Ped is strangely primed this morning, Tom is strangely immune to poison ivy, and they both take a long, strange slog through software development and language immersion.

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Primed and Ready to Go! [01:53]

• The collected wisdom of Two Bit Geeks:
  • “You never can tell with bees.”
  • “It’s easy to succeed when you don’t know what you’re doing.”
  • “At the end of the day, most people are just people.”
  • “It only takes one fly to spoil the soup.”

Flies, Spiders, Mosquitoes, and Poison Ivy [09:20]

• Australia’s dangerous animals: the top 30
• Are some people immune to poison ivy?

Learn Coding with Grasshopper [22:22]

• grasshopper
• Scratch
• Low-code

Language Immersion [32:00]

• Dual Language Immersion programs
• Neuroplasticity

Getting in the Zone [36:17]

• Flow
• Pomodoro Technique
• Boomerang for Gmail

Getting Started with Coding [48:07]

• Github
• I are Programmer (and You Can Too)
• Should We Really Try to Teach Everyone to Code? (Wired)
• Codecademy
• Coding bootcamp
• Code review
• Pair programming

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)