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Chris Algoo shares how he co-created “Breakup Squad,” the game where you have to keep two exes from getting back together. Kate Rabinowitz shows us how open data can help build powerful, insightful tools to better understand and improve your city. Eric Brelsford shares how he used mapping tools to help community members turn vacant lots into beautiful neighborhood spaces. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) API D3 Carto Tableau Python R Open Data NYCommons Living Lots NYC 596 Acres Urban Reviewer Maptime NYC DataKind Code for America Brigades Interactive Data Visualization for the Web An Introduction to Statistical Learning The Big List of Game Making Tools Freesound.org Open Game Art FMOD Twine Unity CodeNewbie YouTube channel Breakup Squad (trailer) Codeland, CodeNewbie's conference - April 21 and 22 in NYC Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Chris AlgooChris Algoo is a game developer, event organizer, speaker, and educator from Brooklyn. His events and games have a strong focus on diversity and inclusion. He's currently working on Breakup Squad, a party game displayed internationally in museums, festivals, and other venues.Kate RabinowitzKate Rabinowitz is the founder of DataLensDC, an organization dedicated to understanding cities through data. She co-organizes Code for DC and Tech Lady Hackathon. Kate is passionate about open data and civic tech, diversity and inclusion, healthy skepticism, and board games.Eric Brelsford

In our second episode of our Codeland miniseries, we dig into our talks on gaming and code. Jessica shows us how we can use failure to become better developers with lessons learned from the video gaming industry. Opher shows us a number of ways to use video game principles to make our web apps more exciting. To watch the videos of these talks, checkout our channel on YouTube. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Screen Shake Juice (video game concept) Eko Pop In Matter: JavaScript 2D physics engine Draw Distance Learning Through Failure - the strategy of small losses Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence Opher's talk (video) Proton GreenSock Animation Platform Failure Difficulty Curve Game Design Document Learning from Mistakes is Easier Said than Done: Group and Organizational Influences on the Detection and Correction of Human Error Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve Jessica's talk (video) CodeNewbie YouTube channel Codeland, CodeNewbie's conference - April 21 and 22 in NYC Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Jessica RudderJessica Rudder is a recovering perfectionist that learns to code through a combination of reading, asking colleagues and banging her head against a wall. When she's not helping to build Flatiron School's Learn platform, she can be found training for ultra marathons on the streets of NYC or creating code-related videos on YouTube for CompChomp. She is an avid squirrel photographer and loves the color green. Opher is a multidisciplinary creator, invested in many fields like computer science, art, music, design and game development. For the past three years, he has worked at Eko as lead creative developer and the go-to authority on client-side web technologies.Opher VishniaOpher is a multidisciplinary creator, invested in many fields like computer science, art, music, design and game development. For the past three years, he has worked at Eko as lead creative developer and the go-to authority on client-side web technologies.

In episode 1 of our Codeland miniseries, you get to hear two amazing talks on art and code. Stephanie's a first-time speaker from Amsterdam and shares her inspiring story of building her first hardware project. Dan shows us how creative coding can be with his amazing art and code showcase, featuring artists and installations of all shapes, sizes, and platforms. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) The Coding Train NYU ITP p5.js Arduino Raspberry Pi Processing HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) Socket.io Stedelijk Museum - Tinguely Exhibit Stephanie's Slides CodeNewbie YouTube channel Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Dan ShiffmanDaniel Shiffman is an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is also a co-founder of the Processing Foundation works on developing tutorials, examples, and libraries for both Processing and the new p5.js framework.Stephanie NemethStephanie is a self-taught developer living in Amsterdam. She enjoys making interesting, but useless, things with code in her free time.

If you've heard of open data, big data, and data science and never quite knew what it was all about, this episode is for you. Briana helps us explore the different steps it takes to answer a complex data question with code, giving us a tour of the data science world along the way. We talk about the importance and difficulty of cleaning data, the role of ethics in data collection and analysis, and how a codenewbie can dig into this fascinating topic. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) KDD Conference ACM Conference SQL R Microsoft Civic Tech The Human Face of Big Data The Glassroom Python NASA Datanauts Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Briana VecchioneBriana Vecchione is a data scientist specializing in civic tech and a strong advocate for fairness, transparency, and inclusion in technology. Previously, Briana’s worked on various projects through Microsoft Research, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, ABB, Square, & Wogrammer NY. She’s an award-winning scholar with organizations like the National Science Foundation, the Association of Computing Machinery, and the Anita Borg Institute.

