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Remember the Pain Lessons Learned From Teaching Myself To Code Neha Batra @nerdneha

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Remember the PainLessons Learned From Teaching Myself To

Code

Neha Batra@nerdneha

The Journey

Energy AnalystRecurse Center

1st Software Job

Engineer at Pivotal Labs

2 years

3 months

9 months

10 months and counting

2nd Software Job

13 months

@nerdneha

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Evolving my skillset needed time, energy, nurturing, and love.

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Evolving my skillset needed time, energy, nurturing, and love. And tears. lots of tears.

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Nurturing my code baby

0 months 3 months 6 months 9 months

Wooo!!!

Learning so much!!

First Trimester:

Dream Land

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Nurturing my code baby

0 months 3 months 6 months 9 months

Second Trimester:

PanicNo really, what HAVE I done????

WTF….

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Nurturing my code baby

0 months 3 months 6 months 9 months

Third Trimester:Groove

OMG! It’s really happening!

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Emerging into the tech world was terrifying.

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Emerging into Tech

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Emerging into Tech

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Emerging into Tech

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We were all newborns in tech once!

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Get in touch with your inner child

Discuss:What was it like starting your first job in tech/gaming?Share a memorable failure.

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Embrace the painWho are the children in your world?

What can we do to help?

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The challenges of a 4 year-old are drastically different from those of a 2 year-old

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We’re still children

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Learning every day

Curiosity

Questioning is a good thing

Imagine the future

We’re still children

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What I wish I had heard more often“It’s not that you’re dumb, it’s that you don’t know it yet”

Your failures and facepalms

“It looks like you’re trying to do X! I did something similar, would you like to see what I did?”

Do you want to work through this together?

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1.Doing something for the first time is terrifying

2.Remembering the pain is a good thing

3.Channel your memories to help others @nerdneha

Remember the PainLessons Learned From Teaching Myself To

Code

Neha Batra@nerdneha

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