This week we’re joined by another Developer Advocate in the wild. Ashley McNamara, community unicorn herder at ObjectRocket, leads us downs the path toward her title. Her and Matt caught up at Velocity Conf and exchanged the secret handshake that they can’t tell you about.
Ashley is an incredible photographer and did it full-time for a while. She now spends her day in a completely different way. We discuss:
We also mention quite a lot of learning to code resources. For computer science knowledge (which is NOT a pre-req to coding):
For hands-on experience with coding:
Ashley found that old school was the most helpful for her and she recommended these books, both children’s and intro: