DiscoverWebJoyS1 E26: I think you're ready (April / @A_Bowler2)
S1 E26: I think you're ready (April / @A_Bowler2)

S1 E26: I think you're ready (April / @A_Bowler2)

Update: 2022-12-13
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April Bowler joins the show to talk about her origin story, from her first career and taking a break to raise her kids, to discovering that she was actually really interested in software development while helping her daughter plan for college.

We discuss her journey learning to code and the encouragement and help she received along the way from the tech community around her. The challenges of debugging and the love/joy relationship developers have with their code. Finally, we talked about the communities that helped her along the way: Code Newbie, The Collab Lab and Outreachy.

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S1 E26: I think you're ready (April / @A_Bowler2)

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S1 E26: I think you're ready (April / @A_Bowler2)

S1 E26: I think you're ready (April / @A_Bowler2)

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