MJS 065: Greg Wilson

JavaScript Jabber

• Episode: MJS 065: Greg Wilson
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• Duration: 00:55:17
• Published: 2018-06-13 12:00

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.
• Want to be “rich, famous, and popular?” – check out 11:58!
• 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

• Rangle’s Bridge
  • Inclusivity and diversity
• AOSABOOK.ORG
• Samson Meteor Microphone