{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Scrimba Podcast","title":"Are You a New Developer? Follow This One Tip! (With Scrimba Student Danny)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2625,"description":"🎙 About the episode\n\nMeet Danny Vogel 🇩🇪🇪🇸! Danny is a lawyer-turned-developer who decided to switch careers after ten years in law! In high school, he thought he could never do maths and picked a different path. It was meeting his wife, who is a software developer, that made him stop seeing coding as something unachievable, and the search for a better work-life balance that made him start learning. When he quit his job, he focused on coding. But nobody was responding to his job applications. Danny then went to a developer meetup in Barcelona, where somebody gave him wise advice...\nIn this episode, Danny shares about his coding journey and the struggles along the way. You'll learn how to approach projects, why a \"shotgun\" approach might work for you, and why it's better not to work remotely if you're just starting out. Danny also talks about his experience with Chingu.io, a platform that pairs you with other developers to create group coding projects, and how he's benefited from joining it. Ultimately, you'll find out how Danny landed his first dev job, even though the company didn't advertise the job he's doing now as a junior position!\n\n🔗 Connect with Danny\n👨‍💼 LinkedIn\n⏰ Timestamps\nDanny always liked computers but never saw himself as a coder (02:26)\nIs coding more about letters or numbers? (03:03)\nDanny went into law, studying in Barcelona and New York. How did it feel to switch careers after ten years? (03:45)\nWhat made Danny learn to code? (05:22)\nDid Danny’s wife, a developer, play a part in his decision to learn to code? (06:10)\nCoding and law are often misrepresented in movies and on TV (07:20)\nHow Danny learned to code (07:45)\nFrontend vs backend (08:43)\nWas learning to code hard? (09:14)\nCommunity break with Jan the Producer (10:35)\nHow Danny knew it was time to quit his job in law (12:21)\nWhat was Danny’s approach to looking for dev jobs (13:47)\nDanny went on a meetup and got a great piece of advice (15:09)\nDanny also joined Chingu.io - what is it?...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3qNz-AxOjZ6Oiowf_zRLRsZeOxv5p7FYbB0-kA5vS6A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE1Njg5LzE3MDE4/MDIzOTYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}