067: Becoming a Developer with Lexis Hanson

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lexis Hanson is a Senior Software Engineer here at Salesforce. In this role, she is also the primary front-end developer for Trailhead Live. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lexis’s interest in coding started with building Myspace pages. Eventually, she came to work for the customer support side of Salesforce. In this episode, we talk about how she went from there to becoming a software engineer. We also discuss various technologies such as JavaScript and React. Tune in to hear it all.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Lexis’s side passion for finance.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How she transitioned from an interest in coding to a determination to make it her career.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The struggles she encountered when she started her journey towards becoming a software engineer.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The difference between good and bad context switching.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What to do when you get emotional about difficult coding.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why you should stick to a single language when starting out.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why Lexis is such a fan of JavaScript.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tools and resources that help when learning how to code.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Lexis got into networking and got other people involved in her journey.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-w