Learn to Code With AI

About this episode

Erika Dietrick returns to discuss the importance of programming in network engineering and her YouTube course for engineers.

Erika Dietrick (aka “Erika the Dev”) is back on the show, and she’s days away from a major life change (welcome, Baby Dev). In this follow-up conversation, we dig into the thing that keeps coming up in network engineering careers: programming is no longer a “nice-to-have.” Erika breaks down her free YouTube course designed specifically for network engineers: Level 1 is “programmatic thinking” (the mindset + foundations), Level 2 is where AI becomes your learning accelerator, and Level 3 is a...

People in this episode

Host: Andy

Guest: Erika Dietrick

Topics covered

• programming
• network engineering
• AI
• career development
• YouTube course

Keywords

• network engineering
• programming
• AI learning
• YouTube course
• career skills

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