The Leanpub Monthly Sale for September 2019

[View this email in your browser]( The Leanpub Monthly Sale The Leanpub Monthly Sale for September 2019 This is our monthly sale, which also features news for Leanpub readers and a recent [Frontmatter]( podcast episode. You can subscribe or unsubscribe [here]( or you can click the "unsubscribe from this list" link at the bottom of this email. News Did you know Leanpub offers a course set on Data Science developed by a team at Johns Hopkins University? It’s a set of pay-what-you-want online courses that serves as an excellent introduction to the hugely popular subject of Data Science, which has evolved rapidly in the last few years into a highly popular career choice for people interested in working in tech. Here’s a link, we hope you’ll check it out: [Cloud Based Data Science](. You can also check out the JHU team’s bonus course (just released today!) here: [(. (And don’t forget you can get started creating your own online course any time [here on Leanpub]( The Sale Better Whiteboard Sketches by [Matthew Skelton]( - Suggested Price: $13.99, Regular Minimum Price: $11.99, Coupon Price: $6.00 [Coupon Link]( Breaking into Information Security: Learning the Ropes 101 by [Andy Gill]( - Suggested Price: $24.99, Regular Minimum Price: $9.99, Coupon Price: $7.99 [Coupon Link]( C++17 - The Complete Guide (C++17 - The Complete Guide) by [Nicolai M. 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In this interview, Gojko talks about his background, his first experience with computers, studying in Belgrade around the time of the NATO bombing, his foray into writing and eventual move to London and participation in the software community there, starting his own company, his books, and at the end, about his experience as a self-published author. --------------------------------------------------------------- Len: Hi, I’m Len Epp from Leanpub, and in this Leanpub [Frontmatter]( podcast, I’ll be interviewing Gojko Adzic. Based in London, Gojko is a partner at Neuri Consulting, a strategic software delivery consulting company that helps organisations big and small improve their product and project management practices, in order to develop and deliver their products better and faster. A popular and busy conference keynote speaker, he has won many awards in his career, including the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award and the Jolt award for the best book of 2012, for his book [Specification by Example](. You can follow him on Twitter [@gojkoadzic]( and you can read his blog and learn more about him and his work on his website [gojko.net](. He is the author or co-author of a number of Leanpub books, including the charmingly titled [Humans vs Computers]( and his latest book, [Running Serverless: Introduction to AWS Lambda and the Serverless Application Model](. In this interview, we’re going to talk about his background and career, professional interests, his books, and at the end we’ll talk a little bit about his experience as an author. So, thank you for being on the Frontmatter Podcast. Gojko: Thank you very much for inviting me. Len: I always like to start these interviews by asking people for their origin story. So, I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about where you grew u,p and how you first became interested in computers and software? Gojko: I grew up in Serbia, and my father bought a Commodore 64 when I was a kid. I think my mother would have divorced him if he bought it for himself. So he officially bought it for me. But I was the only kid in the neighborhood that had a computer where I couldn’t really play any games, because he bought it for himself to program - he was a geek. He didn’t buy a tape recorder, and I couldn’t load up any games. And what I did, is I had this thing that is supposed to be mine - and had a big manual in German. I didn’t speak a word of German, but there lots of things that I could type and make the computer go, “Vroom,” or move some colors on the screen and things like that. So I started software development by typing over assembly lines that I had no understanding of, from a book I couldn’t really read, on a Commodore 64, when I was six or seven years old. Len: That’s a great story. It’s so interesting, it’s often a parent introducing a computer into the scene. And sometimes it’s for the kid, and sometimes it’s for the parent. Gojko: Yeah, my dad was an electrical engineer. He was putting electricity into factories and dealing with, I don’t even know what the proper English phrase for that is, but like high voltage electricity transport. But he was a geek, he was interested in computers. I guess I grew up pretty much never wanting to do anything else apart from programming. Len: That actually leads me to my next question. So you’ve studied a combination, I believe of maths and computer science at university. And one question I like to ask guests on this podcast is - if you were starting out now with the intention of pursuing a career like yours, would you do a full computer science degree at university, starting in 2019? Gojko: I guess there is an aspect to having a proper computer science degree that gives - or at least gave me a background on some things that are incredibly useful in terms of modelling things and understanding stuff. I took a mix, as you said, of maths and computer science. We did lots of stuff from algebra and lots of stuff from calculus and graph theory and things like that. Almost none of it was ever commercially important for me. But I think it gave me a background in modelling and understanding how to understand machines, and how to deal with that. I think, for me personally, high school was a lot more valuable for programming than university. Because I went to a specialist high school where we studied Pascal in the first year. In the second year, I had assembly and C++ and Prolog. Or in my third year and in my fourth year, I think I had assembly again. The fantastic benefit of going through this high school where it was really - very, very tightly specialised for science and kind of technology science in particular. I went to a section where we were doing programming quite a lot. So when I arrived at the university, my first two years of my university, pretty much I learned in high school. And so I think that that school was a much, much bigger impact on what I did in the university. I mostly enrolled at the university because Serbia still had mandatory conscription back then. And when I was growing up, going to military service wasn’t really the safest option for this part of the world. So I went to the university, but I’m not entirely sure if I would do that again. That’s quite a good question. I think there are benefits in terms of getting this kind of scientific background of the whole thing. And I think it makes it easier to deal with some more complex things. But have I ever used it professionally? Probably not. Len: That’s actually a really interesting issue that you raise. It reminds me one time I was in an airport, and I heard these strangers to each other - just having a nice conversation. And this one woman was saying, “Now I work in construction, but I got a degree in–” I don’t know? Education or something like that. And she said, “I’ve never used it, I’ve never used my degree,” and I thought, I’ve heard this before., I remember hearing a professor talk about how he didn’t think that people should have to learn other languages to get PhDs anymore - this was in the English Literature context - because he’d learned Latin, but he’d never used it. And I thought, how do you know what you’re going to need in advance? And how do you know what you’ve used or not? If you know what I mean? Because even things you sort of like - you kind of know not to use them, if you know what I mean? Once you know them. Gojko: Yeah. Look - I learned calculus. So when I was started to get interested into functional programming, I already knew what it’s all about, and what the benefits are, and things like that. And I enjoyed learning a lot of that other stuff from a theoretical perspective, like non-linear geometry, where parallel lines are not lines, they’re circles and things - that was amazingly interesting. But it wasn’t entirely applicable to my career. I had one case of maybe - 17 or 18 years ago, when I actually used stuff I learned from the university - and actually used my textbooks from the university to solve a problem. [Read the rest of this Frontmatter podcast interview on Leanpub…]( Thanks for Reading! We hope you enjoyed this newsletter. If you have questions, please email [hello@leanpub.com](mailto:hello@leanpub.com?subject=Monthly%20Sale). 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