Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits
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Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits


If you're a working software developer, which bits of computer science are useless? Which are useful? And which ones are superpowers?

Every episode I talk to working developers from all different backgrounds about topics in computer science. From different data structures, algorithms, analysis, paradigms and practices, we talk about which ones matter in their day-to-day work, and what kind of work that is.

Latest Interviews


Larry Orton: Getting Started and Standing Out (with video)

August 8, 2022

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Larry and I talk about what he's learning in school and how he feels about it. But also about why social change is hard.


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Tobi Pfeiffer: So Many Languages

August 1, 2022

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Tobi and I talk about education and *so* much software history, including the interesting points of a lot of languages.


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Ross Kaffenberger: Teaching, WebPacker and Paradigms

July 25, 2022

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Ross Kaffenberger and I talk about teaching, software development and how he got into both. As always, I ask what was useful and not in his education.


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Craig Petterson: Buzzwords, Pina Coladas and Centaur Chess

July 18, 2022

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We talk a fair bit about careers, the difficulties of dealing with clients and how computer assistance may be the future.


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Akien McIain: Test Automation Engineering

July 11, 2022

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Akien, my wife Krissy and I talk test automation, QA and nontraditional career paths


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Andrew Owen: The Culture of Programming - If You're Raised by Missionaries

July 4, 2022

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We talk programming culture - if you're raised and trained in culture and meeting new people..


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Andrew Mason: I Expected College To Be Basically Boot Camp

June 21, 2022

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Andrew and I talk about what college should be, the prison system, feminism in video games and Chesterton's Fence.


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Shai Schechter: Hustle Hard, Do What's Practical

April 19, 2022

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Shai, a founder of RightMessage, has been hustling since he was 11.


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Caitlyn Greffly: It's Like Being Paid to Go to School and Make Cool Things Forever

April 21, 2021

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Caitlyn transitioned from a career selling beer to a career writing software.


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Jennifer Tran: Coding Paradigms, the Satisfaction of Studying and Unspoken Cultural Norms

April 8, 2021

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Jennifer is an early-career cloud engineer. We talk about how she got into software development without having experience before university, and what that meant about picking up the unspoken cultural norms. We also talk about the dark academic aesthetic and how she improves at all of this.


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