Episode 030: Essential Developer Skills with Tom Stuart




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/janellekz"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Janelle Klein</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tom Stuart: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/tomstuart"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@tomstuart</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://codon.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Codon</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “Cycles in Philosophy of Software, Common Principles with Different Names &amp; Reference” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>01:47</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Superhero Origin Story</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BBC BASIC</span></a></p> <p><b>04:45</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Nomenclature: “Junior” and “Senior” Developers; Differences Between “Early Career” Developers and “Experienced” Developers</span></p> <p><b>13:56 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Solving the Skill Assessment Problem; Learning Methodically</span></p> <p><b>20:55 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Software Development Now vs Then</span></p> <p><b>29:51 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Do Programming Languages Create Certain Biases?</span></p> <p><b>44:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Good Mentorship and Telling People What’s Next to Level Up</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Want to spill your thoughts and feelings on the new Greater Than Code blog? Send submissions to </b><a href="mailto:mandy@greaterthancode.com"><b>mandy@greaterthancode.com</b></a><b>! </b></p> <p><b>55:58 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Cohorting/Teaching Classes with </span><a href="https://twitter.com/sandimetz"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sandi Metz</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_design"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Object-Oriented Design</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Object-Oriented Programming</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Support us via </b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b>!<br> </b><b>Get instant access to our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b>Thank you </b><a href="https://twitter.com/kiraemclean"><b>Kira McLean</b></a><b>!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Janelle: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking at things as multidimensional problems.</span></p> <p><b>Rein:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-General-Systems-Thinking-Anniversary/dp/0932633498"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg </span></a></p> <p><b>Sam: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The importance of the skill of metacognition.</span></p> <p><b>Tom:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> How the work as changed as being a developer. </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Life-Changing-Relationships/dp/189200528X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493412666&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=non+violent+communications+marshall+rosenberg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nonviolent Communication: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Please leave us a review on iTunes!</b></p>