Making your path to development with Anjana Vakil
Anjana is fascinated by languages, both human and machine, and the connections between the two. She recently completed a MS in computational linguistics at Saarland University in Germany, where she studied speech technology, machine learning, and computer-assisted language learning. Her spontaneous talk "Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript" has been viewed over a half-million times on YouTube. She talks to Scott about her thoughts on languages and her strategies for learning.
14 Juli 201732min
Brandon Bouier on the Defense Digital Service and deploying code in a war zone
Brandon Bouier works at the Pentagon at the Defense Digital Service. He's travelled to Afghanistan to deploy code and migrate data. He talks to Scott about what it means to support US Defense IT resources and how the military is innovating at new speeds with new techniques and fresh thinking.
7 Juli 201732min
YOU should write an interpreter with Thorsten Ball
Thorsten Ball has a thirst for knowledge, so one day he decided to make a new Programming Language. He went from 0 lines of code to a fully working interpreter written in Go for the "Monkey" Language. Check it out at https://interpreterbook.com!
30 Juni 201732min
Data Science with Angela Bassa
Angela Bassa is the Director of Data Science at iRobot. In this episode she sits down with Scott and demystifies the major concepts. Is this a new science and an old one? What's the traditional path for a Data Scientist - and is that the only path?
23 Juni 201730min
Get on the Coding Train with Processing and Daniel Shiffman
Daniel Shiffman is a programmer, a project lead with the Processing Foundation, and an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Dan uses the popular Processing Language to teach people to code on his popular (an wild and wacky) YouTube Channel "The Coding Train."
16 Juni 201730min
Being hired as a Functional Programmer with Eric Normand
Eric Normand wants everyone to know that they, too, can get a job as a functional programmer. While functional programming might feel intimidating, in this show Eric shares with Scott a number of practical techniques and ways to think about functional programming that might just help you with a change of career.
9 Juni 201728min
Apps without Code with Tara Reed
Tara Reed non-technical founder building software without writing code. How far can a non-coder get? Pretty far actually! There's a ton of tools and resources available that can allow you and your friends or family to create very polished apps and websites without code.
2 Juni 201728min
Inside WebAssembly with Mozilla Fellow David Bryant
Scott sits down with Mozilla Fellow David Bryant to talk about the last few decades of the web and how it's all about to change with the advent of WebAssembly. Is JavaScript the new "metal?"
26 Maj 201732min
