Programming is the best! We're chatting with Thorsten Ball (self-published author of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go) about all of our mutual favorite topics: learning new stuff, great textbooks, writing, and why bugs are actually great (a gift, even!).

Shownotes

• Writing an Interpreter in Go (Thorsten's book):
• Writing a Compiler in Go (Thorsten's book)
• The Dragon Book (compilers)
• Thorsten's newsletter:
• Thorsten's website
• Zed.dev
• Sourcegraph

Zach Latta is the founder of Hack Club (hackclub.com). Zach's a high school dropout who's now helped 30k high school students around the world start their own coding clubs. He also helped build the much-beloved "yo" texting app in 2014. This is a fun conversation about coding in school, being a kid, the importance of friendship in learning, and realizing that you can make awesome stuff with awesome people in this world.

Shownotes:

• Hack Club
• László Polgár
• Yo App:
• Neopets
• Putting the You in CPU
• Pizza Hut BOOK-IT Program

Oz and Charlie brainstorm their "Stripe Press for kids" publishing idea!

Shownotes:

• Klutz Press
• Charlie's blog post about Klutz Press
• Hacker News discussion about Charlie's Klutz Press blog
• Little Schemer: https://mitpress.mit.edu/978026256099...
• Abstract Algebra: A Student Friendly Approach: https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algeb...
• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Syste...
• Intel Celeron
• The Diamond Age
• Quantum County
• Execute Program
• Mitsumasa Anno
• Oz's Requests for Collaboration