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
- 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
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