Felienne talks with Dave Rael about teaching kids, teaching adults, the nature of programming, and gratitude
Felienne is assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, where she researches programming for everyone, from spreadsheet users to young kids. Felienne’s biggest passions in life is to share her enthusiasm for programming with others. She teaches programming in a community center in Rotterdam every week, she organizes the Joy of Coding conference, a one day developer conference in Rotterdam celebrating the joy and art of programming, and she is a host at SE radio, one of the most popular software engineering podcasts on the web. If she is not coding, blogging or teaching, she is probably dancing Lindy Hop, running or playing a (board)game. Felienne blogs at felienne.com
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Felienne
- - What is programming?
- - The existence of professional programmers, accessibility of programming, and bringing the domain back into programming
- - How Felienne got started in software
- - Gratitude, the good fortune of having access to computing and excellent teachers, and balance
- - Felienne's teaching experiences
- - Teaching at university
- - Felienne's experiences with podcasting
- - Felienne's unique perspective in programming
- - Felienne's story of failure - providing goals to students rather than empowering them to create their own
- - Felienne's success story - getting kids excited about programming
- - How Felienne stays current with what she needs to know
- - Felienne's book recommendation
- - What makes for a good programmer?
- - The things that have Felienne most excited
- - Being recognized by only a first name
- - Felienne's causes of pain and suffering
- - Event-driven internet service API orchestration as programming
- - Keeping up with Felienne
Resources:
- Felienne's blog
- Software Engineering Radio
- Joy of Coding
- Felienne as a host on Software Engineering Radio Radio
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Eric Evans: What I've learned about DDD since the book
- "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used." - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Jon Mills on Developer On Fire
- Frogger
- Crossy Road
- I am going to stop saying I taught myself programming when I was 10 and maybe you should too - Felienne
- Robert Blumen on Developer On Fire
- Chris Granger - Coding Superpower
- Chris Granger
- The Parable of the Chinese Farmer
- Felienne interviews Michael Feathers on Software Engineering Radio
- Michael Feathers on Developer On Fire
- Programming is Writing is Programming - Felienne
Felienne's book recommendation:
Felienne's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Track your time
- Listen and understand what's happening in other brains
- Volunteer