Programmer by Accident with Thelma Lubkin

Thelma was raised in Bronx, NY. She studied for a BBA in Economics from Baruch School, CCNY. Currently she is a widow with an adult daughter and son. She worked as a programmer, mostly C and simulation software at Johnson Controls and smaller firms; long retired.

Now she walks all the time for recreation and to run errands; she bikes and swims in warmer times and her main hobby is Exercism! She never learned to drive as her and her husband and spent decades doing just about everything on a single speed tandem!

Exercism has been a great connector for her and her son -- he's currently mentoring her in JavaScript and they write and talk all the time now.....Exercism mentors substitute for the therapists that so many of my friends and acquaintances see, helping build connection and belonging.