12 episodes
Tech'd Out Corey G & Geoff B / Fullstack
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Demystify an increasingly technical world with two of Fullstack Academy's instructors: Corey Greenwald and Geoff Bass. Take a journey that provides high-level context to the many facets of web-development. This podcast begins with an overview of the World Wide Web and proliferation of JavaScript and continues into many other topics in technology.
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12. Cookies: Creepily Relevant Ads and Overpriced Vacations
On the Season 1 Finale of Tech'd Out, Corey and Geoff discuss cookies. They explain the difficulty of keeping someone logged in on a website, how every site seems to know exactly what ads interest you, and why you should always be an incognito browser before you plan your next vacation.
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11. Browsers and Web Apps: How They're Basically Just Tacos
Corey, Geoff, and GUEST Karen MacPherson talk about the ever-changing web. They discuss the birth of modern web-applications and how it's almost rude to call them websites! They also explain the DOM that is the important translator allowing JavaScript to communicate with the content of the webpage (HTML). At the end of the day, an important realization comes about: web browsers are basically just tacos.
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10. Data Modeling: Making Your Data Really Really Really Ridiculously Good-Looking
Corey and Geoff explore many ways of organizing data for all different kinds of tasks. How is it similar between that seemingly never-ending wait in the Fortnite queue to play your game and Microsoft Word's undo functionality?
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9. Machine Learning: Oh The Ways AI has Changed
Corey and Geoff discuss the algorithms all around us and how, in many cases, they've gotten CREEPILY good at what they do. How can a machine built by humans that is given little-to-no instructions from a human learn to play a game like chess better than any human ever could? How do you by proving you're "not a human" on a website actually teach cars how to drive themselves? Corey also brings out his background in Neuroscience and highlights some forms of machine learning attempt to mimic some connections we find in our own brain!
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8. Servers and The Cloud: Amazon Secretly Holds the Internet
Corey and Geoff take a deep dive into servers. How do the servers at the New York Times manage to stay alive during peak hours like election night? What exactly is cloud computing and how did it change the way software was built in so little time?
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7. History of Computing 2: Evolution of Programming Languages
In the second half of "History of Computing", Corey and Geoff discuss the wild evolution of programming languages. Why do we have so many options for languages in the field of software and when would we choose one over another? What computational changes and industry demands cause the growth of new languages?