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MJS 062: Zachary Kessin

Guests :

Zachary Kessin

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : May 23, 2018

Duration : 26 Minutes

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Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Zachary Kessin

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Zachary Kessin. Zach is a web developer who has written Programming HTML5 Applications and Building Web Applications with Erlang. Currently, he works a lot with functional programming. He first got into programming because his mother used to write in Lisp and he earned his first computer by begging his relatives to help pitch in to get him one when he was seven. They talk about what led him to Erlang and Elm, why he wanted to be a programmer from a young age, and what he is most proud of in his career.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

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Zach intro
Elm and Erlang
How did you first get into programming?
Mother was writing Lisp when he was a kid
RadioShack color computer
Mother taught him Basic
Pascal and AP Computer Science
Studied CS originally in college and then switches to Physics
First web app written in Pearl 4
Did PHP for a living for a while and hated it
Elm saves him time and effort
What was it that made you want to program from a young age?
Don’t be afraid to jump into programming at a late age
Elm error messages
Writes fewer tests in Elm code that JS code
What are you most proud of?
Loves mentoring
Making a difference in the community
It’s not just about the code, it’s about the people
What are you doing now?
And much, much more!

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