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Host: Charles Max Wood
Joined By Special Guest: Jeremy Fairbank
Episode Summary
Jeremy is a Software Developer at
Test Double and the author of
Programming Elm book. Even though Jeremy majored in Chemistry in college, he was always interested in programming since middle school. After he graduated from college he went to work as a web developer at
Plastic Industries and relied on blog posts and other online resources to teach himself how to code. Gradually as the company’s needs changed, Jeremy transitioned into an application developer. He taught himself JavaScript using the book
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers . He then attented a Coursera
classto learn on principles of functional programming and gained experience with many front end frameworks and libraries, including
Elm,
React, Redux,
Backbone.js, and
Marionette.js. Jeremy is based out of Hawaii and when he isn't coding, he spends his time playing his guitar and hiking and going to the beach with his family.
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