The CS Primer Show Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-cs-primer-show A show about computer science and computer science education by Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova. © 2025 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova d87a7448-f389-5a21-99e3-b285c945e1f3 no Oz Nova Charlie Harrington en Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:35:35 -0700 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:44:13 -0800 https://show.csprimer.com https://img.transistor.fm/a7HxHWBdOUbVMAb02OJuMi86YU3tvh9fN2ZuYRPE4DU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQwMzAwLzE3MDE4/NDE1OTQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg The CS Primer Show https://show.csprimer.com episodic Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova A show about computer science and computer science education by Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova. A show about computer science and computer science education by Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova.. computer science, coding, education, programming csprimer.com No Yes E25: There is only one Beej Jorgensen 25 25 E25: There is only one Beej Jorgensen full 39c262d1-0bd6-4aa7-b8ca-6f9a4b287216 https://share.transistor.fm/s/abc7659b Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall joins Oz and Charlie to dive into the joy and art of learning computer science. It's all here - achieving flow, "How to Solve It" by Polya, self-publishing guides/books on the web, Beej's take on AI and coding, and, of course, the origin of the "Beej Jorgensen" moniker. 

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]]> Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall joins Oz and Charlie to dive into the joy and art of learning computer science. It's all here - achieving flow, "How to Solve It" by Polya, self-publishing guides/books on the web, Beej's take on AI and coding, and, of course, the origin of the "Beej Jorgensen" moniker. 

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]]> Sat, 17 May 2025 14:55:09 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3028 Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall joins Oz and Charlie to dive into the joy and art of learning computer science. It's all here - achieving flow, "How to Solve It" by Polya, self-publishing guides/books on the web, Beej's take on AI and coding, and, of course, the origin of the "Beej Jorgensen" moniker. 

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Beej E24: When is binge learning better than consistency? 24 24 E24: When is binge learning better than consistency? full 026b75f2-e39c-4879-b601-93093a6131bb https://share.transistor.fm/s/42f7ce30 Oz and Charlie vibe-chat their way through respective Mathacademy experiences + reviews, leading to a discussion of "binge learning" vs more-structured, consistent learning / time-tracking. Also, Oz shares that he's currently reading a math textbook with this incredible sentence in its introduction: "I consider the mathematical treatment of these problems to be among the chief glories of Western civilization, and I hope you agree."

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]]> Oz and Charlie vibe-chat their way through respective Mathacademy experiences + reviews, leading to a discussion of "binge learning" vs more-structured, consistent learning / time-tracking. Also, Oz shares that he's currently reading a math textbook with this incredible sentence in its introduction: "I consider the mathematical treatment of these problems to be among the chief glories of Western civilization, and I hope you agree."

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]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:26:46 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3090 Oz and Charlie vibe-chat their way through respective Mathacademy experiences + reviews, leading to a discussion of "binge learning" vs more-structured, consistent learning / time-tracking. Also, Oz shares that he's currently reading a math textbook with this incredible sentence in its introduction: "I consider the mathematical treatment of these problems to be among the chief glories of Western civilization, and I hope you agree."

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming Yes Oz Nova Charlie Harrington E23: MathAcademy and the efficient pursuit of mastery 23 23 E23: MathAcademy and the efficient pursuit of mastery full 034812ef-524f-4036-a556-6b5cac6f4be1 https://share.transistor.fm/s/751cb4c4 There's something about MathAcademy that just works for learning math (for both kids and adults - ask Reddit!), and we're chatting with Justin Skycak - Chief Quant & Director of Analytics at MathAcademy - to try to figure it out.

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]]> There's something about MathAcademy that just works for learning math (for both kids and adults - ask Reddit!), and we're chatting with Justin Skycak - Chief Quant & Director of Analytics at MathAcademy - to try to figure it out.

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]]> Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:19:44 -0800 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 2907 There's something about MathAcademy that just works for learning math (for both kids and adults - ask Reddit!), and we're chatting with Justin Skycak - Chief Quant & Director of Analytics at MathAcademy - to try to figure it out.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Justin Skycak E22: Building HR software for dying on Mars? 22 22 E22: Building HR software for dying on Mars? full adb714ee-8953-4a94-8b00-2d9a444e52d9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/de743af0 Ammar Mian is a software engineer and the co-founder of startup health tech company Malla - and another former student of Oz's and Bradfield School of Computer Science! Many software engineers daydream about starting their own company one day, so we've got Ammar on the show this week to give us the goods. Is it still fun? Can you still get into flow? Are you still coding? Does Oz want to die on Mars? All this and more!

