Panel
- Noel Rappin (twitter github blog)
- Jamison Dance (twitter github blog)
- Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript)
- AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog)
Discussion
00:52 – Works in training and talent development for Groupon 00:56 – Author of Rails Test Prescriptions and upcoming Master Space and Time with JavaScript 01:21 – Writing a book about JavaScript 02:33 – Focus of the book
- Part 1: Jasmine and jQuery and the JavaScript Object Model
- Part 2: Extended examples of jQuery
- Part 3: Backbone
- Part 4: Ember
03:46 – Self-published authors 05:15 – Approaches and mindsets to learning JavaScript 06:04 – “Gotchas!” and bad features in Javascript 09:17 – Modeling JavaScript for beginners 11:23 – (AJ joins the podcast) 11:42 – Resources/Classes for learning JavaScript
- Good Parts Book: Douglas Crockford
- JavaScript Patterns: Stoyan Stefanov
- Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming: Marijn Haverbeke
- Maintainable JavaScript: Nicholas C. Zakas
13:54 – Hiring people with JavaScript experience at Groupon 15:12 – Training workshops 17:00 – Getting new hires up to speed quickly
- Pairing
- Mentoring
- Lectures
- Workshops
21:38 – Book Learning
- You can learn at your own pace
- But it’s hard to ask questions to a book
22:51 – How Noel gained expertise in JavaScript 24:38 – Code reading and learning to program a language 26:18 – Teaching people JavaScript as their very first language 31:55 – Classroom layout 33:42 – Online training
- Kahn Academy Computer Science
- Code Academy
40:00 – Finding a mentor
Picks
- Shrines by Purity Ring (Jamison)
- Learnable Programming: Bret Victor (Jamison)
- Mob Software: Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman (Jamison)
- Monoprice.com (AJ)
- ZREO: Zelda Reorchestrated (AJ)
- The Official Twitter App (Chuck)
- Fluid App (Chuck)
- Try Jasmine! (Noel)
- Justin Searls (Noel)
- The Atrocity Archives: Charles Stross (Noel)
- Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps (Noel)
