Welcome to the Code to be podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey

and helps of helping me on yours.

I'm your host, Aron, and today we're talking about how to transition from the arts to tech

with Jessica Wilkins, software developer at This.Labs, technical writer at FreeCodeCamp, and former professional classical musician.

So that's where the desire to learn how to code. I said, well, I have some free time.

I might as well learn this stuff, build the website, and then I can go back to performing, but that didn't quite happen as planned.

Jessica talks about transitioning careers

from being a classical musician to a software developer,

the project about shining a thoughtlight

on black classical musicians and composers

that ignited her love of coding

and how the journey of expertly learning an instrument

and learning how to be a successful software developer

are actually pretty similar.

After this.

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