Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci
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Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    187: Agentic Coding

    In this episode, Patrick and Jason cover Agentic Coding!

    1hr 38min
  2. 186: Becoming a Manager

    3 FEB

    186: Becoming a Manager

    Patrick and Jason discuss what it means to become a manager and how the role differs from individual engineering work. They cover hiring, coaching, performance management, team goals, and when moving into management is or is not the right choice.

    1hr 28min
  3. 185: Workflow Orchestrators

    04/11/2025

    185: Workflow Orchestrators

    Patrick and Jason break down workflow orchestrators and why they matter for batch jobs, long-running tasks, and resumable distributed systems. They compare tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Ray, and Kubeflow while explaining the infrastructure patterns behind them.

    1hr 32min
  4. 184: Asynchronous Programming

    23/09/2025

    184: Asynchronous Programming

    Patrick and Jason explain asynchronous programming and how it differs from traditional multithreading and multiprocessing. They cover coroutines, blocking versus non-blocking operations, promises, callbacks, async/await, and the tradeoffs behind each approach.

    1hr 31min
  5. 183: Landing a Software Job in 2025

    31/07/2025

    183: Landing a Software Job in 2025

    Patrick and Jason are joined by Mark Cunningham to discuss how software engineers can find strong job opportunities and perform well throughout the interview process. They cover sourcing strategies, reverse interviews, negotiation, hiring-manager expectations, and common mistakes candidates should avoid.

    1hr 47min
  6. 182: AI Assisted Coding

    30/06/2025

    182: AI Assisted Coding

    Patrick and Jason discuss how AI-assisted coding tools can speed up development, answer questions about a codebase, and reduce boilerplate work. They compare common workflows and tools such as Copilot, Cursor, and command-line assistants while talking through where these systems help most.

    1hr 38min
  7. 181: Memory Management

    12/05/2025

    181: Memory Management

    Patrick and Jason cover memory management from both the operating-system and language-runtime perspectives. They discuss heap management, virtual memory, garbage collection, ownership models, and practical techniques for diagnosing and reducing excessive memory use.

    1hr 46min
  8. 180: Reinforcement Learning

    17/03/2025

    180: Reinforcement Learning

    Patrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and place it alongside supervised and unsupervised learning. They cover Q-learning, SARSA, policy gradients, actor-critic methods, PPO, imitation learning, and why training and evaluating RL systems is so challenging.

    1hr 52min
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Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.

Information

  • Creator
    Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci
  • Years Active
    2011 - 2026
  • Episodes
    188
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    ℗ & © 2011 Programming Throwdown
  • Show Website
    Programming Throwdown

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