Welcome to the Code Newby podcast. We talk to people on their coding journey and helps of

helping you on yours. I'm your host, Saron, and today we're talking about dot net with Maria

Nagaga, senior program manager at Microsoft for dot net interactive and ASP.net.

And I don't know if people understand that when you're dyslexic, sometimes school can be such a challenge, that it becomes frustrating. And with computer science, it was the most freeing

experience I've ever had in my life. Maria talks about how coding was actually a great path

because of her dyslexia, what dot net is,

and what it's good for, and what the learning curve is to use it effectively.

After this.

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spelled WHY2K. Thanks so much for being here. Thank you for having me, Sir Ron. This is exciting.

Yay! So you have been in charge of one of Microsoft's biggest programs for the last few years, which sounds incredibly fulfilling and also kind of stressful.

Let's talk about the path you took to get you there.

Where did all start for you?

So it all started for me in an internet cafe in Uganda where I accidentally hit right click and

saw view source. So unlike a lot of people I've met who have gone to computer science school,

who have had a passion from it from day one, I stumbled across it by accident. So I went home

with my view source, which I saved in a notepad

file, and I went and edited it. And without knowing what HTML was, I tweaked it and created my very

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