A show about computer science and computer science education by Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova.
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Business Logic is a show for software developers to gain tactical, practical business knowledge. Join your host, Andy Qin, as he interviews luminaries in the tech industry to answer perennial questions that business-minded developers have, such as: • How can I convince more people of my ideas? • Should I get an MBA? • When should I work for myself? ...and many more. This show is intended to make you more effective at work by providing the business context for the products you work on.
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Does your summer roadtrip across America include Saturn V Rockets, self-driving cars, dinosaur bones, and maybe Kittyhawk? Well, then you might be Oz and family! Charlie and Oz catch up on Oz's grand tour of America's inspiring hubs of ambition and technology, with plenty of detouring into the wonderful book genre of video game memoirs. Shownotes […
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Programming is the best! We're chatting with Thorsten Ball (self-published author of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go) about all of our mutual favorite topics: learning new stuff, great textbooks, writing, and why bugs are actually great (a gift, even!). Shownotes Writing an Interpreter in Go (Thorsten's book): Writing a Co…
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Zach Latta is the founder of Hack Club (hackclub.com). Zach's a high school dropout who's now helped 30k high school students around the world start their own coding clubs. He also helped build the much-beloved "yo" texting app in 2014. This is a fun conversation about coding in school, being a kid, the importance of friendship in learning, and rea…
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Oz and Charlie brainstorm their "Stripe Press for kids" publishing idea! Shownotes: Klutz Press Charlie's blog post about Klutz Press Hacker News discussion about Charlie's Klutz Press blog Little Schemer: https://mitpress.mit.edu/978026256099... Abstract Algebra: A Student Friendly Approach: https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algeb... Computer System…
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E15: Finding your live wire for motivation
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Brandon Hendrickson (creator of scienceisweird.com) says no one's ever asked him about the sabertooth tiger skull in his Zoom background - until now! Brandon's a teacher steeped in the ideas of Kieran Egan - a prolific educational theorist who believes the world is FASCINATING and that IMAGINATION is key to how we humans learn. We explore how Egan'…
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E14: Brit Cruise and the computer magic show
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Brit Cruise creates educational videos, learning experiments, and other amazing things that "connect young people with their futures as young as possible." He's worked with Khan Academy, Codecademy, Pixar, Disney, Unity, and more to conjure up magical educational experiences for kids. Shownotes: Brit Cruise's website Storyxperiential X in a Box Art…
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E13: Why some people learn much faster than others
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Charlie wants to talk about the latest Paul Graham essay "How to Do Great Work" and Oz wants to talk about jiu-jitsu (again). Show notes: How to Do Great Work - Paul Graham You and Your Research - Richard Hamming "Jozef Chen On Rapid Learning From Jiu-Jitsu Instructionals & Technique Tinkering" Jozef Chen recent competition victory Mikey Musumeci o…
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We're joined by the co-founders of Warpstream Labs, Richie Artoul and Ryan Worl, to talk about how exploring your curiosity as a software engineer can lead to all sorts of interesting avenues and opportunities, like going from a coding bootcamp grad to building Warpstream - a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform. You may remember Richie from ou…
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E11: Helping kids fall in love with computers
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Linda Liukas (author and illustrator of HELLO RUBY - "the world's most whimsical way to learn about computers, technology and programming") joins Oz and Charlie to discuss how and why we love our computers, lessons learned from teaching kids about computer science using paper and scissors and glue, and Linda's latest project - designing an outside …
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E10: The magic of Bell Labs
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We're joined by Jon Gertner (author of THE IDEA FACTORY: BELL LABS AND THE GREAT AGE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION) and Jimmy Soni (author of A MIND AT PLAY: HOW CLAUDE SHANNON INVENTED THE INFORMATION AGE) to discuss our favorite "house of magic" - Bell Labs! Can Bell Labs ever be recreated? What would Claude Shannon think of ChatGPT? What can we learn a…
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Steve Krouse is the founder of val.town, a social network where you write and run - and maybe poke - code? Steve's a fellow computer science education and developer tools enthusiast. We explore what makes programming fun - and how tools like val.town might just be able to recapture that joy we've all felt with computers before. Shownotes: val.town …
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Are we creating evil in the world with this podcast? Should Charlie feel guilty about playing Zelda? Do any Oz-approved video games exist? What's going on with Charlie's book? Can we use GPT-4 as an effective personal tutor? And should we stop doing this podcast? Shownotes: Khanmigo (Khan Academy) Silicon Zeroes Shenzhen I/O Human Resource Machine…
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E7: How Jesse Farmer designed the first coding bootcamp curriculum
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It's time for instructional design and ed-tech history with Jesse Farmer! Jesse is the co-founder, Chief Product Officer, and academics lead of Dev Bootcamp - one of the earliest, most influential, and successful coding bootcamps - the bootcamp that started it all! Shownotes: Dev Bootcamp Hipcamp Jesse Farmer's Mastodon account…
