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Black Girl | Whiteboard: How I landed My Software Engineering Position in 4 Months

Donita on April 02, 2019

I was debating on writing this article, I wanted to save this story for my first Tech Talk, but I realized this year I needed to concentrate on pl...
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Anthony D. Mays • Edited

Well done, @donita ! Thanks for helping to make this information accessible. And clever title (had to read it twice before I got it, lol)!

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Donita

Thank you! Your blog posts inspired me to do it!

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Mykal • Edited

Congratulations on your internship & great article!

In particular, thank you a million for the "visualizing algorithms" link...

Im taking a course on algorithms at University right now and ive been struggling the last week with AVL trees. After playing around with the graphical tool on that website I think it's clicked! Stoked!

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Donita

Thank you! Awwwww no problem! It literally changed my life as well! lol

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Donita • Edited

I used it as a play on words and because of the percentage of black women in STEM :)

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Ben Halpern

Woohoo!!

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Rob Foraker

Did you pay for the Udacity course? That price tag has me thinking it's not worth it.. most of the information is free online, I know you don't get the cert, but man...

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Donita

Nope. Google and Udacity had a partnership, where they awarded people scholarships to learn web development or android development. I was one of the Grow with Google Scholars.