S1:E3 - How to teach yourself computer science (Vaidehi Joshi)
Vaidehi Joshi tells us about her year-long, technical writing project, basecs, how it's changed her as a developer, and how she handles the trolls and negativity from people who don't appreciate her work.
Vaidehi decided to take on a year-long challenge. She'd pick a computer science topic every week, do tons of research and write a technical blog post explaining it in simple terms and beautiful illustrations. And then she actually did it. She tells us about her project, basecs, how it's changed her as a developer, and how she handles the trolls and negativity from people who don't appreciate her work.
Show Links
- TwilioQuest (sponsor)
- DevDiscuss (sponsor)
- DevNews (sponsor)
- Career Karma (sponsor)
- Cockroach Labs (sponsor)
- Bits, Bytes, Building With Binary (Vaidehi's blog post)
- 100 Days of Code
- Rust
- Hexes and Other Magical Numbers (Vaidehi's blog post)
- Conway's Game of Life
- basecs
- Technical Writer position at CodeNewbie
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Vaidehi Joshi
Vaidehi is a writer and an engineer at Tilde, where she works on Skylight. She enjoys building and breaking code, but loves creating empathetic engineering teams a whole lot more. In her spare time, she runs basecs, a weekly writing series that explores the fundamentals of computer science.