Next, what's in a code?

Let's ask Steve Goldbloom.

[laughter] I got to do that again.

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[interposing voices] MAN: Let's start with Steve right there.

ALL: Hi, Steve.

STEVE: I guess I like old school, shoe leather reporting.

Anybody else-- in university, I probably should have not ignored some of the computer science majors that were always around and studying all the time.

And I feel left behind.

So I'd like to-- yeah, I would like to learn about coding.

ALL: Nice.

You don't know how to code, do you?

You do?

IAN: My name's Ian.

ALL: Hi, Ian.

IAN: Hi, everyone.

[laughter] STEVE: Why are you here?

This is a do-over for a decision I made back in college when I was 16.

Tired of being a starving artist.

I'm here because I am a social learner.

And I want to have people around me.

Shereef Bishay was our founder.

And he had a friend that wanted to learn how to code.

He didn't have a college degree.

He said if you teach me to code, I can pay back the money I owe you.

And so he taught him to code.

And today, that fellow is a lead engineer at Apple.

So I studied German in university.

And this never came up.

So in this case, this word represents a piece of data that should be shaped like a cat.

Uh, class-- S-S.

Uh, .meow.

So close, but not really.

TEACHER 1: Nope.

Nope.

If I can connect it, that will come down here, won't it?

[inaudible] Uh, no, that's not how it works.

TEACHER 2: What this exercise does is it basically has you failing over and over and over and over, 30 or 40 times, before the end of the day.

And so you get used to failure.

STEVE: Wow, how is morale at coding?

TEACHER 2: Yeah, it starts out low.

STEVE: Yeah.

TEACHER 2: But that's OK.