We are Hacks and Have Been Stealing Code for Years...
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Claim: programmers learn by creative borrowing not theory alone, using concrete tools like GitHub, StackOverflow and View Source. Evidence: StackOverflow traffic hits about 19 billion global views in six years. Examples that scale apprenticeship into working programs include NodeSchool, RailsBridge, Women Who Code, hack nights and pair programming, all founded to teach tinkering and they produce measurable onboarding (mentored pull-request workflows, repeated retention through hands‑on labs). The core method is copy‑tinker‑change‑build, and it works.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:00How did you start programming
- 7:00How we learn
- 9:30The Mona Lisa
- 16:20Do you manage people
- 16:58Node School
- 17:42Tinkering Hijacking Pass
- 18:19Hack Reactor
- 18:29Rails
- 18:39Hacker Hours
- 19:04Women Who Code
- 19:23Community
- 19:42Women Helping Women
- 19:55Global Day of Code
- 20:08International Node Bad Day
- 20:25Big Nerd Ranch
- 21:05The Nature of Code
- 21:21Integral Philosophy
- 22:38Its Yours
- 23:12Being a Great Developer
- 23:33Watching a Community
- 24:02How long have we known each other
- 24:18Where did we meet
- 25:14Todd Gandee
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