SuperHappyDevHouse 34 Interviews, Part Two
Channel: Dave Briccetti
Date: 24/08/2009

Interviews with programmers and hardware hackers from SuperHappyDevHouse 34, part 2 of 2. 

Kevin Gadd talks about his dad bringing home computers for him to play with, and learning to program them, and his career making videogames. Drew Perttula's dad brought home computers but no games, so Drew had to write his own. He got interested in visual effects and computer graphics. He works at DreamWorks Animation. Mike Lundy works for Nasa in Mountain View. He started programming around age 10 on a PCjr running BASIC. He works in the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA. He hopes the software they have written will eventually run on the Moon or Mars.