Web Rush

Episode 262: 0 to Web Developer with Jasmine Greenaway

Episode Summary

Jasmine Greenaway joins us to talk about her journey into learning to code, how she started teaching, how teaching intersects with coding, knowing when to provide an answers vs pushing for more questions, and her book, Fundamentals for Self Taught Programmers.

Episode Notes

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Jasmine Greenaway @paladique

Recording date: 11/15/2023

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• Narwhal

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Resources:

• Jasmine Greenaway on LinkedIn
• Jasmine Greenaway on GitHub
• Perl
• Live coding
• Beginner’s Guide to Web Development
• Replit
• Fundamentals for Self Taught Programmers

Timejumps

• 00:28 Welcome
• 02:11 Introducing Jasmine Greenaway
• 05:32 What sticks out to you on your learning journey into coding?
• 08:15 How did you get into teaching?
• 10:00 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 10:50 Do you remember your first time in front of a classroom?
• 15:58 Are there common themes in people wanting to learn to code?
• 18:11 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 18:44 How do you know when to give an answers vs ask more questions?
• 21:45 What are some good starting points with web development?
• 24:04 How has AI effected teaching?
• 28:21 How does teaching intersect with developer relations at Microsoft?
• 30:24 Writing a book called Fundamentals for Self Taught Programmers
• 32:55 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.