Founders & Coders Podcast: Recent Episodes
Founders & Coders
Founders & Coders (FAC) is a UK-based nonprofit organisation that runs tuition-free coding programmes in London, Nazareth & Gaza. Our podcast covers the experiences and backgrounds of people on the programme and otherwise associated with FAC.
Reda (FAC18) and Reuben (FAC17) talk about working at Time to Spare and discuss what FAC was like when it happened in physical proximity with the rest of the cohort.
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
An interview with Shireen Zoaby of WebAhead, FAC's sister organisation in Haifa, Israel. We discus learning to code overseas and how to bring that knowledge home and start sharing it with more people.
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
An interview with Ghada Ibrahim of Gaza Sky Geeks, FAC's sister organisation in Gaza. We talk about the challenges and joys of learning and teaching others code in Gaza.
Code Academy web page: https://gazaskygeeks.com/code/ Volunteering with Code Academy form: https://forms.gle/PHeUMVaiUCD2PifP9
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
Some media articles involving Ghada and what the team at Gaza Sky Geeks do: - Entrepreneurship Under Occupation; https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/articles/2018/07/25/entrepreneurship-under-occupation-my-gaza-startup - Female forces driving the Arab World’s tech revolution; https://www.vogue.in/content/meet-the-female-tech-innovators-of-the-middle-east - Gazan women in IT: doing what you love; https://www.netherlandsworldwide.nl/latest/news/2020/02/06/gazan-women-in-it-doing-what-you-love - Wireless in Gaza: the whizz-kids making code not war; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/wireless-in-gaza-the-code-school-bringing-hope-to-the-strip - Coronavirus: The women fighting back against Covid-19 in Gaza with hackathons, meditation and yoga; https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/coronavirus-gaza-palestinians-covid19-middle-east-cases-tech-a9505681.html - Coding in a conflict Zone; https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-45758264/coding-in-a-conflict-zone
Dan talks about the starting the bootcamp and where it’s going, Josh talks about starting a web developer job and how that’s going, and Azizi, Dan and Josh together discuss their dissatisfaction with studdying physics before finding web development.
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
This episode Azizi chats to Shaya and Jess their experiences of getting into and FAC and their time in the bootcamp.
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
FAC20 members Amber and Ephie discuss their experiences of the FAC bootcamp during their last week on the course
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
In this episode of the Founders and Coders podcast Azizi chats to Rihards their FAC20 student project, Recycling In London
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
In the second episode of season 2 Azizi chats to Terrence and Jack about their time in and before the bootcamp.
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
In the first episode of a new season of the Founders and Coders podcast Azizi chats to Rihards about their journeys into and through the FAC bootcamp
Music by Glenroy-Terence FAC20. Track: Encounters With Acid - Tee Circus.
The podcast is back! This week, we had a great but time-constrained chat about one of the final student projects, and what some of us are up to now that we've graduated.
More detailed episode notes to follow. These will include links to our picks, and information about React, Agile/SCRUM, Netlify, Heroku, Pomodoro.
The Founders & Coders (FAC) podcast is aimed at anyone interested in hearing about what it's like to be on the course, web development in general, and/or the backgrounds and interests of the people taking it.
Audio quality still a WIP :).
OSCE Boss Key: http://oscebosskey.herokuapp.com
Where to find us, and recommendations: Monika: - https://github.com/brymon - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp06tgSATPT/
Dominic: - https://twitter.com/dominicdigital - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brain
Eve: - https://www.meetup.com/LLHS-Ladies-of-London-Hacking-Society/
Nathalie: - https://twitter.com/njons - https://media.giphy.com/media/12UlfHpF05ielO/giphy.gif
React: - https://thinkster.io/tutorials/what-exactly-is-react - https://medium.freecodecamp.org/learning-react-roadmap-from-scratch-to-advanced-bff7735531b6
Agile & Srum: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)
Netlify: - https://medium.com/the-codelog/how-to-deploy-a-website-to-netlify-35274f478144
Heroku: - https://www.heroku.com/ - https://codeburst.io/node-js-on-heroku-a-more-complete-tutorial-part-1-9e80cb071498
Pomodoro: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
This week, we introduce Joe and Aisha, and welcome back Kate! We talk about Node JS, our Node projects and hear about Aisha's experiences since finishing FAC. We hope to get her back on to chat more about her experiences as a mentor in Gaza, too.
The Founders & Coders (FAC) podcast is aimed at anyone interested in hearing about what it's like to be on the course, web development in general, and/or the backgrounds and interests of the people taking it.
