NASA, Rocket Science and Oorian

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Marvin P. Warble Jr. about his experiences with Atari, NASA, and software development.

An airhacks.fm conversation with Marvin P. Warble Jr. ( @marvinwarble ) about: growing up with the Atari 400 and learning BASIC from a cartridge, saving programs on cassette tapes and upgrading to floppy drives, writing maze games and running out of RAM, the Atari 800XL and Atari ST with graphical user interfaces, studying aerospace engineering and working at NASA on mission planning software, converting Fortran to C and C++ at NASA, the transition from mission-specific software to reusable applications, learning Java in the early 2000s through applets, comparing C++ header files to Java class organization and missing type defs, building a stock data web scraper in Java and getting redirected to the human genome project, working on a Java applet-based product called Galileo that was abandoned when applets were deprecated, developing control system software for an aircraft carrier, the origin of iGrade Plus as an online grade book for schools built with JSP and then the Oorian Framework , the Oorian framework as an object-oriented rich internet application framework written in pure Java, wrapping JavaScript libraries like CKEditor and Chart.js and D3.js with Java APIs, type-safe…

People in this episode

Host: Adam Bien

Guest: Marvin P. Warble Jr.

Topics covered

• NASA
• Rocket Science
• Atari
• Java Development
• Software Engineering
• Oorian Framework
• Aerospace Engineering

Keywords

• Atari
• NASA
• Java
• Oorian Framework
• software development
• aerospace engineering
• iGrade Plus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA

Products: Atari 400, Atari 800XL, Atari ST, Java, Galileo, iGrade Plus, Oorian Framework, CKEditor, Chart.js, D3.js

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