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Episode Synopsis
In this episode, we teach you how to be a programmer in 24 hours!
...Psych. We cover "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" by Peter Norvig, an article calling out "fast learning" marketing and paving a real-world path to programming excellence. Joe and Evan walk through a bunch of things you can do to learn / excel in programming. Joe gets a little mad at computer science degrees. Evan attempts to sound smart by talking about how the brain works (based solely on google knowledge).
Books we mention:
"Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell
"The Little Schemer" by Daniel Friedman
"Code" by Charles Petzold
...Psych. We cover "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" by Peter Norvig, an article calling out "fast learning" marketing and paving a real-world path to programming excellence. Joe and Evan walk through a bunch of things you can do to learn / excel in programming. Joe gets a little mad at computer science degrees. Evan attempts to sound smart by talking about how the brain works (based solely on google knowledge).
Books we mention:
"Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell
"The Little Schemer" by Daniel Friedman
"Code" by Charles Petzold
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