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]]> Ammar Mian is a software engineer and the co-founder of startup health tech company Malla - and another former student of Oz's and Bradfield School of Computer Science! Many software engineers daydream about starting their own company one day, so we've got Ammar on the show this week to give us the goods. Is it still fun? Can you still get into flow? Are you still coding? Does Oz want to die on Mars? All this and more!

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]]> Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:22:34 -0800 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3695 Ammar Mian is a software engineer and the co-founder of startup health tech company Malla - and another former student of Oz's and Bradfield School of Computer Science! Many software engineers daydream about starting their own company one day, so we've got Ammar on the show this week to give us the goods. Is it still fun? Can you still get into flow? Are you still coding? Does Oz want to die on Mars? All this and more!

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Ammar Mian E21: Make the easy things harder (with Madison Kanna) 21 21 E21: Make the easy things harder (with Madison Kanna) full ca5588df-78fd-4afd-a434-c9b49b0e4475 https://share.transistor.fm/s/d27dac29 Madison Kanna is a lifelong learner and self-taught programmer who learns in public, and Madison joins Oz and Charlie to share tactics for getting things done (with their learning goals) - and the importance of having fun along the way when learning computer science.

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]]> Madison Kanna is a lifelong learner and self-taught programmer who learns in public, and Madison joins Oz and Charlie to share tactics for getting things done (with their learning goals) - and the importance of having fun along the way when learning computer science.

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]]> Fri, 08 Nov 2024 06:26:54 -0800 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3434 Madison Kanna is a lifelong learner and self-taught programmer who learns in public, and Madison joins Oz and Charlie to share tactics for getting things done (with their learning goals) - and the importance of having fun along the way when learning computer science.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Madison E20: Jason Benn's path to ML engineering 20 20 E20: Jason Benn's path to ML engineering full f65bfcd1-b2ec-42f1-a1f7-e09f2fbb5fc2 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9ce03702 Jason Benn is an ML engineer and truly the epitome of a lifelong learner (Cal Newport even wrote about Jason in one of his books on learning!). Oz and Charlie catch up with Jason on his current self-directed ML sabbatical - which he's corralled into a co-working cohort called mleclub.com (similar to Recurse Center but with an ML / AI focus). We discuss the tactical, strategic, and emotional side to effective self-directed learning, and close out with a new segment tentatively called "Would you read the top article on Hacker News right now?".

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]]> Jason Benn is an ML engineer and truly the epitome of a lifelong learner (Cal Newport even wrote about Jason in one of his books on learning!). Oz and Charlie catch up with Jason on his current self-directed ML sabbatical - which he's corralled into a co-working cohort called mleclub.com (similar to Recurse Center but with an ML / AI focus). We discuss the tactical, strategic, and emotional side to effective self-directed learning, and close out with a new segment tentatively called "Would you read the top article on Hacker News right now?".

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]]> Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:55:22 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3273 Jason Benn is an ML engineer and truly the epitome of a lifelong learner (Cal Newport even wrote about Jason in one of his books on learning!). Oz and Charlie catch up with Jason on his current self-directed ML sabbatical - which he's corralled into a co-working cohort called mleclub.com (similar to Recurse Center but with an ML / AI focus). We discuss the tactical, strategic, and emotional side to effective self-directed learning, and close out with a new segment tentatively called "Would you read the top article on Hacker News right now?".

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Jason Benn E19: When failure is not an option 19 19 E19: When failure is not an option full 73aa8d70-7535-44ef-be19-7e64cf35eb48 https://share.transistor.fm/s/a09afd12 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.

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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.

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]]> Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:25:02 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 2606 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.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington E18: Do you love programming as much as Thorsten Ball does? 18 18 E18: Do you love programming as much as Thorsten Ball does? full a689f4f9-9691-49be-a6c5-3367df1a7e27 https://share.transistor.fm/s/dc3d1c74 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!).

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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!).

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]]> Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:04:31 -0800 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3034 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!).

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Thorsten Ball E17: 1000 Hours Away From Being Exceptional 17 17 E17: 1000 Hours Away From Being Exceptional full 20f4a7fd-2acf-45ba-ab8f-9c24f0840f82 https://share.transistor.fm/s/fda5530d 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 realizing that you can make awesome stuff with awesome people in this world.

