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
#opensource #softwareengineer #github #stream #videopodcast #outreachy #recurse #engineering #podcast
📹 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 🍕 opensauced.pizza
Course 📓 www.leveluptutorials.com/tuto...
Twitch 🎬 / bdougieyo
GitHub 💻 github.com/open-sauced
Community 👾 / discord
Podcast 🎙 thesecretsauce.transistor.fm/

[@meowthemmd]

The energy she has is type of magic humanity need to survive

[@Memoriam-Media]

Anjana’s communication skills out of this world. She is so energetic so captivating. We love you anjana keep going tells something to us.

[@MohamedRT]

I'm in love with that girl and the level of energy, I'm stalking her interviews, talks an courses .. man, she is!

[@OpenSauced]

Being a female on the internet is not easy. Maybe reconsider your approach. There are a number of things that are concerning in your comment.

[@MohamedRT]

@@OpenSauced concerning?!! 1- mentioning the "level of energy" + "interviews, talks and courses" presumes that the concerning "stalk" was metaphorical not literal and in real life 2- I'm from Egypt.. From the other end of the world, I wish I could be to San Francisco and meet here, but nah! 3- nothing else

[@zlatanonkovic2424]

@@MohamedRT I believe you wrote this comment with the best intentions. What was referred to in the previous comment are nuances that are usually hard to get as a non-native English speaker especially if you don't share the same cultural space. So, let me be the mediator and explain where @OpenSauced was coming from: 1. Nowadays, calling a grown-up woman a "girl" is usually considered belittling. As a guideline: if a person is not underage, always use the mature term ("man", "woman", etc.). 2. Many women in public are constantly confronted with harassment, even more so in the virtual domain. So, it is a good advice to be especially careful with the wording here. Saying that you're "in love" with her and "stalking" her interviews has a very strong connotation of cyber-stalking. To give you the benefit of the doubt, English probably just isn't your primary language and I guess you weren't aware of how that comment would sound to a native English speaker living in the US.

[@devagr]

How did I not know this podcast exists damn I need to binge this shit

[@OpenSauced]

Glad you found us

[@SR-ti6jj]

Counter thesis: Everyone is self-taught What's the alternative? Learning through osmosis?

[@OpenSauced]

That would be nice.

[@KManAbout]

I think learning through osmosis would be growing up in a culture of programmers. Like imagine if almost everyone around you growing knew how to code and programming was as common as walking or something