Penny University Featured Teachers

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Greetings Penny Scholars,

This week Penny University introduces something new - featured teachers. This week we have 2:

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Simon Willison is a co-founder of the social conference directory Lanyrd, and Director of Architecture at Eventbrite. Simon is also a co-creator of the Django Web framework (you read that correctly). Check it out, Simon's even got his own Wikipedia page. Fancy!

Simon has signed up to teach "Python, Django, SOA, APIv3, elasticsearch, DB design, social software design, rapid prototyping, redis" and is available for "Roughly 1 hour a week"

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Courey Elliott is a Software Engineer at Emma with a love of natural language processing. Courey was one of the key-note speakers at this year's PyTennessee, is a regular personality on NashDev podcast, ... and is a fun person to talk with over lunch.

Courey has signed up to teach "Domain Driven Design, OOP, micro (raspberrypi or arduino)" and is available for "2 hours-ish a week, lunch time or weekends"

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As members of Penny University you have access to them! Just look them up in our Teacher Directory and reach out write them an email. But be quick! You can see that their weekly availability is only a couple of hours.

And whenever you have your Penny Chat, then make sure to post back to Penny University so that we can all learn a little from your experience. (OR you can write a blog post like Anthony Fox did this week! Hurray!)

Now go out and TEACH and SHARE and LEARN!

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Greetings Penny Scholars,

This week Penny University introduces two new featured teachers:

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Steve Brownlee, Lead Instructor at Nashville Software School, is dedicated to helping teach the next generation of software developers by providing people with a solid understand of the core technologies used today, and then expanding into how to be a valuable contributor.

Steve has been developing software since 1980, when he programmed his TRS-80 to do his math homework for him. Since then, he grew up with the world wide web explosion and discovering all the new technologies that got invented to exploit its capabilities. Decades years later, he wants to take all the knowledge and skills he has accumulated and teach a new generation to build software with passion, creativity, and strong foundations.

Steve has signed up to teach too many things to list and is available "2-3 hours per week. Occasionally a lunch here and there"

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Doug Turnbull (my coauthor!) works with Solr and Elasticsearch. He tries to make search smarter. He helps folks with search-driven apps from traditional search to recommendations to whatever else you can imagine requiring a smart search engine to answer questions.

Doug has signed up to teach "Search, Machine Learning, Data Science" and is available for 2 hours per week in the evenings.

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As members of Penny University you have access to these teachers! Just look them up in our Teacher Directory and reach out write them an email. But be quick! You can see that their weekly availability is only a couple of hours.

And whenever you have your Penny Chat, then make sure to post back to Penny University so that we can all learn a little from your experience.

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Greetings Penny Scholars,

This week Penny University introduces a new featured teacher: Matt Hamil.

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Matt Hamil is a Software Development Engineer working at Spera Health where he works on a React Native mobile app. He loves all things front-end and is a contributor of two open source projects: Hedron, a no-frills flex grid system for React (https://github.com/JSBros/hedron), and uiGradients, a quick and easy utility to create gradient backgrounds for React (https://github.com/JSBros/uigradients).

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Greetings Penny Scholars,

This week Penny University introduces a new featured teacher: Anthony Fox.

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Anthony Fox works at Stratasan during the day. There, he’s a software engineer and works with a crack team of developers to build cutting edge software and do other totally normal dev stuff. At night, he throws on his heroic leotard and either cuddles up with a book by candle light, or assembles all of his IoT micro controllers and further plot his eventual plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD! He hates talking about himself in the 3rd person. Screw it, it’s me! That’s right! It’s been me the entire time!

Anthony is signed up to teach:

• "Fundamental programming concepts. (Familiar)
  
• Idiomatic python (Basic to Intermediate)
  
• Beginning web dev w/ python (familiar with Django and Flask)
  
• Dev tools such as using git for collab and other tools
  
• Fun stuff like accessing api’s.
  
