Open Source Hero-Interview: Jen Looper
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2 min readMar 5, 2018
Let’s promote the unsung heroes of today, the backbone of most technological advancements in our world — Open Source developers. We’re happy to interview Jen Looper one of our idols in the Angular community.
Jen Looper is a senior developer advocate at Progress and lives in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Here are some cool projects from Jen:
- VueVixens: a community driven website aiding to leaning building websites and mobile applications for women.
- Thinglearn 2014: a suite of projects made to teach children about the internet in a creative and hands-on approach.
Here are the questions we asked Jen Looper in the interview:
- Cats or Dogs?
- If you could travel back in time to stop or remove one software project, which would it be?
- When did you start coding?
- How did you become a web developer from French literature studies?
- Yarn or npm
- At which age should kids learn to code?
- Which one of your projects is the most important for you?
- Vim or Emacs
- NgPrime, Material UI, Kendo UI or pure CSS
- What do you like the most about your job?
- MacOS, Linux, OpenBSD or Windows ?
- Who would you like to meet from the coding world?
- Do you prefer coding, teaching or giving conferences all over the world?
- In which language did you start coding?
- Do your parents/relatives understand what you do?
- Is there something you wouldn’t make OpenSource / Open Technology?
- In one sentence, what is so great about NativeScript and why should we use it?
- Do you have new project for 2018?
- What opensource project do you think is underappreciated and should get more fame and attention?
- How did you earn your first money ever?
- Mountain, beach or countryside?
- What non-Software Job would you do if a solar eruption ended the digital age?
So thank you so very much for your time and eagerness to tell us about your passion and experiences!
What’s Next ? We’ll do more OpenSource interview with great developers from the community!
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