Leonora Tindall on Co-Authoring the 2nd Edition of Programing Rust

Building with Rust

We chat with Leonora Tindall, one of the co-authors of the 2nd edition of Programming Rust, about her experiences working on the book, the various roles she has worked in using Rust, and about the state of academic computer science education.

Nora's blog can be found at https://nora.codes/. Her Twitter handle is @NoraDotCodes.

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You can send us an email at buildingwithrust AT gmail DOT com or find us in the Rustacean Station Discord server.

Timestamps

• 0:40 - Welcome
• 1:12 - Nora's intro
• 1:58 - Thoughts on podcasts in the Rust community
• 4:12 - Are you ok with listening to your own recorded voice?
• 5:13 - Nora's work history
• 8:29 - Working on the second edition of Programming Rust
• 12:00 - Developing empathy as educators
• 15:40 - Keeping the Mandelbrot renderer project from the first edition
• 17:30 - Who should you buy the second edition of Programming Rust?
• 24:31 - Learning programming should be more fun
• 26:37 - Working on cancer discovery at CancerIQ
• 33:23 - Working on edge delivery at Fastly
• 35:18 - Being California transplants to the midwest
• 36:37 - Nora's unconventional college experience
• 37:58 - Shuffleboard as a team-building activity
• 38:45 - Thoughts on academic computer science education
• 49:12 - What fictional world would you most like to visit?
• 55:01 - Nora's sign-off
• 56:09 - Outro