During our summer team-building podcast we agreed it would be fun to record a few episodes along the “how do I become a programmer” theme and figured out that Elisa Jasinska would be a perfect first candidate.

A few weeks ago we finally got together and started our chat with campfire stories remembering how we got started with networking and programming.

Other topics of the podcast include:

• What formal education would help you become a programmer?
• Which programming language would you use and why would it be Perl?
• How could you combine network-related work with programming?
• Why does that make perfect sense, and why one might slide more and more toward programming.
• How being a network operations engineer and a programmer enhances your career options?
• How could a hard-code networking engineer start moving into programming?
• Why it’s useful to start with an existing open-source project and modify it to fit your needs.

Want to know more? Listen to Episode 66 of Software Gone Wild.

On the other hand, if you want to build a network automation solution without becoming a programmer, enroll into my online course.