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Michaela: [00:00:00] Hello, and welcome to the soft engineering unlocked podcast.I'm your host, Dr. McKayla. And today I have the pleasure to talk to FelienneHermans about how we can learn to program faster, better, and more easily. Butbefore I start, I want to tell you a bit more about ConfigCat - today'ssponsor of this episode.ConfigCat is a feature flag management tool that allows you to seamless andeffortless switch features on and off in your application through an intuitiveuser interface. Everyone on the team, independent of the tech skills, is ready togo within 10 minutes of training to configure the feature set that your usersees based on rules.You can even start to do sophisticated A/B testing, hassle-free andintuitively within a few minutes.

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But now back to Felienne. Felienne is an associateprofessor at the university of Leiden and investigate how we can best learn howto program Felina is also active in the developer community and organize severaldeveloper, meetups, and conferences.She's a big fan of Lego and served for many years as a lego judge at localcompetitions for kids, her passionate for bringing young kids into TAFE alsoleads her to being a teacher at the high school in the Netherlands. CurrentlyFelienne also writes a book called Programmer's brain explaining what happens inour brain when we learn to code, but also when we read and write and try tounderstand code.So I'm super thrilled to have Felienne here with me, Felienne, welcome to my show

Michaela: [00:01:59] Yeah, I'm really, really happy. It took quite some time,but now you're here. And I'm so curious to learn more about the Programmer'sbrain, because this is an area that I'm super interested. I mean, we bothhave been doing the PhD together right.In the same research group, but we were sitting in the same office and I wasresearching program comprehension. So how are people understanding code. And sothis is so close to what really interests me, what really fascinates me. So I'msuper thrilled to learn more about that. So can you tell me a little bit aboutthe book, but also your research?Because I think the book is very close to your research that you are doing atuniversity of Leiden, right

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