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Developer, Advocate!

You're reading from   Developer, Advocate! Conversations on turning a passion for talking about tech into a career

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789138740
Length 782 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (36) Chapters Close

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Scott Davis 3. Ted Neward 4. Sally Eaves 5. Kirk Pepperdine 6. Rabea Gransberger 7. Laurence Moroney 8. Scott Hanselman 9. Heather VanCura 10. Matt Raible 11. Tracy Lee 12. Simon Ritter 13. Mark Heckler 14. Jennifer Reif 15. Venkat Subramaniam 16. Ivar Grimstad 17. Regine Gilbert 18. Tim Berglund 19. Ray Tsang 20. Tori Wieldt 21. Andres Almiray 22. Arun Gupta 23. Josh Long 24. Trisha Gee 25. Bilal Kathrada 26. Baruch Sadogursky 27. Mary Thengvall 28. Yakov Fain 29. Patrick McFadin 30. Reza Rahman 31. Adam Bien 32. Bruno Borges 33. Jono Bacon 34. Other Books You May Enjoy
35. Index
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Ted's advocacy journey

Ted Neward: I'd always been interested in programming, ever since my dad brought home an Apple II Plus in 1978, but I never really thought of it as a career path until college.

I was scouring the paper looking for jobs and I found one company that was looking for a programmer. My roommate basically double dog dared me to interview for this position. I said, "You've got to be kidding me!"

He said, "What's the worst that could happen?"

So, I interviewed and actually almost got the job, which really surprised me because out of 35 candidates, I was one of four finalists and I didn't have a CS degree. I had been working in C++ for a couple of years at that point. That was really where the light flipped on in my head. I realized that I could do this professionally. I could, in fact, make a career out of this. That was something that I had never really thought was possible. I'd always assumed that I had to be a...

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