Greater Than Code
247: Approaching Learning and Content Creation with Sy Brand
02:01 - Sy’s Superpower: Making Complex Topics Digestible
06:28 - Approaching Learning to Code: Do Something That Motivates You
- Greater Than Code Episode 246: Digital Democracy and Indigenous Storytelling with Rudo Kemper
- Ruby For Good
- Terrastories
11:25 - Computers Can Hurt Our Bodies!
13:57 - Motivation (Cont’d)
- Weekend Game Jams
- The I Do, We Do, You Do Pattern
22:15 - Sy’s Content (Cont’d)
- Sy on YouTube: "Computer Science Explained with my Cats"
- Content Creation and Choosing Topics
33:58 - Code As Art
41:34 - #include <C++>
- Lessons learned creating an inclusive space in a decades old community (Sy's Talk)
- QueerJS
- Emscripten
- Graphiz it!
Reflections:
Mandy: Digging into Sy’s videos.
Casey: Working within content creation constraints.
Sy: Make a video on register allocation.
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Special Guest: Sy Brand.