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Ep. 77: How a former music teacher taught herself to code and landed a job at GitHub

The freeCodeCamp Podcast

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What Was It Like for You to Learn to Code?

LZ Granderson: I know you use free code camp and I think you said code academy, but so what was it like for you like, you know, learning to code? LZ: It was super hard. Part of it was just I going to my day job was very motivating for me. And there's also a lot of reaching out for help and not being afraid to look like a dummy. So often people would just get so frustrated with how bad I was doing that they'd be like, "Please let me call you"

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