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MRS 039: Justin Gordon

Guests :

Justin Gordon

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Apr 11, 2018

Duration : 51 Minutes

Show Notes

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Justin Gordon

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Justin Gordon. Justin first got introduced to programming when he was a kid playing video games and in Jr. High when he took some Basic programming classes. By the time he was in High School, he was learning Pascal. He has always been interested in pursuing programming except for a small time in college when he thought he wanted to pursue investment banking. He first got into Ruby when he went to a meetup and found a startup who were using Ruby on Rails. They also talk about working remotely as well as ShakaCode.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you first get into programming?
Basic and Pascal
Fell out of programming in college
4th dimension
Never took an official computer class after High School until after college
Studied Applied Math at Harvard
Harvard taught him the skills he never learned as a child
What was is that made you come back to programming?
Getting a Mac got him back into programming
Have to love programming to want to do it for the rest of your life
How did you find Ruby?
Rails was more intuitive
Rails is what brought him into the community
Found it to be easier to use
How did you end up in Hawaii?
The ability to telecommute
Windsurfing
Great place to work and live
Ruby history
Used articles and videos to leanr Ruby
GORUCO
ShakaCode
Doing remote work
And much, much more!

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