MJS 065: Greg Wilson

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! Greg is currently the head of instructor training at DataCamp and a principal consultant at Rangle.

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