E10: The magic of Bell Labs
We're joined by Jon Gertner (author of THE IDEA FACTORY: BELL LABS AND THE GREAT AGE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION) and Jimmy Soni (author of A MIND AT PLAY: HOW CLAUDE SHANNON INVENTED THE INFORMATION AGE) ...
10 Aug 20231h 7min
E9: What makes programming fun? With Steve Krouse of val.town
Steve Krouse is the founder of val.town, a social network where you write and run - and maybe poke - code? Steve's a fellow computer science education and developer tools enthusiast. We explore what m...
21 Jul 202358min
E8: Should we stop doing this podcast?
Are we creating evil in the world with this podcast? Should Charlie feel guilty about playing Zelda? Do any Oz-approved video games exist? What's going on with Charlie's book? Can we use GPT-4 as an e...
30 Mai 202323min
E7: How Jesse Farmer designed the first coding bootcamp curriculum
It's time for instructional design and ed-tech history with Jesse Farmer! Jesse is the co-founder, Chief Product Officer, and academics lead of Dev Bootcamp - one of the earliest, most influential, an...
11 Mai 20231h
E6: Can you develop an engineer's mindset?
Charlie wants to know if he can learn how to "think like an engineer", just like the Matt Damon/Mark Watney character in THE MARTIAN -- and Oz has some good suggestions, as per usual.Shownotes:Von Neu...
4 Mai 202330min
E5: Omar the High-Octane Learning Machine
Omar Rayward attended one of the first ever coding bootcamp cohorts, now he's a Senior Staff Software Engineer. Oz and Charlie connect with Omar about his study habits, motivation, and whatever else i...
21 Apr 20231h 3min
E4: Packet losers
Charlie's unexpected packet loss devolves into a live Oz networking lesson.* Matt's (my) traceroute* How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today* Border Gateway P...
5 Apr 202356min
E3: Return to the quantum computing cave with Felix Tripier of IonQ
Oz and Charlie catch up with Felix Tripier - now a Senior Staff Software Engineer at quantum computing company IonQ - for the first time in three years! Felix was our first guest on Escaping Web - a d...
2 Apr 20231h 13min
