Episode 0 - Ask Wayne

The goal here was to plan out how we’d do the podcast.
Audio is shit for this one, we were sitting in a cafe and happened to have a microphone 😂
0min “what is software engineering”
- How it’s not perceived as a real job, especially in Zimbabwe
- Difficulty figuring out the elevator pitch to describe the job
- vibes
5min - Planning out an ep/section to share resources
6min.45 - New guy signed up for hack the degree
- How to design a curriculum for someone with no background in tech
- A Gentle Introduction To Programming Using Python
9min - Africa needs more tech stories
- We speak about some hacking stories
- Vic joins a team that’s sharing code on a flashstick, LOL
15min.15 - Sharing where you can find tech communities in Zim
- Somewhat inactive Slack
- https://twitter.com/gdg_harare
- https://twitter.com/ZimbosInTech
- https://codebytes.co.zw/
- https://zimdevelopers.org/
- https://twitter.com/techvillagezw
- Even property searches mostly happen on Whatsapp & Facebook groups
- On apps collaborating with telekoms to provide zero-rated apps to improve accessibility & reach of stuff
20min - open source revenue model. discussed in the context of education
Towards the end, we get into some school stories, general sentiment towards education
- to discuss in future - “Computer Science is a liberal art”