Self Taught Coders Don't Exist | Anjana Vakil | The Secret Sauce

Meet Anjana Vakil, a professional whose career journey has been an exciting one. Starting off in philosophy, Anjana later transitioned to English teaching, and then dove into the field of computational linguistics and software development. Her background in math and language models propelled her into open source and writing new programming language . Anjana is particularly passionate about functional programming and JavaScript and she enjoys sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm by introducing others to programs like the Recurse Center and Outreachy.

Guest: Anjana Vakil 🐦   / anjanavakil  
Host: Bdougie 🐦   / bdougieyo  
OpenSauced: 🐦   / saucedopen  

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📹 Anjana's Journey

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Anjana's Journey and Beginnings
6:50 - Recurse Center
15:51 - Outreachy
29:23 - Self Taught Programmer Myth
29:59 - Opening Doors with Open Source

Site 🍕 https://opensauced.pizza
Course 📓 https://www.leveluptutorials.com/tuto...
Twitch 🎬   / bdougieyo  
GitHub 💻 https://github.com/open-sauced
Community 👾   / discord  
Podcast 🎙 https://thesecretsauce.transistor.fm/