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"When coding is LIFE"
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I don't know where you are, I don't know how your work, but I will find you,
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"99 little bugs in the code.
Take one down, patch it around
122 little bugs in the code."
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"It works.... - but why?"
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"Listening to the Founders & Coders Podcast"
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Christine from the White Sausage Equator

The Weißwurstäquator (German pronunciation: [ˌvaɪsvʊɐ̯stɛˈkvaːtoːɐ̯], white sausage equator) is a humorous term describing the supposed cultural boundary separating Southern Germany from the North.

I grew up on a farm in the Bavarian countryside.

Curious about the world, I soon realised that learning a language (at that time, English) was the key to exploring it.

Years have past and the mission has changed.

Now I find myself on a journey through the world of code, equipped with google, console.log, stack overflow and the patience of a rock.

What learning English unlocked for me:

Tanzania

Learning English allowed me to volunteer in Tanzania, teaching children and working together with the women in Mama Hindu’s children and women’s development center.

Australia

I then went to live in Australia as an au pair of 4 lovely children from 2 – 6 years old!

Cambridge

and all of that gave me the confidence and motivation to read International Business in Cambridge where I wrote my bachelor thesis and began my life in the UK.

I am now working as a project manager at Qubit, a website personalisation platform. Together with my team, my job is to bring new features of a website to live and to take a strategy from idea to reality.

One of my biggest projects so far was deploying a technical support process and then coordinating it.

Why I decided coding will be the next world to explore?

It seems like everything has been gearing up for me to learn how to code!

Detail

As a project manager, I can be a bit of a perfectionist, I enjoy being specific.

Programming has allowed me to geek out on the details,
and is a place where I don’t have to hold myself back.

Work

A project with a tight deadline first had me tinkering with CSS that was not yet quite right. It was for a delivery bar threshold with many layers of CSS.

Fixing the problem gave me butterflies! I was hooked!

University

I started to like programming during lectures on html and 'my sql' as part of my degree but I had doubts: “If I were to become a developer, would I sit in a basement all day, behind a laptop and in isolation from others?”

My picture of programming was heavily skewed and it took me two jobs of working closely with developers to fully realise that.

Coding is a team effort and there are so many ways to use the skill to make a positive impact in society.

Irusu

When I had to come up with a github handle, I decided it would be: xIrusux, which is Japanese and translates to:

“pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door.”

This word sums up my feeling when I code. Sometimes I get so zoned in I feel like putting up a sign near myself saying “gone coding, back later”.

Why Founders and Coders?

Peer led learning

Learning & Teaching style

Back in university, I learnt the most from working groups that we set up to study what we was taught in lectures.
As one of the 3 main learning styles I thought that at university, kinesthetic ways of teaching were under represented.

Speaking for myself, I have never felt clearer about something I just learnt than after explaining it to someone else.

Ethics

I believe that reciprocity is the most important currency of our society and think that it is a recipe for prosperity. Therefore, the idea of being able to mentor others through the same phase that I will be going through excites me a great deal!

Tech for better

Connectiveness

I completed my A- levels with a focus on pedagogy and psychology and spent my afternoons working at the child day care of a mother – daughter psychosomatic clinic.

Working with those who need it has always been close to me

This means that learning how to code with F&C, ticks all the boxes for me:
An activity I am passionate about which enables me to give back in a meaningful way.

TFB Project

Especially the 'Little Window' (CHAYN, 2018) project has left an impression on me.

My Mission

It is my hope that by joining this course, I will be able to mentor at the F&C overseas campuses to spread the knowledge, or work with a non-profit. “In learning you will teach and in teaching you will learn.” Long term, I know that by taking part, new opportunities will present themselves: whether that be discovering good people and ideas and founding a business, or working with a company towards a worthwhile cause. I keep an open mind and am prepared to work hard.

You are still here?..
Ok - then let me tell you about my love affair with climbing

The other big passion in my life is rock climbing. I both boulder and rope climb. In each, there is a very strong community. One helps another and gives advice on what technique to use on a route.
It is the community that fosters diversity and has made me get to know people from all walks of life connected by their passion for climbing.