A RedMonk Conversation: How GitHub is Getting Beginners into Git (with Kedasha Kerr and Andrea Griffiths)
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 27th, 2025
In this RedMonk Conversation, Kedasha Kerr, Developer Advocate and Technical Content Creator at GitHub, and Andrea Griffiths, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, chat about the importance of educational content for developers, language accessibility, community engagement, the value of open source, and the role of AI in learning, with Rachel Stephens, Research Director at RedMonk.
They discuss the need for foundational skills in programming and the importance of finding supportive communities for self-taught learners.
This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by GitHub.
Transcript
Rachel Stephens (00:14)
Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of the MonkCast. I am Rachel Stephens. I am the research director at RedMonk. And at RedMonk, we focus a lot about developers and practitioners and the things that they care about. And that makes me very excited to welcome my guests to the podcast today, which are part of the developer advocacy team at GitHub. So with me today, I have Kadasha Kerr, who is a developer advocate, and Andrea Griffiths, who is a senior developer advocate. Ladies, would you care to introduce yourselves?