• And I’m always up for researching a problem together"
  

Anthony is available roughly an hour or 2 per week during lunch hours.

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This week Penny University introduces a new featured teacher: Chris Cummings.

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Chris Cummings is fairly new to the computer science world coming from a background in small time entrepreneurship, finance, and economics. Since he started at Eventbrite nearly 3 years ago, data science, specifically machine learning and artificial intelligence has become a chief interest for Chris. In pursuit of practical data science skills, Chris has worked worked tirelessly over the past two years to build a foundation of development skills by writing small projects in C-based languages including C, Go, Java, Javascript, Python, and Swift. Chris also enjoy hacking on front end stuff with React, including React Native.

Chris is happy to teach introductory programming and discuss his approach to learning. Additionally Chris invites you to Data Nerds, a monthly data science meetup hosted at Eventbrite.

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As members of Penny University you have access to our teachers! Just look them up in the Teacher Directory and reach out them in email or in our Slack channel.

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This week Penny University introduces a new featured teacher: Max Shenfield.

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Max Shenfield majored in Mathematics at Belmont University, and after a year and a half programming .NET at a small healthcare shop he joined Eventbrite.  As a part of the Financial Foundry team at Eventbrite, Max works with a small group of people dedicated to improving the quality and flexibility of Eventbrite's global ticketing marketplace.  Max loves working in Python, and also spends some of his free time figuring out how technology can improve society with Code for Nashville (http://codefornashville.org/).

Max is signed up to teach Functional Programming, Civic Hacking, and Accounting Systems. And is available an hour a week during most weekday mornings and afternoons.

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Greetings Penny Scholars,

This week Penny University introduces a new featured teacher: Mike Schuld.

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Mike Schuld is the Lead Product Architect at Foundant Technologies in Bozeman, Montana. Foundant provides software for Foundations and Nonprofits which allows them to better manage their grant applications. Mike has been writing code since about age 12, starting with simple websites and graphics coding and moving on through ASP, PHP, C++, Java, Perl and C#. His main focus nowadays is in the C# (.Net) based web and graphics programming world, but he also likes to play around with new frameworks and languages in his spare time.

Mike is available for hangout or screen sharing over weekends.

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Greetings Penny Scholars,

This week Penny University introduces a new featured teacher: Chang Lee.

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Chang Lee is a PhD student in mathematics at Vanderbilt. Chang has taught calculus, linear algebra, stats in the past and is teaching R programming this semester. Chang's experience has been mostly inside of academia, but he did have the opportunity to do data science for a baseball team last summer. Chang is interested in machine learning, data science, math, and sports analytics. If anyone needs help with explaining math ideas Chang can probably help!

Change is available one or two hours a week in the morning hours Monday through Friday.

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Greetings Penny Scholars,

This week Penny University introduces a new featured teacher: Peter Swan.

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Peter Swan has worked in web development since prototype and scriptaculous were cool and IE6 compatibility was a full time job. He's worked at startups for the past 8 years, first for indabamusic.com and most recently for gust.com (remotely). Peter is interested in building correct, maintainable systems and making the right thing easy which has resulted in some expertise in TDD/BDD, some strong opinions around API design, a healthy hate/love relationship with Ruby and Javascript, an appreciation of automated infrastructure, and an infatuation with strongly typed functional programming.

Peter is available for a couple hours a week during lunch breaks or after 8PM.

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Greetings Penny Scholars,

This week Penny University introduces a new featured teacher: Chris Graffagnino.

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Chris Graffagnino is a software engineer at Stratasan. He made the jump from musician to developer in about 2000 hours using free online resources, and is excited to help aspiring devs to the same. Chris writes Python/Django code on a daily basis, and wants to improve his knowlege of ES6/React/Redux.

Chris is signed up to teach Python, Django, Unit Testing, Front-end, Git, guitar, music theory and is available for 1-2 hours a week during lunchtimes.