Lil Chen has been in gaming for years. She started by playing video games, then become a competitive Super Smash Brothers player, and now works as a UX Designer at YouTube Gaming. We talk about how her long history in gaming affects her work as a designer and vice versa, and how she keeps up with her coding skills at night.

Show Links

• Braintree (sponsor)
• Udacity (sponsor)
• MVP car graphic
• Sailor Moon
• Xanga
• TED Talks
• YouTube Gaming

Shoutouts

• Sponsored Shoutout: Udacity (Saron)
• Sponsored Shoutout: Braintree (Saron)
• ABookApart (Lil)
• Using Object-Oriented CSS with Sass (Lil)
• Getting your head ’round BEM syntax (Lil)
• How to Structure a Sass Project (Lil)
• Lissa Explains (Lil)
• Process for Lil’s Site Redesign (Lil)
• Advice from a young designer to younger designers (Saron)
• Introduction to Game Design (Saron)

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Show Links

• Linode (sponsor)
• Temping
• General Assembly
• AppleScript
• Mail Gun API
• Storytelling with Code talk
• Hue lights

Shoutouts

• Action Mailer (Saron)
• Sponsored Shoutout: Linode (Saron)
• Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab (Michael)
• StoryCode (Michael)
• Art and Fear by Bayles and Orland (Michael)
• Sammus Keynote at OSCON (Saron)
• School for Poetic Computation (Saron)

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Fereshteh Forough wanted to help women in Afghanistan. She knew that attaining education was difficult, let alone technical training, and the cultural attitudes towards women didn’t help. But she tackled these issues head on by starting the first coding school for women in Afghanistan. She talks to us about how she started the program, how she took on the different challenges her students face, and how her training in computer science and her previous role as a computer science professor affected her decision to open Code To Inspire.

Show Links

• Udacity (sponsor)
• Coding In Colombia – Juan Pablo Buriticá
• Laboratoria – Maria Costa
• Herat Universiy
• Technical University of Berlin
• Code To Inspire
• Google RISE Awards

Shoutouts

• Sponsored Shoutout: Udacity (Saron)
• Slack (Fereshteh)
• Udemy (Fereshteh)
• Learn Strftime (Saron)
• The True Size Of (Saron)

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In part two of our interview with Yehuda Katz, we talk about how he created EmberJS, and what it means to build a web framework. We also talk about what it means to be a beginner, and how growing up poor has influenced his perspectives as a coder today.

Show Links

• Braintree (sponsor)
• Linode (sponsor)
• Skylight
• Oauth
• Glimmer
• GW Basic
• Q Basic
• Visual Basic
• FrontPage
• jQuery
• John Resig’s Interview on CodeNewbie
• EmberJS
• YAGNI
• Liz Bailie

Shoutouts

• Sponsored Shoutout: Braintree (Saron)
• Sponsored Shoutout: Linode (Saron)
• Event Driven (book) (Yehuda)
• Typescript (Yehuda)
• Catt Small’s Newsletter (Saron)
• Skylight (Saron)
• Outreachy (Saron)

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