Story: Learning a new language with Bruce Tate

05/06/20 • 35 min

There’s joy that can be found in language learning and pain as well. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, there are still some things you can only discover by picking up a new language.

Bruce Tate will tell us how learning new languages rekindled the spark of joy for him.

“I find that learning a new language mixes a lot of joy in that pain, and that's when I grow most rapidly as a developer.”

“You can't break somebody else through their own pain. They have to learn their own lessons, and they have to, at some point in the model, they have to feel more and more pain to break through to the expert.”

“When you visit other places, when you learn other languages, the world gets smaller.”

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There’s joy that can be found in language learning and pain as well. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, there are still some things you can only discover by picking up a new language.

Bruce Tate will tell us how learning new languages rekindled the spark of joy for him.

“I find that learning a new language mixes a lot of joy in that pain, and that's when I grow most rapidly as a developer.”

“When you visit other places, when you learn other languages, the world gets smaller.”

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Story: Portal Abstractions with Sam Ritchie

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Krystal will share her journey as she chased her curiosity in programming wherever it led her.

"Everybody has that moment when everything's shiny, you know when it's new and you walk on to campus like Google or whatever. Like the first time, I went to Google IO and I just thought it was like, this is insane."

"If you like to learn things, I think that's a gift. I think that's not something that everybody has."

"I think that seeing programming in different ways and seeing that it could be this kind of fun thing that you could break apart and find different ways of executing."

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