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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 realizing that you can make awesome stuff with awesome people in this world.

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]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:54:22 -0800 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3540 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 realizing that you can make awesome stuff with awesome people in this world.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Zach Latta E16: What if textbooks were actually fun? 16 16 E16: What if textbooks were actually fun? full bdbdcae8-a284-4a73-bc1c-f7d0efc3f5d5 https://share.transistor.fm/s/98c7d678 Oz and Charlie brainstorm their "Stripe Press for kids" publishing idea! 

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]]> Oz and Charlie brainstorm their "Stripe Press for kids" publishing idea! 

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]]> Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:22:02 -0800 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3103 Oz and Charlie brainstorm their "Stripe Press for kids" publishing idea! 

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington E15: Finding your live wire for motivation 15 15 E15: Finding your live wire for motivation full a183ef0c-77e9-4fcc-a7aa-e06c65dbbf58 https://share.transistor.fm/s/fb063c6b 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's approach could work for autodidact software engineers, offer untold book suggestions, and, of course, propose some ways that ChatGPT might be able to help us along the way.

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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's approach could work for autodidact software engineers, offer untold book suggestions, and, of course, propose some ways that ChatGPT might be able to help us along the way.

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]]> Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:25:11 -0800 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 5500 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's approach could work for autodidact software engineers, offer untold book suggestions, and, of course, propose some ways that ChatGPT might be able to help us along the way.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Brandon Hendrickson E14: Brit Cruise and the computer magic show 14 14 E14: Brit Cruise and the computer magic show full 21f90f28-91ad-4b7e-9030-3107c888055a https://share.transistor.fm/s/90ab4e91 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.

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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.

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]]> Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:18:07 -0800 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 4427 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.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming Yes Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Brit Cruise E13: Why some people learn much faster than others 13 13 E13: Why some people learn much faster than others full 7765f77c-98d1-4942-aba2-4950151e3c60 https://share.transistor.fm/s/ffb0ce58 Charlie wants to talk about the latest Paul Graham essay "How to Do Great Work" and Oz wants to talk about jiu-jitsu (again).

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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).

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]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:43:38 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3905 Charlie wants to talk about the latest Paul Graham essay "How to Do Great Work" and Oz wants to talk about jiu-jitsu (again).

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington E12: Two self-taught engineers building large scale data systems 12 12 E12: Two self-taught engineers building large scale data systems full cea7745c-8d26-4bfd-977d-d246e1412996 https://share.transistor.fm/s/05a9355b 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 our previous podcast Escaping Web! Richie is one of Oz's students at Bradfield, and he's always up to something interesting and computer science-y.

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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 our previous podcast Escaping Web! Richie is one of Oz's students at Bradfield, and he's always up to something interesting and computer science-y.

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]]> Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:40:42 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3300 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 our previous podcast Escaping Web! Richie is one of Oz's students at Bradfield, and he's always up to something interesting and computer science-y.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Richard Artoul Ryan Worl E11: Helping kids fall in love with computers 11 11 E11: Helping kids fall in love with computers full 3e7e029d-e854-4546-89c5-03be7e8a094e https://share.transistor.fm/s/e78c9c73 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 playground in Helsinki as a computer you can play in.

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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 playground in Helsinki as a computer you can play in.

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]]> Thu, 17 Aug 2023 06:46:40 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3783 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 playground in Helsinki as a computer you can play in.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Linda Liukas E10: The magic of Bell Labs 10 10 E10: The magic of Bell Labs full 1a66d888-272b-4ecc-ad8f-b61f52e74653 https://share.transistor.fm/s/da4a5fd7 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 about "doing great things" from 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 about "doing great things" from Bell Labs?

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]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:56:29 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 4053 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 about "doing great things" from Bell Labs?

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Jimmy Soni Jon Gertner E9: What makes programming fun? With Steve Krouse of val.town 9 9 E9: What makes programming fun? With Steve Krouse of val.town full 24686aba-1241-403f-8765-20bf3a1769db https://share.transistor.fm/s/68de64d5 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.

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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.

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]]> Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:40:28 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3510 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.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Steve Krouse E8: Should we stop doing this podcast? 8 8 E8: Should we stop doing this podcast? full 9b3e5c82-cb90-4861-8e47-85f056ed011b https://share.transistor.fm/s/3547f406 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?

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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?

