RR 354: Music, Musicians, and Programmers with Catherine Meyers

Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• David Richards

Special Guests: Catherine MeyersIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses music, musicians, and programmers with Catherine Meyers. Catherine is a software engineer at Mavenlink in San Francisco and is a co-organizer of a meet-up called Women Level Up. Before getting into coding, she was actually an opera singer. They talk a lot about why she decided to change her career and how she came to be a successful coder after being a singer for many years.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Check out React Dev Summit
• Catherine intro
• Previously an opera singer
• How did you decide to get into programming?
• Who she performed for and where she performed
• Her friends suggested she start coding
• Tips to help those not interested in coding give it a chance
• Coding is like solving a puzzle
• Coding boot camps to facilitate a career change
• HTML
• Flatiron School
• The importance of resilience
• Ruby Conf
• The ability to communicate with many different typed of people
• Patterns
• Do musicians have an advantage as a developer?
• Patterns in Rails
• How can music make you a better coder?
• Your brain as a musician
• Is there a correlation with brain activity and listening to music?
• Different music affects different people
• And much, much more!

Links:

• React Dev Summit
• Mavenlink
• Women Level Up
• Flatiron School
• Ruby Conf
• Rails
• Ruby Hack Conference
• @CCMeyers324
• CatherineMeyers.com

Picks:Charles

• The Greatest Showman
• React Round Up
• React Dev Summit
• Views on Vue
• Elixir Podcast coming soon

Dave

• Heat Shrink Tubing
• Heat Gun
• Eric
• Pastel de Nata
• The Expanse
• Consensys

David

• Marconi Union – Weightless
• Wintergatan - Marble Machine

Catherine

• Public School Music Education
• Base.cs
• Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy

Special Guest: Catherine Meyers.

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