WordPress powers 27% of the web, with sites big and small leveraging the popular platform. Developer Ptah Dunbar, also known as “Pirate”, gives us a tour of the platform, its thriving community, and the realities of being employed as a WordPress developer. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Squarespace WordCamp Wix Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Ptah DunbarWordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress core contributor and web strategy consultant.

In just over a year, Kim’s spoken at eight meetups, ten conferences, had talks accepted at three more, and has four upcoming talks already lined up. And she’s just getting started. She shares how presenting at meetups became an accidental launchpad for her speaking career at conferences, how she uses her past career in education to create unique tech talks, and how speaking has provided her incredible opportunities, like traveling the world for free. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Peter Aitken AlterConf Overcoming the Challenges of Mentoring (Kim's talk) Codeland, CodeNewbie's conference - April 21 and 22 in NYC Scotland JS Women Who Code Atlanta Clojure West Tech Talk for Non Techies JrDev Mentoring Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Kim CraytonKim, a Community Engineer, has years of experience working with learners of all ages, skill level, and abilities. She is now using her knowledge to develop technical people, ideas, organizations, and communities.

This week, we followed up our conversation about embedded systems with a focus on getting into hardware as a whole. Elecia White gave us a tour of her hardware world, complete with stories of gadgets catching fire, the responsibility of creating life-saving ICU technology, and having fun with poopy robots. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Python Twilio Arduino Making Embedded Systems book by Elecia NumPy voltmeter Threat Modeling Nest Chris Svec's Podcast Interview Embedded fm, Elecia's Podcast Codeland, CodeNewbie's conference - April 21 and 22 in NYC Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Elecia WhiteAuthor of O'Reilly's Making Embedded Systems and host of the Embedded podcast, Elecia White is an embedded software engineer who has worked on DNA scanners, inertial measurement units for airplanes and race cars, toys for preschoolers, a gunshot location system for catching criminals, and assorted other medical and consumer devices. She founded and currently runs Logical Elegance, a small consulting firm in California.

Chris’s job sounds impressive. After over a decade working in tech, he’s designed microprocessors and now helps build robot vacuum cleaners. He’s at the intersection of hardware and software in a space called embedded systems. We explore this field, get a solid intro to working with chips, and discuss the many ways a codenewbie can start learning more about the fascinating world of embedded systems. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Arduino Raspberry Pi Hacker News Thermal runaway VHDL nvidia AMD Ringly Roomba logo (programming language) ARM Processors Hardware Description Language Intel Microprocessor Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Chris SvecChris Svec is an embedded software engineer at iRobot where he works on the Roomba vacuuming robot and other robots. He started his career designing x86 chips and later moved up the hardware/software stack into embedded software. He knows that bugs always show up at interfaces, which is why he thinks about things like empathy and people as well as bytes and protocols. Chris has a BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University.

When we talk about open source, we focus mostly on the code and contributions. But as a crucial element of the developer ecosystem, it’s important to think about the business side of things. How does it sustain itself? Is there money in open source? If there is, who gets it? Developer and open source maintainer Safia Abdalla helps us tackle these questions to better understand how open source really works. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Jupyter Codeland - CodeNewbie Conference Dave Thomas episode Open Collective OSCON Sloan Foundation NPM Nteract CodeNewbie on Patreon Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Safia AbdallaSafia is an open source developer and writer with a passion for data science and machine learning for social good and STEM education. When she is not on her computer, she can be found running, exercising, drinking tea, or watching films.

If you plan on getting a job as a developer, chances are, you’ll deal with the technical side of accepting online payments. It might be as easy as plugging in a tool like Stripe or Braintree, but it can quickly get complicated. In this more technical episode, Noel takes us through some of those thorny situations and how a newbie can navigate the complex world of money. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Code Complete Apple IIe Zork The Pragmatic Programmer The Money Gem Shopify IRB Floating Point VCR gem AJAX Stripe Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Noel RappinNoel Rappin is the Director of Talent and a Senior Developer at Table XI (tablexi.com). He is the author of multiple technical books including “Rails 4 Test Prescriptions”, “Trust-Driven Development”, and “Master Space and Time With JavaScript”.