121: Self Taught Coder to First Elixir Job

She started at the very beginning of her self-directed, non-traditional route to coding. She first had to learn to code. She worked, studied, and leaned on mentors and others until she reached the point of being hired for a full time job. What language did she tackle as that very first one? Elixir! We talked with Kimberly Johnson about how she did it. She shared her story at ElixirConf which we found inspiring. We wanted to go deeper on how she kept going when things got hard and how she built up a network of mentors and resources to help along the way. A great story and potential roadmap for others who want to follow a non-traditional path to a software development career!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/121

Elixir Community News

• https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-1-3-1-4-1-5-and-1-6-security-releases-for-wildcard-check-origin-vulnerability/50902 – Phoenix Security Releases for versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.14.1 – Elixir 1.14.1 released
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix LiveView 0.18.3 bug fix release
• https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/10/11/phoenix-liveview-018-new-special-html-attributes.html – Sophie DeBennedetto wrote an article that covers the new :let, :if, and :for special forms
• https://github.com/CargoSense/absinthe_client – AbsintheClient - new library that is a GraphQL client for Absinthe with built-in support for subscriptions
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/99 – Episode 99 with Michael Davis to learn more about Slipstream
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto_sql/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v390-2022-09-27 – EctoSQL v3.9.0 released
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ – Safe Ecto Migrations guide
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1578411348404228096 – Livebook v0.7 released
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/10/05/my-future-with-elixir-set-theoretic-types/ – New blog post from José Valim on Elixir's future with set-theoretic types
• https://codebeamamerica.com/ – Code Beam America conference. Held November 3-4 in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. & online
• https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/ – Cloudflare created a new captcha replacement called Turnstile

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://www.travelpassgroup.com/
• https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/
• https://pragmaticstudio.com/phoenix-liveview
• https://pragmaticstudio.com/elixir
• https://grox.io/about
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/grit – Grit on Psychology Today
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
• https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition/
• https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/siestakimberly – on Twitter
• https://github.com/siestakimberly/ – on Github
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-johnson-716869142/ – LinkedIn

Find us online

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• David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
• Cade Ward - @cadebward

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