So you want to become a software engineer?

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Claims a career switch into software engineering without a technical degree, documents using online subscriptions (Team Treehouse Code School Skillcrush Lynda), attending RailsCamp and RubyConf via a scholarship and mentor pairing, and landing a job at Verve. Describes built and deployed a website from hobby YouTube content, sending solved whiteboard challenges and a screencast of code challenge to interviewers, leading to interviews and internships, then co-leading Girl Develop It and paying it forward.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:46Background
3. 2:46Get involved
4. 5:09Find support
5. 7:59Dont give up
6. 10:56Build projects
7. 12:25Be different
8. 14:53Pay it forward

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