Programming Practices, Exercism, Open Source

Katrina Owen joined the show to explore ideas about open source, code review, learning to program, becoming a savvy programmer, mentoring, projects she’s working on, and also her very prominent and amazing code learning tool Exercism.

Katrina Owen joined the show to explore ideas about open source, code review, learning to program, becoming a savvy programmer, mentoring, projects she’s working on, and also her very prominent and amazing code learning tool Exercism.

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Featuring:

Katrina Owen – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteErik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHubCarlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInBrian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Katrina’s Blog
Exercism.io
99 Bottles of OOP, book by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen

Discussion

RFC #4: Jan Lehnardt – Building Healthy Communities
Exercism repo for Go exercises
GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap (video)
Go Code Review Comments
Effective Go
Ruby Midwest 2013 Failure for Fun and Profit! by Kerri Miller (video)
The GitHub GraphQL API
GraphQL
3 Trivial Concurrency Exercises for the Confused Newbie Gopher (blog)
Go in 5 Minutes Concurrency: Eating Tapas (video)

Interesting Go Projects and News

Reproducing images with geometric primitives
Sameer Ajmani wants to assemble university level courses in Go
College level Courses in Go
Better Go Playground Chrome Extension
Todd McLeod, Faculty at Fresno College
Build desktop applications in Go and HTML
Brian Ketelsen’s online course Go—Beyond the Basics
Andrew Gerrand’s Go Workbench idea
BBQ PID controller written in Go for Raspberry PI

Free Software Friday

Brian ­- Go programming language
Carlisia - Exercism and Write behavioral tests in your editor. Get live results in your browser.
Erik - Bosun: monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange
Katrina - Hoodie: Software for building applications for the web and iOS

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!