Welcome to the Codenovie podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Suran, and today we're talking about going from an admin assistant to a software engineer amongst hard times with Stacey Graham, software engineer at a fintech company.

It was that drive and motivation to help my family and to continue to provide for them

that kept me going to meetups, reaching out to people because I could see other career

changers that did the same thing that I did. So that motivated me like, hey, if they can do it, I can.

On this episode, Stacey and I explore her coding journey

and how critical community really is when you're just starting on your path.

After this.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

So let's start from the beginning.

When did you first learn about code?

The first time I learned about code was actually in college.

I wanted to go into management information systems. And so first I went to community

college first and then transferred. And that's where I had my first coding class. And the first

coding was like quick basic, which I don't think anybody really knows about. That was the first

language I learned. And when did you realize that you wanted to get into tech professionally?

I believe when I was first interested in computers in middle school, I was in like seventh grade and we had a computer class.

And I didn't have a computer at home. So that was my first experience

like working with a computer. And so from there, I just continued to have interest and curiosity

and all the way up into high school, I still knew that I wanted to go into tech. So you knew

pretty early on that you were going to get into technology.

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