Welcome to the Code Newby Podcast. We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of

helping you on yours. I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about live coding

with Jesse Weigel, senior software engineer at Dick Sporting Goods and YouTube live streamer

for free code camp.

I've done hundreds of hours of live coding, and there are times when I still get nervous.

Like right before I'm about to hit play on the stream, I still get nervous.

Jesse talks about how he got into live streaming for his coding work, the ways in which

live streaming have helped him as a

developer and his advice for folks who want to start their own coding live stream after this.

Thanks so much for being here.

Oh, thanks for having me.

So how did you start your coding journey?

Well, I started maybe my junior,

senior year of high school with a computer class where we spent most of the time learning about Microsoft Office, but a few weeks at the end of the class learning HTML and CSS. I'd always been

interested in computers and sci-fi stuff,

but that was when I really created something with code for the first time.

Then later on, the next year in college, I took a C++ class.

I was getting a business degree.

It was lumped together in the business department.

They didn't really have a computer science program.

They just had some programming courses in the business department.

And so that ended up being the only computer science type course that I took.

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