My Guest Today

I speak with Yele (pronounced jyel-ee), a newly-Canadian Toronto resident, full-stack developer, Team Lead, and member of the PyLadies community.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yele-bonilla-0141b139/

Notes, Links, and Corrections

1. Yele finished her degree in Cuba before moving to Canada to enroll in a masters program.

   • Masters of Applied Computing program (which includes an internship): http://web.cs.toronto.edu/Graduate/prospective_gradwhy/mscac.htm

2. There’s no Lego in Cuba 😢 The US Government does not allow any American companies to do business in, or with, Cuba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba

3. Matt Medland - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-medland-1305821/ now chair of the MSCAC program. Matt, you had such an impact on Yele’s life that to this day she can recall your name instantly. Thank you ❤️

4. PyLadies is an international mentorship group which focuses on helping more women become active participants in the Python open-source community: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-Toronto/

5. Yele and I ran a programming course for complete beginners in 2018. Slides: https://pts-sergiomartins.github.io/points-learning-python/slides.html

   • Programming expectation vs reality (30s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HluANRwPyNo