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Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any…

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189: Agentic Loops 2026-08-24 · 83m
188: World Models 2026-07-09 · 96m
187: Agentic Coding 2026-05-02 · 98m
186: Becoming a Manager 2026-02-03 · 88m
185: Workflow Orchestrators 2025-11-04 · 92m
184: Asynchronous Programming 2025-09-23 · 91m
183: Landing a Software Job in 2025 2025-07-31 · 107m
182: AI Assisted Coding 2025-06-30 · 98m
181: Memory Management 2025-05-12 · 106m
180: Reinforcement Learning 2025-03-17 · 112m
179: Project Planning 2025-02-03 · 103m
178: Working from Home 2024-12-03 · 105m
177: Vector Databases 2024-11-04 · 88m
176: MLOps at SwampUp 2024-09-24 · 119m
175: Resume Writing 2024-08-16 · 101m
174: Devops 2024-06-10 · 86m
173: Mocking and Unit Tests 2024-04-29 · 95m
172: Transformers and Large Language Models 2024-03-11 · 86m
171: Compilers and Interpreters 2024-02-12 · 85m
170: 2023 Holiday Special Live 2023-12-24 · 99m
169: HyperLogLog 2023-11-27 · 90m
168: Godot 2023-11-20 · 89m
167: Desktop User Interfaces 2023-10-23 · 86m
166: Speedy Database Queries with Lukas Fittl 2023-10-16 · 72m
165: Differential Equations 2023-09-25 · 77m
164: Choosing a Database For Your Project With Kris Zyp 2023-09-11 · 91m
163: Recursion 2023-08-14 · 89m
162: Interactive Fiction 2023-07-24 · 68m
161: Leveraging Generative AI Models with Hagay Lupesko 2023-07-10 · 93m
160: Position Localization 2023-06-26 · 90m
159: GraphQL with Tanmai Gopal 2023-06-12 · 83m
158: Software Supply Chain with Bill Manning 2023-05-22 · 82m
157: Kubernetes with Craig Box 2023-05-08 · 85m
156: Perl and Regular Expressions 2023-04-24 · 78m
155: The Future of Search with Saahil Jain 2023-04-10 · 69m
154: Python Again with Jason C. McDonald 2023-03-27 · 96m
153: ChatGPT 2023-03-13 · 93m
152: The Future Database with Sam Lambert 2023-02-27 · 94m
151: Machine Learning Engineering with Liran Hason 2023-02-13 · 78m
150: Code Reviews with On Freund 2023-01-24 · 73m
149: Workflow Engines with Sanjay Siddhanti 2023-01-09 · 60m
S1: Holiday 2022 Special 2022-12-26 · 73m
148: Package Management with Max Howell 2022-12-12 · 103m
147: Quantum Computing with Yonatan Cohen 2022-11-28 · 66m
146: RubyShield, Ruby Central, and Shopify with Mike Dalessio and Evan Phoenix 2022-11-14 · 97m
145: Unsupervised Machine Learning 2022-10-24 · 85m
144: Kotlin Coroutines with Marcin Moskala 2022-10-10 · 81m
143: The Evolution of Search with Marcus Eagan 2022-09-26 · 70m
142: Data Ops with Douwe Maan 2022-09-12 · 84m
141: Social Gaming with Chip Morningstar 2022-08-22 · 98m
140: Developer Burnout and Infrastructure as Code with Ronak Rahman 2022-08-09 · 59m
139: Scientific Python with Guido Imperiale 2022-07-25 · 84m
138: Fixing the Internet with John Day 2022-07-12 · 88m
137: The Origins of the Internet with John Day 2022-06-27 · 85m
136: Metaverse with Daniel Liebeskind 2022-06-14 · 65m
135: Kubernetes with Aran Khanna 2022-06-06 · 67m
134: Ephemeral Environments with Benjie De Groot 2022-05-24 · 68m
133: Solving for the Marketplace Problem with Andrew Yates 2022-05-09 · 56m
132: Funding Open-Source Projects 2022-04-25 · 85m
131: Supporting your Favorite Creators with Brave with Jimmy Secretan 2022-04-11 · 74m
130: Ethical Hacking with Ted Harrington 2022-03-28 · 86m
Episode 129 - Web3.0: Breaking free from the Client Server Model with Michelle Lee 2022-03-15 · 66m
128: WebAssembly with Kevin Hoffman 2022-02-28 · 74m
127: AI for Code with Eran Yahav 2022-02-14 · 69m
126 - Serverless Computing with Erez Berkner 2022-01-24 · 72m
125 - Object Caching Systems 2022-01-21 · 75m
124 - Holiday Episode 2021! 2022-01-10 · 87m
123 - Project Planning 2021-12-15 · 83m
122 - Building Conversational AI's with Joe Bradley 2021-10-25 · 95m
121 - Edge Computing with Jaxon Repp 2021-10-22 · 89m
Machine Learning Embeddings with Edo Liberty 2021-09-27 · 60m
The Art of Vacations 2021-09-15 · 86m
Building a Robotics Software Platform with Abhay Venkatesh 2021-08-23 · 64m
117 - Authentication with Aviad Mizrachi 2021-08-10 · 75m
Hash Maps 2021-08-04 · 82m
Route Planning with Parker Woodward 2021-07-07 · 76m
