#261 Chelsea Troy from ~lacking intellectual firepower~ to rocking at Mozilla

Chelsea placed the start of her journey in undergrad with the insightful tale of an introduction to programming class involving a peanut butter & jelly sandwich. We then discussed how one teacher cut her wings by telling her she "lacked the intellectual firepower" to become a dev. She went on to study to become a spy instead. Just before entering this world, she realized she had missed the feeling she had had during this first programming class and decided to embrace development in a boot camp. We talked about her learning habits and how they helped her get a job at Pivotal Labs; we talked about legacy code and how those learning habits helped her become excellent at gaining context.

Here are the links from the show

• https://www.twitter.com/HeyChelseaTroy
• @heychelseatroy@social.clawhammer.net
• https://chelseatroy.com/
• Peter Michael Oseara https://osera.cs.grinnell.edu/
• https://chelseatroy.com/2014/10/03/pairing-with-the-pros-a-day-at-pivotal-labs/
• https://chelseatroy.thinkific.com/collections
• On September https://www.thestrangeloop.com/ 
• Felienne (https://github.com/Felienne)'s annotation tool https://annotate.codereading.club/#/
• https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/legacy-code-boot-camp/0636920086297/
• https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/technical-debt-first-steps/0636920058624/0636920058623/
• https://anyonecanlearntocode.com/

Music cover: Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.

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