MJS 061: Kyle Simpson
JavaScript Jabber
English - May 16, 2018 10:00 - 54 minutes - 76.5 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: Kyle Simpson
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kyle Simpson. Kyle is most well-known for being the writer of You Don’t Know JS. He first got into programming because his friend’s dad was a programmer and he was hooked by the software side of computers. He grew up writing games with QBasic and Turbo Pascal and then in his teens did some client projects. He was very much a self-taught programmer and ended up sticking with it into his career today. They talk about what led him to JavaScript and what he is doing currently.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Kyle intro
You Don’t Know JS
How did you first get into programming?
Dad’s friend was a programmer
Dad built computers
Wrote games with QBasic and Turbo Pascal
Some client projects in teen years
Very much self-taught programmer
CS degree in college
First professional job at a biotech company
Do you feel people need to get a CS degree these days?
Grateful for his degree
What engineering taught him
Striving to understand why and how things work
Don’t need a CS degree but you do need a certain mindset
Valuable but not necessary
What led you to JavaScript?
Web Portal at his college
What made you want to deepen your knowledge of JS?
What are you working on now?
And much, much more!
Links:
You Don’t Know JS
JavaScript
Kyle’s GitHub
Functional-Light JavaScript
@getify
Kyle on Front-end masters
Picks
Charles
Template Weeks
Working Out
Kyle