Spotlight: Jay Wengrow (Author) Interview and AMA!
Author Spotlight:
Jay Wengrow (@jaywengrow)
Jay Wengrow founded Actualize, a Chicago-based coding boot camp. We recently sat down with the author of A Common Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms and A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, Volume 1 to chat about the bread and butter work of developers and why it’s important to break academic conventions and translate complex concepts into plain English that everyone can read, understand, and (importantly) use in their work day.
This is also an AMA. Everyone commenting or asking a question will automatically be entered into our drawing to win a copy of either edition of A Common Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms!
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