MAS 020: Kent C. Dodds

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Kent C Dodds This week on My My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Kent C Dodds. Kent is based in Utah and works at PayPal, as a full stack javascript engineer and contributes to open source projects and works with Angular and React. Kent is an instructor at Egghead.io, Frontend Masters, and is a web development expert. Kent has also started JavaScript Air and Angular Air in the podcasting space. Kent talks about his journey into programming in 2011 as well as many different trials like getting into accounting, business intelligence, and internships. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:    How did you get into programming?Tyler (friend) influenced him in programmingInterested in computersTook electrical engineering at schoolDid Missions or church and return to accounting and learn information systemsInternships lead to JavascriptLearning to codeWhat was is about JavaScript you liked?ToolsReason MLWhich of the past things you did are you most proud of?Angular formallyAngular and Angular JSJavaScript, TC39Egghead and JavaScriptES6What are you working on now?Infra-team, force multiplier at PayPalWhat things that are moving interest you?and much, much more! Links:  https://github.com/kentcdoddshttps://kcd.im/eggheadhttps://frontendmasters.com/https://paypal.com/careershttps://twitter.com/kentcdoddskcd.im/newshttps://www.youtube.com/c/kentcdodds-vidshttps://kentcdodds.com/post/https://kentcdodds.com Picks Kent Do nice things everyone!The Beginners Guide To React Advance React Component Patterns Charles Indiegogo for React and Elixir on Dev Chat TVreactdevsummit.comhttps://www.mybusinessonpurpose.comCES - https://www.youtube.com/c/devchattv