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Ken Youens-Clark - Music Major Turned Scientific Programmer #81

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English - August 10, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ken Youens-Clark.

Biography

Ken Youens-Clark is a senior-level programmer with 24 years of experience developing software in industry and research environments (scientific programmer). He is the author of Tiny Python Projects published by Manning Publications.

Ken has deep knowledge of the entire software life-cycle experience, from design, execution, testing, release, and iteration. Ken is a creative thinker and innovator, constantly looking for ways to improve upon systems and interfaces. Ken enjoys mentoring younger developers through code reviews, book reviews, and teaching.

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Quotes

“I didn’t know I would be a programmer. And I didn’t understand what that would mean as a career, but playing with computers seemed interesting to me.”

“I’ve always dealt with a lot of imposter syndrome at every single level. You go into a place with pretty cool people who have CS degrees, some of whom were from MIT. These people were clearly better prepared for what we were doing, but I think I brought a different way of problem solving.”

“I didn’t really understand maybe how languages were put together, but I could still use them very effectively.”

“I’m not qualified on my own to go off and do research. But I can create the software that other people can use for that.”

“You need to learn how to write 1 or 2 lines of code and then run your program. You don’t write 50 lines of code and get your program to work.”

“Your own personal happiness should come first. That means at home too with your relationships and your health and your mental well being. All of these things need to be in line for you to grow in any sort of way whether it is professionally or personally.”

—Ken Youens-Clark

Additional Resources

The first five people who email the show at [email protected] will receive a code good for one free ebook copy of “Tiny Python Projects”. 

For those who don’t want to send an email, you can get a 40% discount ON ALL Manning books, including “Tiny Python Projects” by using the discount code poddevmen20.

Click here to buy “Tiny Python Projects” by Manning Publications

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Ken’s YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/kyclark

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