Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jeremy Likness This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jeremy Likness. Jeremy works for Microsoft currently and first got into programming when he was kept home while having a sunburn and taught himself how to type in a program into his family’s TI-99 4A computer and then later moved on to the Commodore 64. They stress the fact that you can be a successful programmer, no matter your background and they talk about the pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- How did you first get into programming?
- How much Microsoft is in the different programming aspects
- Cloud developer advocates
- Azure
- TI-99 4A and Commodore 64
- C and C+
- You don’t have to go the traditional route to be a programmer
- Having a CS major is not the only way
- How did you get into JavaScript?
- Discovered the internet in college
- Career focused on Web apps
- jQuery
- Backbone.js
- Hands-on career with the code
- He did consulting for 10 years
- Linux
- How has your earning changed?
- His biggest fear was getting out of touch with the realities of day-to-day programming
- Pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate
- Community, Content, and Connection with engineering
- And much, much more!
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