Programming Throwdown.

Episode 51, Udacity, democratizing education.

Take it away, Patrick.

All right, we're here with Art Gillespie at Udacity H.Q in this awesome room of sound-proofing.

This is like the most professional interview we've ever done for podcasts.

Normally we're just like in our pajamas on the couch, like me at my house, Jason at his, I'm hoping he's wearing pajamas. Sometimes. Depends if we're streaming or on live coding. Okay, anyways, we'll just keep moving forward, no bad pictures in our heads. Anyway, so we're here with Art. And Art, why do you go ahead and introduce yourself? Hi, I'm Art Gillespie. I'm the director of engineering here at Udacity, and I keep wanting to make

a joke about how I am not wearing pajamas right now.

He's not wearing pajamas, that's true.

But I am wearing clothes.

So yeah, I've been the director of engineering here at Udacity for about a year now.

And so I'm the hiring manager for engineers here.

And yeah, I'm excited to talk to you guys.

Nice.

Very cool.

Well, I think Jason, you had some questions kind of prepared here.

You want to- Sure.

So some of these are kind of questions kind of for everyone and we can go around the table and have a discussion about it.

And so we're going to start off with kind of one of those, which is, so Art, you have a background

engineering?

I do.

So how did you first learn how to program?

Oh, it was a long time ago.

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