Kathy Sierra
Co-creator of O'Reilly's Head First books, founder of JavaRanch, author of Badass (2015).
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Talks and writing
Building Badass Users, Making Badass Developers, Trouble at the Koolaid Point
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- Kathy Sierra is an American programming instructor and author who writes about how people learn and get good at things.
- She was a master trainer for Sun Microsystems and founded the JavaRanch community for Java programmers in 1998.
- With Bert Bates she created O'Reilly's Head First series, which began with Head First Java in 2003.
- She wrote the Creating Passionate Users blog until she ended it in 2007, after threats drove her out of public online life.
- She returned in July 2013 with the Serious Pony blog and in 2015 published Badass: Making Users Awesome.
Key facts
- JavaRanch
- Founded it, 19981
- Head First series
- Co-created it with Bert Bates; first book Head First Java, 20031
- Jolt Award
- Head First Design Patterns, 20051
- Creating Passionate Users
- Her blog, which she ended in 20072
- Serious Pony
- Her blog from July 2013; she left Twitter on 10 October 20142
- Book
- Badass: Making Users Awesome (O'Reilly Media, 2015)1
Talks and writing
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Building Badass Users (opens youtube.com)3
Her talk at Mind the Product 2014.
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Making Badass Developers (opens youtube.com)4
A keynote for O'Reilly.
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Trouble at the Koolaid Point (opens web.archive.org)5
Her essay on ten years of online harassment and why it targets people who get attention.
Links
Sources
- Wikipedia: Kathy Sierra (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Serious Pony: About (Internet Archive, 2015) (opens web.archive.org)
- Building Badass Users by Kathy Sierra at Mind the Product 2014 (YouTube) (opens youtube.com)
- Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote (O'Reilly, YouTube) (opens youtube.com)
- Trouble at the Koolaid Point, Serious Pony, October 7, 2014 (Internet Archive) (opens web.archive.org)
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