Episode 13: Aggressive Learning

Guest: Ted Neward
Host: Daniel Steinberg

Anyone who develops software for a living, or who works for an
organization that does, knows the challenge of keeping up with
changes in technology. Tools change. Methodologies change.
Frameworks change. Languages change. For us, change is a
central fact of life.

Even when a software developer is not being driven by change,
she faces a daunting task. The world of computer science is
big, as is the world of software development. No matter how
much we know, there is more to know. So you've
mastered OOP -- what about functional programming or logic
programming? You are a Java or Smalltalk guru, but what about
Scheme or Erlang?

The more tools we have in our toolbox, the better prepared we
are for our next task. The more kinds of
things we know, the better we can use use the tools in our
toolbox.

Ted Neward is a software developer facing these challenges
head-on. He