EP95 – "Programming's gateway drug" with Samantha Geitz
EP95 – "Programming's gateway drug" with Samantha GeitzUpdate: 2018-11-05
Description
This is a great chat with Samantha Geitz, a Senior Developer at Tighten, and the founder of BetaFish.
Topics in this episode:
- Should "business/marketing" people learn programming?
- What's the difference between messing around and being a serious programmer?
- Do regular programmers Google for answers?
- Why English Majors can make great programmers.
- If you want to learn hard things, do you need to be in a classroom?
- Why should take a mental health day when you need it.
Announcement:
- Want to speak at a tech conference? I'm doing class called "public speaking for geeks." More info here.
Show notes
- Samantha Geitz on Twitter
- Tighten.co
- Battle.Tighten.co
- Samantha's new startup: BetaFish
- CoinPress.cc
- Samantha's blog post: "How I overcame my fear of public speaking"
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- My new startup: Transistor.fm
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Thanks to...
- Podcast hosting: Transistor.fm
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