This week I speak to Nicholas Tollervey. He currently works as a freelance software developer and has also been active in open source projects, as a previous Google Open Source Peer Bonus winner.

Before starting a career in tech, he trained at the Royal College of Music with Tuba as his first instrument. He also briefly worked as a school teacher, which helps explain his interest in using tech for education. For example, Nicholas developed Mu, a beginner friendly text-editor. He was also involved in developing the BBC micro:bit, a project which gave a programmable microcontroller to 1 million school children in the UK. A final project Nicholas has undertaken with an educational theme is the London Python Code Dojo, where participants collaborate in small teams to solve a problem and compassionately review each other’s efforts.

Steve jobs responding to challenge from an engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch

"The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. Music is not inside the piano." - Alan Kay (inventor of OOP).