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#042 - Rust is the WORST language to learn first feat. Teej DeVries

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In today's episode, we bring back Teej DeVries, the first guest ever on our podcast! Today we are discussing Teej's new course on Boot.dev on Memory Management. In this talk, we discuss the importance of memory, why Go is a C-programmer minded language, garbage collectors, among other technical topics. We also talk about why understanding the fundamentals in crucial in helping you increase your learning ability, how different it is hiring juniors and seniors and why being curious gives you the advantage over everyone else.

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  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (00:57) - Teej will have a course on Boot.dev!
  • (01:35) - Why Memory Management is so important
  • (05:17) - Go is a C-programmer minded language
  • (07:00) - 25% off on boot.dev!
  • (07:22) - How far in the curriculum will Teej's course be?
  • (09:13) - Should you learn Rust or C first?
  • (12:43) - Dropping out of college
  • (13:49) - You should know WHY you're doing something
  • (15:29) - Self motivated learning
  • (18:52) - Internal Boot.dev tooling for this course
  • (21:59) - OCamls' garbage collector
  • (23:55) - Functional language, performance and immutability constraints
  • (30:24) - Roc programming language
  • (32:42) - Wasm (WebAssembly) vs Machine Code
  • (36:07) - C's Standard Library vs Go's Standard Library
  • (37:01) - Installing dependencies
  • (41:09) - C as an educational tool
  • (43:27) - You have to think when using C
  • (45:42) - Enterprise machines are weaker compared to local machines
  • (47:43) - Why this course is before the Job Search chapter
  • (49:44) - Being curious gives you the advantage
  • (51:16) - Every program uses memory, so we should have at least some level of understanding about it
  • (54:28) - Just being able to speak like an engineer goes a long way
  • (57:14) - There are still a ton of jobs that involve embedded systems, not just WebDev
  • (01:00:13) - Be eager to learn
  • (01:01:51) - Hiring Seniors vs Hiring Juniors
  • (01:02:50) - You learn better if you understand fundamentals
  • (01:04:10) - Analogy to Dota 2
  • (01:08:54) - Where to find Teej
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