Programming By Stealth

Bart Busschots and Allison Sheridan have been running this long-form course-in-podcast-form for years, and the result is one of the most patient programming shows you will find. The format is unusual: Bart teaches, Allison learns out loud, and listeners follow along at whatever pace suits them. They started with HTML and CSS, worked through JavaScript properly, covered Git, dipped into server-side work, and by now have built up a serious curriculum that someone could use to go from zero to building real apps. Each episode pairs with written show notes and exercises posted on podfeet.com, so this is not a passive listen if you actually want to learn. Allison asks the questions beginners are too embarrassed to ask, which makes the pacing forgiving. Bart, who works as a Linux sysadmin by day, explains concepts cleanly without skipping the mental model behind them. There are no sponsors, no trend-chasing, no rush to cover whatever framework trended last week. The pair occasionally get sidetracked onto privacy, security, or the politics of tech, which keeps things human. If you tried learning to code from videos and bounced off, or you are a hobbyist who wants structure without enrolling somewhere, this show has probably already made the thing you are stuck on. Start at episode one and work forward. The backlog is the feature.