Treehouse Teacher: Craig Dennis Interview (Bring Your Daughter Or Son To Work Day)

2:48 with Craig Dennis

In this episode, Craig celebrates Take Your Daughter or Son to Work Day by asking his daughter to host The Treehouse Show.

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Hi, I'm Craig, welcome to The Treehouse Show.
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The Treehouse Show is our weekly conversation with the Treehouse community.
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[MUSIC]
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In this episode,
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we're going to be celebrating the Bring Your Child To Work Day.
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My daughter Haddie is going to see firsthand what it's like
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to host The Treehouse Show.
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>> Hello, welcome to The Treehouse Show.
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Introducing our first guest, Craig.
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>> Thanks for having me on the show, Haddie.
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>> How did you get started in technology?
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>> That is a wonderful question.
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So, when I was a little boy, about your age, actually.
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You know Papa, right?
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>> Yeah. >> Well Papa and I, Papa's a programmer.
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You know that right?
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So I would sit with Papa, and we would play a game called Zork.
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It's very much like Zelda, that we play today, but it was a text-based game.
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And you would be in a room, and there would be a lantern.
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And you say, pick up lantern, turn lantern on.
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And the story would change with what you did.
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It was really cool.
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>> Wow! >> It was a fun game, and
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papa kind of tricked me.
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He had me program one of those games.
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And that's how I learned how to program.
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That's how I did it and from there, yeah.
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>> What do you teach at Treehouse?
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>> So for Treehouse, I teach Java.
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I've taught some other courses here, but yeah.
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My main focus here is Java, and I've been doing that.
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Have you ever done any Java coding?
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No. >> Okay.
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>> What's something that the students may not know about you?
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>> Great question.
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So aside from them knowing,
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now they know that I have an adorably smart and cute daughter.
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I was in the Peace Corps.
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That's something they might not know.
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>> Yeah, yeah. >> That's where I met Mommy.
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So you're kind of a purebred Peace Corps baby.
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>> [LAUGH] >> Uh-huh!
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>> Yeah?
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And I taught there, in Guayana, I taught how to program.
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And I taught about Microsoft Office, and other things.
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>> Yeah, yeah.
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>> Yeah? You've heard those stories?
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>> Yeah, yeah.
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>> Okay.
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So, I actually have a question for you, is that okay?
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>> Yeah. >> I was wondering,
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if you could tell the students what you think I do for a living.
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What do I do every day?
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>> You program and make video games.
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>> I make video games?
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What sort of video games do you think I make?
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>> I think you make things that are hard to play.
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>> Things that are hard to play.
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Okay, why do you think I do that?
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>> Because the point is, it's hard to play a video game, and a challenge.
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>> So you think challenges are good?
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>> Yeah. >> Yeah, so
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people learn through challenge?
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>> Yeah, dad. >> That's great.
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[MUSIC]
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Thanks for watching the Treehouse Show.
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To get in touch with the show, reach out to me on Twitter.
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Or hit us up in the Treehouse community.
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See you next time.

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