Tag: lessons-learned

All the articles with the tag "lessons-learned".

• Reflections on my Amazon Career

  Published:Jun 3, 2022 |  at 12:57 AM

  Today's my last day after four years at Amazon. I joined to learn what made Amazon so successful, and I'm leaving with insights on their engineering culture and Leadership Principles.

• My Path to Software Engineering

  Published:Dec 9, 2019 |  at 12:35 PM

  I've gone between software engineering and film for most of my career. People often wonder about my unusual path, so I'm sharing the story of how I bounced between these two worlds and found my way to tech.

• Submitting a Patch to CPython

  Published:Aug 3, 2014 |  at 12:32 PM

  I submitted my first patch to CPython, Python's main implementation. The story of how I found a bug, worked with the core developers, and got my contribution accepted into the language.

• 7 Lessons Learned from Teaching My Brother to Program

  Published:Jun 10, 2014 |  at 12:32 PM

  I spent a year teaching my 18-year-old brother to program over weekend Skype calls. Here are the seven key lessons I learned about teaching programming to beginners, from choosing the right language to keeping motivation high.