[sblawrie]

This is a really good outline of the steps it takes to bootstrap a software development career. Succinct and useful.

"My initial plan wasn't to work as a developer indefinitely, but rather to stay on the tech side for at least two years and treat it as my own personal TFA-style program."

I had a similar plan when I first started but quickly realized that coding was exactly what I wanted to do - that I never wanted to go back to the marketing side.

I wrote an article like this one about my own story: https://medium.com/a-programmers-tale/a3f7aa8d9bdf

[mailshanx]

I read the article, and am suitably impressed!:)