Episode 64: MJS 065: Greg Wilson
My JavaScript Story
English - June 13, 2018 10:00 - 55 minutes - 78.2 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
Panel: Charles Max Wood
Guest: Greg Wilson
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Greg Wilson about his educational and programming background, a Canadian company (Rangle) who’s doing amazing things, and much more! Currently, Greg is the head of instructor training at DataCamp.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Past Episode – 184
JavaScript
The one unavoidable language.
Company in Canada – Rangle.
1980’s when Greg got into super computing – everything was custom hardware.
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Rangle – what a great company!
Emily Porta
Rangle’s program, Bridge, aimed at women who are trying to get into the tech industry.
How did you get into programming?
Queen’s University – 1980.
Started off as chemistry major.
From Vancouver, Canada.
Engineering degree.
Got hired to do math with computers.
Software.
1985 – working for a lab in Ottawa.
Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Scotland.
Ph.D.
Academia.
Moved to Toronto.
Ruby
Greg is a Python user.
Not familiar with Ruby.
Violence and video games?
Where is the data?
If people had the habit of being skeptical, such as fake news and other things, that simply isn’t true.
For example: are vaccines dangerous?
Professor Marian Petre – Open University
Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre
Links:
Digital Ocean, LLC
FreshBooks
Greg Wilson’s Third Bit
Greg Wilson’s Twitter
Greg Wilson’s GitHub
Greg Wilson’s LinkedIn
Greg Wilson’s “What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True”
JavaScript
Past Episode – 184
Rangle
Rangle’s Bridge
Python
Ruby
Professor Marian Petre – Open University
Book: “Software Designs Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think” by Marian Petre
CacheFly
Charles Max Wood’s Twitter
Sponsor:
Digital Ocean, LLC
Picks:
Charles
St. George, Utah
Parade of Homes
Upside
Bose SoundLink Headphones
ATR2100 Microphone
Greg
Inclusivity and diversity
AOSABOOK.ORG
Samson Meteor Microphone