Elizabeth Regas

Episode 025 – Elizabeth Regas – has a Masters of French Horn Performance from Boston University. She played French Horn with the Greenville Symphony for 15 years. For the last 13 years, she has worked as the Director of Music Education at a school for children with learning differences. She was inspired by family members who did coding bootcamps, so now she is learning front end development on her own. She is the first guest that we have interviewed that is not currently in tech but is working toward it. Elizabeth can provide a first-hand perspective of her journey into tech and what it is like going through that transition.

Elizabeth is a self-taught programmer. She has been learning how to code for the past year. The reason she credits her success is dedicating a set time each day or week to study has helped

PluralSight – a technology learning platform.

FreeCodeCamp – mission is to help people learn how to code for free.

Udemy – provides thousands of courses to help you learn how to program.

Stress Free – self-imposed deadlines can negatively impact your ability to accomplish things so if you want to improve then make your life as stress free as possible.

F*ck That: An Honest Meditation – a 2 1/2 minute meditation on YouTube.

Elizabeth is a musician turned self-taught developer. She is actively learning front-end development so she can transition from musican and educator to a web developer.

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