Tech jargon explained by a Senior Dev [Computer Science Terminology]

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Take a deep-dive with us into the wonderful world of tech jargon! 📚

Do you know your semantic elements from your structural elements? Your selectors from your properties? Can you talk about the difference between data modeling and data visualisation? And let's not forget the old favourite, null vs undefined!

Never be baffled by job ads or tech tweets again as we join senior developer Michael for a live Q&A session all about software engineering words and phrases.

💻 Contents: 💻
03:32 - Why is tech so full of jargon?
06:05 - Tree shaking
07:18 - Bike shedding
08:39 - How to deal with tech jargon you don’t understand e.g. in a meeting?
10:45 - How to understand/manage tech lingo?
14:07 - Is there an equivalent to “Yes, chef/ Oui chef” in the tech world?
16:16 - DoS / DDoS - Denial of service
18:23 - DDoSing yourself?!
18:58 - Is an infinite loop a DDoS?
19:53 - Distributed / Distributed services
20:55 - Tech words can be simpler than they appear!
21:24 - Phrases we wish we knew sooner?
22:31 - Can we just go and learn the terms and their meaning like you would with an algorithm question?
24:28 - Michael’s Junior Developer interview experience
24:41 - What is a dictionary?
25:39 - How much detail should I give in interview answers?
26:22 - Hydration
27:27 - Scrum/Jira/Agile
30:02 - Jira
31:43 - What is Scrum?
32:39 - The Agile Philosophy / The Agile Manifesto
34:26 - What is web architecture and does a junior need to know it?
37:04 - Jira, cumin seeds and Godzilla?
37:53 - Git terms, e.g. repo.
38:25 - git cherry-pick
40:11 - Github Desktop
42:23 - null vs undefined
50:18 - Web app vs mobile apps
53:22 - How hard is it to transition from web developer to mobile developer?
55:14 - Native apps
57:03 - The Internet of Things
59:14 - NaN (not a number)

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