Interviews With Professional Programmers, Part Six

Hilary Mason of bit.ly talks about her work and how she got started with computers.

Interviews With Game Developers

Interviews about game development with Bay Area Video Game Development Meetup members at the January 19, 2010 meetup.

• Casey Holtz, group leader
• Turi Scandurra, www.salvatorescandurra.com
• Greg Damiano, Playdom
• Simon Amarasingham, dSonic
• Japheth Dillman, iJanda.net

Interviews With Professional Programmers, Part Five

Michael (Van) Van Riper, at a Silicon Valley Web Java User Group (see Joshua Bloch in the background) talks about programming.

Interviews With Professional Programmers, Part Four

More programmer interviews: Kevin Nilson, E*TRADE (at Google for a Silicon Valley Web JUG meeting), Jorge Ortiz, LinkedIn, Michael Galpin, eBay (at LinkedIn for a Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts meeting).

SuperHappyDevHouse 34 Interviews, Part Two

Interviews with programmers and hardware hackers from SuperHappyDevHouse 34, part 2 of 2.

Kevin Gadd talks about his dad bringing home computers for him to play with, and learning to program them, and his career making videogames. Drew Perttula’s dad brought home computers but no games, so Drew had to write his own. He got interested in visual effects and computer graphics. He works at DreamWorks Animation. Mike Lundy works for Nasa in Mountain View. He started programming around age 10 on a PCjr running BASIC. He works in the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA. He hopes the software he works on will eventually run on the Moon or Mars.

SuperHappyDevHouse 34 Interviews, Part One

Interviews with programmers and hardware hackers from SuperHappyDevHouse 34.

Joel Franusic introduces SuperHappyDevHouse and talks about how he learned programming from his dad, an embedded systems engineer. Joshua Neal shows an LED connected to an Arduino board. Jens Andersson shows a program, Colors!, for drawing on the Nintendo DS. Otavio Good shows a polar bear drawing he made using that program. Steve Okay shows an Arduino-controlled robot he built, and describes being inspired by the movie Tron to stay up all night and make a light cycle game. Ben McGraw talks about programming role playing games. Caroline Ratajski talks about how she started at age 9 with a BASIC text game, then learned web development and networking, and continued with a formal computer science education leading to her current work in communications signals analysis.

More interviews follow in part two.

Interviews with Professional Programmers, Part One

Meet some high caliber professional programmers: Dick Wall of Navigenics and The Java Posse, Bill Venners, coauthor of Programming in Scala, and Carl Quinn of Netflix and The Java Posse.

Bob Lee Videoconference With Dave Briccetti’s College for Kids Python Class

Google’s Bob Lee talks to Dave Briccetti’s College for Kids Python class by videoconference. He tells of his role as the Android core library lead, and answers questions about languages for Android and why he likes working at Google. He shows us his office mates Jesse Wilson and Josh Bloch (working with the latter being one of the reasons he is at Google).

(Video quality is poor as we recorded from a projected image with a hand-held camera.)

Twitter’s Doug Williams Visits My Programming Class

Twitter's Doug Williams describes how he got started programming. See Twitter’s Doug Williams Visits My Programming Class: http://briccetti.blogspot.com/2009/07/twitters-doug-williams-visits-my.html