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Jul 2015
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Systems Thinking: Less Coding, More Thin...

SCOTT HANSELMAN
About this episode
Kishau Rogers is the Founder and CEO of Websmith Group. She's a twenty-year programming veteran. She talks to Scott about the importance of teaching "Systems Thinking" over just Learning to Code. How do our solutions change when we better understand how they fit into the big picture? 
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