Is It Too Late to Change Career Paths and Become a Programmer?
Summary
When I was about 23 years old, I randomly decided to go to a Railsbridge Meetup, where you learn how to make a basic Ruby on Rails app in a day. I was also having a frustrating time finding high quality, trustworthy resources for women who lift weights, and had this continuous nagging feeling that maybe I should actually do something about it. Here is a photo of me giving a tech talk at a meetup on how to make a custom Rails API and then send that data to your iPhone app using AFNetworking. Here is a screen shot of the actual app running on my device: After a couple months of struggling with Core Data and many passionate TestFlight users asking for more features, I decided it was time to turn this crazy passion of mine into a startup — and I recruited an incredible cofounder, Nidhi Kulkarni, a razor-sharp MIT computer science grad who, like me, was also an athlete (she competed in D1 rowing while at MIT). I hope this answer inspires you and those who read it to learn how to program and make what youre passionate about become a reality, because the rewarding feeling of having built something that tens of thousands of people love is indescribable.