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Oct 2021
22m 33s

The first ten years of our programming l...

The Stack Overflow Podcast
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This episode was inspired by Joma Tech's review of his first ten years in coding.  Ben Popper shared  a fair amount of his coding journey through the series Ben Popper is the Worst Coder in the World.  Should you actually write out code on paper as some of us had to do? Maybe. Modding games gets people into programming. For Ryan, Freedom Force got him int ... Show More
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