Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits

Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits

Are you a professional developer, or do you want to be? Worried that your computer science theory is not enough, or is outdated? We'll talk about which parts are useful, which aren't, and why/where. Every week you'll get an informed opinion from a professional developer about a specific part of computer science and when/where/whether it's useful. We cover algorithms, analysis, data structures and all sorts of theory, here on Comp Sci: Just the Useful Bits.

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With Caitlyn Greffly: It's Like Being Paid to Go to School and Make Cool Things Forever

With Caitlyn Greffly: It's Like Being Paid to Go to School and Make Cool Things Forever

Caitlyn didn't want to go back and get a degree "at my age", but went to Thinkful to learn to be a full-stack software engineer, which is "like being paid to go to school and make cool things forever....

21 Huhti 202147min

With Jennifer Tran: Coding Paradigms, the Satisfaction of Studying and Unspoken Cultural Norms

With Jennifer Tran: Coding Paradigms, the Satisfaction of Studying and Unspoken Cultural Norms

Jennifer is an early-career cloud engineer. We talk about how she got into software development without having experience before university, and what that meant about picking up the unspoken cultural ...

8 Huhti 20211h 1min

With Ernesto Tagwerker: Learning Programming, Business and Management

With Ernesto Tagwerker: Learning Programming, Business and Management

Ernesto and I talk about how he learned software development, but also some business and management in his competitive public university in Argentina. We talk group projects, learning well and trying ...

8 Maalis 202157min

With John Pavan: Coming to Programming from Nuclear Physics

With John Pavan: Coming to Programming from Nuclear Physics

I met John Pavan early in his career, after he'd just made the transition from nuclear physics to full-time computer programming. We caught up on how C++ is doing and how he's doing in it. We also tal...

1 Maalis 202159min

With Chris Seaton: On Ph.Ds and Software Apprenticeships

With Chris Seaton: On Ph.Ds and Software Apprenticeships

Chris Seaton, founder of TruffleRuby, talks with me about getting a computer science Ph.D, how learning compilers is necessarily like an old-style apprenticeship, and a near-the-metal view of complex ...

23 Helmi 20211h 1min

With Michael Dominick: Your Duck Was the Only Thing That Company Had Going For It!

With Michael Dominick: Your Duck Was the Only Thing That Company Had Going For It!

Michael Dominick, of the Mike Dominick Show, talks to me about patterns in software, the Pokemon API, what he looks for when hiring developers and how he's pretty sure the universe is POSIX compliant....

15 Helmi 20211h 7min

With George Sheppard: On Security, UML and What's More Important than Money

With George Sheppard: On Security, UML and What's More Important than Money

George and I talk about how he learned to do what we do. He loved his classes on security, and I'm envious. He doesn't remember his classes on mathematics — I might envy that, too. We talk about...

10 Marras 20201h 5min

With Jared White: the Trip from PHP to Ruby and Beyond

With Jared White: the Trip from PHP to Ruby and Beyond

Jared and I talk about his journey through all sorts of programming platforms, from the Commodore 128, through PHP to Ruby and onward. He talks about Object Oriented programming, Rails service objects...

3 Marras 20201h 25min