Sometimes the easiest way to see how a software tool or product works is to watch someone else build with it. In Learn With Jason, host Jason Lengstorf pair programs with experts from around the tech industry to learn new tools by doing.
Improving our skills as software engineers requires two forms of growth:
- Explicit Knowledge — expanding our knowledge of the available tools and how to use them through education, documentation, and other information
- Tacit Knowledge — building wisdom and technique through experience, observation of our peers, and unconscious, hard-to-describe habits
Most educational materials address explicit knowledge, but it's increasingly difficult to find opportunities to improve our tacit knowledge. Learn With Jason is an attempt to make tacit knowledge transfer possible at scale, by giving audiences the opportunity to watch experienced developers build real applications from scratch.
No polished demos, no edited out mistakes, no pulling a fully baked turkey out of the oven at the end.
By watching experts work through new tools, you're able to observe (and absorb) their techniques for breaking down a problem, getting unstuck when things don't work, and the small shortcuts that they've picked up throughout their experience. This is the stuff that is almost impossible to teach explicitly, and in a world where it's harder and harder to find opportunities to sit next to an experienced developer in real life, Learn With Jason aims to make it possible for developers everywhere to have the experience of pair programming with brilliant engineers from the community.
Episodes are recorded live, so you can follow along and ask questions as we build!