Back to the end of October 2015 and I was rocking up to London’s Twitter HQ with my ancient laptop slowly carving a permanent groove in my shoulder with its dead weight.
I was here for the Code First: Girls beginners course on HTML and CSS. If you haven’t heard of them before, Code First: Girls are an amazing organisation that offer free (yes, free!) coding courses to girls.
Being an English Literature student turned writer/marketer/person-who-sends-lots-of-emails, my only previous experience with coding had been blindly jabbing away at the CSS on my old Wordpress blog (RIP) despite not having a clue what it all meant.
..but everyone is a beginner at some point. So after settling down at a table and feeling slightly like I was at my first day at school, the coding started and it got me hook, line and sinker from then on in.
After winning the end-of-course group competition with a website about cake, I went on to take Code First: Girls’ advanced course in Ruby, attended a ton of other events with companies like Women Who Code, quit my job, started Makers Academy (an intensive coding bootcamp) and finished with a job at the end. Phew!
Now I’m a REAL LIFE software developer and I couldn’t be more happy with the path that I took.
I’ve started this blog to document things I’ve learnt and share some tips on what has worked for me :)