Code Documentation with Omer Rosenbaum and Tim Post 2021-06-16 · 85m
Episode 113 - Full Stack Web Apps Using Only Python with Meredydd Luff 2021-06-02 · 85m
Trees 2021-05-12 · 88m
Episode 111: Real-time Data Streaming with Frank McSherry 2021-05-04 · 94m
Episode 110: Security with Dotan Nahum 2021-04-26 · 67m
Digital Marketing with Kevin Urrutia 2021-03-31 · 83m
Kotlin 2021-03-03 · 74m
Holiday 2020! 2021-01-29 · 67m
Augmented Reality 2020-11-21 · 83m
A Chatbot with a Brain 2020-10-15 · 83m
DevOps and Site Reliability 2020-08-21 · 63m
Working From Home 2020-07-29 · 73m
Bayesian Thinking 2020-06-22 · 94m
ReactJS 2020-05-22 · 79m
One Hundredth Episode 2020-04-21 · 67m
Squashing bugs using AI and Machine Learning 2020-02-18 · 63m
Agile Thinking With ZenHub 2020-01-21 · 89m
Christmas Episode 2019-12-30 · 52m
Continuous Integration 2019-11-13 · 113m
WebRTC 2019-10-24 · 78m
Search at Etsy 2019-10-07 · 79m
A Journey to Programming Mastery 2019-09-14 · 71m
Basics of UI Design for Engineers 2019-07-13 · 66m
Functional Programming 2019-06-19 · 67m
Terminal and Shells 2019-05-21 · 75m
From Combat to Code 2019-04-30 · 98m
Image Processing 2019-04-01 · 76m
Typescript 2019-03-04 · 70m
Wolfram Language and Mathematica 2019-01-15 · 137m
Holiday Party 2019-01-02 · 58m
Customer Bug Handling 2018-12-04 · 66m
Teaching Kids to Code 2018-11-13 · 73m
Reactive programming and the Actor model 2018-09-28 · 86m
2018 Mailbag 2018-09-06 · 74m
Concurrency 2018-07-31 · 67m
Technical Arguments 2018-07-01 · 92m
Building and Testing Web Services with Postman 2018-05-31 · 73m
Julia 2018-05-02 · 81m
Code Documentation 2018-04-04 · 85m
Arduino 2018-03-05 · 98m
Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts 2018-01-30 · 59m
Parallel Computing with Incredibuild 2017-12-19 · 65m
Internationalization 2017-11-28 · 67m
Office Spaces 2017-10-30 · 82m
COBOL and Mainframe Computing 2017-09-28 · 81m
Puzzle Games with Mark Engelberg 2017-08-17 · 112m
Soft Skills with SimpleProgrammer 2017-07-19 · 103m
Cryptocurrency 2017-06-30 · 86m
Code Reviews 2017-05-30 · 57m
Testing on Mobile with Kobiton 2017-05-15 · 49m
Cryptography 2017-03-30 · 72m
Spring Framework 2017-02-28 · 64m
PHP and Hack 2017-01-24 · 69m
Clojure with Eric Normand 2016-12-22 · 68m
Javascript For Mobile with Burke Holland 2016-11-23 · 60m
Deploying Software 2016-10-31 · 71m
Scaling Web Sites with Daniel Moore 2016-09-27 · 56m
Optimization 2016-08-31 · 76m
Robotics 2016-07-22 · 68m
Editor Wars 2016-06-24 · 80m
Programming for the GPU 2016-05-25 · 65m
Open Source Communities 2016-05-02 · 62m
Scientific Python 2016-03-28 · 71m
Udacity: Democratizing Education 2016-02-24 · 67m
Congratulations! 2016-01-21 · 71m
Tamper Protection 2015-12-21 · 83m
Source Control 2015-12-07 · 63m
Ruby 2015-10-12 · 70m
R 2015-09-10 · 66m
Inside Video Game Programming 2015-08-11 · 83m
Logo Scratch Lego 2015-07-10 · 66m
Debugging 2015-06-03 · 99m
Fortran 2015-05-07 · 71m
Node.js 2015-04-06 · 62m
Unity 2015-02-02 · 72m
Rust 2015-01-07 · 60m
SIMD 2014-11-22 · 73m
Funky Languages 2014-10-15 · 72m
Swift 2014-09-08 · 63m
Haskell 2014-08-01 · 63m
Databases 2014-06-26 · 74m
Design Patterns 2014-05-07 · 70m
OpenSCAD 2014-03-18 · 77m
Unix Commands 2014-01-27 · 78m
FPGAs 2013-11-20 · 81m
CUDA and OpenCL 2013-09-04 · 64m
Applied Artificial Intelligence 2013-06-13 · 68m
Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 2013-05-31 · 73m
Image Processing 2013-03-26 · 67m
Unit Testing 2013-02-22 · 75m
JVM Languages (Jython, Clojure, Scala) 2013-01-29 · 60m
Hadoop 2012-12-26 · 67m
LaTeX 2012-12-09 · 67m
Mailbag 2012-11-19 · 81m
Query Languages 2012-10-28 · 88m
BASIC 2012-09-22 · 53m
Go 2012-09-06 · 73m
Java 2012-08-03 · 78m
Build Automation 2012-06-27 · 69m
Lua 2012-05-29 · 70m
Interface Description Languages (IDLs) 2012-04-26 · 74m
C++ 2012-04-09 · 75m
Dart 2012-03-20 · 57m
Lisp 2012-02-26 · 67m
Javascript 2011-08-29 · 86m
HTML and CSS 2011-08-05 · 75m
Prolog 2011-07-04 · 81m
Objective-C 2011-06-18 · 80m
Assembly 2011-05-21 · 75m
C# 2011-05-13 · 60m
Matlab and Octave 2011-04-27 · 73m
Erlang Programming Language 2011-04-08 · 62m
Python Programming Language 2011-03-25 · 69m
C Programming Language 2011-03-09 · 58m
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