As the episodes progress, we'll try to make it more polished, and get the chance to include people otherwise associated with FAC (the people taking the FAC course in Nazareth and Gaza, FAC alumni, and some of the external speakers that we get in).
Resources:
Node JS: https://www.w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_intro.asp https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-exactly-is-node-js-ae36e97449f5 (see comments in the article, too) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Express_Nodejs/Introduction
Context switching: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/context-switching-developers-paul-graham/
Technical debt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
Datasets subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/ https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/8ej8vh/the_446_people_places_and_things_donald_trump_has/ (and see the useful comment by rarely_beagle!)
Speech API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API
NPM: https://nodesource.com/blog/an-absolute-beginners-guide-to-using-npm/ https://www.sitepoint.com/beginners-guide-node-package-manager/ ("beginners guide", but still technical)
DRY code: https://www.codementor.io/joshuaaroke/dry-code-vs-wet-code-89xjwv11w
Array and object methods and properties: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object#Methods_of_the_Object_constructor
Wes Bos' array cardio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB1ZC7czKRs
Codebar: https://codebar.io/
Nikhila Ravi: https://twitter.com/nikhilaravi
CORS: https://medium.com/@baphemot/understanding-cors-18ad6b478e2b (see article comments, too)
Recommendations and where to find us: Aisha: http://www.askelias.club/ - may take a few seconds to load Fun Fun Function: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q
Joe: https://www.instagram.com/joesfriel/ The Adam Buxton Podcast: http://adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts A Neuroscientist Explains Podcast: https://www.theguardian.com/science/series/a-neuroscientist-explains-podcast
Dom: https://twitter.com/dominicdigital All Songs Considered Podcast: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510019/all-songs-considered?t=1535720672931 Stuff To Blow Your Mind Podcast: https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts The Vanilla JS Podcast: https://vanillajspodcast.com/ (good info, but a few episodes include quite a bit of course promo)
Kate: https://twitter.com/sbinlondon DevPal: https://devpal.io/ Glitch: https://glitch.com/ Singing Cowboy Meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBLdQ1a4-JI
This week, we introduce Eve and Martin, and talk about APIs and JSON, while going off-topic quite frequently. Recorded on 2nd August 2018.
The Founders & Coders (FAC) podcast is aimed at anyone interested in hearing about what it's like to be on the course, web development in general, and/or the backgrounds and interests of the people taking it.
As the episodes progress, we'll try to make it more polished, and get the chance to include people otherwise associated with FAC (the people taking the FAC course in Nazareth and Gaza, FAC alumni, and some of the external speakers that we get in).
Resources:
APIs: https://zapier.com/learn/apis/ https://www.codenewbie.org/blogs/an-intro-to-apis https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Client-side_web_APIs/Introduction
APIs on Wikipedia (standard vs simple English): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
Objects: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_objects.asp
JSON: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/383692/what-is-json-and-why-would-i-use-it https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_intro.asp
ES6: https://codeburst.io/es6-tutorial-for-beginners-5f3c4e7960be
Video on the Event Loop (not quite beginner friendly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ
Recommendations: Jessie: That Classical Podcast: https://www.thatclassicalpodcast.com/
Eve: Reply-All Podcast: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all
Dom: Composer of the Week Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnxf CodeNewbie Podcast: https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast
Martin: Learning How to Learn Coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
The Founders & Coders (FAC) podcast is aimed at anyone interested in hearing about what it's like to be on the course, web development in general, and/or the backgrounds and interests of the people taking it.
As the episodes progress, we'll try to make it more polished, and get the chance to include people otherwise associated with FAC (the people taking the FAC course in Nazareth and Gaza, FAC alumni, and some of the external speakers that we get in).
Resources:
Web Accessibility: https://a11yproject.com
Callbacks: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Callback_function https://medium.freecodecamp.org/javascript-callbacks-explained-using-minions-da272f4d9bcd
DOM Manipulation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Introduction https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3934826/what-do-people-mean-by-dom-manipulation-and-how-would-i-do-that
Test-Driven Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2016/gentle-introduction-to-javascript-tdd-intro/ https://github.com/dwyl/learn-tdd
Git: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Git-Basics
Recommendations & Where to find us:
Dominic (virtualdominic on GitHub): Syntax: https://syntax.fm https://twitter.com/dominicdigital
Jessie (developess on GitHub): fCC podcast: https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com https://github.com/developess
Kate (sbinlondon on GitHub, Instagram & Twitter): The Adventure Zone: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone https://twitter.com/sbinlondon
Michael (arrested-developer on GitHub): Front End Happy Hour: http://frontendhappyhour.com https://github.com/arrested-developer