Software Engineer and Volunteer Teacher @ Code Your Future

Daniel Wagner Hall

Software Engineer and Volunteer Teacher @ Code Your Future

Daniel has been a Software Engineer focusing on developer experience at companies like Google, Twitter, and Apple. He’s developed systems that reliably serve millions of queries per second, maintains several significant open source projects (notably in Rust: num_enum, and Bazel's rules_rust), and loves to help people grow.

He has volunteered with Code Your Future, a charity training refugees and other disadvantaged people to become software engineers, since 2020. At Code Your Future, he has taught classes, mentored individuals and groups, and designed courses. Most recently, he has designed and run year-long immersive programs preparing four people with no previous software experience to become SREs at Slack. He would love to be helping more people to learn Rust.

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Software Engineer and Volunteer Teacher @ Code Your Future

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Teaching Rust to Beginners: Dreams and Drawbacks

November 10 2024 - 12:00 (25 min )

At Code Your Future, we teach beginners from disadvantaged backgrounds to become professional software engineers. We've mostly been doing this in JavaScript, and a bit of Go.
This talk explores our experiences of teaching software engineering, what makes Rust hard for beginners to approach, and invites individuals to volunteer with us, and companies to partner with us to help us prove that Rust can be a great learning language.

LEVEL: Introductory and Overview

Teaching Rust to Beginners: Dreams and Drawbacks

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RustLab is a conference made by Develer.
Develer is a company based in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence. Our motto is : "Technology to give life to your products". We produce hardware and software to create exceptional products and to improve industrial processes and people's well being.
In Develer we have passion for the new technologies and we offer our clients effective solutions that are also efficient, simple and safe for the end users. We also believe in a friendly and welcoming environment where anybody can give their contribution. This passion and this vision are what we've been driven to organize our conference "made by developers for developers".

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