Welcome to the Codenoby podcast. We talk to people on their coding journey in helps of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Saron, and today we're talking about exploring sciences and tech with Marlene Anthony, engineer two at Bench Accounting.

Impostal syndrome, it's going to be there. It's just you have to understand that nobody knows everything.

Nobody's going to be that one guru that knows every single part of any application.

And I've spoken to senior developers at my company and they say, yeah, I still experience

imposter syndrome.

So I'm slowly getting better at dealing with it.

Marley talks about the strategies he used to get his first internship, how he transitioned

into his current role, and the importance of foundational knowledge after this.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here.

So you started to really prioritize learning how to code in 2020, but let's kind of go through life before code.

Were you ever into coding or technology early on in your life?

So I did take a coding course in high school.

At the time, I wasn't the best high school students. So it was just, you know, I went to the core. I went to the class and we did some basic stuff with Java. And after high school, after university, I also did a course called intro to HTML and CSS. Just like at my, there's a boot camp that's local to me in Vancouver,

just went out there and took some of the course. And yeah, that's kind of where I got my

first taste of what it would be like to be in software and coding. And shortly after that,

a few years later, I ended up joining a boot camp. Very cool. So when you took that class in high

school, I remember I did something really similar. I took a little coding intro to tech thingy. But I didn't make a connection at that point that it could be a career or something that I could actually study. So I'm curious for you, when you took that first class, that first intro class, did you make the connection that said, oh, I could study this one day

and I could actually become a software engineer? Yeah, just like you, I didn't really make that

connection, honestly. It was just kind of, you know, just another course that we had to take.

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