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]]> Mon, 29 May 2023 22:07:00 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 1426 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?

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington E7: How Jesse Farmer designed the first coding bootcamp curriculum 7 7 E7: How Jesse Farmer designed the first coding bootcamp curriculum full 57ba51d9-596d-40c2-a33e-19ee26e5b8f7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b241b0d7 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!

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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!

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]]> Wed, 10 May 2023 19:05:30 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3656 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!

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Jesse Farmer Charlie Harrington Oz Nova E6: Can you develop an engineer's mindset? 6 6 E6: Can you develop an engineer's mindset? full e0ef5579-dec5-46a1-b8a9-0d4c1662d1e8 https://share.transistor.fm/s/31c0685e 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.

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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.

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]]> Thu, 04 May 2023 16:14:13 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 1833 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.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington E5: Omar the High-Octane Learning Machine 5 5 E5: Omar the High-Octane Learning Machine full 714de94c-b1a6-4578-8305-8159eacaf46f https://share.transistor.fm/s/deb20598 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.

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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.

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]]> Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:32:46 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3799 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.

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]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Omar Rayward E4: Packet losers 4 4 E4: Packet losers full 81f51ed1-c3fc-493f-b966-478e78ebeb36 https://share.transistor.fm/s/6f0ee81f 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 owl

]]> 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 owl

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:26:53 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3395 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 owl

]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington E3: Return to the quantum computing cave with Felix Tripier of IonQ 3 3 E3: Return to the quantum computing cave with Felix Tripier of IonQ full 743ecffe-17e8-47ae-b299-e5ed1a6fbd4e https://share.transistor.fm/s/044399df 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 to be our first guest on The CS Primer Show.

We discuss Felix's path to staff engineer, the engineering manager vs. staff engineer career choices, staff engineering archetypes, building software for and working with scientists, the movie Grave of the Fireflies, the book When We Cease To Understand The World, and, of course, reference an apt XKCD comic.

]]> 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 to be our first guest on The CS Primer Show.

We discuss Felix's path to staff engineer, the engineering manager vs. staff engineer career choices, staff engineering archetypes, building software for and working with scientists, the movie Grave of the Fireflies, the book When We Cease To Understand The World, and, of course, reference an apt XKCD comic.

]]> Sat, 01 Apr 2023 19:33:26 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 4391 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 to be our first guest on The CS Primer Show.

We discuss Felix's path to staff engineer, the engineering manager vs. staff engineer career choices, staff engineering archetypes, building software for and working with scientists, the movie Grave of the Fireflies, the book When We Cease To Understand The World, and, of course, reference an apt XKCD comic.

]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington Felix Tripier E2: Don't let a GPT have all the fun! 2 2 E2: Don't let a GPT have all the fun! full d2ceac92-71d2-49bb-832c-cecd4406e7af https://share.transistor.fm/s/2a7dea80 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Sat, 01 Apr 2023 19:31:58 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 3775 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.

]]> computer science, coding, education, programming No Oz Nova Charlie Harrington E1: Doing meaningful work 1 1 E1: Doing meaningful work full 59aac12c-ddd3-4de8-bbe8-556fed551b53 https://share.transistor.fm/s/42c992f7 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 Your Research (video)
- Unix: A History and a Memoir
- CS Primer
- Bloom's 2 sigma problem
- Hoel on aristocratic tutoring
- Auren on insiders vs outsiders
- Charlie's project to write 52 short stories in a year
- Escaping Web: Oz and Charlie's previous engineering interview podcast
- American Prometheus (Oppenheimer biography)

]]> 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 Your Research (video)
- Unix: A History and a Memoir
- CS Primer
- Bloom's 2 sigma problem
- Hoel on aristocratic tutoring
- Auren on insiders vs outsiders
- Charlie's project to write 52 short stories in a year
- Escaping Web: Oz and Charlie's previous engineering interview podcast
- American Prometheus (Oppenheimer biography)

]]> Sat, 01 Apr 2023 19:26:44 -0700 Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova Charlie Harrington and Oz Nova 4211 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 Your Research (video)
- Unix: A History and a Memoir
- CS Primer
- Bloom's 2 sigma problem
- Hoel on aristocratic tutoring
- Auren on insiders vs outsiders
- Charlie's project to write 52 short stories in a year
- Escaping Web: Oz and Charlie's previous engineering interview podcast
- American Prometheus (Oppenheimer biography)

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