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- Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman“You’ve listened to podcasts where you gotta fast forward 8-9 minutes in before the actual meat happens.”
Scott Hanselman is a technologist, teacher and podcaster who works for Microsoft on its web platform team. Scott hosts several podcasts including Hanselminutes and This Developer’s Life, which cover various topics in software.
Questions- When you started Hanselminutes, what was your goal for the show?
- What makes the shows by Charlie Rose and Terry Gross the gold standard?
- What are the most salient changes you’re seeing at Microsoft these days?
- What are the important levers to pull in order to improve developer experience?
- What problems are you working on day-to-day?
- What comes to your mind when you hear the word “audacity”?
- What’s the biggest piece of advice you can give to developers?
Links- Car Talk
- Open Source .NET – 1 year later
- Scott on Twitter
- Scott’s Personal Page
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35 min - Teaching Kids to Code with Rebecca Garcia“Software engineering projects don’t fail because of a lack of technical ability, they fail because of a lack of communication.”
Rebecca Garcia is the creator of GeekGirlWeb and founder of CoderDojo NYC. She spends much of her time educating people about the importance of STEM education, particularly in the domain of programming.
Questions- Why did you consider so important to further the cause of STEM education?
- When you’re introducing a young person to programming, what is the best way to approach it?
- What do you think about NYC’s initiative to teach CS in all public schools within 10 years?
- What are the biggest misconceptions about the conversation around women in tech?
- How do you balance tech evangelism and actual coding?
- What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned while teaching kids to code?
Links- CoderDojo NYC
- Scratch
- Hour of Code
- GHC
- GeekGirlWeb
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47 min - GeekWire Podcast with Software Engineering Daily“I would say that the vast majority of people see programming more as a science. But to get the best work out of yourself, you have to be thinking from an artistic perspective. So it makes sense to make your north star, as an engineer, some sort of artistic goal.”
Todd Bishop from The GeekWire Podcast recently interviewed Jeff for a discussion on various topics including programming languages, coding bootcamps and the philosophical question of whether programming is an art or a science.
Thanks to GeekWire for the opportunity! You can find the show and more at Geekwire: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/is-software-development-art-or-science-geekwire-podcast-with-software-engineering-daily/
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52 min - Episode 100 with Pranay Mohan“Software is this really unique field that is growing so rapidly that people are almost forced to specialize into one subdomain – and that kind of stratification is good for your job and for your employers, but it’s not necessarily good for you as an individual trying to grow in the field of software.”
This is episode 100 of Software Engineering Daily, and is a behind the scenes episode on the show that explores the challenges and motivations behind building a daily software podcast.
Pranay Mohan is the Producer of Software Engineering Daily.
Questions- What is the goal of Software Engineering Daily?
- Why did you start working on Software Engineering Daily?
- What is your background – what did you study?
- Where do you stand on the debate of college versus coding bootcamps?
- What is keeping Software Engineering Daily from being a go-to podcast for software engineers?
- What is your favorite episode?
- How have we made mistakes while working on Software Engineering Daily?
Links- Reconsider by DHH
- Lifestyle Businesses
- Product Hunt Podcasts
- Automated Trading and OCaml with Yaron Minsky
- Java and Developer Advocacy with Trisha Gee
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53 min - Popcorn Time with Niv Sardi“We are at this moment where states and corporations are trying to restrict so much of what we can do on the internet because we have centralized the internet.”
Popcorn Time was a free, open-source application that allowed for streaming of movie and television show torrents.
Niv Sardi is an activist and developer based in Argentina, who previously worked on the main fork of Popcorn Time, popcorntime.io. Niv is also the founder of the Butter Project, a spin out project from Popcorn Time.
Questions- Did the MPAA shut down Popcorn Time?
- Why did the MPAA allege that Popcorn Time was illegal?
- What is specific about Torrent that makes it different from other P2P technologies?
- Why was the decision made to spin Butter out of Popcorn Time?
- How could Netflix improve by adopting P2P?
