Tutelage of Treehouse - Graham Morby, Sr. Software Engineer

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse! Guest: Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who works as a dev for hire. He has developed applications in Python, PHP, JS, Vue, and even coded BASIC in the 90's, hacking games for his Commodore 64. He's been doing computers since before they were cool. Questions: Tell me more about the book you are working on. How did you get into programming? You've been into computers for a long time, but at some point you stepped into programming - tell me about that journey. Now that we know how you got started, tell me about your journey within development. How do you sift through the myriad of content out there and staying sharp in your field? You mentioned that you found Treehouse, you liked it and you stayed - tell me more about that. What is your perspective on how the coding/tech careers really are? Links https://teamtreehouse.com/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome back, listeners. Today we are dropping another episode from our series called The Tuttleage of Treehouse.
0:08.9	The team at Treehouse is on a mission to diversify the tech industry through accessible education, unlocking opportunity, and empowering people to achieve.
0:18.0	In our series, we will be talking to leaders and students in the program to learn about
0:21.7	how Treehouse has impacted their lives, businesses, and careers. Well, today I have Graham Morby on the
0:30.0	Code Story podcast. He is a senior software engineer working as a dev for hire. He is working in
0:37.0	Python, PHP, JavaScript, View,
0:39.6	was coding Basic back in the 90s hacking games and the Commodore 64, and he's been doing
0:44.7	computers since before they were cool. Graham, thank you for being on the show today.
0:48.7	Thank you very much for having me. Absolutely. Before we jump into your path into technology and learning, coding, tell me a little bit more about you.
1:00.1	I'm just turning 40, which is a crazy milestone, right? I've been interested in tech since I first saw,
1:08.0	you know, a Nintendo back in the 80s. And I actually thought I was going to end up in hardware at one point because I enjoyed hardware.
1:14.6	I like Christmas for me was the new latest graphics card to play Tomb Raider on my really ancient PC,
1:21.2	you know.
1:21.9	Couple that were music, it's kind of gone hand in hand, really.
1:25.8	Life has always been about tech, new phones. My wife hates
1:28.8	it because I'm always like, oh, there's a new phone out and it's got this really cool feature
1:31.6	and I need it. She's like, but you've just got your latest phone. I'm like, yeah, I know, but it doesn't
1:35.0	have this feature. So tech's always been a huge part't do college. And I'm going to say this,
1:44.8	and I think I'm correct. In the UK, it was really difficult in the late 90s to get into tech
1:49.9	at a university college level, because it was the late 90s, right? I left school in 97, and we were
1:56.5	still rolling on plugging the wall internet. And if your dad needed to use the phone, you had to unplug it and drop your connection.
2:03.5	So I'll be like halfway through a Mortal Kombat cheat for my Sega Saturn or something.
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