Programming Practices, Exercism, Open Source

Katrina Owen joined the show to explore ideas about open source, code review, learning to program, becoming a savvy programmer, mentoring, projects she’s working on, and also her very prominent and amazing code learning tool Exercism.

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Featuring:

• Katrina Owen – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Katrina’s Blog
• Exercism.io
• 99 Bottles of OOP, book by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen

Discussion

• RFC #4: Jan Lehnardt – Building Healthy Communities
• Exercism repo for Go exercises
• GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap (video)
• Go Code Review Comments
• Effective Go
• Ruby Midwest 2013 Failure for Fun and Profit! by Kerri Miller (video)
• The GitHub GraphQL API
• GraphQL
• 3 Trivial Concurrency Exercises for the Confused Newbie Gopher (blog)
• Go in 5 Minutes Concurrency: Eating Tapas (video)

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Reproducing images with geometric primitives
• Sameer Ajmani wants to assemble university level courses in Go
• College level Courses in Go
• Better Go Playground Chrome Extension
• Todd McLeod, Faculty at Fresno College
• Build desktop applications in Go and HTML
• Brian Ketelsen’s online course Go—Beyond the Basics
• Andrew Gerrand’s Go Workbench idea
• BBQ PID controller written in Go for Raspberry PI

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- Go programming language
• Carlisia - Exercism and Write behavioral tests in your editor. Get live results in your browser.
• Erik - Bosun: monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange
• Katrina - Hoodie: Software for building applications for the web and iOS

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!