MJS 050: Azat Mardan
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English - February 28, 2018 11:00 - 35 minutes - 3 Bytes aHow To Education Business Careers programming javascript web framework development front end developer programmer internet node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Panel: Charles Max Wood
Guest: Azat Mardan
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Azat Mardan. Azat is the author of 14 books on Node JS, JavaScript, and React JS. He also founded Node University, speaks at conferences, and works at Capitol One. Azat first got into programming when he was in college and his major was Informatics in eastern Europe and then when he graduated, he taught himself JavaScript and PHP and did some freelance work. Once he came to the United States, he got his master’s degree in Information Systems Technology and was building websites for country embassies. His main advice to people new to programming and IT is to just focus on one thing and give yourself enough time to get comfortable with that technology, and then move on to a new technology to conquer.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you get into programming?
Major in informatics
PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
Freelancing
Masters in Information Systems Technology
C++ class
FDIC
Advice to new programmers
The importance of focus
His startup experience
Ruby on Rails
Mac vs Windows
Taught himself different frameworks and languages
Location matters
MongoDB
The best way to learn is to teach others
What was it about JavaScript that really clicked for you?
JavaScript has expressiveness
The Talent Code
What led you to React?
Which contributions are you most proud of?
And much, much more!
Links:
Node University
The Talent Code
Azat’s Blog: WebAppLog.com
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