<p>She was trained to be a web developer. But months after graduating from bootcamp, she's at Makerbot, helping build the software that their 3D printers need to do their job. It's an interesting change -- she's using python instead of ruby, and learned C++ too. We talk about what it's like to be a software developer in a world of hardware, how the two jobs compare, and what some of the challenges are.</p> <h4>Show Links</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://dev.to/advertise">Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie!</a> (sponsor) </li> <li><a href="http://www.makerbot.com/">MakerBot</a></li> <li><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/">MIT Intro to Computer Science</a></li> <li><a href="https://cs50.harvard.edu/">Harvard CS50</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11141971/Children-to-be-implanted-with-3D-printed-ears.html">3D Printed Ears</a></li> <li><a href="http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer">3D Scanner</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.scps.nyu.edu/">NYU Continuing Studies Program</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cplusplus.com/">C++</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller">MVC (Model View Controller)</a></li> <li><a href="http://marchisformakers.com/">March Is For Makers</a></li> <li><a href="https://cnewbie.io/2GhU03r">Codeland Conf</a></li> <li><a href="https://cnewbie.io/2Q5oA26">Codeland 2019</a></li> </ul><h4>Kate Donahue</h4><p>Kate is a software developer at MakerBot and bootcamp grad.</p>

Ep. 29 - A Children's Makerspace (Gokul Krishnan)

The CodeNewbie podcast was born from CodeNewbie, an organization which fosters a supportive, international community of people learning to code. Each season, host Saron Yitbarek delivers stories and interviews from people of diverse backgrounds and expertise about their coding journeys, as well as beginner friendly discussions about the tech you should know about.