Episode 135 - Jordan Miller 1s452e

In this episode I talk with Jordan Miller. We talk her breaking into to software development, activity in the Clojure community, redefining open source contributions, mentoring, and much more. Our Guest, Jordan Miller. Jordan Miller Announcements The Big Elixir is taking place March 24th and 25th in New Orleans. Save 20% on tickets you use the code FUNCTIONALGEEKERY2022. Visit https://thebigelixir.com/ to . ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit https://www.elixirconf.eu/. :clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, . The Call for Presentations is open through March 4th. Visit https://clojured.de/ for more information and to submit your proposal. Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit lambdadays.org to keep up to date. Some of you have asked how you can Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page. If that is one of the ways you would like to show your , you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery. Topics [@2:58] Welcome Jordan Clojurians Slack Jordan on the Cognicast About Jordan Starting on WordPress Learning Lambda Calculus as an introduction to programming Scheme DrRacket Python Clojure Conj ClojureScript re-frame Building a WordPress site for a restaurant website Using Dog Tags to visualize linked lists Falling in love with the Clojure Community Sean Corfield Learning Scheme Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs LightTable 5 different ways to show a function Starting with immutable data Why so many senior devs seem to come to Clojure MIT Open Courseware Original Sussman and Ableson Lectures Dr. Ana Bell What about Clojure that put it on her radar Dave Beasley Jordan’s experience in Python Coursera courses “I struggled with for loops because I learned recursion first” Having your personal webpage Diving right into ClojureScript for first job Self teaching and breaking into software development with a full-time job Daniel Higginbotham Vouch Mike Fikes David Nolen JavaScript React Native Storybook How Jordan started her media presence “I am a performer by nature” “WTF is Clojure?” video on YouTube Being a Sponsored open Source developer Bring the flavor of your Encourage people to redefine what an open source contribution is ClojureBridge What prompted her podcast Borkdude Emergent Works Her mentee Jordan Jay on Github Website Next Chapter Alex Miller “I’ll Fire Spin for a free ticket” Jordan’s LinkTree As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 5f6030