153 JSJ Careers for Junior Developers with Aimee Knight

02:26 - Aimee Knight Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Blog
• Message Systems

02:48 - Figure Skating => Programming

• Persistence
• Balance Between Mind and Body

05:03 - Blogging (Aimee’s Blog)06:02 - Becoming Interested in Programming

• Treehouse
  • @treehouse 
• Code School
  • @codeschool 
• Rails Girls
  • @railsgirls 
• RailsBridge
  • @railsbridge 

08:43 - Why Boot Camps?10:04 - Mentors

• Identifying a Mentor
• Continuing a Mentorship

13:33 - Picking a Boot Camp16:23 - Self-Teaching Prior to Attending Boot Camps20:33 - Finding Employment After the Boot Camp

• Baltimore NodeSchool
• Passion
• Interview Prep

26:27 - Being a “Woman in Tech”30:57 - Better Preparing for Getting Started in Programming

• Be Patient with Yourself

32:07 - Interviews

• Getting to Know Candidates
• Coding Projects and Tests

41:05 - Should you get a four-year degree to be a programmer?

• Eliza Brock

Picks Aarti Shahani: What Cockroaches With Backpacks Can Do. Ah-mazing (Jamison)
Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences by Leah Silber (Jamison)
The Hiring Post (Jamison)
Kate Heddleston: Argument Cultures and Unregulated Aggression (Jamison)
Axios AJAX Library (Dave)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Dave)
[YouTube] Good Mythical Morning: Our Official Apocalypse (AJ)
Majora's Mask Live Action: The Skull Kid (AJ)
The Westin at Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa (Joe)
Alchemists (Joe)
Valerie Kittel (Joe)
The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (Chuck)
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (Chuck)
Freelancers’ Answers (Chuck)
Drip (Chuck)
Brandon Hays: Letter to an aspiring developer (Aimee)
SparkPost (Aimee)
Exercise and Physical Activity (Aimee)Special Guest: Aimee Knight.

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