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Building Dev Skills While Staying at Your Curr...

Lena Morita
September 18, 2018

Building Dev Skills While Staying at Your Current Job

Want to transition smoothly into a tech role? Here are some tips for the risk-averse who are interested in switching careers, but can't just drop everything and leave!

Lena Morita

September 18, 2018
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  1. @mirka Lena Morita • Former designer • Director for Women

    Who Code Tokyo • JavaScript Developer at Automattic
  2. @mirka Enter at a higher level Skill & Comp Time

    Old career New career Prepare!
  3. @mirka Learning checklist • Read books/documentation • Work through tutorials

    • “Real” experience What do I build? How do I find the time?
  4. @mirka Browser scripting • Write scripts to alter the looks

    or behavior of websites • Peek under the hood • Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey • Build a browser extension