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MJS 063: Fred Zirdung

Guests :

Fred Zirdung

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : May 30, 2018

Duration : 31 Minutes

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Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Fred Zirdung

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Fred Zirdung. Fred is currently the head of curriculum at Hack Reactor, where he essentially builds all of the tools and learning materials for the students there. He is also an instructor and has been there for five years. Prior to that, he worked for multiple companies such as Walmart Labs as well as many small startups. He first got into programming with the Logo programming language in the 6th grade and he had always been interested in working with computers since a young age. They talk about what got him into web programming, what enthralled him about JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, and what he is proud of contributing to the JavaScript community.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

JavaScript Jabber Episode 76
Fred intro
How did you first get into programming?
Coding professionally for 20+ years
Coding prior to college graduation
Logo programming language
QNX operating system
Were you always interested in programming?
Always interested in computers
Commodore 64
Basic programming in high school
Programming didn’t click for him until high school
In college when the web became popular
Computer engineering degree in college
What was it that appealed to you about software over hardware?
Software vs hardware
Embedded systems software
How did you get into web programming?
Dolby Laboratories
What technologies got you excited?
JavaScript, Perl, and Ruby on Rails
Loved the flexibility of JS and Rails
Found something he could be productive with
What are you proud of contributing to the JavaScript community?
What are you working on now?
And much, much more!

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