MAS 043: Sam Julien

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Sam Julien

This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Sam Julien. Sam’s course Upgrading Angular JS is a comprehensive video course to help people tackle the transition from Angular JS to Angular which was born out of his own pain and suffering from that process. He first got into programming when he was 8 or 9 and his robotics engineer uncle got him into old Mac computers and he would then hack around on them. They talk about what brought him back to programming, what made him want to specialize in Angular, and more!

In particular, We dive pretty deep on:

Adventures in Angular Episode 186
Upgrading Angular JS course
Angular JS to Angular
How did you first get into programming?
Uncle gave him his old Mac computers
Reverse engineering of computers
Basic and ResEdit
Taught himself HTML at 12 years old
HTML was the thing that allowed him to actually create things
CSS and JavaScript in college
What was it like when you were first developing things?
Didn’t understand JavaScript in the beginning
Degree in Religion
What brought you back to programming?
Worked for a brokerage originally
Started mostly with C# and jQuery and then moved on to Angular
What was it about Angular made you want to specialize in it?
Fascinated by Angular and took the Code School course on it
Loved how straightforward Angular was
Making the most of the opportunities you’re given
The welcoming aspect of the Angular community
Are there contributions to the community that you are really proud of?
Writing for Scotch.io and Telerik
Runs Angular Portland groups
Talking at Angular Denver and AngularMix
What made you want to make your course?
And much, much more!

Links:

Adventures in Angular Episode 186
Upgrading Angular JS
Angular JS
Angular
JavaScript
jQuery
Code School
Sam’s Scotch.io page
Sam’s Telerik blog
Angular Portland groups
Angular Denver
AngularMix
@samjulien
samjulien.com
Sam’s GitHub

Sponsors:

FreshBooks
Loot Crate

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Sam

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