Welcome to the Code Newby Podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey,

and helps of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about learning to code when you're older

with Allison Sheridan, creator of the No Silla Cass podcast and former IT fellow at Raytheon.

Research has shown a correlation between not getting Alzheimer's and learning to do something

that's very difficult for you and mastering it.

Allison talks about why she picked up coding in her retirement, her challenges and successes

on her coding journey, as well as her

tips for learning.

After this.

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Thanks so much for being here. Oh, I'm so excited about this. This is going to be fun.

Mm-hmm. So tell us a bit about your background, your career before you retired.

Well, I originally graduated a master's degree in mechanical engineering,

and partway through ended up veering into the IT world and running a large IT organization, and then

eventually becoming a fellow. I did technically take programming in college, but if anybody

remembers Fortran 4 with watt 5 and punch cards, that's what we're talking about.

So you were a fellow, which sounds very fancy. What does a fellow do? Well, a fellow does pretty much

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