From Engineer to Educator: A Transformative Journey

Today, we have Kent C Dodds on the show. If you don't know Kent, he's a well known expert in JavaScript, Web Development and Teaching. His courses like Testing JavaScript, Epic React, and Epic Web Dev have helped countless developers uplevel their skills and develop whole new ones.

During our conversation, we discussed how he got to start in creating courses in the background on his latest project, Epic Web Dev. We also picked his brain about JavaScript. Why the heck do we have so many JavaScript frameworks? Are we just perpetually dissatisfied with what we have? Or is there a fundamental problem with how the web is actually designed?

There's a lot of meat in the bone on this one, and we hope you enjoy it.

Show Notes:

The Web’s Next Transition

https://www.epicweb.dev/the-webs-next-transition

Epic Web Conference 2024

CONFERENCE DAY April 11th, 2024

WORKSHOP DAY April 10th, 2024

https://www.epicweb.dev/conf

Timestamps

01:46 Kent’s Background

05:38 Epic Web Dev

15:07 Creating an engaging course

19:07 How long does it take to finish the course

23:01 JavaScript and CS

25:47 Things that you should know

29:09 JS frameworks

36:28 Re-building the Web from Scratch?

42:59 PESPA Architecture

53:04 Rapid Fire