Code Thesaurus with Sarah Withee
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Imagine if you could compare concepts side-by-side between a programming language you know and one you don't. Well, now you can! Today we talk with Sarah Withee, a polyglot software engineer, international tech speaker, and robot tinkerer. Sarah is also the author of Code Thesaurus, the polyglot developer reference tool. She tells us about the reasons behind the creation of the thesaurus, its continuous development, and what you can do to make the thesaurus even better.  When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Sarah on Twitter and LinkedIn and check out the Code Thesaurus project on GitHub.  Mentioned in this episode: Corgibytes at https://corgibytes.com  Sarah in Twitter at https://twitter.com/geekygirlsarah  Sarah on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahwithee/  Sarah’s website at https://geekygirlsarah.com  Code Thesaurus at https://codethesaur.us  Code Thesaurus project on GitHub at https://github.com/codethesaurus/ 
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