Andy Collins talks with Dave Rael about serving others, working in education, formative experiences, vulnerability, and limitations
Andy Collins is a software developer and educator in Nashville, TN. Since earning a computer science degree in 2000, he has spent his career trying to be of service to others. From working as a public servant in government, to building software to support the continued education of healthcare professionals, to his current role as a senior instructor at Nashville Software School, he seeks out work that combines the technical with the human. As a developer his focus is on web development, primarily in the Microsoft stack. As an educator he draws on that development experience to teach C#, ASP.NET and SQL to students in a full-time web development bootcamp.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Andy Collins
- - Andy's limited eyesight due to cataracts
- - Accessibility
- - Andy and his experiences with being an educator and a mentor
- - Opportunities to do real development as a full-time instructor
- - How Andy got started in software
- - The nature of true education
- - Andy's story of failure - deficiency of care in managing system resources, trying to manage in the same way as being a technical team lead
- - Andy's book recommendation
- - Andy's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Andy
Andy's book recommendation:
Andy's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Take code review seriously
- For an honest and open relationship with your management
- Regularly ask yourself if what you are doing is valuable, how valuable, and if something else is more valuable