- What are the principles behind your activism?
- How has working on Popcorn Time affected your worldview?
Links- Popcorn Time
- MPAA says it shut down Popcorn Time
- Butter Project
- Niv on Twitter
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50 min - CodeCombat with Nick Winter“It’s not obvious why programming is awesome – you can’t build anything at first, everything is really hard at first – what’s the point? And so we decided, lets make a game so that the engagement is there from the first moment.”
CodeCombat is a multiplayer live coding strategy game where the players write code to control their characters.
Nick Winter is the CEO and Co-founder of CodeCombat.
Questions- Where did you get the idea to build CodeCombat?
- How is this different from the gamification at other websites like Code cademy?
- How does multiplayer work?
- What level of programming skill will someone have when they finish playing through CodeCombat?
- How do you build and render the animations on the front-end?
- What games inspired CodeCombat?
- Why did you open-source all of your code?
Links- CodeCombat
- Kingdom Rush
- Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup
- Nick’s personal page
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57 min - MotherCoders with Tina Lee“There was a need to create a space where mothers felt welcome, because our challenges – they’re very different from people who are learning who don’t have these types of caregiving responsibilities.”
MotherCoders is a program that helps mothers gain technical skills with the support of a community and benefits like on-site childcare.
Tina Lee is the Founder of MotherCoders, having created the program to meet her own need after trying to find existing support systems while learning how to code.
Questions- What inspired you to start MotherCoders?
- What do you mean by the “new economy”?
- Do you see imposter syndrome being an obstacle when people are starting to code?
- Why do mothers represent an ideal group to bridge the gap in tech employment?
- There is a saying – when you empower a woman, you empower the family. Why is this?
- How can people get involved with MotherCoders?
Links- MotherCoders
- MotherCoders Video
- Tina on Twitter
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50 min - Automated Trading and OCaml with Yaron Minsky“Anyone who is really concerned about correctness should think twice about programming in a kind of free-thread model where everyone has to be very disciplined and put all the locks in the right place to make things work well.”
Jane Street Capital is a quantitative trading firm known for its emphasis on technology and specifically functional programming. OCaml is the main programming language used at Jane Street, chosen for its performance, correctness and dynamism.
Yaron Minsky is the Head of Technology at Jane Street and was responsible for introducing OCaml to the company and transitioning its architecture.
Questions- Jane Street is a trading company – how does that drive the technological requirements?
- Why is OCaml an appealing language for Jane Street’s use cases?
- What is the concurrency support for OCaml?
- What is the difference between a macro and a function?
- What are some unique principles at Jane Street?
- How has your definition of money changed?
Links- Jane Street Tech Blog
- Yaron’s talk on Caml Trading
- Yaron on Twitter
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58 min - Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson“Free Code Camp is my effort to correct the extremely inefficient and circuitous way I learned to code. I’m committing my career and the rest of my life towards making this process as efficient and painless as possible.”
Free Code Camp is an open source community dedicated to teaching people how to code while also helping non-profits
Quincy Larson is the Founder of Free Code Camp, and previously was the director of several schools in the U.S. and China.
Questions- Why did you start Free Code Camp?
- How does Free Code Camp compare to the experience of a paid coding bootcamp attendee?
- Why do you teach fullstack JavaScript instead of ruby on rails?
- What are the things that people have trouble learning in the all javascript stack?
- What are the rates of attrition?
- Do you think everybody should learn to code?
Links- Free Code Camp
- Cloud9 IDE
- Codepen
- Quincy on Twitter
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54 min - Turing School with Steve KinneyTuring School of Software and Design is a seven-month program that teaches software development in Denver.
Steve Kinney is the co-director of academics at Turing School of Software and Design.
Questions- What level of experience is required to get accepted?
- How does Turing School compare to an academic computer science degree?
- How do the results compare to 3-month boot camps?
- What social injustices is Turing School seeking to amend?
Links- Turing School
- Steve Kinney on Twitter
- Steve Kinney Homepage
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