a personal newsletter with updates on projects, mostly speaking and CodeNewbie related. You can subscribe here. Till then, happy coding y'all.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Saron Yitbarek
- - The reasons Code Newbie exists
- - Expectations regarding learning to code
- - Saron's quick rise to significance in developer communities
- - Saron's motivations for learning how to code
- - Options and support
- - Advice for someone interested in getting more technical
- - How Saron got involved as a panelist on Ruby Rogues
- - Starting the CodeNewbie Podcast and lessons learned
- - Saron's story of failure - panic on accidental sharing of passwords
- - Saron's success story - taking on an ambitious project and delivering
- - Saron's book recommendation
- - The things that have Saron most excited
- - Saron's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Saron
Resources:
- Saron's Site
- CodeNewbie
- CodeNewbie on Twitter
- The CodeNewbie Podcast
- CodeNewbie Twitter Chat
- Saron on Instagram
- Greg Shackles on Developer On Fire
- Scott Hanselman on Developer On Fire
- "Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth."- Mike Tyson
- Ruby Rogues
- Saron's appearances on Ruby Rogues
- Code Adademy
- CodePen
- Saron as Guest on Ruby Rogues - 159 RR Hacking Education
- David Brady
- Ira Glass
- Jad Abumrad
- To Acheive a Big Goal, Look at Your Feet
- "Stop aborting ideas that you haven't been consistent enough with to see growth."
Saron's book recommendation:
Saron's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Pay attention to self-care
- Focus on days and weeks rather than years
- Stick with it
