121: Self Taught Coder to First Elixir Job

She started at the very beginning of her self-directed, non-traditional route to coding. She first had to learn to code. She worked, studied, and leaned on mentors and others until she reached the point of being hired for a full time job. What language did she tackle as that very first one? Elixir! We talked with Kimberly Johnson about how she did it. She shared her story at ElixirConf which we found inspiring. We wanted to go deeper on how she kept going when things got hard and how she built up a network of mentors and resources to help along the way. A great story and potential roadmap for others who want to follow a non-traditional path to a software development career! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/121 Elixir Community News https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-1-3-1-4-1-5-and-1-6-security-releases-for-wildcard-check-origin-vulnerability/50902 – Phoenix Security Releases for versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.14.1 – Elixir 1.14.1 released https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix LiveView 0.18.3 bug fix release https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/10/11/phoenix-liveview-018-new-special-html-attributes.html – Sophie DeBennedetto wrote an article that covers the new :let, :if, and :for special forms https://github.com/CargoSense/absinthe_client – AbsintheClient - new library that is a GraphQL client for Absinthe with built-in support for subscriptions https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/99 – Episode 99 with Michael Davis to learn more about Slipstream https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto_sql/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v390-2022-09-27 – EctoSQL v3.9.0 released https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ – Safe Ecto Migrations guide https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1578411348404228096 – Livebook v0.7 released https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/10/05/my-future-with-elixir-set-theoretic-types/ – New blog post from José Valim on Elixir's future with set-theoretic types https://codebeamamerica.com/ – Code Beam America conference. Held November 3-4 in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. & online https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/ – Cloudflare created a new captcha replacement called Turnstile Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://www.travelpassgroup.com/ https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/ https://pragmaticstudio.com/phoenix-liveview https://pragmaticstudio.com/elixir https://grox.io/about https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/grit – Grit on Psychology Today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition/ https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition Guest Information https://twitter.com/siestakimberly – on Twitter https://github.com/siestakimberly/ – on Github https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-johnson-716869142/ – LinkedIn Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!