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+    Sometimes you have to let things go so there’s room for better things to come into your life -
+  Adrian Body
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+  Zita Szekely was having a full-time job as a software tester. She has been doing it for 15 years
+  and she loved her job. However, as the market demand for software testers declined, she became
+  stressful because of the unpredictable future.
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+  When you start feeling insecure about what you are doing, then it is the right time to consider
+  changing it.
+
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+  Having great support from family was the biggest turning point
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+  It was a great decision that Zita shared with her husband about her concerns for the future,
+  who then suggested to learn programming and become a developer.
+  %em “It was a silly idea”
+  , she thought,
+  %em
+    “I have always been a tech savvy person, but I have never been good with mathematics and I
+    thought programming and math go hand in hand”.
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+  = blog_image "Zita.jpg"
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+  Getting to know about WebDev Camp by attending Rails Girls Tampere, Zita was totally convinced
+  that the opportunity is now opened for her and she doesn’t need to be good at math to becoming
+  a developer. But the idea of leaving her family behind to concentrate on studying for 2 months
+  scared her.
+  %em
+    “My husband was the one who convinced me to go”.
+  According to him, from the perspective of an experienced developer,
+  %em
+    “there is no better way to start”.
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+  WebDev Camp was the best decision
+%em
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+    “Before I embarked on the course 8 weeks ago, I had no idea how to build an application and
+    no idea about object oriented programming, whilst coding was a mysterious thing done by other people
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+    During the first two weeks at the Webdev.camp, we had intensive theory lessons where we learned
+    about such things as attributes, objects, models, Active Record and MVC.
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+  = blog_image "small_group.jpg"
+%em
+  %p
+    After two weeks we started on our first real application in Ruby, and put all of that theory work into
+    practice. Already at week 5, we had a working beta version of our application.
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+    The whole experience of Webdev.camp has been an intensive and empowering learning journey for me,
+    and not just with regard to my new skills. I have proved to myself that if I apply my mind to
+    something, and work hard, I can achieve my dreams.”
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+  After graduating from WebDev Camp, Zita didn’t go straight into finding a new job right away.
+  She attended a course organized by a university to learn some Java.
+  %em
+    “It just make me feel even more certain that attending WebDev Camp was a great idea from the beginning”
+  , according to her, the course was too formal, there were too much of theory and very little practise.
+  %em
+    “Had I gone to that course first, I wouldn’t have been able to make it”.
+
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+  A new beginning
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+  Zita has just started her new position as a developer in a startup in Tampere called Intopalo.
+  She is joyous that her programming language in the new company is Ruby on Rails, which she
+  learnt at WebDev Camp.
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+  P.S: The deadline for Webdev Camp autumn application is approaching.
+  = link_to "Apply now" , "/apply"
+  if you don't want to miss the chance