MAS 031: Stephen Fluin

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Stephen Fluin This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Stephen Fluin. Stephen is a developer advocate on the Angular Core Team at Google. His role has two parts: to help developers and organizations be successful with Angular and to reflect the needs of those developers and understand what it’s like to actually build apps in the real world onto the team so that they can make the right product decisions as they continue to build out Angular. He first got into programming when he was 8 years old and he was interested in how computer games were created and started creating his own games in C and C++. In particular, We dive pretty deep on: Stephen introTries to be in the “weeds of things” as much as possibleHow did you first get into programming?Learned originally in C and C++Built a MUDFirst discovered the Web in High ShcoolPHP, HTML, and CSS in High SchoolStudied Computer Science in CollegeRevisited his MUD in college and made it more complexReady Player One by Ernest ClineHow did you get into JavaScript and Angular?DataTablesLoves the simplicity of JavaScriptServer-side vs client-sideThe introduction of phonesDisruptorsTypeScriptHow did you get on the Angular team?What does a typical day look like?And much, much more! Links: AngularAngular Core TeamReady Player One by Ernest ClineJavaScriptDataTablesTypeScript@StephenFluinStephen’s GitHub Picks: Charles NgConfReady Player One by Ernest ClineAudibleDevChat.tv/YouTube Stephen Troll AttackAngular Update Guide