She calls them nitpicks, her term for the code reviews people get on exercism.io. It’s a platform that developer Katrina Owen created to help people get mentorship and feedback on their code. It started as a project for her own students, but grew into something much more. Katrina talks to us about building her platform to help people become better programmers, how she went from being a secretary to studying biology to being a programmer, and how code newbies can make the most of exercism.io.
Show Links
- Head First Series
- Bike Shed
- Wordoid
- “Upside of Quitting” – Freakonomics Episode
- Sandi Metz
- Turing.io
- Javaranch
Shoutouts
- Open Source Survival Guide (Saron)
- Practical Object-Oriented Design Course by Sandi Metz (Saron)
- Vim Adventures (Katrina)
- Author Octavia Butler – Kindred (Katrina)
- 99 Bottles of OOP (Katrina)
- Patrick McKenzie (Katrina)
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