– Get A Coder Job!

– Chuck: This week I am talking with Paweł Dąbrowski who was on episode 366. Give us a brief description of who you are, please.

– Guest: I run a company and I am here b/c of the article I wrote. It was a nice introduction to...programming. I write in my blog and have written a few gems. I created a course how to build Ruby Flow. Also, I create Ruby code every day. I think that’s it.

– Chuck: I am curious, how did you get into programming?

– Guest: It all started in school when he asked me to create a website using HTML code. I fell in-love with it.

– Chuck: Yeah it was PHP for me, too. I could do dynamic things with this. I was a computer science major, and to build something REAL was amazing.

– Guest: Yes, when something works it’s amazing.

– Chuck: Yeah, when you realize you left out a semi-colon – oh no! In some ways, PHP was a friendly-way to do web development.

– Guest.

– Chuck: How old were you when you got paid for web development?

– Guest: I think I was sixteen years old and $50.00 was a fortune for me. I felt like a millionaire. It felt great to make money for something you love to do. It wasn’t work; I just enjoyed doing it.

– Chuck: That’s the magic!

– Guest: If you are doing something you love, then it’s great!

– Chuck: How did you go from PHP to one-page apps to Ruby?

– Guest: I didn’t like PHP at some point. I fell in-love with Ruby’s syntax. I was afraid that I wasn’t going to find a job. I wrote a programmer and told him that I have “no experience and no technical training...” I didn’t think it was possible, and he said that it was possible based on the work that I put in. I remember writing code in Ruby.

– Chuck: What drew you to Ruby?

– Guest: The community and the syntax. I love writing in Ruby, and I don’t know if I will switch my languages in the future. I want to create a more active Ruby community in Poland. I want to get junior developers involved.

– Chuck: Tell us about your blog!

– Guest: I started writing every day. I started in January and kept going for three months. I thought that was crazy, and so I wrote less frequently. I thought it was a game-changing decision for me b/c it took me to a new level. I wrote more, learned more, and it has given me visibility.

– Chuck: I have talked to people in various parts of the world. People say that it could be a barrier of only English-written blogs.

– Guest: I learned English once I got serious about coding/programming. I think it’s a disadvantage if you don’t know English.

– Chuck: What are you working on now?

– Guest: I am starting this project and decided to turn-it-up b/c at first it was experimental. I wanted to move people more in the Polish community. I write about soft skills and that developers should have those skills, too.

– Chuck: This episode won’t come out for a few months. If you want to plug that – you can if you are comfortable with it.

– Guest: I want to set-up interviews, and create a dictionary so people can check single words and their meaning and see what it looks like in another language. Also, working on the content of blogs, and maybe recording a video on HOW to code. I was involved in a webinar and starting my first conference. Give the

– Chuck: Where can people find you? How about your blog?

– Guest: Twitter! GitHub! Blog! LinkedIn!

– Chuck: Any recommendations for people who are getting into programming?

– Guest answers the question.

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