Erin is a native Texan, a US Army Veteran, and a mom to two brilliant teenage boys. She found a love of programming while working as a technology recruiter in Nashville. She then decided to turn her hobby into a new career and attended Nashville Software School where she learned full-stack development with Ruby, Rails, Javascript, and Angular. Erin is now working as a Web Application Developer for Reax in Nashville where she codes in Ruby and C#.
Bootcamps have sprung up all over the country in an attempt to meet the demand for tech talent. And yet, many companies are not equipped to bring in a junior programmer. These programmers have a lot of potential and "simply" need to be taught HOW to become more advanced programmers.
This talk covers the use of mentorship and agile methods such as User Stories, Pair Programming, and Code Reviews to groom junior programmers into senior engineers.
We can teach bootcamp grads advanced concepts and have them solving more complex problems. Let's start CREATING senior engineers instead of just CONSUMING them.