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Charlie wants to know if he can learn how to "think like an engineer", just like the Matt Damon/Mark Watney character in THE MARTIAN -- and Oz has some good suggestions, as per usual. Shownotes: Von Neumann probes We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Dennis E. Taylor Nibbles - Charlie's short story about von Neumann probes The Martian - Andy Weir: Shimmer …
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E5: Omar the High-Octane Learning Machine
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Omar Rayward attended one of the first ever coding bootcamp cohorts, now he's a Senior Staff Software Engineer. Oz and Charlie connect with Omar about his study habits, motivation, and whatever else it takes to keep up his consistent learning habits. Shownotes: How to be consistent (Oz's recent article, featuring Omar!)…
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Charlie's unexpected packet loss devolves into a live Oz networking lesson. * Matt's (my) traceroute * How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today * Border Gateway Protocol * Christmas Day Bug on ARPANET (grep for Christmas in 1973 section) * Great horned owlتوسط Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova
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E3: Return to the quantum computing cave with Felix Tripier of IonQ
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Oz and Charlie catch up with Felix Tripier - now a Senior Staff Software Engineer at quantum computing company IonQ - for the first time in three years! Felix was our first guest on Escaping Web - a double high school and college dropout who become a self-taught web developer and is now a quantum computing engineer - so it only made sense for him t…
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E2: Don't let a GPT have all the fun!
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Is there a benefit to figuring things out the hard way? Why learn to read disassembly if you can just ask Chat GPT. We talk about this, as well as somehow the Piet programming language and much more. Piet programming languageتوسط Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova
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E1: Doing meaningful work
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We kick off The CS Primer Show with a conversation prompted by our mutual love of "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming. This is an essay that Oz frequently recommends to software engineers who would like to increase their impact. Be sure to watch the talk or read the transcript of Hamming's talk! - You and Your Research (transcript) - You and…
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Passwordless authentication methods provide a better user experience and are more secure than passwords. But how do developers make sense of the many differing technologies out there (WebAuthn, FIDO2, magic links, authenticator apps, Touch ID, etc.)? Julianna Lamb cofounded Stytch to help us out. They make it easy to integrate modern, passwordless …
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How do engineers ensure the best opportunities find them? Jaren Glover offers his perspective as an early engineer at Robinhood, mentor at /dev/color, and student of business. This discussion was wide-ranging: we appreciate the "pay it forward" culture that makes Silicon Valley unique, tradeoffs to event streaming architectures, and who should play…
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Michelle Bu has played pivotal roles in authoring products like Stripe Elements, Stripe Radar, and most recently, Stripe's new suite of payments APIs. She's learned a thing or two about building exceptional developer experiences, how to use product metrics, and building the team that builds the product. Lucky for all of us, she was generous with sh…
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E5: Oz Nova of Bradfield on pursuing engineering mastery
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Oz Nova, founder and instructor at the Bradfield School of Computer Science, explains how he approaches teaching, what he does to create a safe learning environment, and his moonshot idea to create a world-class computer networking class delivered over the internet. Listening to this episode will make you a more effective teacher. That's the Busine…
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E4: Chetan Puttagunta of Benchmark on enabling mass creativity
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Founders and company builders, this one is for you. Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark Capital, offers his approach to recruiting pipelines, remote work cultures, and go-to-market strategy. Toward the end, we cover what software companies can take away from the ordering experience at Starbucks. Episode Resources Bill Gurley's talk on c…
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E3: Jeff Weinstein of Stripe on owning your career
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Sometimes the next step in a career is not clear. When there's a fork in the road between things you are passionate about and things you are good at, which should you pick? Jeff Weinstein, Product Lead for Payments Infrastructure at Stripe, offers learnings from his own career as guidance. Prior to Stripe, Jeff founded Wagon, which acquired by Box …
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Hiring developers is hard. Getting hired as a developer is also hard. How on Earth can these both be true? Aline Lerner helps us identify the challenges of software developer recruiting and how to conquer them. She's the founder of interviewing.io and a distinguished thinker in the technical recruiting space. Listen to this episode for tips on gett…
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E1: Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers on working for yourself
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First episode! Andy sits down with Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers to discuss what it takes to start an independent software business and why anyone can do it. We cover a ton of ground, including: What kind of business should you start? Should you launch a product quickly and get feedback, or spend extra time to make a killer first impression? If …
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