Nate Schutta: I Just Love to Learn!

Duke’s Corner Java Podcast: Nate Schutta: I Just Love to Learn!

Here’s my interview with Nate Schutta, an author, a teacher, a software architect, and Java Champion. Nate lives in the United States and teaches computer science to university students. He loves teaching and he loves learning, and he specializes in exploring the big picture of complicated systems in his career as a software architect. The conversation covers the Java community, the value for developers if they contribute to Java User Groups (JUGs), the benefits and some possible drawbacks of AI, and the engineering feat that is the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Nate has a passion for learning and here’s his advice for young developers and engineering students. “The fundamentals can’t be skipped! And they take time to learn! You just have to put in those hours to understand the basics, and then you can graduate to the more complicated stuff.”

Nate tripped over Java a bit in school and joined his first Java project right in his first job. Once he heard about this new Java project, he said: “Heck, yeah! I want in on that!”

Here’s the full Nate transcript. Here are all the interviews on Duke’s Corner.

Quotes from the Interview

Here is a nice selection of quotes from the interview with Nate. When you talk to someone as articulate as Nate, it’s hard to select specific quotes to print in text. It’s best to just listen to all of the interview! Anyway, a quick scan across some text is nice too! Each quote includes a timestamp and some context on software architecture, learning, education, contributing to the Java community, Oracle’s role, and the use of AI in development.

* On the Role of a Software Architect and Trade-offs

* Quote: “Our job on a software project is to see that bigger picture, to understand what those tradeoffs are, to sort of get out of some of the tribalism and evangelism around real specific technologies and be able to answer, well, why is that something we should use? How is

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Nate Schutta: I Just Love to Learn!