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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Laurie Barth.

Laurie is a Staff Software Engineer on the Gatsby Learning Team as well as a conference speaker, egghead instructor and member of the TC39 Educators committee. As a technical blogger, Laurie is a contributor to various publications, including CSS Tricks and Smashing Magazine. When she isn't writing code you can find her playing board games and eating cupcakes with her puppy, Avett.\\xa0

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Episode Summary

"I'm a very plan oriented person and I never had a plan to be a speaker or a blogger or an instructor. It was more of, I tried something out, and it led to something else, and it led to something else".

\\u2014Laurie Barth

In this episode we\\u2019ll cover:

1. Why technical blogging led Laurie to become an instructor at Egghead.io
2. How much did a Masters in Computer Science help Laurie with her career? The answer is somewhat surprising!
3. Why Laurie didn't accept jobs at Disney and SpaceX to work from home in DC.\\xa0
4. How Laurie stays up to date with all the front end frameworks? Some frameworks mentioned are: Svelte, Angular, React, Vue, GraphQL

Key Milestones

[1:45] \\u2013 Laurie thought she would end up in law school. But while interning, she was forced to take a computer science class and this changed the course of her career.
[4:35] \\u2013 After college, Laurie worked as a program manager for the federal government. She hated it and decided to apply to become a software engineer. As an engineer, she worked at several companies before joining Gatsby.
[9:40] \\u2013 Laurie talks about how she got involved in the speaking circuit and how she picks out conferences. She mentions how much insight she got from the Kansas City Developer Conference.\\xa0
[13:18] \\u2013 How Laurie got into blogging? And how technical blogging led her to become an instructor at Egghead.io.
[16:42]- Laurie talks about different mentors she's had in her career. She also talks about how she decided on her first junior level developer job.
[23:38] \\u2013 How much did a Masters in Computer Science help Laurie with her career? Would she recommend it to others?
[26:40] \\u2013 Laurie learned Java, Python, PHP because she was a consultant and needed to be knowledgeable for her clients. Lately, she gravitates more to front-end development.
[31:33] - Laurie explains why she didn't accept jobs at Disney and SpaceX to work from home in DC.\\xa0
[35:52] - How Laurie stays up to date with all the front end frameworks? Some frameworks mentioned are: Spelt, Angular, React, View, GraphQL

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