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Ep. 36 - Creating jQuery (John Resig)

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4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2015

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

John Resig, creator of jQuery, talks about what it was like to build the most popular javascript library and then walk away from it five years later to follow his passion for education.

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0:43.7

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0:49.4

Today on the show, I am so excited to have John Resig.

0:53.7

He's the creator of JQuery and developer at Khan Academy.

0:56.8

John, you want to say hi? Hello?

0:59.6

So once in a while, I'll tweet out before the interview starts and I'll say, you know,

1:04.2

hey, everybody, we're interviewing so and so. If you have any questions, let us know.

1:07.4

I have never gotten such an overwhelming response from people as when we tweeted that we were interviewing you just a couple hours ago.

1:16.2

Well, that's exciting. Did you know that you had this like star power? Yeah, I guess. I mean, it's definitely, it's definitely a little bit crazy. I'm still quite overwhelmed by it.

1:28.1

Well, I think it helps that you're really accessible. You're very, very nice. And I feel like you use your platform and your stardom to help other people in many different ways. And we're definitely going to dive into all those ways throughout the interview. But let's start with kind of the obvious question, which is JQuery. What is JQuery for people who don't know and how did you start it?

1:48.4

I guess for the people who don't know, JQuery is a JavaScript toolkit which allows you to create

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