Episode 37: MJS 038: Peter Cooper
My JavaScript Story
English - December 06, 2017 11:00 - 52 minutes - 50 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow To Education Business Careers javascript programming browser internet web programmer developer framework front end node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
MJS 038: Peter Cooper
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Guest: Peter Cooper
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Peter Cooper. Peter was one the original panelist on Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber. Currently, Peter runs several weekly new letters on JS, Ruby, Go, React, etc. Peter talks about his journey as a programmer, which started at an early age tinkering with his father’s computer at home. Peter describes the beginning as a hobby until he learned the skills to being programming on many platforms. Peter talks about how he learn Ruby and JavaScript, and in early stages of noodling or learning code. Lastly, Peter talks about his contributions to the community and giving back.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you get into programming?
Playing with computers at an early age
Computers were a hobby, rather than a career builder then
Being heavily into to anything can become your career, age does not matter
Finding the skill or passion in programming
Natural ability to see and make sense of code
UseNet
AJax
Directness
Blogging
New Letters
rubyflow.com
What is the ultimate goal of the new letters?
Contributions
Helping host podcasts
Current work?
and much, much more!
Links:
http://peterc.org
https://rubyweekly.com
https://github.com/peterc/
Cooper Press
Picks
Peter
Litmus
Cheap Gaming consoles on eBay
Jason Scott of archive.org
Charles
Hyper Drive
J5
Dash Pro In-Ear Headphones