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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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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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Thanks for watching the Treehouse Show.

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Or hit us up in the Treehouse community.

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See you next time.