Interviews With Professional Programmers, Part Six

Hilary Mason of bit.ly talks about her work and how she got started with computers.

Wesley Chun on Python

Googler, Python book author, and former College for Kids teacher Wesley Chun visits Dave Briccetti’s Python class by videoconferencing. He talks about learning Python and how it is used by Google.

Randomness in Python Lesson by Carter Sande

Carter Sande, young coauthor of the Python book Hello World! - Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners, visits Dave Briccetti’s Python programming class for grades 7–9 at Pleasant Hill, CA’s Diablo Valley College College for Kids program, and delivers a guest lecture on random numbers.

In another brief video, Dave Briccetti interviews Carter.

JavaFX Ship Landing Game from Peter Pilgrim

While out to lunch one day at the Java Posse Roundup, Peter Pilgrim showed me his ship landing game written in JavaFX.

(Sorry about the blurry parts.)

Interviews With Game Developers

Interviews about game development with Bay Area Video Game Development Meetup members at the January 19, 2010 meetup.

• Casey Holtz, group leader
• Turi Scandurra, www.salvatorescandurra.com
• Greg Damiano, Playdom
• Simon Amarasingham, dSonic
• Japheth Dillman, iJanda.net

Interviews With Professional Programmers, Part Five

Michael (Van) Van Riper, at a Silicon Valley Web Java User Group (see Joshua Bloch in the background) talks about programming.