MJS 040: Kitson Kelly
JavaScript Jabber
English - December 22, 2017 01:02 - 48 minutes - 46.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 241 ratingsHow To Education News Tech News javascript programming browser internet web programmer developer framework front end node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Guest: Kitson Kelly
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kitson Kelly. Kitson is a return guest, previously on JavaScript Jabber 277. Kitson is the CTO at SitePen, and has been working and maintaining Dojo 2 for the last couple years.
Kitson talks about his journey as a developer. First, sparking his interest with old Atari games and getting his first computer in his early years. Kitson talks about his education background and introduction to computers in high school and hang out with other in the same programming niche. Kitson talks about his challenges not having a degree in computer science, but still very successful as a developer after climbing the corporate latter.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Atari Games and old first computer
Hangout with the computer nerds
Community college
No actual formal computer science degree
Tech Support and Self Taught
Challenges with not degree
Climbing the latter
Troubles even with a degree
Is a degree in computer science really needed?
Experience verses degree
Working with other people is important
Getting into JavaScript and Dojo
What kept you working in JavaScript
How do you get to being CTO and SitePen?
What are you most proud of with the work on Dojo
Contributions
Side Projects - Dojo 2
and much, much more!
Links:
https://github.com/kitsonk
Kistson Kelly
https://www.sitepen.com
https://dojo.io
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