Programming Practices, Exercism, Open Source
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Katrina Owen joined the show to explore ideas about open source, code review, learning to program, becoming a savvy programmer, mentoring, projects she’s working on, and also her very prominent and amazing code learning tool Exercism.

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Featuring:

• Katrina Owen – Twitter), GitHub), Website)
• Erik St. Martin – Twitter), GitHub)
• Carlisia Thompson – Twitter), GitHub), LinkedIn)
• Brian Ketelsen – Twitter), GitHub)

Show Notes:

• Katrina’s Blog)

• Exercism.io)

• 99 Bottles of OOP, book by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen)

Discussion

• RFC #4: Jan Lehnardt – Building Healthy Communities)

• Exercism repo for Go exercises)

• GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap (video))

• Go Code Review Comments)

• Effective Go)

• Ruby Midwest 2013 Failure for Fun and Profit! by Kerri Miller (video))

• The GitHub GraphQL API)

• GraphQL)

• 3 Trivial Concurrency Exercises for the Confused Newbie Gopher (blog))

• Go in 5 Minutes Concurrency: Eating Tapas (video))

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Reproducing images with geometric primitives)

• Sameer Ajmani wants to assemble university level courses in Go )

• College level Courses in Go)

• Better Go Playground Chrome Extension)

• Todd McLeod, Faculty at Fresno College)

• Build desktop applications in Go and HTML)

• Brian Ketelsen’s online course Go—Beyond the Basics)

• Andrew Gerrand’s Go Workbench idea)

• BBQ PID controller written in Go for Raspberry PI)

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- Go programming language)

• Carlisia - Exercism) and Write behavioral tests in your editor. Get live results in your browser.)

• Erik - Bosun: monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange)

• Katrina - Hoodie: Software for building applications for the web and iOS)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!)