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MJS 065: Greg Wilson

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Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Greg Wilson

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Greg Wilson about his educational and programming background, a Canadian company (Rangle) who’s doing amazing things, and much more! Currently, Greg is the head of instructor training at DataCamp.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

  • Past Episode – 184
  • JavaScript
    • The one unavoidable language.
    • Company in Canada – Rangle.
    • 1980’s when Greg got into super computing – everything was custom hardware.
    • Want to be “rich, famous, and popular?” – check out 11:58!
    • Rangle – what a great company!
      • Emily Porta
      • Rangle’s program, Bridge, aimed at women who are trying to get into the tech industry.
      • How did you get into programming?
        • Queen’s University – 1980.
        • Started off as chemistry major.
        • From Vancouver, Canada.
        • Engineering degree.
        • Got hired to do math with computers.
        • Software.
        • 1985 – working for a lab in Ottawa.
        • Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Scotland.
        • Ph.D.
        • Academia.
        • Moved to Toronto.
        • Ruby
          • Greg is a Python user.
          • Not familiar with Ruby.
          • Violence and video games?
            • Where is the data?
            • If people had the habit of being skeptical, such as fake news and other things, that simply isn’t true.
              • For example: are vaccines dangerous?
              • Professor Marian Petre – Open University
              • Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre

                • Links:

                • Digital Ocean, LLC
                • FreshBooks
                • Greg Wilson’s Third Bit
                • Greg Wilson’s Twitter
                • Greg Wilson’s GitHub
                • Greg Wilson’s LinkedIn
                • Greg Wilson’s “What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True”
                • JavaScript
                • Past Episode – 184
                • Rangle
                • Rangle’s Bridge
                • Python
                • Ruby
                • Professor Marian Petre – Open University
                • Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre
                • CacheFly
                • Charles Max Wood’s Twitter

                  • Sponsor:

                  • Digital Ocean, LLC

                    • Picks:

                    Charles

                    • St. George, Utah
                    • Parade of Homes
                    • Upside
                    • Bose SoundLink Headphones
                    • ATR2100 Microphone

                      • Greg

                      • Rangle’s Bridge
                        • Inclusivity and diversity
                        • AOSABOOK.ORG
                        • Samson Meteor Microphone
                          • ...more
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