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How to Avoid Burnout, Improve Your Confidence and Keep Coding Fun, with Scrimba Student Sylvia
🎙 About the episode
Meet Sylvialynn Favello 🇺🇸! Sylvia got exposed to coding accidentally: by watching online courses for fun after she took a break from work and studying so that she could have surgery. Today, she works at Docker! She will teach us how to stay on track even when our brains don't want to.
In this episode, Sylvia will give us her insights on how to recognize you're heading towards burnout, how to keep learning fun, and how to remain motivated. She also talks about working on her self-confidence and public speaking by participating in communities and Twitter spaces (the latter is also how she met her hiring manager!), as well as how she found a way to enjoy the learning process for what it is. Spoiler alert: you'll get many unconventional study tips, but they might work for you!
Alex and Sylvia also discuss programming with ADHD, why being a developer is rewarding, and how you can turn perceived failures into learning experiences.
🔗 Connect with Sylvia
🧰 Resources Mentioned
- How to speak
- CS50's Introduction to Computer Science on edX
- Mia Bala on Twitter
- Scrimba's Front-End Developer Career Path
- Sylvia's project, Blue Signal
- Scrimba Podcast: How To Learn To Code From the Free Content on YouTube, With Jessica Chan
- Scrimba Podcast: Communication skills for developers with Dylan Israel from Amazon
- freeCodeCamp
- Learn Python for Free on Scrimba
- Scrimba's Discord server!
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