Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under-Serve, the podcast for the rest of

the tech industry.

I'm your host Andrew Gelina.

With me in studio today is JP Bodry, CTO of edX, JP, welcome to the show.

Hi Andrew, it's a pleasure to be here with you.

Glad to have you in, it's nice to see people in person again.

In the great setup you've got here, thank you, thank you very much.

So what sparked your interest in technology way back in the day?

It was very fortunate that I have some awesome parents, high energy, educated parents.

And when I was young, right after we moved on to the farm, so my parents were, like I said,

high energy, and while they had a full time job in education and social work, they bought

this 40-acre farm where I've learned a lot of stuff.

And when we reconvened indoors, they eventually procured a TRS-80, a so-called CoCo3 computer.

And my first introduction there was to learn how to move the turtle using the basic computing

language where you had to, if I remember correctly, a number of every line of codes so that

you can then make references with the go-to statement.

Yeah, yeah, I remember breaking things or have two adjacent lines and no number in between

anymore.

Indeed.

That was tough.

Did you end up coding all through high school?

Not that much actually.

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