What It’s Like to Be A Junior Software Engineer

Many imagine that building apps must be boring. Spending hours trying to make a webpage look pretty, or trying to make page loading a fraction of a section faster sounds like completely meaningless work, right? But software engineering is more than that–it’s about making people’s lives easier, connecting people to each other, and giving people tools that help them be successful in whatever their goals … Continue reading What It’s Like to Be A Junior Software Engineer

Why I am Leaving Teaching to Become a Software Engineer

In May I met with my Principal to tell her that I would be resigning from my position as a teacher at Deerfield Beach Middle School. She was pretty disappointed but also very supportive once I told her that I was moving to Northern California to pursue Software Engineering. When I told her that quitting was a tough decision she looked at me and said … Continue reading Why I am Leaving Teaching to Become a Software Engineer